DeGrotte Eby Papers

Archive

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Jefferson County Museum

Name/Title

DeGrotte Eby Papers

Entry/Object ID

ARC1013

Scope and Content

Collection of papers written or edited by Cecil DeGrotte Eby Jr.: ARC1013-1: "Ichabod Crane in Yoknapatawpha" ARC1013-2: "The 'Old Virginia Gentleman' In New England," from the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 70, No. 1, January 1962. Signature of Cecil Eby on front cover. ARC1013-3: "The Real Robert Jordan," reprinted from American Literature, Vol. XXXVIII, No. 3, November 1966 ARC1013-4: Civil War History, Vol. VI, No. 1, March 1960, with excerpt "With Sigel at New Market: The Diary of Colonel D. H. Strother" by Cecil Eby. (2 copies) One copy has signature of Cecil Eby on front cover. ARC1013-5: "The Wizard Clip: An Old Potomac Legend." Signature of Cecil Eby on front cover. ARC1013-6: "The Source of Crane's Metaphor, 'Red Badge of Courage'," reprinted from American Literature, Vol. XXXII, No. 2, May 1960 ARC1013-7: "America as 'Asylum': A Dual Image" ARC1013-8: "John Pendleton Kennedy Was Not 'X. M. C.'," reprinted from American Literature, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, November 1959 (2 copies) ARC1013-9: "'The Real War' and the Books" (3 copies) ARC1013-10: "Whittier's 'Brown of Ossawatomie'," reprinted from The New England Quarterly, Vol. XXXIII, No. 4, December 1960. Signature of Cecil Eby on first page. -ARC1013-11: "I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed': A Variant Reading," reprinted from American Literature, Vol. XXXVI, No. 4, January 1965 ARC1013-12: "The Last Hours of the John Brown Raid: The Narrative of David H. Strother," from the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 73, No. 2, April 1965 (2 copies). Signature of Cecil Eby on front cover (for both copies). ARC1013-13: "Memoirs of a Westpointer in St. Augustine 1824-1826," reprinted from the Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. XLII, No. 3, April 1964. Edited by Cecil Eby ARC1013-14: "West Virginia History" magazine, Vol. XXI, No. 2, January 1960, with excerpt "'Porte Crayon's' Quarrel with Virginia" by Cecil Eby. Signature of Cecil Eby on front cover.

Acquisition

Accession

75

Source or Donor

Charles Town Library

Acquisition Method

Gift

Archive Details

Date(s) of Creation

1959 - 1966