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F. Eugene Haun Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1023

Scope and Content Note

Documents collected by F. Eugene Haun of Ypsilanti, Michigan, pertaining to author and poet John Gould Fletcher. The bulk of the collection is comprised of correspondence from Fletcher to Henry Bergen. Also included is correspondence from Fletcher to Walter E. Peck and between Haun and Fletcher.

The research materials and manuscripts in series four consist of one folder of transcripts made by Haun of correspondence between Fletcher, Donald Davidson, Allen Tate, and Lambert Davis; two folders with drafts of essays by Haun with related correspondence; an unpublished Fletcher manuscript entitled "The Sin of City-Mindedness"; two versions of Eugene Haun's 1946 master's thesis on Fletcher, one with marginal corrections made by Fletcher himself; an untitled manuscript story about Fletcher's father by Haun; and a folder of newspaper clippings and ephemera pertaining to Fletcher.

Dates

  • 1923-1950

Creator

Language of Materials

Materials are in English.

Access Information

Please call (479) 575-8444 or email specoll@uark.edu at least two weeks in advance of your arrival to ensure availability of the materials.

Use Information

RESTRICTIONS: Permission to use excerpts from Haun's letters to Fletcher must be obtained from the donor during the remainder of his life.

No Interlibrary Loan.

Standard Federal Copyright Laws Apply (U.S. Title 17).)

Biographical Note

Eugene Haun was born April 21, 1920, in Little Rock, Arkansas. As a youth, he became an acquaintance of John Gould Fletcher and a disciple of his work. After Haun graduated from Hendrix College (Conway, Arkansas) in 1943, Fletcher helped Haun arrange financing for graduate studies at Vanderbilt (Master of Arts, 1946), and Haun became an authority on Fletcher's writings. He intended to write his dissertation on Fletcher, but a falling out between the two ended that project. Haun then took his doctorate in English at the University of Pennsylvania (1954). He taught English at various institutions, principally at Eastern Michigan University beginning in 1966, from which he retired in 1988. Haun was also a librettist, working most notably with Sarah Caldwell to produce new libretti for works by Mozart, Scarlatti, and Offenbach.

Extent

1 Linear Feet (4 boxes)

Arrangement of the Papers

Haun arranged the correspondence in chronological order by recipient and year. Letters which could be dated to a month but not a day were placed at the end of that month's correspondence. Letters dated only to a year are at the end of that year's documents. Notations in pencil on undated items giving an approximate date are Haun's. Items with no date are at the end of the group in which Haun placed them.

The collection has been arranged in five series: series one contains the Fletcher/Henry Bergen letters; series two, the Fletcher/Walter Edwin Peck letters; series three, the Fletcher/Eugene Haun letters; series four, manuscripts and related material; and series five, microfilmed copies of letters written by Fletcher located at the University of Chicago and Harvard University.

  1. Series 1. Fletcher and Henry Bergen letters, 1923-1935 (Boxes 1 and 2)
  2. Series 2. Fletcher and Eugene Haun letters, 1940-1950 (Box 2, folders 4-7)
  3. Series 3. Fletcher and Walter E. Peck letters, 1931-1933 (Box 2, folder 8)
  4. Series 4. Manuscripts and related material, 1930-1950 (Box 2, folders 9-16)
  5. Series 5. Microfilm letters, ca. 1913-1918 (Boxes 3 and 4)

Acquisition Information

Documents collected by F. Eugene Haun of Ypsilanti, Michigan, pertaining to author and poet John Gould Fletcher were donated by Haun to Special Collections in December 1989. Haun acquired the items in this collection during his studies of Fletcher's life and work.

Processing Information

Processed by Leon C. Miller, Revised by Kim Allen Scott, Special Collections Division, University of Arkansas Libraries, Fayetteville, Arkansas, in February, 1991.

Title
F. Eugene Haun Collection
Status
Completed
Author
Leon C. Miller
Date
1991
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin
Language of description note
Finding aid is written in English.

Repository Details

Part of the Special Collections Department Repository

Contact:
University of Arkansas Libraries
365 N. McIlroy Avenue
Fayetteville AR 72701 United States
(479) 575-8444