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January 2012  55 C&RL News

Ed. note: Send your news to: Grants & Acquisitions, 
C&RL News, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795; 
e-mail: agalloway@ala.org.

The Newberry Library has started a $300,000, 
two-and-one-half-year project to arrange, de-
scribe, and make electronically accessible the 
archives of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy 
Railroad Company (CB&Q), which comprise 
2,760 linear feet of correspondence, minutes, 
photographs, land records, maps, promotional 
publications, financial records, and other ma-
terials documenting company activities from 
1840 to 1965. The project is made possible by 
a grant from the National Endowment for the 
Humanities Division of Preservation and Ac-
cess. Headquartered in Chicago, CB&Q was 
one of the nation’s largest and most significant 
railroads, controlling transportation over much 
of the country between the Rocky Mountains 
and the Mississippi River. To view and comment 
on the archivists’ progress and the interesting 
materials they uncover, visit the CB&Q project 
blog at http://webfactional.com/cbq/.

Acquisitions

The literary collection of Stuart Wright, 
bibliographer and collector whose work fo-
cuses on southern poets and novelists, has 
been acquired by the J. Y. Joyner Library 
at East Carolina University. Wright is per-
haps best known for his published bibliog-
raphies of such noted American writers as  
A. R. Ammons, James Dickey, Richard Eb-
erhart, George Garrett, William Goyen,  
Randall Jarrell, Andrew Lytle, Walker Percy, 
and Reynolds Price. Wright developed close 
relationships with some of the writers rep-
resented in the collection. The Wright Col-
lection consists of more than 3,000 printed 
works and 5,000 manuscripts. Included are 
portions of the private libraries of Eberhart, 

who taught for many years at Dartmouth Col-
lege, the English poet Donald Davie, and such 
southern writers as Jarrell, John Crowe Ran-
som, Peter Hillsman Taylor, and Robert Penn 
Warren, as well as first editions of books they 
wrote. Many of the books contain significant 
inscriptions, annotations, and insertions that 
shed light on the writers’ thought processes 
and their relationships with their peers. The 
collection also contains significant manu-
script material, including notebooks, letters, 
and literary works by Madison Smartt Bell, 
Eberhart, Jarrell, Ransom, Taylor, and Warren. 
Among the manuscripts are holograph letters 
written by Taylor to his wife during World 
War II, notebooks, and a virtually complete 
collection of poems written by Jarrell, and 
Warren’s typescript of the screenplay (1949) 
for All the King’s Men.

Southern Methodist University’s DeGolyer  
Library and Susan G. Komen for the Cure 
have formed a new partnership to preserve 
and chronicle the history of the international 
organization dedicated to fighting breast can-
cer. Correspondence, advertisements, and 
news articles are among Susan G. Komen for 
the Cure’s 29-year history that are now part of 
DeGolyer’s Archives of Women of the South-
west. The collection tells the story of Susan G.  
Komen for the Cure from its start as a grass-
roots effort to its role as the global leader of 
breast cancer awareness and the fight to find a 
cure. A sister’s promise in 1980 led to creation 
of Susan G. Komen for the Cure. When Komen 
died from breast cancer at age 36, her sister, 
Ambassador Nancy G. Brinker, promised to do 
everything she could to end breast cancer, cul-
minating with the founding of the organization 
that now bears her sister’s name. At DeGolyer, 
the personal papers, scrapbooks,and photo-
graphs of Susan Goodman Komen as well as 
papers, photographs, clippings, publications, 
awards, and artifacts will be preserved and 
cataloged for researchers. 

G r a n t s  a n d  A c q u i s i t i o n sAnn-Christe Galloway