Boise State University Special Collections and Archives
Joseph M. Flora Papers
MSS 285
2 linear feet
4 boxes
1961-2011
Correspondence between Professor Joseph M. Flora and author Vardis Fisher on personal, biographical, literary, and political topics; together with letters to Flora from Fisher's widow Opal Fisher and other scholars and critics of Fisher's work; and Flora's writings and research files on Fisher and authors related to Fisher. Also contains Flora's correspondence with and writings on Frederick Manfred; reviews, script, photos, and other items about "Jeremiah Johnson" movie based on The Mountain Man; writings by Vardis Fisher; and other materials.
English
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Joseph M. Flora was a professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and biographer of Vardis Fisher. In addition to his work with Fisher and western writers, Professor Flora has sat on the editorial boards of Studies in Short Fiction, The Southern Literary Journal, The Thomas Wolfe Review, and The Hemingway Review. He has served as president of The Western Literature Association, The Thomas Wolfe Society, the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, and the South Atlantic Association of Departments of English.
See also: Vardis and Opal Fisher Papers
Fisher Family Papers
George E. Brown Jr. Correspondence with Vardis Fisher
Dorys Crow Grover Papers and Collections on Vardis Fisher and Ernest Hemingway
Mabel Clore Collection on Vardis Fisher
Lloyd Jensen Collection on Vardis Fisher
Approximately 50 letters (1961-1968) to Flora from Vardis Fisher on personal, biographical, literary, and political topics, beginning in 1961 when Flora was writing his Ph.D. dissertation on Fisher and continuing until Fisher's death; together with letters to Flora from Fisher's widow Opal Fisher and other scholars and critics of Fisher's work; and Flora's writings and research files on Fisher and authors related to Fisher.
Collection is available for research.
Gift of Joseph M. Flora, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, August, 2010.
[item description], Joseph M. Flora Papers, Box [number] Folder [number], Boise State University Special Collections and Archives.
Fisher, Vardis, 1895-1968
Flora, Joseph M.
Manfred, Frederick Feikema, 1912-1994
American literature--20th century
Literature
Authors, American
Literature
Idaho
Correspondence: Vardis Fisher
1961-1968
1
1
Correspondence: Opal Fisher
1968-1974
1
2
Correspondence: Frederick Manfred
1972-1989
1
3-4
Correspondence: Boise State University, Western Writers Series
1973-1976
1
5
Correspondence: Grant Fisher
1997-2000
1
6
Correspondence: Dorys C. Grover
1969-1974
1
7
Correspondence: Patrick Magarick (includes letters from Vardis Fisher)
1973-1975
1
8
Correspondence: Isidore Reiter
1964
1
9
Correspondence: Revisionist Press
1972-1973
1
10
Correspondence: Wallace Stegner
1970
1
11
Correspondence
1965-1989
1
12
Writings: Concealment in Fisher's "Orphans in Gethsemane"
undated
1
13
Writings: The Early Power of Vardis Fisher
1963
1
14
Writings: Fraternal Mavericks: The Correspondence Between Vardis Fisher and Frederick Manfred
1957-1996
2
1
Writings: Rediscovering Vardis Fisher
2000
2
2
Includes Vardis Fisher and Wallace Stegner: Teacher and Student, from Western American Literature, Vol. 5, No. 2
Writings: Remembering Vardis and Opal Fisher
undated
2
3
Writings: Two Literary Friendships: Fisher-Wolfe, Fisher-Manfred
undated
2
4
Writings: Vardis Fisher (dissertation, biography)
1962-1970
2
5
Writings: Vardis Fisher, Galley Proof from Twayne Publishers
1965
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2
Writings: Vardis Fisher and John Gardner as Teachers of Creative Writing
undated
2
6
Writings: Vardis Fisher and the Mormons
undated
2
7
Writings: Vardis Fisher Bibliography
1989
2
8
Writings: Westering and Women: A Thematic Study of Kesey's "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and Fisher's "Mountain Man"
1976-1977
2
9
Writings: Frederick Manfred Bibliography
1989
2
10
Desert Studies Institute
2009
2
11
E. Maynard Adams Lecture
2010-2011
2
12
Retirement from UNC Chapel Hill
2010
2
13
Vardis Fisher: At Cold Grey Dawn
undated
2
14
Vardis Fisher: Confersations with Vardis Fisher by John Milton
1970
2
15
Vardis FIsher: Crime and the Great Society
1967
2
16
Vardis FIsher: Ersatz Marriages
undated
2
17
Vardis Fisher: The Mormons
undated
2
18
Vardis Fisher: The Mountain Man
1965-1972
2
19
Vardis Fisher: The Mountain Man/Jeremiah Johnson Movie
1972
3
1-2
Vardis Fisher: Orphans in Gethsamane
undated
3
3
Vardis Fisher: The University Pen
1916-1923
3
4
Vardis Fisher: The Western Writer and the Eastern Establishment
1967
3
5
Vardis Fisher: Newspaper Columns: Vardis Fisher Says, Vardis Fisher Reports, Vardis Fisher's Viewpoint, Vardis Fisher's Views
1964-1968
3
6
Vardis and Opal Fisher: Gold Rushes and Mining Camps of the Early American West
1968
3
7
Vardis Fisher and Alan Swallow: On the Testament of Man
1959
3
8
Opal Fisher on Vardis Fisher's Novels
1975
3
9
Opal Fisher: Revision of Introduction, Children of God
1979
3
10
Opal Fisher Obituary
1994
3
11
About Vardis Fisher
1962-1989
3
12
Vardis Fisher, Collecting
undated
3
13
The Vardis Fisher Newsletter
1990
3
14
Vardis Fisher Papers at Boise State University
1972-1998
3
15
Vardis Fisher Events and Programs
1983-2006
3
16
Touring Fisher Country by Beatrice Morton
1986-1987
3
17
"The Mormon Heritage of Vardis Fisher" and Opal's rebuttal
1977-1979
4
1
Alan Swallow, Publisher
1963
4
2
William Faulkner
1974
4
3
Kalki: Studies in James Branch Cabell
1968-1993
4
4-6
Book Covers: Pemmican, Gold Rushes and Mining Camps of the Early American West, Children of God, Passions Spin the Plot
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