Box 2

Collection contains typescripts, publications, photographs, and other materials including correspondence and newspaper clippings gathered by Daniel Morley McKeithan. McKeithan wrote primarily about Paul Hamilton Hayne, and his papers contain numerous published articles on Hayne, correspondence about locating Hayne manuscripts and uncollected poems, a few copies of Hayne documents, and two photographs and negatives of "Copse Hill," the cottage near Augusta, GA, where Hayne lived from 1866-1886 (the photographs were taken in 1940).; He also wrote articles and reviews on Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain, and Edgar Allan Poe. The collection includes a student paper entitled "Self-repetition in Hawthorne's stories and novels" (71 pp. holograph probably prepared while a student at the College of Charleston).; A carbon type-script of McKeithan's thesis (M.A.), entitled "The origin and development of the Athurian legend," is also included in the collection (100 pp.). His 1935 dissertation (Ph.D.) presented to the University of Texas, entitled "The debt to Shakespeare in the Beaumont-and-Fletcher plays," was privately printed in 1938--a copy can be found in the collection.