- Table of Contents
- Collection Summary
- Administrative Information
- Acquisition Note
- Publication Rights
- Access
- Biographical Note
- Scope and Content Note
- Container List
Charles Morrow Wilson Papers
Collection Summary
- Repository:
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University of Vermont Libraries.
Special Collections Burlington, Vermont 05405-3596
- Creator - Author
- Wilson, Charles Morrow, 1905-
- Title
- Charles Morrow Wilson Papers
- ID
- mss.016
- Date [inclusive]
- 1925-1966
- Extent
- 3.0 Linear feet 7 boxes
- Location
- Special Collections, Bailey/Howe Library.
- Language
- Abstract
- Wilson worked as a writer and journalist. Collection includes letters to Wilson; articles (1929-60) on topics such as farming, economics, health, industry, and travel; drafts, galleys, and page proofs of his books; reviews of his work; and notebooks, newspaper clippings, and other papers. Includes letters (1959) in response to an article in Reader’s Digest critical of Orval Faubus, Governor of Arkansas.
Preffered Citation
[Identification of item] Charles Morrow Wilson Papers, Special Collections, University of Vermont Library.
Administrative Information
Publication Information
University of Vermont, Bailey/Howe Library, Special Collections 1976 March 1
Access
Collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Curator of Manuscripts.
Acquisition Note
Gift of Charles M. Wilson on June 18, 1964, and later.
Biographical Note
Charles M. Wilson, son of Joseph Dickson and Mattie Maud (Morrow) Wilson, was born in Fayetteville, Arkansas, on June 16, 1905. He received his B.A. from the University of Arkansas in 1926, married Martha Lois Starr in 1939, and had three children: Morrow, James, and Joseph. Wilson was associate editor of the monthly magazine All’s Well in Fayetteville, 1926-1927, worked as a special reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 1927-1928, and for the New York Times, 1930-1933. He did free lance work for Atlantic Monthly, Commonwealth, Scribner’s, Harper’s, Saturday Evening Post, Vermont Life, and other magazines. He was a foreign correspondent and tropical agriculturist in Latin America and Africa, a motion picture consultant, and a member of the board of directors of the American Foundation for Tropical Medicine.
Wilson is the author of many well received juvenile, farming, historical, travel, and general interest books such as: The Roots of America (1936), Aroostook: Our Last Frontier (1937), One Half of the People (1949), and The Great Turkey Drive (1964).
Scope and Content Note
The collection contains correspondence (to Wilson), drafts of manuscripts, galleys, page proofs, newspaper clippings (mostly reviews about Wilson’s books), Wilson’s notebooks, and copies of magazine articles by Wilson. they papers have been arranged by type and chronologically within each group.
Controlled Access Headings
Genre(s)
- Clippings
- Reviews (document genre)
- Articles
- Notebooks
Occupation(s)
- Journalists
Personal Name(s)
- Faubus, Orval Eugene, 1910-1994
Subject(s)
- Health
- Agriculture
- Economics
- Travel