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F. Eugene Haun Collection

Correspondence and manuscripts, 1923-1950

Manuscript Collection 1023

INFORMATION ABOUT F. EUGENE HAUN

Eugene Haun was born April 21, 1920, in Little Rock, Arkansas.  As a youth, he became an acquaintance of John Gould Fletcher and a disciple of his work.  After Haun graduated from Hendrix College (Conway, Arkansas) in 1943, Fletcher helped Haun arrange financing for graduate studies at Vanderbilt (Master of Arts, 1946), and Haun became an authority on Fletcher's writings.  He intended to write his dissertation on Fletcher, but a falling out between the two ended that project.  Haun then took his doctorate in English at the University of Pennsylvania (1954).  He taught English at various institutions, principally at Eastern Michigan University beginning in 1966, from which he retired in 1988.  Haun was also a librettist, working most notably with Sarah Caldwell to produce new libretti for works by Mozart, Scarlatti, and Offenbach.

INFORMATION ABOUT THE COLLECTION

Haun acquired the items in this collection during his studies of Fletcher's life and work.  The bulk of the collection is comprised of correspondence from Fletcher to Henry Bergen.  Also included is correspondence from Fletcher to Walter E. Peck and between Haun and Fletcher.  A complete description of the collection's arrangement follows.

RESTRICTIONS:  Permission to use excerpts from Haun's letters to Fletcher must be obtained from the donor during the remainder of his life. The collection has been arranged in five series:  series one contains the Fletcher/Henry Bergen letters; series two, the Fletcher/Walter Edwin Peck letters; series three, the Fletcher/Eugene Haun letters; series four, manuscripts and related material; and series five, microfilmed copies of letters written by Fletcher located at the University of Chicago and Harvard University.

Haun arranged the correspondence in chronological order by recipient and year.  Letters which could be dated to a month but not a day were placed at the end of that month's correspondence.  Letters dated only to a year are at the end of that year's documents.  Notations in pencil on undated items giving an approximate date are Haun's.  Items with no date are at the end of the group in which Haun placed them.

The research materials and manuscripts in series four consist of one folder of transcripts made by Haun of correspondence between Fletcher, Donald Davidson, Allen Tate, and Lambert Davis; two folders with drafts of essays by Haun with related correspondence; an unpublished Fletcher manuscript entitled "The Sin of City-Mindedness"; two versions of Eugene Haun's 1946 master's thesis on Fletcher, one with marginal corrections made by Fletcher himself; an untitled manuscript story about Fletcher's father by Haun; and a folder of newspaper clippings and ephemera pertaining to Fletcher.

Processed by Leon C. Miller, Revised by Kim Allen Scott, Special Collections Division, University of Arkansas Libraries, Fayetteville, Arkansas, in February, 1991.

Documents collected by F. Eugene Haun of Ypsilanti, Michigan, pertaining to author and poet John Gould Fletcher were acquired by Special Collections in December 1989.

CONTENTS OF THE COLLECTION
1 linear foot

Series 1.  Fletcher and Henry Bergen letters, 1923-1935 (Boxes 1 and 2)
Series 2.  Fletcher and Eugene Haun letters, 1940-1950 (Box 2, folders 4-7)
Series 3.  Fletcher and Walter E. Peck letters, 1931-1933  (Box 2, folder 8)
Series 4.  Manuscripts and related material, 1930-1950 (Box 2, folders 9-16)
Series 5.  Microfilm letters, ca. 1913-1918 (Boxes 3 and 4)

Series 1.  Fletcher and Henry Bergen letters, 1923-1935 (Boxes 1 and 2)

Box 1
        Folder 1. Fletcher to Bergen
 1. Jan 29, 1923
 2. July 21, 1927
 3. Mar 9, 1928
 4. Mar 11, 1928
 5. Mar 14, 1928
 6. Mar 19, 1928
 7. Apr 2, 1928
 8. Apr 5, 1928
 9. Apr 29, 1928
 10. May 2, 1928
 11. May 9, 1928
 12. May 19, 1928
 13. May 21, 1928
 14. May 31, 1928
 15. Jun 10, 1928
 16. Jun 11, 1928
 17. Jun 19, 1928
 18. July 5, 1928
 19. July 15, 1928
 20. July 22, 1928

        Folder 2. Fletcher to Bergen
 1. Aug 15, 1928
 2. Aug 21, 1928
 3. Aug 23, 1928
 4. Sept 3, 1928
 5. Sept 6, 1928
 6. Sept 14, 1928
 7. Sept ? 1928
 8. Oct 8, 1928
 9. Oct 15, 1928
 10. Oct 18, 1928
 11. Oct 24, 1928
 12. Nov 4, 1928

         Folder 3. Fletcher to Bergen
 1. Nov 17, 1928
 2. Nov 22, 1928
 3. Nov 24, 1928
 4. Nov 29, 1928
 5. Nov ? 1928
 6. Nov ? 1928
 7. Dec 6, 1928
 8. Dec 10, 1928
 9. Dec 11, 1928
 10. Dec 13, 1928
 11. Dec 15, 1928
 12. Dec 18, 1928
 13-16. n.d. (1928)

        Folder 4. Fletcher to Bergen
 1. Jan 9, 1929
 2. Jan 12, 1929
 3. Jan 20, 1929
 4. Jan 22, 1929
 5. Jan 25, 1929
 6. Jan 26, 1929
 7. Jan 26, 1929
 8. Feb 14, 1929
 9. Feb 24, 1929
 10. Feb 27, 1929
 11. Mar 12 1929
 12. Mar ? 1929

       Folder 5. Fletcher to Bergen
 1. May 1929
 2. Jun 29, 1929
 3. July 12, 1929
 4. Aug 15, 1929
 5. Aug 25, 1929
 6. Aug 29, 1929
 7. Sept 27, 1929
 8. Oct 2, 1929
 9. Oct 5, 1929
 10. Oct 25, 1929
 11. Oct ? 1929
 12. Nov 4, 1929
 13. Nov 5, 1929
 14. Nov 6, 1929
 15. Nov 17, 1929
 16. Nov 25, 1929
 17. Dec 5, 1929
 18. Dec 9, 1929
 19. Dec 18, 1929
 20. Dec 20, 1929
 21. Dec 31, 1929

       Folder 6. Fletcher to Bergen
 1. Jan 9, 1930
 2. Jan 20, 1930
 3. Feb 2, 1930
 4. Feb 11, 1930
 5. Feb 22, 1930
 6. Feb 25, 1930
 7. Mar 3, 1930
 8. Mar 9, 1930
 9. Mar 13, 1930
 10. Mar 15, 1930
 11. Mar 17, 1930
 12. Mar 19, 1930
 13. Mar 25, 1930
 14. Mar 29, 1930
 15. Mar 31, 1930
 16. Apr 3, 1930
 17. Apr 6, 1930
 18. Apr 6, 1930
 19. Apr 19, 1930
 20. May 10, 1930

       Folder 7. Fletcher to Bergen
 1. May 12, 1930
 2. May 20, 1930
 3. Aug 15, 1930
 4. Aug 19, 1930
 5. Sept 23, 1930
 6. Oct 3, 1930
 7. Nov 17, 1930
 8. Nov 24, 1930
 9. Dec 14, 1930
 10-13. n.d.

       Folder 8. Fletcher to Bergen
 1. Jan 11, 1931
 2. Jan 16, 1931
 3. Jan 29, 1931
 4. Feb 5, 1931
 5. Feb 7, 1931
 6. Feb 14, 1931
 7. Feb 20, 1931
 8. Feb 25, 1931
 9. Feb 28, 1931
 10. Feb ? 1931
 11. Mar 14, 1931
 12. Mar 15, 1931
 13. Mar 18, 1931
 14. Mar 19, 1931
 15. Mar 7, 1931
 16. Apr 5, 1931
 17. Apr 14, 1931
 18. Apr 17, 1931

       Folder 9. Fletcher to Bergen
 1. Apr 18, 1931
 2. Apr 22, 1931
 3. May 11, 1931
 4. May 22, 1931
 5. Jun 1, 1931
 6. Jun 4, 1931
 7. Jun 10, 1931
 8. Jun 17, 1931
 9. July 18, 1931
 10. Aug 15, 1931
 11. Aug 28, 1931
 12. Aug 30, 1931
 13. Aug ? 1931
 14. Sept 13, 1931
 15. Sept 24, 1931
 16. Oct 5, 1931
 17. Oct 15, 1931
 18. Nov 30, 1931
 19. Dec 3, 1931
 20. Dec 8, 1931

       Folder 10. Fletcher to Bergen
 1. Jan 18, 1932
 2. Feb 23, 1932
 3. Feb 23, 1932
 4. Apr 6, 1932
 5. Apr 7, 1932
 6. Apr 8, 1932
 7. Apr 23, 1932
 8. Jun 6, 1932
 9. Jun 8, 1932
 10-14. n.d.

       Folder 11. Fletcher to Bergen
 1. May 9, 1933
 2. Jun 19, 1933
 3. Jun 27, 1933
 4. July 8, 1933
 5. July 21, 1933
 6. July 26, 1933
 7. Aug 18, 1933
 8. Aug 25, 1933
 9. Sept 17, 1933
 10. Oct 8, 1933

       Folder 12. Fletcher to Bergen
 1. Oct 23, 1933
 2. Oct 25, 1933
 3. Nov 4, 1933
 4. Nov 15, 1933
 5. Nov 19, 1933
 6. Dec 11, 1933
 7. Dec 16, 1933
 8. Dec 18, 1933

         Folder 13. Fletcher to Bergen
 1. Jan 6, 1934
 2. Jan 9, 1934
 3. Jan 28, 1934
 4. Feb 3, 1934
 5. Feb 21, 1934
 6. Mar 6, 1934
 7. Mar 7, 1934
 8. Mar 17, 1934
 9. Mar 30, 1934
 10. Apr 4, 1934

       Folder 14. Fletcher to Bergen
 1. Apr 7, 1934
 2. Apr 9, 1934
 3. Apr 14, 1934
 4. May 11, 1934
 5. May 12, 1934
 6. May 25, 1934
 

Box 2

        Folder 1. Fletcher to Bergen
 1. May 27, 1934
 2. Jun 4, 1934
 3. July 3, 1934
 4. July 5, 1934
 5. July 13, 1934
 6. July 28, 1934

       Folder 2. Fletcher to Bergen
 1. Aug 6, 1934
 2. Aug 7, 1934
 3. Aug 27, 1934
 4. Aug 29, 1934
 5. Oct 5, 1934
 6. Oct 30, 1934
 7. Nov 19, 1934
 8. Dec 3, 1934

       Folder 3. Fletcher to Bergen
 1. May 5, 1935
 2. July 19, 1935
 3. Nov 27, 1935

Series 2.  Fletcher and Eugene Haun letters, 1940-1950 (Box 2, folders 4-7)

Box 2 (cont'd)

        Folder 4. Fletcher to Haun
 1. Apr 27, 1940
 2. Mar 28, 1942
 3. Apr 9, 1942
 4. Feb 22, 1943
 5. May 18, 1943
 6. Jun 17, 1943
 7. Sept 27, 1943
 8. Nov 20, 1943

      Folder 5. Fletcher to Haun
 1. Jan 18, 1945
 2. Feb 18, 1945
 3. Apr 4, 1945
 4. May 23, 1945
 5. Oct 15, 1945
 6. Nov 3, 1945

      Folder 6. Fletcher/Haun Correspondence
 1. Fletcher to Haun, Mar 9, 1946
 2. Fletcher to Haun, Apr 3, 1946
 3. Haun to Fletcher, Apr 14, 1946
 4. Fletcher to Haun, Apr 18, 1946
 5. Haun to Fletcher, May 8, 1946 and Fletcher to Jakeman, May 10, 1946
 6. Fletcher to Haun, May 13, 1946.
 7. Fletcher to Haun, Jun 11, 1946
 8. Fletcher to Haun, Jun 28, 1946
 9. Fletcher to Haun, July 13, 1946
 10. Fletcher to Haun, Sept 16, 1946
 11. Fletcher to Haun, Oct 27, 1946

      Folder 7. Fletcher/Haun Correspondence
 1. Fletcher to Haun, Jan 17, 1947
 2. Fletcher to Haun, Feb Sept 1947
 3. Haun to Fletcher, Apr 29, 1947
 4. Fletcher to Haun, May 25, 1947
 5. Haun to Fletcher, May 31, 1947
 6. Haun to Fletcher, Jan 24, 1949
 7. Haun to Fletcher, May 1, 1949
 8. Fletcher to Haun, Dec 23, 1949
 9. Haun to Fletcher, May 26, 1950
 10. Charlie May Fletcher to Haun, June 12, 1950


 

Series 3.  Fletcher and Walter E. Peck letters, 1931-1933  (Box 2, folder 8)

Box 2 (cont'd)
       Folder 8. Fletcher to Peck
 1. Mar 31, 1931
 2. "In Tintem Valley," poem by Fletcher for Peck, Apr 9, 1931
 3. Apr 13, 1931
 4. Apr 17, 1931
 5. May 2, 1931
 6. May 6, 1931
 7. May 11, 1931
 8. May 14, 1931
 9. May 18, 1931
 10. May 20, 1931
 11. Jun 2, 1931
 12. Jun 6, 1931
 13. Jan 16, 1931
 14. July 23, 1931
 15. Dec 23, 1931
 16. Mar 8, 1932
 17. July 17, 1933
 18. Aug 9, 1933
 19-20. n.d.

Series 4.  Manuscripts and related material, 1930-1950 (Box 2, folders 9-16)

Handwritten and typed transcriptions of correspondence pertaining to Donald Davidson, Allen Tate, and Lambert Davis; documents pertaining to article by Eugene Haun, "Broken Effort and Desire"; documents pertaining to article by Eugene Haun, "The image and the eye"; unpublished article by Fletcher, "The Sin of City-Mindedness: A Reply to H. L. Mencken"; two drafts of Eugene Haun's 1946 master's thesis, one with marginal corrections by Fletcher; an untitled manuscript story about Fletcher's father by Eugene Haun; one folder of newspaper clippings, a photocopied genealogy note about Fletcher, and brochures advertising the 1923 "Fugitive Prizes" and books from the Scribners publishing firm.

Box 2 (cont'd)

        Folder 9. Transcriptions
 1. Fletcher to Tate, Feb 28, 1930
 2. Davis to Davidson, Sept 14, 1934
 3. Cable from ? to Tate, Feb 28 and Davidson to Fletcher, May 17, 1930
 4. Davis to Davidson, Oct 1, 1934
 5. Davidson to Davis, Jan 9, 1935
 6. Davis to Davidson, Jan 17, 1935
 7. Davidson to Davis, Jan 23, 1935
 8. Davis To Davidson, Jan 30, 1935
 9. Fletcher to Davidson, May 5, 1935
 10. Tate to Davidson, May 5, 1935
 11. Fletcher to Davidson, Mar 11, 1935
 12. Davidson to Fletcher, Mar 12, 1935
 13. Davidson to Fletcher, Mar 12, 1935
 14. Fletcher to Davidson, Mar 13, 1935
 15. Tate to Davidson, May 14, 1935
 16. Davidson to Tate, May 17, 1935
 17. Davidson to Fletcher, Mar 17, 1935
 18. Tate to Davidson, May 19, 1935
 19. Fletcher to Davidson, Mar 25, 1935
 20. Fletcher to Davidson, Nov 5, 1937
 21. Fletcher to Davidson, Dec 17, 1937
 22. Fletcher to Davidson, Jan 28, 1938
 23. Fletcher to Davis, November 8, 1940
 24. Fletcher to Davis, March 28, 1942

 Folder 10. "Broken Efforts"

 Folder 11. "The image and the eye."

 Folder 12. "The Sin of City-Mindedness: A Reply to H.L. Mencken" Box 2 (cont.)

 Folder 13. Thesis, preliminary draft

 Folder 14. Thesis

 Folder 15. Untitled manuscript

 Folder 16. Clippings

Series 5.  Microfilm letters, ca. 1913-1918 (Boxes 3 and 4)

Microfilmed copies of original letters written by John Gould Fletcher to Harriet Monroe and Amy Lowell, held respectively by the University of Chicago and Harvard University.

Box 3
      Fletcher to Monroe  (1 reel)

Box 4
      Fletcher to Lowell  (1 reel)


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