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M86-04 – EVA MAE BURKETT COLLECTION

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Summary Information

Repository:  University of Central Arkansas, Torreyson Library, Archives and Special Collections

Creator:  Burkett, Eva Mae. (Person)

Title:  Eva Mae Burkett collection

ID:  M86-04

Dates Bulk:  1970

Dates Inclusive: 1915 – 1970

Physical Extent:  12 boxes (5.004 Linear Feet:  12 Full Hollinger)

Language of the Material:  English

Preferred Citation:  (Bibliographic) Eva Mae Burkett collection, M86-04, University of Central Arkansas Archives and Special Collections, Conway, Arkansas. 

(Footnote/Endnote info) Description of item, File or Item number, Box number, Series number, Subseries number, Eva Mae Burkett collection, M86-04.

Biographical Note:  Eva Mae Burkett was born April 9, 1903, in Culleoka, Tennessee. She received both her M. A. and Ph. D. from George Peabody College for Teachers. Burkett began her career teaching English in 1935 at Middle Tennessee State College. In 1963, she came to Arkansas State Teachers College as a Professor of English. Burkett retired from teaching in 1971. Burkett died on June 17, 1994.

Scope and Contents Note:  This collection contains a variety of materials related to Eva Mae Burkett’s career as a professor of English.

Arrangement:  Arranged in 4 series. 1. Personal writings and materials. 2. Information about writers. 3. Materials on language and dialects. 4. Class materials.

Administrative Information

Publication Statement:  University of Central Arkansas Archives and Special Collections

UCA Archives
Torreyson Library
201 Donaghey Avenue
Conway, AR 72035
Phone: (501) 450-3418

Access Information:   Please call (501) 450-3418 or email archives@uca.edu prior to your visit to ensure availability of records.

Conditions Governing Use:  This collection is open for research use.

Processing Information:  Initial donation in 1986 consisted of a manuscript, Prose: A Systematic Approach to Writing under the direction of Archivist Tom W. Dillard. The remainder of the collection was received in 1994 and processed in 1997 by Kristi Manderbey.  In 2024 the finding aid was edited by Valerus Quill with assistance from Shelbea Gentry in 2025.

Immediate Source of Acquisition:  Burkett, Eva Mae. (Person)

Controlled Access Headings: 

American fiction

Burkett, Eva Mae

College teaching–Aids and devices

Colleges and Universities – Arkansas State Teachers College (ASTC)

Colleges and Universities – University of Central Arkansas (UCA)

Dialect literature, American

Dialect literature, Japanese

Education

English literature–Research

Literature–Research

Literature – Study and Teaching – United States

Manuscript preparation (Authorship)

Plots (Drama, novel, etc.)

Prose

Research in literature

Collection Inventory

 

Series I – Personal Writings and Materials

Box I

  • File 1 – Biological Information
  • File 2 – Miscellaneous Personal
  • File 3 – Teacher Retirement
  • File 4 – Collaboration with Joyce Steward on “Introductory Readings in Literary Criticism”.
  • File 5 – Publishing Company Correspondence
  • File 6 – Information Related to English Department and Teaching
  • File 7 – English Language Institute – Teaching English as a Foreign Language
  • File 8 – Miscellaneous Teaching Materials on English and Literature
  • File 9 – Information on Southern Literature
  • File 10 – “The Bell Witch of Tennessee and Mississippi”
  • File 11 – Historical Literature
  • File 12 – Reviews and Information Books
  • File 13 – Notes on Authors
  • File 14 – Looking Back: Cumberland Homesteads Golden Anniversary Album
  • File 15 – General Miscellany

End of Box 1

 

Series I

Box 2

  • File 1 – Chapter 1: Approaches to Writing, 1970
  • File 2 – Chapter 2: Preparatory Essays on Reading and Writing, 1970
  • File 3 – Chapter 3: Narrative and Descriptive Writing, 1970
  • File 4 – Chapter 4: Expository Writing, 1970
  • File 5 – Chapter 5: Arguments and Opinions, 1970
  • File 6 – Chapter 6: The American Language, 1970
  • File 7 – Chapter 7: Comparison of the use of materials, 1970
  • File 8 – Prose – Draft, 1970
  • File 9 – Materials on Prose
  • File 10 – Materials on Prose
  • File 11 – American English Dialects in Literature, 1978, General notes
  • File 12 – American English Dialects in Literature, 1978, General notes
  • File 13 – American English Dialects in Literature, 1978, Copy of Draft 1
  • File 14 – American English Dialects in Literature, 1978, Copy of Draft 2
  • File 15 – American English Dialects in Literature, 1978, General Materials

End of Box 2

 

Series I

Box 3

  • File 1 – Masters Thesis: “Virginia Life As Portrayed by Ellen Glasgow”
  • File 2 – Manuscript on Ellen Glasgow
  • File 3 – “Writing in Subject-matter Fields”: A Bibliographic Guide
  • File 4 – Materials on “Writing in Subject-matter Fields”
  • File 5 – “Directions for Writing, with Writing Assignments and Students Papers”
  • File 6 – “Writing in Subject-matter Fields for Advanced Students”
  • File 7 – Research Papers
  • File 8 – Research on the Development of the Dictionary in America
  • File 9 – Chinese Literature
  • File 10 – Folk Material as a Basis of Literature
  • File 11 – Reports of Humanities Division, 1957 – 1963

End of Box 3

 

Series I

Box 4

  • File 1 – Unpublished Manuscript – “Thoreau on Writing” – Part I Chap.1
  • File 2 – Unpublished Manuscript – “Thoreau on Writing” – Part I Chap. 2
  • File 3 – Unpublished Manuscript – “Thoreau on Writing” – Part I Chap. 3
  • File 4 – Unpublished Manuscript – “Thoreau on Writing” – Part I Chap. 4
  • File 5 – Unpublished Manuscript – “Thoreau on Writing” – Part I Chap. 5
  • File 6 – Unpublished Manuscript – “Thoreau on Writing” – Part II Ch.1
  • File 7 – Unpublished Manuscript – “Thoreau on Writing” – Part II Ch. 2
  • File 8 – Unpublished Manuscript – “Thoreau on Writing” – Part II Ch. 3
  • File 9 – Unpublished Manuscript – “Thoreau on Writing” – Part II Chs. 4 & 5
  • File 10 – Unpublished Manuscript – “Thoreau on Writing” – Part II Ch. 6
  • File 11 – “Thoreau on Writing”: Notes and Chapter Drafts – 1 of 6
  • File 12 – “Thoreau on Writing”: Notes and Chapter Drafts – 2 of 6
  • File 13 – “Thoreau on Writing”: Notes and Chapter Drafts – 3 of 6
  • File 14 – “Thoreau on Writing”: Notes and Chapter Drafts – 4 of 6
  • File 15 – “Thoreau on Writing”: Notes and Chapter Drafts – 5 of 6
  • File 16 – “Thoreau on Writing”: Notes and Chapter Drafts – 6 of 6
  • File 17 – Correspondence of Thoreau
  • File 18 – Quotes from Journal: Material for “Thoreau on Writing”
  • File 19 – Miscellaneous Articles and Chapters on Thoreau
  • File 20 – Thoreau and Poetry
  • File 21 – Material on Writing in a Journal
  • File 22 – References and Notes on “Thoreau on Writing”

End of Box 4

End of Series I

 

Series II – Poets and Writers

Box 1 (A – E)

  • File 1 – James Agee
  • File 2 – Anne Armstrong
  • File 3 – Harriet Arnow
  • File 4 – William Malone Baskerville
  • File 5 – Richard Croom Beatly
  • File 6 – Stephen V. Benet
  • File 7 – Lester Berry
  • File 8 – Harold Bond
  • File 9 – Virginia Frazer Boyle
  • File 10 – Roark Bradford
  • File 11 – James Buchanan
  • File 12 – Pearl Buck
  • File 13 – Ben Lucien Burman
  • File 14 – Frances Hodgson Burnett
  • File 15 – Taylor Caldwell
  • File 16 – Frances Boyd Calhoun
  • File 17 – Marie Campbell
  • File 18 – W. S. Cash
  • File 19 – Brainard Cheyney
  • File 20 – Maristan Chapman
  • File 21 – Stuart Chase
  • File 22 – Samuel Clemons
  • File 23 – Joseph Conrad
  • File 24 – John William Corrington
  • File 25 – Alfred Leland Crabb
  • File 26 – David Crockett
  • File 27 – Walter Clyde Curry
  • File 28 – Robert Daniel
  • File 29 – Donald Davidson
  • File 30 – Maria Thompson Daviess
  • File 31 – George H. Douglas
  • File 32 – Robert Drake
  • File 33 – Will Allen Dramgoole
  • File 34 – Elizabeth Dunn
  • File 35 – Wilma Dykeman (Stokely)
  • File 36 – Sarah Barnwell Elliott
  • File 37 – Paul Engle

End of Box 1

 

Series II

Box 2 (F – L)

  • File 1 – William Faulkner
  • File 2 – Jesse Hill Ford
  • File 3 – John Fox, Jr.
  • File 4 – Margaret Fuller (OSSOLI)
  • File 5 – Zona Gale
  • File 6 – John Galsworth
  • File 7 – Nikki Giovanni
  • File 8 – Charles Givens
  • File 9 – Caroline Gordon
  • File 10 – Emmett Gowen
  • File 11 – Herschel Grower
  • File 12 – Shirley Ann Grau
  • File 13 – Paul Green
  • File 14 – Alex Haley
  • File 15 – William Harben
  • File 16 – D. W. Harding
  • File 17 – Cora Harris
  • File 18 – George Washington Harris
  • File 19 – Joel Chandler Harris
  • File 20 – Mildred Haun
  • File 21 – Robert Heilman
  • File 22 – Roy Helton
  • File 23 – Ernest Hemingway
  • File 24 – John Hersey
  • File 25 – Gilbert Highet
  • File 26 – Cecilia Holland
  • File 27 – Sam Houston
  • File 28 – Cordell Hull
  • File 29 – Andrew Jackson
  • File 30 – Randell Jarrell
  • File 31 – Andrew Johnson
  • File 32 – James Weldon Johnson
  • File 33 – Madison Jones
  • File 34 – Edith Summers Kelly
  • File 35 – Harry Harrison Kroll
  • File 36 – Joseph Wood Krutch
  • File 37 – Sidney Lanier
  • File 38 – Roy Larson
  • File 39 – Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
  • File 40 – Louise Preston Looney
  • File 41 – Andrew Lytle

End of Box 2

 

Series II

Box 3 (M – S)

  • File 1 – H. K. Mackensen
  • File 2 – David Madden
  • File 3 – Richard Marius
  • File 4 – Cormac McCarthy
  • File 5 – George Marion McClellan
  • File 6 – Emma Bell Miles
  • File 7 – J. Hillis Miller
  • File 8 – John Milton
  • File 9 – Grace Moore
  • File 10 – John Trotwood Moore
  • File 11 – Merrill Moore
  • File 12 – Charles Morgan
  • File 13 – David Morton
  • File 14 – Mary N. Murfree
  • File 15 – Chalmers S Murray
  • File 16 – Flannery O’Connor
  • File 17 – Eugene O’Neill
  • File 18 – Edd Winfield Parks
  • File 19 – Joseph Howard Parks
  • File 20 – Robert Partin
  • File 21 – William Alexander Perry
  • File 22 – Katherine Anne Porter
  • File 23 – Joseph Raben
  • File 24 – Paul Ramsey
  • File 25 – Vance Randolph
  • File 26 – John Crowe Ransom
  • File 27 – Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
  • File 28 – Elizabeth Madox Roberts
  • File 29 – George Scarbrough
  • File 30 – Evelyn Scott
  • File 31 – Margaret Shedd and George Orwell
  • File 32 – Elsie Singmaster
  • File 33 – Freya Stark
  • File 34 – Randall Stewart
  • File 35 – James Still
  • File 36 – T. S. Stribling
  • File 37 – Jesse Stuart
  • File 38 – Walter Sullivan

End of Box 3

 

Series II

Box 4 (T – Z)

  • File 1 – Allen Tate
  • File 2 – Allen Tate
  • File 3 – Peter Taylor
  • File 4 – Robert Love Taylor
  • File 5 – Alice Toklas
  • File 6 – Lulu Vollmer
  • File 7 – Robert Penn Warren
  • File 8 – George Savary Wasson
  • File 9 – Sam Watkins
  • File 10 – Robert Welker
  • File 11 – Eudora Welty
  • File 12 – Glenway Wescott
  • File 13 – Thornton Wilder
  • File 14 – Bell Irvin Wiley
  • File 15 – Thames Williamson
  • File 16 – Ann Goodwin Winslow
  • File 17 – Thomas Wolfe
  • File 18 – Virginia Woolf
  • File 19 – Thomas Daniel Young
  • File 20 – Cleanth Brooks, John Thibaut, & Robert Penn Warren
  • File 21 – Miscellaneous Poets and Writers Information

End of Box 4

End of Series II

 

Series III – Materials on Language and Dialects

Box 1

  • File 1 – Materials on Japanese Language and Dialect
  • File 2 – Materials on Japanese Language and Dialect
  • File 3 – Materials on Japanese Language and Dialect
  • File 4 – Materials on Japanese Language and Dialect
  • File 5 – Materials on Japanese Language and Dialect
  • File 6 – Materials on Japanese Language and Dialect
  • File 7 – Material on Southern Mountaineers
  • File 8 – Material on Southern Mountaineers
  • File 9 – The Southern Mountain Dialect
  • File 10 – Southern Mountain, Creole, Cajun, and Mid-Atlantic Dialects
  • File 11 – Writers of Cajun Dialects
  • File 12 – Creole and Cajun Dialects
  • File 13 – American English Dialects
  • File 14 – Negro Dialects by White Writers
  • File 15 – American Language
  • File 16 – Mark Twain and Other Writers’ use of Dialect
  • File 17 – Dialects and Language
  • File 18 – Dialectic Analysis on Five Riley Poems
  • File 19 – General Dialect Material
  • File 20 – Dialects of Minority Groups
  • File 21 – The Development of Language: Aryan and Semitic Groups
  • File 22 – Anglo-Saxon Literature Information
  • File 23 – New York City Speech and Pennsylvania Dutch
  • File 24 – The Language of Politics

End of Box 1

End of Series III

 

Series IV – Class Materials

Box 1

  • File 1 – English 1310, 2324 – Evaluation and Preparation of Student Papers
  • File 2 – English 4355, 5355, 4335 – Literary Criticism
  • File 3 – English 2324 – Emily Dickinson
  • File 4 – English 4335 – Literary Criticism
  • File 5 – Education 5380 Method in Research
  • File 6 – English 4335 – Literary Criticism
  • File 7 – Literary Criticism – Poetry – Aristotle
  • File 8 – English 3370 – Novel I
  • File 9 – English 113, 123, 1310, & 1320
  • File 10 – English 3300, 1320, – Poetry
  • File 11 – English 1320 – Poetry
  • File 12 – English 3300 – Creative Writings
  • File 13 – English 220, 335, 3350, & 4350 – American Literature
  • File 14 – Publications
  • File 15 – English 3301 – Miscellaneous Material for Teaching
  • File 16 – English 3300 – Student Writings
  • File 17 – Miscellaneous English – Composition Material
  • File 18 – English 3321 – Victorian Literature
  • File 19 – Miscellaneous Teaching Material, NDEA Institute 1967
  • File 20 – English 330, 1310, 1320 – Creative Writings
  • File 21 – Teacher Education Committee
  • File 22 – English 3380, 4350, 3350 & 1320 – Poetry
  • File 23 – English 2310 – American Literature, Novel II
  • File 24 – English 335 & 4350 – American Literature
  • File 25 – English 3351 & 3380 – Poetry
  • File 26 – English 1310 – Language
  • File 27 – English 1320 & 1310 – Poetry
  • File 28 – English 3300
  • File 29 – English 1320
  • File 30 – English 1310
  • File 31 – Graduate Exam
  • File 32 – English 1320
  • File 33 – English 3351 – American Literature
  • File 34 – English 3371 – Novel I & II
  • File 35 – English 1320 – Greek Tragedy
  • File 36 – English 3351 – American Literature
  • File 37 – English 3370 – Novel I
  • File 38 – NDEA – Report
  • File 39 – Old British English
  • File 40 – English 1320
  • File 41 – English 1310
  • File 42 – English 338 & 213 – Poetry
  • File 43 – Graduate Students
  • File 44 – English 3300
  • File 45 – English 338 – Poetry
  • File 46 – English 3321 – Victorian Literature – Browning, Tennyson
  • File 47 – English 1310 & 1320 – Freshman English
  • File 48 – English 3371 – Novel II
  • File 49 – English 1310
  • File 50 – English 3321 – Victorian Literature
  • File 51 – English 413 – Chaucer (1 of 2)
  • File 52 – English 413 – Chaucer (2 of 2)
  • File 53 – English 1310 & 330 – American Literature
  • File 54 – English 3301 & 3370 – Rhetoric & Composition & Novel I
  • File 55 – English 3371 – Novel II
  • File 56 – English 3350 – American Literature

End of Box 1

 

Series IV

Box 2

  • File 1 – English 203 – Intro to Literature (1 of 2)
  • File 2 – English 203 – Intro to Literature (2 of 2)
  • File 3 – Freshman English
  • File 4 – English 203 – Final Exam (Peggy Lloyd)
  • File 5 – Short Stories
  • File 6 – English 413 & 3340 – Chaucer
  • File 7 – English 323 – Shakespeare
  • File 8 – Thoreau – Emerson – Whitman
  • File 9 – Hawthorne & Melville (1 0f 5)
  • File 10 – Hawthorne & Melville (2 of 5)
  • File 11 – Hawthorne & Melville (3 of 5)
  • File 12 – Hawthorne & Melville (4 of 5)
  • File 13 – Hawthorne & Melville (5 of 5)
  • File 14 – Melville – Bibliography
  • File 15 – Huckleberry Finn
  • File 16 – Honors English
  • File 17 – English 213 & 443
  • File 18 – English 144, 392, & 146 – American Writers
  • File 19 – Shakespeare
  • File 20 – School of Letter
  • File 21 – English 403 – Victorian Literature – (1 of 2)
  • File 22 – English 403 – Victorian Literature – (2 of 2)
  • File 23 – Freshman English – Honors
  • File 24 – English 453 – Great World Novels
  • File 25 – Freshman English – Methods of Analysis
  • File 26 – English 313 – English Language & Grammar
  • File 27 – English 203 – Intro. to Literature
  • File 28 – English 213 – Poetry & Drama
  • File 29 – English 313 – Language & Grammar
  • File 30 – English 383 – Emerson, Thoreau & Whitman
  • File 31 – English 431 & 3340 – Chaucer
  • File 32 – Dante – Divine Comedy
  • File 33 – English 313
  • File 34 – English 212, 222 & 223 – Literature
  • File 35 – English 330 & 331 – American Literature
  • File 36 – Teaching English Writings

End of Box 2

 

Series IV

Box 3

  • File 1 – Student Composition
  • File 2 – English 313
  • File 3 – English 383 – Emerson, Thoreau & Whitman
  • File 4 – Hawthorne & Melville
  • File 5 – English 231 – Poetry
  • File 6 – English 403 – Victorian Literature
  • File 7 – English 473 – American Writers
  • File 8 – English 453 – Great World Novels
  • File 9 – English 213 – Intro to Literature
  • File 10 – English 113 & 123 – Rhetoric & Composition
  • File 11 – English 453 – Great World Novels
  • File 12 – English 203 – Prose – Intro to Literature
  • File 13 – English 453 – Great World Novels
  • File 14 – Novel
  • File 15 – English 473 & 5380 – American Fiction
  • File 16 – English 453 – Novel
  • File 17 – English 203 – Prose
  • File 18 – English 413 & 3340 – Poetry of Chaucer
  • File 19 – English 403 – Victorian Age
  • File 20 – English 473 – American Writers
  • File 21 – English 204 – Prose
  • File 22 – English 313 – Language and Grammar
  • File 23 – Miscellaneous Teaching Material
  • File 24 – Miscellaneous Teaching Material
  • File 25 – Miscellaneous Teaching Material
  • File 26 – Middle Tennessee State Material
  • File 27 – Miscellaneous

End of Box 3

End of Series IV

End of Collection