Collection Guide
This document describes a Manuscript Collection held by the
Special Collections DepartmentUniversity of Iowa Libraries
e-mail: lib-spec@uiowa.edu
Guide Contents
Biographical and Historical Information
Scope and Contents of the Collection
Administrative Information
Access and
Restrictions:
Biographical Note
Charlton Laird was born in Nashua, Iowa, in 1901. He attended the universities of Iowa, Columbia, and Stanford. In 1943 he went to the University of Nevada as head of the Department of English. Aside from his work as a lecturer and author, Laird was a member of the Modern Language Association of America and of the National Council of Teachers of English. He wrote extensively on language acquisition, use, and teaching.
Laird wrote two novels, Thunder on the River and West of the River, which both appeared in the early 1950s, in addition to other books and textbooks. Charlton Laird died in 1984.
Claudia Pummer, July 2004
Scope and
Contents
Manuscripts and correspondence concerning Laird's book Thunder
on the River make up this collection.
Acquisition and Processing Information
These papers
were given to the University of Iowa Libraries by
Guide posted
to Internet:
Box 1
English at Iowa in the Twenties by Charlton Laird, undated with editing marks
Newspaper clippings, 1948 --1984
Sales promotion for Iowa Legends of Buried Treasure
Thunder on the River
Correspondence, 1951 (Laird and Wormer)
First draft (with revisions, outlines and notes) -- titled Pyesa
Second draft (with revisions and notes) -- titled Caleb (2 folders)
Box 2
Thunder on the River, cont.
Third draft (with revisions) -- titled Red Feather, White Son (2 folders)
Fourth draft (working copy with revisions) - titled Red Feather, White Son (2 folders)
Box 3
Thunder on the River, cont.
Fourth draft (carbon) -- titled Red Feather, White Son (2 folders)
Fourth draft (carbon with revisions) -- titled Red Feather, White Son
Galley proofs
