The MVC Bulletin was an occasional publication of the Mississippi Valley Collection, now the Special Collections Department of the University of Memphis Libraries, beginning in 1968.
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MVC-01. A Letter from the Jackson Committee of Nashville, in Answer to One from a Similar Committee, at Cincinnati, Upon the Subject of Gen. Jackson's Marriage
"A Letter from the Jackson Committee of Nashville, in Answer to One from a Similar Committee, at Cincinnati, Upon the Subject of Gen. Jackson's Marriage" was issued in 1827 to counter questions by his political opponents about the validity of Andrew Jackson's marriage to Rachel Donelson Robards. The reprint includes an introduction and notes by Major L. Wilson, Associate Professor of History at Memphis State University.
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MVC-02. Anne Goodwin Winslow: An annotated check list
Brief descriptions of the papers of writer Anne Goodwin Winslow (1875-1959), including manuscripts of works, both published and unpublished, held by the Mississippi Valley Collection of the John Willard Brister Library, Memphis State University. Edited, with introduction and notes by Helen White, Associate Professor of English, Memphis State University.
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MVC-03. Report About and From America
Translation of "Bericht aus und über Amerika", a publication written by Johann Gottlieb Häcker from Saxony, Germany, to persuade his countrymen to emigrate to Morgan County, Tennessee, where he planned to develop two German communities near an existing German and Swiss settlement at Wartburg. The report gives a detailed description of the proposed settlements and addresses the problems immigrants may encounter. Häcker's work is translated with an introduction and notes by Richard B. O'Connell, Professor of German, Memphis State University.
Includes notes on two recent collections added to the archives: "Search for meaning in Memphis," by J. Beifuss (pp. 75-79); and "Papers of John Faulkner" (pp. 81-84).
Note. The Report is published in two parts: the first in this bulletin and the second in MVC Bulletin 4.
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MVC-04. A Bibliography of Lillian Smith & Paula Snelling/ Report About and From America, Part 2 .
A bibliography of all significant writing by and about Southern writer Lillian Eugenia Smith (1897-1966) from 1936 to 1969. Smith's most well-known work is the novel "Strange Fruit" published in 1944. Paula Snelling of the University of Georgia Library collected and sorted material about Smith for their collection.
The volume also contains part two of Johann Häcker's report "Bericht aus und über Amerika" ("Report About and From America") from the 1840s which was written to encourage German emigration to Morgan County, Tennessee. The first part was published in MVC Bulletin 3.
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MVC-05. Myths and Realities: Conflicting Values in America
A series of papers read at the annual meeting of the Kentucky-Tennessee chapter of the American Studies Association, held in Memphis, April 2 and 3, 1971.
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MVC-06. A Description of Louisiana
"A Description of Louisiana" comprises part of engraver and cartographer Thomas Jeffreys' work "Natural and Civil History of the French Dominions in North and South America" which was published in London in 1760. Drawing on accounts by Father Pierre Francois Xavier de Charlevoix, Antoine Simon Le Page Du Pratz and M. Dumont de Montigny from earlier in the century, Jeffreys uses them to support his maps, which informed British opinion at a time when the future of British interests in North America was being debated. The volume includes an introduction by C. Edward Skeen, Professor of History, Memphis State University.
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MVC-07. Jesse Hill Ford: An Annotated Check List
A check list of the papers of writer Jesse Hill Ford (1928-1996) deposited in the Mississippi Valley Collection of the John Willard Brister Library to January 1974. Introduction and annotations by Helen White, Associate Professor of English, Memphis State University.
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MVC-08. Dissipations at Uffington House: The Letters of Emmy Hughes
"Dissipations at Uffington House: the letters of Emmy Hughes, Rugby, Morgan County, Tennessee, July 5, 1881-July 15, 1887", contains thirty-five letters written by Emily Margaret Anna Hughes to her best English friend Lucy Taylor. The volume includes an introduction and notes by John R. Debruyn of Lambuth College.
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MVC-09. Conversations: Reynolds Price & William Ray
Transcriptions of five conversations between William E. Ray of Wake Forest University and writer Reynolds Price (1933-2011) at Price's home near Durham, North Carolina, between June 1973 and June 1975.
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MVC-10. The Robert R. Church family of Memphis: guide to the papers
"The Robert R. Church family of Memphis: guide to the papers with selected facsimiles of documents and photographs", written by Pamela Palmer, presents a biographical sketch of the prominent African American Robert R. Church family of Memphis, lists the holdings of the Church family papers in the Special Collections Department at Memphis State University, and explains the scope and content of each series within the collection as it was constituted in 1978. Donated by Sara Roberta Church, the collection was restricted until 1988.
The Church family papers (MSS.71) have had additions since the guide was published. For information on the collection, contact the University of Memphis Libraries Special Collections Department at specialcollections@memphis.edu.
