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Hoskins Library
1401 Cumberland Avenue
Knoxville, TN 37996-4000
865-974-4480
e-mail: special@utk.edu
© The University of Tennessee Special Collections Library
Linear Feet: The collection
contains approximately 160 pieces.
Administrative Information
Copyright Statement: Copyright
© 2005. The University of Tennessee Libraries. All Rights Reserved. Permission
to use, copy, modify, and distribute these materials for educational, research,
and not-for-profit purposes, without fee and without a signed licensing agreement,
is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice and this paragraph
appear in all copies, modifications, and distributions. For commercial license
to use contact, University of Tennessee Libraries, Office of the Dean, Permissions,
1015 Volunteer Boulevard, Knoxville, TN 37996-1000.
Scope and Content: This collection
includes materials acquired in 1982 and 1983, subsequent to the establishment
of the May Justus Collection at U. T. It should be viewed as complementary
to the earlier materials, thus contributing to a more balanced view of the
work of Miss Justus, a prolific writer of children's stories and poems. Among
the items included in the present collection are the following: bibliographies
of books by May Justus; a partial list of anthologies containing her poems;
misc. photographs; detailed biographical material concerning her life and
work; personal correspondence (16 letters); miscellaneous manuscript copies
of her works; and, the UT Press manuscript of her book, The
Complete Peddler's Pack. Finally, the collection includes a comprehensive
file of book contracts and copyright agreements with her various publishers
from the period of the late 1920's through the 1970's, as well as a few miscellaneous
items. Interested reasearchers may also wish to consult MS 383 and MS 671.
Series/Container List
Box 1
Folder 1: My Lord and I, by May Justus (book of verse).
Folder 2: Biographical sketch of May Justus, from Anne Commire, Something About
the Author, Vol. I, Gale Research, 1971.
Folder 3: Biographical sketch, Lilian W. Johnson, founder, Southern Association
of College Women and Highlander Folk School.
Folder 4: Bibliography of books by May Justus, 1927-75, including list of awards,
1935-63.
Folder 5: A partial list of anthologies containing May Justus' poems; collections
of poems by May Justus (listing).
Folder 6: Photographs of May Justus and May Justus exhibit at UT.
Folder 7: Foxfire, Summer, 1980. Includes article by S. Wallace, "Miss J- Teacher
and Author" a detailed account in her own words of her life and work, pp. 88-124.
Article about May Justus from Grundy County Herald, by Wm. Ray Turner,
Nov., 1949.
Folder 8: Personal correspondence (16 letters) Jan- 1980-Sept. 1983 and undated.
Folder 9: List of out-of-print selections of May Justus.
Folder 10: Transcript of interview, May Justus Remembers by Alice Cobb. Published
in part in Foxfire, summer, 1980. Part of Appalachian Oral History Program,
Mars Hill College. (97 pp.includes detailed index).
Folder 11: Manuscript copy - The House With the Singing Door. Published
as a serial by the Baptist Sunday School Board. Also published as At the
Foot of Windy Low, by P. F. Volland, 1929. (71 pp. )
Folder 12: Children's songs by May Justus - Manuscript copies and sheet music
(9 songs).
Folder 13: Smoky Mountain Ballads, by May Justus (group of 5 poems - manuscripts
).
Folder 14: Manuscript - Granny Peterkin's Pig, by May Justus (short story).
Folder 15: Manuscript - What Goes Into A Story, by May Justus.
Folder 16: May Justus - Growing Up in the Great Smokies, Folk Sing Records
(Recollections) .
Folders 17-25: Manuscript - A Smoky Mountain Year (an anthology by May Justus).
Folder 17: "Step-Along Stays All Night" (20 pp )
Folder 18: "Fiddler's Fair" (Spring- traditional Music, Community Customs, family
feud}
Folder 19: "Little Lihu Goes to School" (Summer - family & school life;
circuit rider's help - school started in July or August).
Folder 20: "Barney, Bring Your Banjo" (Summer - mountain play-party; folk songs).
Folder 21: "The Fiddle Gourd" (Fall - school and family life; traditional musical
instruments; traditional rhymes).
Folder 22: "Leave It To Lester" (Fall - mountain customs; fox hounds; humor
& shrewdness)"
Folder 23: "Thanksgiving On Little Twin" (celebration of holidays).
Folder 24: "Company for Christmas" (17 pp.).
Folder 25: "Weather bound Days" (35 pp.).
Folder 26: May Justus: A Bio-Bibliography (UT Master's thesis by Effie Christine
Brown, August, 1969). Note: Folders 27-47: contain file copies of book contracts,
copyright agreements, releases of rights permits, etc. (listed alphabetically
by publisher).
Folder 27: Document transferring to UT rights to May Justus' literary works,
1971.
Folder 28: "A Partial List of Anthologies Containing May Justus' Poems"
Folder 29: "Contracts & Releases By Author" (includes canceled contracts);
"Assignment of Rights Back to Author".
Folder 30: Misc. book contracts & copyright agreements.
Folder 31: Abingdon Press.
Folder 32: American Book Co.
Folder 33: Broadman Press.
Folder 34: Curtis Publishing Co.
Folder 35: Doubleday.
Folder 36: E. P. Dutton and Co., Inc.
Folder 37: Folk Sing Records - Hollis Music, Inc.
Folder 38: Garrard Publishing Co.
Folder 39: Golden Press, Inc.
Folder 40: Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc.
Folder 41: Hastings House, Publishers, Inc.
Folder 42: Henry Holt & Co., Inc.
Folder 43: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, Inc.
Folder 44: J. P. Lippincott Co.
Folder 45: Methodist Publishing House.
Folder 46: Random House, Inc.
Folder 47: Albert Whitman & Co., Inc.
Folders 48-50: Manuscript - The Complete Peddler's Pack, by May Justus. UT Press,
1966. Also, related material.
Folder 51: Cassette tape.l Side A: "Little Lihu's Lucky Day," from the book,
It Happened In No-End Hollow, 1969. Side B: Poems from book,
Winds A' Blowing, 1961
Folder 52: Personal essay by May Justus, "Some People I Admire."
Folder 53: Magazine article, "Of Mice and Children," by Gail King, 7/19/1981.
Folder 54: Hymn, "Praise Him !" by May Justus, 1923.
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