Identity elements
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Level of description
Collection
Title
Carson McCullers papers
Date(s)
- 1941-1990 (Creation)
Extent
6 boxes
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Name of creator
Biographical history
Content and structure elements
Scope and content
A collection of books, photographs, scrapbooks, audio-visual and printed materials about the American novelist Carson McCullers. The research files were compiled by McCullers biographer and literary critic Virginia Spencer Carr.
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use elements
Conditions governing access
This collection is open for research.
Physical access
This collection is kept in an off -campus storage facility. Please contact Special Collections at asc.library@miami.edu with the boxes you are interested in prior to your visit, and allow up to 1 week for delivery of materials. Box 6 contains audio-visual materials and has been kept on-campus for preservation concerns.
Technical access
Conditions governing reproduction
University of Miami does not own copyright. It is incumbent on the user to obtain copyright from the original creator.
Languages of the material
- English
Scripts of the material
- Latin
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Place access points
Name access points
- Carr, Virginia Spencer (Subject)
- McCullers, Carson (Subject)