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Dorys Crow Grover Papers and Collections on Vardis Fisher and Ernest Hemingway, 1965-1995

Overview of the Collection

Title
Dorys Crow Grover Papers and Collections on Vardis Fisher and Ernest Hemingway
Dates
1965-1995 (inclusive)
Quantity
1.25 linear feet, (3 boxes)
Collection Number
MSS 120
Summary
Correspondence, articles, essays, notes, literary criticism, conference material, and other papers, relating mainly to author Vardis Fisher and his writings. Correspondents include Vardis Fisher and Joseph M. Flora. Additional materials related to Hemingway have been added.
Repository
Boise State University Library, Special Collections and Archives
Special Collections and Archives
1910 University Drive
Boise ID
83725
Telephone: 2084263990
archives@boisestate.edu
Access Restrictions

Collection is available for research.

Languages
English
Sponsor
Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided, in part, by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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Biographical Note

Dorys Crow Grover began her studies of Vardis Fisher as a graduate student at Washington State University in the 1960s. Her Ph.D. dissertation, completed in 1969, was entitled A Study of the Poetry of Vardis Fisher. In 1972 Dr. Grover received an appointment as professor of English at East Texas State University, where she taught both graduate and undergraduate courses in American literature for more than twenty years. Throughout her career she maintained her interest in Vardis Fisher, writing articles and delivering papers about him at professional conferences. She is the author of two books about Fisher, A Solitary Voice: Vardis Fisher; A Collection of Essays (1973) and Vardis Fisher: The Novelist as Poet (1973), a study based upon her Ph.D. dissertation. Her article, "Vardis Fisher: The Antelope People Sonnets" (1974) collected together for the first time all of Fisher's sonnets about the people of the Antelope Hills in eastern Idaho. Professor Grover has also written about Emily Dickinson, James Branch Cabell, and John Graves.

Dorys Crow Grover was born in Pendleton, Oregon, on September 23, 1921. She received a bachelor's degree from Oregon State University in 1951. Before entering graduate school she was editor of her hometown newspaper, The Pendleton Record. Professor Grover retired from East Texas State University in 1993. She divides her time between Texas and her ranch near Pendleton.

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Content Description

The Dorys Crow Grover collection consists of material related to Professor Grover's studies of Vardis Fisher and his writings.

The Correspondence includes 23 postcards and letters from Fisher to Grover, 1965-1967, discussing his poetry and the influences on his work. Professor Grover submitted drafts of her dissertation for Fisher to read; his comments and corrections are among the letters. Professor Grover also corresponded with other Fisher scholars and with literary journals and publishers.

The Writings of Dorys Crow Grover include variant drafts of several of her articles, some of which were republished in A Solitary Voice. The Writings also contain a tape-recorded lecture on the "Historical Novels of Vardis Fisher," distributed by the educational media firm Everett/Edwards, Inc.

Professor Grover collected critical essays and reviews of Fisher's works by others. Some of those are unpublished papers delivered by Fisher scholars at professional conferences. They, along with published articles and reviews by others, are found in the series Criticism and Reviews of Fisher and His Works. Copyright to these writings remain with their authors.

The collection also contains Conference material (organizational papers, programs, and the like), Notes and Clippings collected by Grover, and slides and photos.

An addition, donated by Professor Grover in 1996 includes clippings and materials related to Ernest Hemingway.

Forms part of the Idaho Writers Archive.

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

Copyright to the articles, reviews, and papers in Series 6 - Criticism and reviews of Fisher and works - remain with their authors.

Preferred Citation

[item description], Dorys Crow Grover Papers and Collections on Vardis Fisher and Ernest Hemingway, Box [number] Folder [number], Boise State University Special Collections and Archives.

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Administrative Information

Arrangement

The collection is divided into seven series: 1. Biographical material about Dorys Crow Grover; 2. Correspondence of Dorys Crow Grover; 3. Writings by Dorys Crow Grover; 4. Conference material; 5. Notes and clippings; 6. Criticism and reviews of Fisher and his works (by others); and 7. Miscellaneous.

Acquisition Information

Gift of Dr. Grover, 1993 and after.

Related Materials

See also: Mabel Clore Collection on Vardis Fisher

Idaho Author File

Vardis and Opal Fisher Papers

Fisher Family Papers

George E. Brown Jr. Correspondence with Vardis Fisher

Joseph M. Flora Papers and Collection on Vardis Fisher

Lloyd Jensen Collection on Vardis Fisher

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Detailed Description of the Collection

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Subject Terms

  • Authors, American
  • Literature

Personal Names

  • Fisher, Vardis, 1895-1968
  • Flora, Joseph M.
  • Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961

Corporate Names

  • Caxton Printers

Form or Genre Terms

  • Photographs

Collection processed by Alan Virta
1995; updated 2023

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