D. H. Ramsey Library Special Collections and University Archives

Mary Lloyd Frank Collection

M79.11.1

Title Mary Lloyd Frank Collection
Creator Mary Lloyd Frank
Subject

Keyword :
Mary Lloyd Frank ; Forster A. Sondley ; George Vanderbilt ; George Meyers Stephens ; Lewis Mumford ; Hugh Lefler ; Howard Odum ; Sondley Reference Library ; Pack Memorial Library ; Virginia Terrell Lathrop

Subject LCSH :
Frank, Mary Lloyd
Lathrop, Virginia Terrell
Sondley, F. A. (Forster Alexander), 1857-1931
Sondley Reference Library (Asheville, N.C.)
Stephens, George Meyers
Leaves from the Sondley
Southern Packet
American literature -- Southern States -- History and criticism -- Periodicals
American literature -- Southern States -- Bibliography
Books -- Reviews
Southern States -- Bibliography -- Periodicals
Criticism -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century
Politics and literature -- Southern States -- History
Critics -- United States -- Biography
Description

This collection contains two publications, Leaves from the Sondley and The Southern Packet, both published by the Stephens Press.  For further information, see the "Description of Collection" in the following table.

Publisher D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville 28804
Contributor Southern Highlands Research Center ; Forster A. Sondley ; David Beebe
Date 2001-06-01, Updated 2005-12-05 JW
Type Collection ; Text
Format 0.5 cu. ft.
Identifier

http://toto.lib.unca.edu/findingaids/mss/frank_mary_lloyd/default_frank_mary_lloyd.htm

Source M79.11.1
Language English
Relation Lee, James Daniel, 1933-, Forster A. Sondley and the Sondley reference library. Thesis, M.S.L.S., 1968, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Coverage 1945-1952 ; Asheville, NC
Rights No restrictions.
Any display, publication, or public use must credit the D.H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville.
Copyright retained by the creators of certain items in the collection, or their descendents, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
  
Donor Donor number 72
Acquisition 1979-07-19
Citation Mary Lloyd Frank Collection, D.H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville 28804
Processed by Special Collections staff, 1979 and 2001

 

SCOPE AND CONTENTS

This collection contains runs of two publications, both published by the Stephens Press.

Leaves from the Sondley was first published on the tenth anniversary of the opening of the Sondley Reference Library to the public [1945-47].  The Sondley Library was collected by Forster A. Sondley, a native of Asheville who distinguished himself as a practicing lawyer and as a legal scholar.  Sondley was instrumental in George Vanderbilt's acquisition of the Biltmore Estate property; through that project and through other legal work during a long career, he had the financial means to acquire what was to become a collection of over 33,000 books. At the time of his death, he bequeathed the library to the City of Asheville, and the collection was first housed in the Asheville City Hall.  It was later moved to Pack Memorial Library, and was integrated into their reference collection.  With the exception of most of the North Carolinian materials, the collection was sold by Pack Library in the late 1980s to a Chapel Hill, NC, book dealer. 

The Leaves from the Sondley publications were employed to make the resources of the collection known to scholars, since the means were not available to publish the entire catalogue of this large collection.  The sponsors of the publication were Pack Library's Friends of the Library organization, the Asheville Chamber of Commerce, and the Stephens Press.  Volume I, number 1, includes a statement of purpose for the Leaves from the Sondley.  Generally, each issue covered one or two particular subject areas, for which the most notable items from the collection were listed. 

The Southern Packet 1945-1949: As described in volume 1, number 1, the purpose of the periodical is to review and list books on the "southern region," "from the growing southern university presses, publishing houses and private printers," and books on similar subjects by the largest publishers that are "of such importance that they must not be overlooked."  Many issues also contain an essay, or general review on a particular subject, by the editor or other writers.  Guest writers include Lewis Mumford, Hugh Lefler, and Howard Odum. 

A number of the essays and reviews evaluate, in a clear, non-moralistic way, the need of the south to implement racial equality.  Supplemental cumulative bibliographies, without reviews or annotations, containing titles which have been previously reviewed and listed, are included.  Virginia Terrell Lathrop, the editor from 1945 to 1946, provides reflective essays in the issues for those years.  George Myers Stephens was editor of the remaining issues beginning in 1947.

ITEM LIST
Box Folder Item Description
M79.11.1 1 1a Leaves from the Sondley, Vol. 1 (1945-1947), issues 1-6 [6 items]
      Vol. 1, October 1945, No. 1 - "Toward a Wider Usefulness"
      Vol. 1, April 1946, No. 2 - "American Imprints:  1752-1820"
      Vol. 1, July 1946, No. 3 - "Southeastern Imprints:  1821-1859"
      Vol. 1, October 1946, No. 4 - "Confederate Imprints:  1860-1865"
      Vol. 1, December 1946, No. 5 - "Southeastern Imprints; Reconstruction Period 1866-77"
      Vol. 1, December 1947, No. 6 - "American Newspapers"
    1b Pamphlet titled, "Sondley Reference Library; a Survey of Research Material," May, 1940; signed by George A. Beebe [1 item]
    1c Asheville Citizen, Feb. 13, 1952, clipping concerning Leaves...; notices for back issues available [2 items]
  2 2 Leaves from the Sondley, Volume 2 (1948-1952), issues 1-6 [6 items]
      Vol. 2, April 1948, No. 1 - "Descriptions of Collections in the Sondley Reference Library"
      Vol. 2, June 1949, No. 2 - "American Indians:  General titles and the general section on Indians of North America"
      Vol. 2, October 1949, No. 3 - "American Indians:  Titles grouped by nations and states of the Americas."
      Vol. 2, June 1950, No. 4 - "Folkways"
      Vol. 2, June 1951, No. 5 - "Natural History - Botany"
      Vol. 2, June 1952, No. 6 - "Natural History:  Conchology, Mineralogy, Ornithology, Zoology"
  3 3 The Southern Packet, Vol. 1/ 1-7 (1945, June-December)[7 items]
      Vol. 1, June 1945, No.1 - "Books for the South"
      Vol. 1, July 1945, No. 2 - "Lift Up Your Spirit"
      Vol. 1, August 1945, No. 3 - "Will the South Realize?"
      Vol. 1, September 1945, No. 4 - "The Grand Tradition" (2 copies)
      Vol. 1, October 1945, No. 5 - "The Library --- The Heart of Culture"
      Vol. 1, November 1945, No. 6 - Untitled
      Vol. 1, December 1945, No. 7 - "Season's Greetings"
  4 8 The Southern Packet, Vol. 2/1-12 (1946, January-December); plus cumulated bibliography covering June, 1945 through December, 1946; [13 items]
      Vol. 2, January 1946, No. 1 - "Country Store"
      Vol. 2, February 1946, No. 2 - "The Art of Story Telling"
      Vol. 2, March 1946, No. 3 - "Spring Comes Again"
      Vol. 2, April 1946, No. 4 - "About Recreation"
      Vol. 2, May 1946, No. 5 - "An Irishman's Journal"
      Vol. 2, June 1946, No. 6 - "Chart for Research"
      Vol. 2, July 1946, No. 7 - "Southern Records Revisited"
      Vol. 2, August 1946, No. 8 - " 'Title Deed':  Farm Folks"
      Vol. 2, September 1946, No. 9 - "Fiery Southern Politics"
      Vol. 2, October 1946, No. 10 - "Southeastern Library Association's First Quarter Century"
      Vol. 2, November 1946, No. 11 - "Southern Farm Tales"
      Vol. 2, December 1946, No. 12 - "The South and the Nation"
      The Southern Packet Book List:  A Reprint of 215 titles reviewed or listed from June 1945 through December 1946
  5 9 The Southern Packet, Vol. 3/1-12 (1947, January-December); plus cumulated bibliography covering 1947 [13 items]
      Vol. 3, January 1947, No. 1 - "The Scholar Writes of James Monroe"
      Vol. 3, February 1947, No. 2 - "When Oratory Mirrored Man's Ideals"
      Vol. 3, March 1947, No. 3 - "A State Looks At Its People"
      Vol. 3, April 1947, No. 4 - "Earthy Words From The People"
      Vol. 3, May 1947, No. 5 - "Putting New Knowledge to Work"
      Vol. 3, June 1947, No. 6 - "A Calm Report on the Negro's Progress"
      Vol. 3, July 1947, No. 7 - "Religious Books of the Season"
      Vol. 3, August 1947, No. 8 - "Mr. Daniels South of the Border"
      Vol. 3, September 1947, No. 9 - "FDR As Warm Springs Saw Him"
      Vol. 3, October 1947, No. 10 - "The Bridge of Knowledge"
      Vol. 3, November 1947, No. 11 - "Golden Days at Charlottesville"
      Vol. 3, December 1947, No. 12 - "Great Paintings from Bible Stories"
      The Southern Packet Book List Supplement:  A Reprint of 263 titles reviewed or listed during the year 1947
  6 10 The Southern Packet Vol. 4/ 1-3, 5, 7-12 (1948, January-March, May, July-December); plus cumulated bibliography covering 1948 [11 items]
      Vol. 4, January 1948, No. 1 - "The Negro Writer and the Southern Scene"
      Vol. 4, February 1948, No. 2 - "First of a Broad History Series"
      Vol. 4, March 1948, No. 3 - "That Perennial Problem:  The Club Program"
      Vol. 4, May 1948, No. 5 - "Tobacco Road to Shady Lane"
      Vol. 4, July 1948, No. 7 - "Laski Looks Southward"
      Vol. 4, August 1948, No. 8 - "Carl Sandburg at Flat Rock"
      Vol. 4, September 1948, No. 9 - "How to Study the South"
      Vol. 4, October 1948, No. 10 - "Nine States Look at Their Libraries"
      Vol. 4, November 1948, No. 11 - "The South's Year of Decision"
      Vol. 4, December 1948, No. 12 - "Fiction and Otherwise"
      The Southern Packet Book List Supplement:  A Reprint of 286 titles reviewed or listed during the year 1948.
  7 11 The Southern Packet Vol. 5/1-12 (1949, January-December); [12 items] 
      Vol. 5, January 1949, No. 1 - "This is Worth Our Best"
      Vol. 5, February 1949, No. 2 - "Plutarch On The James"
      Vol. 5, March 1949, No. 3 - "Southern Gardens & Garden Books"
      Vol. 5, April 1949, No. 4 - "A Thought for a Growing South"
      Vol. 5, May 1949, No. 5 - "Men at Work...in the Humanities"
      Vol. 5, June 1949, No. 6 - "Tool for Tomorrow's Citizens"
      Vol. 5, July 1949, No. 7 - Untitled
      Vol. 5, August 1949, No. 8 - "Seventeenth Century South:  Volume I of Dr. Coulter's Ten-Volume History"
      Vol. 5, September 1949, No. 9 - "Wade Hampton in Full Stature:  The Gallant Cavalry General"
      Vol. 5, October 1949, No. 10 - "The Country of the Word:  Dr. Botkin Digs for Southern Folklore"
      Vol. 5, November 1949, No. 11 - "Southern Politics:  A Major Study:  Dr. Key Examines the Mainspring State by State"
      Vol. 5, December 1949, No. 12 - "Through Clear But Kindly Eyes:  Hodding Carter Takes an Earnest Look"