Table of Contents
- Collection Summary
- Biographical Note
- Scope and Content Note
- Subject Headings
- Related Material
- Administrative Information
- Access and Use
- Encoding Information
- Container List
Collection Summary
| Repository: | Archives and Special Collections Library, Vassar College Libraries |
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| Creator: | Summers, U. T. |
| Title: | U.T. Summers Papers |
| Inclusive Dates: | 1937-1995 |
| Bulk Dates: | 1937-1939 |
| Quantity: | 0.2 cubic feet (1 box) |
| Abstract: | This collection primarilly documents U. T. Summers' friendship with Edna Stephenson. The bulk of the collection consists of letters Summers sent from Vassar College to Stephenson in their hometown of McKenzie, Tennessee. |
Biographical Note
U.T. Summers (Vassar Class of 1941) was a writer and professor. U. T. Miller was her full maiden name: Her parents were students at the University of Texas when she was born and they wanted to honor the school they held so dear. She was born in Texas, then moved to Kentucky, but rounded out her childhood in McKenzie, Tennessee. Acceptance to, and funding for, her Vassar education was aided by Boyce Alexander Gooch, fellow Tennessean and Vassar Class of 1915. After leaving Vassar she did graduate work at Radcliffe, worked as an editor at Houghton Mifflin, and married Joseph H. Summers, then a Harvard Ph.D. student. In 1969 the couple moved to western New York. He took a professorship in the English Department of the University of Rochester and she joined the faculty in the College of Liberal Arts at RIT. The Summers had an impressive circle of literary friends, including Elizabeth Bishop, James Merrill, Mona Van Duyn, and others. Joseph Summers died in 2003.
TopScope and Content Note
This collection primarilly documents U. T. Summers' friendship with Edna Stephenson. The bulk of the collection consists of letters Summers sent from Vassar College to Stephenson in their hometown of McKenzie, Tennessee. There is also a bound collection of columns she wrote for the [Rochester] City Newspaper.
TopAccess and Use
Access
This collection is open for research according to the regulations of the Vassar College Archives and Special Collections Library without any additional restrictions.
Restrictions on Use
Permission to quote (publish) from unpublished or previously published material must be obtained as described in the regulations of the Vassar College Archives and Special Collections Library.
Related Material
- There are a number of letters between the Summers and Elizabeth Bishop in the Bishop Collection:
Subject Headings
Organizations:
- Vassar College--Alumni and alumnae
Subjects:
- College teachers
VCL Categories
- Vassar College
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
U. T. Summers Papers, Archives and Special Collections Library, Vassar College Libraries.
Processing Information
Processed by Laura Streett, 2010
Acquisition Information
Gift of U. T. Summers, October 1995.
Container List
| Folder 1 | Description of collection and copies of photographs, ca. 1995 |
| Folder 2 | Correspondence — typescripts, 1937-1939 |
| Folder 3 | Correspondence — Stephenson's transcripts, 1937-1939 |
| Folder 4 | Correspondence — originals, 1937-1939 |
| Folder 5 | "Miss Allye" — [an account of the Stephenson/Summers friendship] |
| Folder 6 | Clippings 1938, 1990 |
| Folder 7 | Columns from the [Rochester] City Newspaper, 1986-1995 (bound booklet) |
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Details
This collection primarilly documents U. T. Summers' friendship with Edna Stephenson. The bulk of the collection consists of letters Summers sent from Vassar College to Stephenson in their hometown of McKenzie, Tennessee.
