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| Dates: 1953-1980 Size: 3 boxes, 95 items(1.5 linear feet) Acquisition: Gift, ca. 1985 Access: Open for research Processed by: Jean White, 1987 |
John Q. Anderson was born May 30, 1916, in Wheeler, Texas. He earned an A.B. degree from Oklahoma State University in 1939. After serving in the Army during World War II, he returned to graduate school and received his M.A. from Louisiana State University in 1948 and Ph.D from the University of North Carolina in 1952. In 1946, Anderson married Marie Loraine Epps.
John Q. Anderson's main academic interests were American literature and folklore. He taught at Texas A & M from 1953 until 1966. He served as head of the English Department at Texas A & M from 1962 until 1966, when he accepted a position as Professor of American Literature at the University of Houston. Anderson was responsible for introducing folklore studies at both institutions. Among the awards and honors he received were the following: Faculty Distinguished Achievement Award, Texas A & M, 1961; Outstanding Graduate Professor, elected by the Graduate English Society, University of Houston, 1969-1970; and Professor Emeritus of English, University of Houston, 1974.
During his career, John Q. Anderson wrote or edited ten books including WITH THE BARK ON: POPULAR HUMOR OF THE OLD SOUTH, 1830-1860; LOUISIANA SWAMP DOCTOR; THE LIBERATING GODS: EMERSON ON POETS AND POETRY; and BROKENBURN: THE JOURNAL OF KATE STONE, 1961-1968. He contributed numerous articles to journals of American literature, folklore, and history. He also made records and tapes of folk songs. At the time of his death, he was co-editing A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SOUTHWESTERN AMERICAN LITERATURE, and serving on the editorial boards of the MISSISSIPPI QUARTERLY and SOUTHWESTERN AMERICAN LITERATURE. He was a member of several professional organizations and was a past President of the Texas Folklore Society and the American Studies Association of Texas. He was honored as the Outstanding Author at the Texas Writers Roundup in 1967; the first Distinguished Fellow of the American Studies Association of Texas in 1974; and Distinguished Fellow of the Texas Folklore Society in 1980. On February 19, 1975, John Q. Anderson died at age fifty eight, at his home in Houston, Texas, after a long illness.
("ANDERSON, JOHN QUINCY." The Handbook of Texas Online. http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/AA/fan43.html [Accessed Tue Oct 21 9:17:50 US/Central 2003].)
This collection contains offprint's and photocopies of articles and essays by John Q. Anderson arranged in the categories of American literature, folklore, southern history, and education. Biographical information on Anderson dates from 1953 to 1980. Sixteen book reviews written by Anderson are included. There is also a bibliography of the publications of John Q. Anderson. [95 items]
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BOX 1
Folder 1: Biographic Information Including: Vita, Awards, Publications, Professional and Community Activities, 1974. Photocopy; 2 items.
Folder 2: Biographic Information, 1953-1980. Print, photocopy; 9 items.
Folder 3: "John Q. Anderson, 1916-1975," from SOUTHWESTERN AMERICAN LITERATURE, 1975. Print; 1 item.
Folder 4: Index to Bound Publications of John Q. Anderson: Spring, 1953-December 1968. Photocopy; 1 item.
Folder 5: Book Reviews by John Q. Anderson, 1953-1972. Print, photocopy; 16 items.
Folder 6: "'Academic Excellence' is Not Enough," a Lecture for Honors Day, 28 April 1964. Photocopy; 1 item.
Folder 7: American Literature: "Emerson and the Language of the Folk," reprint from FOLK TRAVELERS, 1953. Print; 1 item.
Folder 8: American Literature: "Fanny Elssler and Ralph Waldo Emerson," from DANCE MAGAZINE, 1954. Photocopy; 1 item.
Folder 9: American Literature: "Emerson and California," reprint from CALIFORNIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY QUARTERLY, 1954. Print; 1 item.
Folder 10: American Literature: "Emerson and 'Manifest Destiny,"' reprint from BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY QUARTERLY, 1955. Print; 1 item.
Folder 11: American Literature: "Emerson and the Ballad of George Nidever-- 'Staring Down' a Grizzly Bear," reprint from WESTERN FOLKLORE, 1956. Print; 1 item.
Folder 12: American Literature: "Emerson's 'Horses of Thought,"' EMERSON SOCIETY QUARTERLY, 1956. Photocopy; 1 item.
Folder 13: American Literature: "Some Factual Sources for Creative Writing," from THE ARROWHEAD, 1957. Photocopy; 1 item.
Folder 14: American Literature: "Emerson and Prince Achille Murat," reprint from BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY QUARTERLY, 1958. Print; 1 item.
Folder 15: American Literature: "Emerson on Texas and the Mexican War," reprint from THE WESTERN HUMANITIES REVIEW, 1959. Print; 1 item.
Folder 16: American Literature: "Emerson and the Moral Sentiment," reprint from EMERSON SOCIETY QUARTERLY, 1960. Print; 1 item.
Folder 17: American Literature: "Notes on Mollie E. Moore Davis," LOUISIANA STUDIES, 1962. Photocopy; 1 item.
Folder 18: American Literature: "Lowell's 'The Washers of the Shroud' and the Celtic Legend of the Washer of the Ford," reprint from AMERICAN LITERATURE, 1963. Print; 1 item.
Folder 19: American Literature: "Historical Fiction and Drama," from MISSISSIPPI LIBRARY NEWS, 1964. Photocopy; 1 item.
Folder 20: American Literature: "The Funeral Procession in Dickinson's Poetry," reprint from THE EMERSON SOCIETY QUARTERLY, 1966. Print; 1 item.
Folder 21: American Literature: "Emerson's 'Young American' as Democratic Nobleman," from AMERICAN TRANSCENDENTAL QUARTERLY, 1971. Photocopy; 1 item.
Folder 22: American Literature: "Emerson's 'Eternal Pan' -- The Recreation of a Myth," from CHARACTERISTICS OF EMERSON, TRANSCENDENTAL POET, A SYMPOSIUM, 1974. Photocopy; 1 item.
BOX 2
Folder 1: Folklore: "After the Screech Owl Hollers," from NORTH CAROLINA FOLKLORE, 1954. Photocopy; 1 item.
Folder 2: Folklore: "Folklore in the Writing of 'The Louisiana Swamp Doctor,"' reprint from SOUTHERN FOLKLORE QUARTERLY, 1955. Print; 1 item.
Folder 3: Folklore: "Up Salt Creek Without a Paddle," from REGISTER OF THE KENTUCKY HISTORICAL SOCIETY, 1956. Photocopy; 1 item.
Folder 4: Folklore: "The Haunted Bayou," from SOUTHERN FOLKLORE QUARTERLY, 1956. Print; 1 item.
Folder 5: Folklore: "The Ghost of the Hutto Ranch," reprint from MESQUITE AND WILLOW, 1957. Print; 1 item.
Folder 6: Folklore: "The Waltz of the Wolves," from SOUTHERN FOLKLORE QUARTERLY, 1957. Print; 1 item.
Folder 7: Folklore: "Some Mythical Places in Louisiana," from LOUISIANA FOLKLORE MISCELLANY, 1958. Print; 1 item.
Folder 8: Folklore: "Serenade in North Carolina," from NORTH CAROLINA FOLKLORE, 1958. Print; 1 item.
Folder 9: Folklore: "And Horns on the Toads," reprint from AND HORNS ON THE TOADS, 1959. Print; 1 item.
Folder 10: Folklore: "Folkways in Writings About Northeast Louisiana Before 1865," from LOUISIANA FOLKLORE MISCELLANY, 1960. Photocopy; 1 item.
Folder 11: Folklore: "'The Waco Girl,' -- Another Variant of a British Broadside Ballad," reprint from WESTERN FOLKLORE, 1960. Print; 1 item.
Folder 12: Folklore: "The New Orleans Voodoo Ritual Dance and its Twentieth-Century Survivals," reprint from SOUTHERN FOLKLORE QUARTERLY, 1960. Print; 1 item.
Folder 13: Folklore: "Five Little Fiddlers," reprint from SOUTHERN FOLKLORE QUARTERLY, 1960. Print; 1 item.
Folder 14: Folklore: "Belle Starr and the Biscuit Dough," reprint from SINGERS AND STORYTELLERS, 1961. Print; 1 item.
Folder 15: Folklore: "Folklore in Two Northeast Louisiana Novels," from LOUISIANA FOLKLORE MISCELLANY, 1961. Photocopy; 1 item.
Folder 16: Folklore: "Old John and the Master," reprint from SOUTHERN FOLKLORE QUARTERLY, 1961. Print; 1 item.
Folder 17: Folklore: "From Flygap to Whybark -- Some Unusual Texas Place Names," reprint from THE GOLDEN LOG, 1962. Print; 1 item.
Folder 18: Folklore: "Carolina Courtship and Marriage in the 1840's," reprint from NORTH CAROLINA FOLKLORE, 1962. Print; 1 item.
Folder 19: Folklore: "A Burlesque of the Legend of 'The Singing River,"' from LOUISIANA STUDIES, 1963. Photocopy; 1 item.
Folder 20: Folklore: "The Legend of the Phantom Coach in East Texas," reprint from WESTERN FOLKLORE, 1963. Print; 1 item.
Folder 21: Folklore: "Louisiana Romeos of the 1840's," from LOUISIANA STUDIES, 1963. Photocopy; 1 item.
Folder 22: Folklore: "Texas Stream Names," reprint from A GOOD TALE AND A BONNIE TUNE, 1964. Print; 1 item.
Folder 23: Folklore: "For the Ugliest Man: An Example of Folk Humor," reprint from SOUTHERN FOLKLORE QUARTERLY, 1964. Print; 1 item.
Folder 24: Folklore: "The Ballad of Graham Barnett, Badman of the Big Bend in Texas," reprint from WESTERN FOLKLORE, 1965. Print; 1 item.
Folder 25: Folklore: "Folk Remedies for Removing Warts," from LOUISIANA FOLKLORE MISCELLANY, 1965. Photocopy; 1 item.
Folder 26: Folklore: "Saved From a Bullet: Miraculous Escape From Death," from THE SUNNY SLOPES OF LONG AGO, 1966. Photocopy; 1 item.
Folder 27: Folklore: "Special Powers in Folk Cures and Remedies," reprint from TIRE SHRINKER TO DRAGSTER, 1968. Print; 1 item.
BOX 3
Folder 1: Folklore: "Popular Beliefs in Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas," reprint from SOUTHERN FOLKLORE QUARTERLY, 1968. Print; 1 item.
Folder 2: Folklore: "Magical Transference of Disease in Texas Folk Medicine," reprint from WESTERN FOLKLORE, 1968. Print; 1 item.
Folder 3: Folklore: "Folklore in the Texas Fiction of Mollie E. Moore Davis (1844-1909)," from THE JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS, 1970. Photocopy; 1 item.
Folder 4: Folklore: "'The Gatesville Murder': The Origin and Evolution of a Ballad," reprint from HUNTERS AND HEALER, 1970. Print; 1 item.
Folder 5: Folklore: "Another Texas Variant of 'Cole Younger,' Ballad of a Badman," reprint from WESTERN FOLKLORE, 1972. Print; 1 item.
Folder 6: Folklore: "Louisiana and Mississippi Lore in the Fiction of Sarah Anne Dorsey (1829-1879)," reprint from LOUISIANA STUDIES, 1972. Print; 1 item.
Folder 7: Folklore: "'Miller-Boy,' One of the First and Last of the Play-Party Games," reprint from NORTH CAROLINA FOLKLORE JOURNAL, 1973. Print; 1 item.
Folder 8: American Humor: "Louisiana 'Swamp Doctors"' reprint from MCNEESE REVIEW, 1953. Print; 1 item.
Folder 9: American Humor: "Henry Clay Lewis, Alias 'Madison Tensas, M., The Louisiana Swamp Doctor,"' reprint from BULLETIN OF THE MEDICAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, 1955. Print; 1 item.
Folder 10: American Humor: "Mike Hooter -- The Making of a Myth," reprint from SOUTHERN FOLKLORE QUARTERLY, 1955. Print; 1 item.
Folder 11: American Humor: "Soldier Lore of the War With Mexico," reprint from WESTERN HUMANITIES REVIEW, 1957. Print; 1 item.
Folder 12: American Humor: "Henry Clay Lewis, Louisville Medical Institute Student, 1844-1846," reprint from FILSON CLUB QUARTERLY, 1958. Print; 1 item.
Folder 13: American Humor: "Scholarship in Southwestern Humor -- Past and Present," reprint from MISSISSIPPI QUARTERLY, 1964. Print; 1 item.
Folder 14: American Humor: "Some Migratory Anecdotes in American Folk Humor," reprint from MISSISSIPPI QUARTERLY, 1972. Print; 1 item.
Folder 15: Southern History: "Dr. James Green Carson, Ante-Bellum Planter of Mississippi and Louisiana," reprint from JOURNAL OF MISSISSIPPI HISTORY, 1956. Print; 1 item.
Folder 16: Southern History: "The Richmond Compiler, 1841-1844," reprint from THE LOUISIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY QUARTERLY, 1956. Print; 1 item.
Folder 17: Southern History: "Frolic: Social Dancing on the Southern Frontier," from DANCE MAGAZINE, 1956. Photocopy; 1 item.
Folder 18: Southern History: "The Narrative of John Hutchins,'' reprint from THE JOURNAL OF MISSISSIPPI HISTORY, 1958. Print; 1 item.
Folder 19: Southern History: "Joseph Carson, Louisiana Confederate Soldier," reprint from LOUISIANA HISTORY, 1960. Print; 1 item.
Folder 20: Southern History: "A Letter From a Yankee Bride in AnteBellum Louisiana," reprint from LOUISIANA HISTORY, 1960. Print; 1 item.
Folder 21: Southern History: "Fort Elliott, Texas, Last Guard of the Plains Indians," reprint from TEXAS MILITARY HISTORY, 1962. Print; 1 item
Folder 22: Southern History: "Drinking, Fighting, and Fooling -- Sidelights of the Social History of Antebellum Louisiana," reprint form LOUISIANA HISTORY, 1964. Print; 1 item.
Folder 23: Education: "The Scholar-Teacher," reprint from FORUM, 1972. Print; 1 item.
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