Correspondence--Lang, Varley--1961-1963

Archive

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St. Mary's County Historical Society, Leonardtown, MD

Name/Title

Correspondence--Lang, Varley--1961-1963

Entry/Object ID

1985.002.0265

Scope and Content

1 folder ; 11 7/8"w x 9 1/8"h 32 pieces are in this folder. Mr. Lang was a waterman in Tunis Mills, Maryland on the eastern shore. He wrote about watermen and their environment, corresponded with Mr. Beitzell and critiqued Beitzell's material. Mr. Lang's first occupation was as a professor of English at Johns Hopkins and New York State Teachers' College, but he returned to the water and remained there for the rest of his life. He was forthright and seldom minced words. Undated Christmas card with an etching of a white bugeye on a red background (4 1/8"w x 5 3/8"h) with a handwritten note about the Tilp book, an accident in which his wife was involved and the state of the oyster population in his creek Poor quality photocopy of a review of Dr. Lang's book "Follow the Water" Newspaper article of August 18, 1961 with an article about Dr. Lang Letter of August 23, 1961 from Mr. Beitzell to Dr. Lang admiring the book and telling Dr. Lang lots of stories about the Beitzell clan and life on the Potomac and asking permission to review the book for the Chronicles Note from D. R. Lang (Varley's brother) to Mr. Beitzell saying his brother enjoyed the letter. D.R. Lang also worked at the phone company with Beitzell Letter of August 25, 1961 from Dr. Lang to Mr. Beitzell thanking him for his letter and urging Beitzell to write books and articles Letter of August 29, 1961 from Mr. Beitzell to Dr. Lang telling Lang about his Jesuit Missions ... book and some other writings Poor quality photocopy of an August 31, 1961 draft of Mr. Beitzell's review of "Follow the Water" to be published in the Chronicles Letter of September 3, 1961 from Dr. Lang to Mr. Beitzell thanking him for the review and his interest in the topic Letter of October 14, 1961 from Dr. Lang to Mr. Beitzell discussing books, writing books, and the state of oysters and crabs Letter of December 7, 1961 from Dr. Lang to Mr. Beitzell holding forth on book writing and publishing Letter of December 26, 1961 from Mr. Beitzell to Dr. Lang discussing the writing process and J. Webster Jone's manuscript Letter of December 29, 1961 from Dr. Lang to Mr. Beitzell talking about poetry, writing, and asking to read Mr. Jones' manuscript Letter of January 27, 1962 from Dr. Lang to Mr. Beitzell about Beitzell's manuscript, Jones' manuscript, oyster tonging, and suggesting a visit to the Mariner's Museum in Newport News Letter of February 19, 1962 from Mr. Beitzell to Dr. Lang about the manuscript, writing, and oyster tongs Letter of February 24, 1962 from Dr. Lang to Mr. Beitzell about writing and oyster tongs Letter of March 3, 1962 from Dr. Lang to Mr. Beitzell talking about the director of the Mariner's Museum, boat building, and writing. Letter of March 17, 1962 from Dr. Lang to Mr. Beitzell with a detailed critique of the first chapters of Life on the Potomac Letter of April 5, 1962 from Dr. Lang to Mr. Beitzell with a detailed discussion of how to publish Life on the Potomac Letter of April 19, 1962 from Dr. Lang to Mr. Beitzell asking for more copies of a current Chronicle issue Letter of April 21, 1962 from Dr. Lang to Mr. Beitzell about an environmental researcher, eeling, and muskrats Letter of May 19, 1962 from Dr. Lang to Mr. Beitzell about Lang's manuscript, wild asparagus, and oyster tonging Letter of August 3, 1962 from Dr. Lang to Mr. Beitzell sympathizing with Beitzell's problems with his son Letter of November 12, 1962 from Dr. Lang to Mr. Beitzell with small paragraphs on small things Letter of March 9, 1963 from Dr. Lang to Mr. Beitzell about tonging and the destruction of winter wheat by flocks of geese Letter of March 24, 1963 from Dr. Lang to Mr. Beitzell thanking him for publications and pictures, suggesting Elspeth Huxley's books and sending a poem by Rupert Brooke [not included] Letter of June 8, 1963 from Dr. Lang to Mr. Beitzell discussing gulls, the fee for eeling, crabbing, gardening, etc. Letter of July 20, 1963 from Dr. Lang to Mr. Beitzell discussing a fish kill, a heronry, nicknames, integration, etc. Letter of August 3, 1963 from Dr. Lang to Mr. Beitzell with a clipping about the fish kill, a failure on all fishing and crabbing fronts, and the log canoe regatta Letter of September 7, 1963 from Dr. Lang to Mr. Beitzell congratulating him on the arrangement for St. Clement's Island, discussing fish kills, and tonging Letter of October 13, 1963 from Dr. Lang to Mr. Beitzell congratulating him on an Award of Merit (for ??), sending along a story on manhole explosions, and the oystering success so far Letter of November 19, 1963 from Mr. Beitzell to Dr. Lang telling about oystering, book reading and writing, and the story of Stony Dent Letter of November 27, 1963 from Dr. Lang to Mr. Beitzell discussing oystering and the Stony Dent story

Collection

Edwin Warfield Beitzell Collection

Archive Details

Primary Language

English

Archive Items Details

Date(s) of Creation

1961 - 1963

Location

* Untyped Location

Edwin Beitzell Collection, Box 9A [Rack 09, Shelf 3 : Rack 09 : North wall : Archives 2 : Tudor Hall]

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Beitzell, Edwin Warfield (1905-1984)

Person or Organization

Dent, Stony

Person or Organization

Lang, Varley