.5 cubic feet 1970 Donated
15.6 cubic feet 1903 - 1994 Donated
This collection consists of 12 full boxes (15.6 cu. ft.) arranged in four series:
Series I - Personal writings and material.
Series II - Poets and Writers.
Series III - Materials on Language and Dialects.
Series IV - Class Materials.
Ms. Burkett was born April 9, 1903, in
This collection contains four series in twelve boxes and is arranged by chapter or alphabetically. Note: When requesting material, please specify collection number M86-4, Series number, Box number and file number. Ms. Burette also has five books located in the Archives. The books are:
Call Number Title
PE1611 .B7 American Dictionaries of the English Language-
Z1234.D5 B87 American English Dialects in Literature
PE1408 .B88384 Prose; a Systematic Approach to Writing
PE1404 .B87 Writing in Subject-mater Fields;
PN501 S7 Introductory
Series I, Personal Writings and Materials
Box I
File 1 - Biological Information
File 2 - Miscellaneous Personal
File 3 - Teacher Retirement
File 4 - Collaboration with Joyce Steward on "Introductory
File 5 - Publishing Company Correspondence
File 6 - Information Related to English Department and Teaching
File 7 - English Language Institute - Teaching English as a Foreign Language
File 8 - Miscellaneous Teaching Materials on English and Literature
File 9 - Information on Southern Literature
File 10 - "The
File 11 - Miscellaneous Historical Literature
File 12 - Miscellaneous Reviews and Information Books
File 13 - Miscellaneous Notes on Authors
File 14 - Looking Back:
File 15 - General Miscellaneous
File 1 - Chapter 1: Approaches to Writing, 1970
File 2 - Chapter 2: Preparatory Essays on
File 3 - Chapter 3: Narrative and Descriptive Wrutubg, 1970
File 4 - Chapter 4: Expository Writing, 1970
File 5 - Chapter 5: Arguments and Opinions, 1970
File 6 - Chapter 6: The American Language, 1970
File 7 - Chapter 7: Comparison of the use of materials, 1970
File 8 - Prose - Draft, 1970
File 9 - Materials on Prose
File 10 - Materials on Prose
File 11 - American English Dialects in Literature (1978), General notes
File 12 - American English Dialects in Literature (1978), General notes
File 13 - American English Dialects in Literature (1978), Copy of Draft 1
File 14 - American English Dialects in Literature (1978), Copy of Draft 2
File 15 - American English Dialects in Literature (1978), General Materials
File 1 - Masters Thesis: "Virginia Life As Portrayed by Ellen Glasgow"
File 2 - Manuscript on Ellen Glasgow
File 3 - "Writing in Subject-matter Fields": A Bibliographic Guide
File 4 - Materials on "Writing in Subject-matter Fields"
File 5 - "Directions for Writing, with Writing Assignments and Students Papers"
File 6 - "Writing in Subject-matter Fields for Advanced Students"
File 7 - Research Papers
File 8 - Research on the Development of the Dictionary in
File 9 - Chinese Literature
File 10 - Folk Material as a Basis of Literature
File 11 - Reports of Humanities Division (1957 - 1963)
File 1 - Unpublished Manuscript - "Thoreau on Writing" - Part I Chap.1
File 2 - Unpublished Manuscript - "Thoreau on Writing" - Part I Chap. 2
File 3 - Unpublished Manuscript - "Thoreau on Writing" - Part I Chap. 3
File 4 - Unpublished Manuscript - "Thoreau on Writing" - Part I Chap. 4
File 5 - Unpublished Manuscript - "Thoreau on Writing" - Part I Chap. 5
File 6 - Unpublished Manuscript - "Thoreau on Writing" - Part II Ch.1
File 7 - Unpublished Manuscript - "Thoreau on Writing" - Part II
File 8 - Unpublished Manuscript - "Thoreau on Writing" - Part II
File 9 - Unpublished Manuscript - "Thoreau on Writing" - Part II Chs. 4 & 5
File 10 - Unpublished Manuscript - "Thoreau on Writing" - Part II
File 11 - "Thoreau on Writing": Notes and Chapter Drafts - File 1
File 12 - "Thoreau on Writing": Notes and Chapter Drafts - File 2
File 13 - "Thoreau on Writing": Notes and Chapter Drafts - File 3
File 14 - "Thoreau on Writing": Notes and Chapter Drafts - File 4
File 15 - "Thoreau on Writing": Notes and Chapter Drafts - File 5
File 16 - "Thoreau on Writing": Notes and Chapter Drafts - File 6
File 17 - Correspondence of Thoreau
File 18 - Quotes from Journal: Material for "Thoreau on Writing"
File 19 - Miscellaneous Articles and Chapters on Thoreau
File 20 - Thoreau and Poetry
File 21 - Material on Writing in a Journal
File 22 - References and Notes on "Thoreau on Writing"
End of Series I,
Series II, Poets and Writers
File 1 - James Agee
File 2 - Anne Armstrong
File 3 - Arnow
File 4 - William Malone Baskerville
File 5 - Richard Croom Beatly
File 6 - Stephen V. Benet
File 7 - Lester Berry
File 8 - Harold Bond
File 9 - Virginia Frazer Boyle
File 10 - Roarkk Bradford
File 11 - James Buchanan
File 12 - Pearl Buck
File 13 - Ben Lucien Burman
File 14 - Frances Hodgson Burnett
File 15 - Taylor Caldwell
File 16 - Frances Boyd Calhoun
File 17 - Marie Campbell
File 18 - W. S. Cash
File 19 - Brainard Cheyney
File 20 - Maristan Chapman
File 21 - Stuart Chase
File 22 - Samuel Clemons
File 23 - Joseph Conrad
File 24 - John William Corrington
File 25 - Alfred Leland Crabb
File 26 - David Crockett
File 27 - Walter Clyde Curry
File 28 - Robert Daniel
File 29 - Donald Davidson
File 30 - Maria Thhompson Daviess
File 31 - George H. Douglas
File 32 - Robert Drake
File 33 - Will Allen Dramgoole
File 34 - Elizabeth Dunn
File 35 - Wilma Dykeman (Stokely)
File 36 - Sarah Barnwell Elliott
File 37 - Paul Engle
File 1- William Faulkner
File 2 - Jesse Hill Ford
File 3 - John Fox, Jr.
File 4 - Margaret Fuller (OSSOLI)
File 5 - Zona Gale
File 6 - John Galsworth
File 7 - Nikki Giovann
File 8 - Charles Givens
File 9 - Caroline Gordon
File 10 - Emmett Gowen
File 11 - Herschel Grower
Fiel 12 - Shirley Ann Grau
File 13 - Paul Green
File 14 - Alex Haley
File 15 - William Harben
File 16 - D. W. Harding
File 17 - Cora Harris
File 18 - George Washington Harris
File 19 - Joel
File 20 - Mildred Haun
File 21 - Robert Heilman
File 22 - Roy Helton
File 23 - Ernest Hemingway
File 24 - John Hersey
File 25 - Gilbert Highet
File 26 - Cecilia Holland
File 27 - Sam Houston
File 28 - Cordell Hull
File 29 - Andrew Jackson
File 30 - Randell Jarrell
File 31 - Andrew Johnson
File 32 - James Weldon Johnson
File 33 - Madison Jones
File 34 - Edith Summers Kelly
File 35 - Harry Harrison Kroll
File 36 - Joseph Wood Krutch
File 37 - Sidney Lanier
File 38 - Roy Larson
File 39 - Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
File 40 - Louise Preston Looney
File 41 - Andrew Lytle
File 1 - H. K. Mackensen
File 2 - David Madden
File 3 - Richard Marius
File 4 - Cormac McCarthy
File 5 - George Marion McClellan
File 6 - Emma
File 7 - J. Hillis Miller
File 8 - John Milton
File 9 - Grace Moore
File 10 - John Trotwood Moore
File 11 - Merrill Moore
File 12 - Charles Morgan
File 13 - David Morton
File 14 - Mary N. Murfree
File 15 - Chalmers S Murray
File 16 - Flannery O'Connor
File 17 - Eugene O'Neill
File 18 - Edd Winfield Parks
File 19 - Joseph Howard Parks
File 20 - Robert Partin
File 21 - William Alexander Perry
File 22 - Katherine Anne Porter
File 23 - Joseph Raben
File 24 - Paul Ramsey
File 25 - Vance Randolph
File 26 - John Crowe Ransom
File 27 - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
File 28 - Elizabeth Madox Roberts
File 29 - George Scarbrough
File 30 - Evelyn Scott
File 31 - Margaret Shedd and George Orwell
File 32 - Elsie Singmaster
File 33 - Freya Stark
File 34 - Randall Stewart
File 35 - James Still
File 36 - T. S. Stribling
File 37 - Jesse Stuart
File 38 - Walter Sullivan
File 1 - Allen Tate
File 2 - Allen Tate
File 3 - Peter Taylor
File 4 - Robert Love
File 5 - Alice Toklas
File 6 - Lulu Vollmer
File 7 - Robert Penn
File 8 - George Savary Wasson
File 9 - Sam Watkins
File 10 - Robert Welker
File 11 - Eudora Welty
File 12 - Glenway Wescott
File 13 -
File 14 -
File 15 -
File 16 - Ann Goodwin Winslow
File 17 - Thomas Wolfe
File 18 - Virginia Woolf
File 19 - Thomas Daniel Young
File 20 -
File 21 - Miscellaneous Poets and Writers Information
Series III, Materials on Language and Dialects
File 1 - Materials on Japanese Language and Dialect
File 2 - Materials on Japanese Language and Dialect
File 3 - Materials on Japanese Language and Dialect
File 4 - Materials on Japanese Language and Dialect
File 5 - Materials on Japanese Language and Dialect
File 6 - Materials on Japanese Language and Dialect
File 7 - Material on Southern Mountaineers
File 8 - Material on Southern Mountaineers
File 9 - The Southern Mountain Dialect
File 10 - Southern Mountain, Creole, Cajun, and Mid-Atlantic Dialects
File 11 - Writers of Cajun Dialects
File 12 - Creole and Cajun Dialects
File 13 - American English Dialects
File 14 - Negro Dialects by White Writers
File 15 - American Language
File 16 - Mark Twain and Other Writers' use of Dialect
File 17 - Dialects and Language
File 18 - Dialectic Analysis on Five Riley Poems
File 19 - General Dialect Material
File 20 - Dialects of Minority Groups
File 21 - The Development of Language: Aryan and Semitic Groups
File 22 - Anglo-Saxon Literature Information
File 23 -
File 24 - The Language of Politics
Series IV, Class Materials
File 1 - English 1310, 2324 - Evaluation and Preparation of Student Papers
File 2 - English 4355, 5355, 4335 - Literary Criticism
File 3 - English 2324 - Emily Dickinson
File 4 - English 4335 - Literary Criticism
File 5 - Education 5380 Method in Research
File 6 - English 4335 - Literary Criticism
File 7 - Literary Criticism - Poetry - Aristotle
File 8 - English 3370 - Novel I
File 9 - English 113, 123, 1310, & 1320
File 10 - English 3300, 1320, - Poetry
File 11 - English 1320 - Poetry
File 12 - English 3300 - Creative Writings
File 13 - English 220, 335, 3350, & 4350 - American Lit.
File 14 - Publications
File 15 - English 3301 - Miscellaneous Material for Teaching
File 16 - English 3300 - Student Writings
File 17 - Miscellaneous English - Composition Material
File 18 - English 3321 - Victorian Lit.
File 19 - Miscellaneous Teaching Material, NDEA Institute 1967
File 20 - English 330, 1310, 1320 - Creative Writings
File 21 - Teacher Education Committee
File 22 - English 3380, 4350, 3350 & 1320 - Poetry
File 23 - English 2310 - American Lit., Novel II
File 24 - English 335 & 4350 - American Lit.
File 25 - English 3351 & 3380 - Poetry
File 26 - English 1310 - Language
File 27 - English 1320 & 1310 - Poetry
File 28 - English 3300
File 29 - English 1320
File 30 - English 1310
File 31 - Graduate Exam
File 32 - English 1320
File 33 - English 3351 - American Lit.
File 34 - English 3371 - Novel I & II
File 35 - English 1320 - Greek Tragedy
File 36 - English 3351 - American Lit.
File 37 - English 3370 - Novel I
File 38 - NDEA - Report
File 39 - Old British English
File 40 - English 1320
File 41 - English 1310
File 42 - English 338 & 213 - Poetry
File 43 - Graduate Students
File 44 - English 3300
File 45 - English 338 - Poetry
File 46 - English 3321 - Victorian Lit. - Browning, Tennyson
File 47 - English 1310 & 1320 - Freshman English
File 48 - English 3371 - Novel II
File 49 - English 1310
File 50 - English 3321 - Victorian Lit.
File 51 - English 413 - Chaucer ( 1 of 2 ).
File 52 - English 413 - Chaucer ( 2 of 2 ).
File 53 - English 1310 & 330 - American Lit.
File 54 - English 3301 & 3370 - Rhetoric & Comp. & Novel I
File 55 - English 3371 - Novel II
File 56 - English 3350 - American Lit.
End of
File 1 - English 203 - Intro to Lit. ( 1 of 2 ).
File 2 - English 203 - Intro to Lit. ( 2 of 2 ).
File 3 - Freshman English
File 4 - English 203 - Final Exam (Peggy Lloyd).
File 5 - Short Stories
File 6 - English 413 & 3340 - Chaucer
File 7 - English 323 - Shakespeare
File 8 - Thoreau - Emerson - Whitman
File 9 - Hawthorne & Melville ( 1 0f 5 ).
File 10 - Hawthorne & Melville ( 2 of 5 ).
File 11 - Hawthorne & Melville ( 3 of 5 ).
File 12 - Hawthorne & Melville ( 4 of 5 ).
File 13 - Hawthorne & Melville ( 5 of 5 ).
File 14 - Melville - Bibliography
File 15 - Huckleberry Finn
File 16 - Honors English
File 17 - English 213 & 443
File 18 - English 144, 392, & 146 - American Writers
File 19 - Shakespeare
File 20 -
File 21 - English 403 - Victorian Lit. - (Tennyson ) 1 of 2.
File 22 - English 403 - Victorian Lit. - 2 of 2.
File 23 - Freshman English - Honors
File 24 - English 453 - Great World Novels
File 25 - Freshman English - Methods of Analysis
File 26 - English 313 - English Language & Grammar
File 27 - English 203 - Intro. to Lit.
File 28 - English 213 - Poetry & Drama
File 29 - English 313 - Language & Grammar
File 30 - English 383 - Emerson, Thoreau & Whitman
File 31 - English 431 & 3340 - Chaucer
File 32 - Dante - Divine Comedy
File 33 - English 313
File 34 - English 212, 222 & 223 - Lit.
File 35 - English 330 & 331 - American Lit.
File 36 - Teaching English Writings
End of
File 1 - Student Composition
File 2 - English 313
File 3 - English 383 - Emerson, Thoreau & Whitman
File 4 - Hawthorne & Melville
File 5 - English 231 - Poetry
File 6 - English 403 - Victorian Lit.
File 7 - English 473 - American Writers
File 8 - English 453 - Great World Novels
File 9 - English 213 - Intro. to Lit.
File 10 - English 113 & 123 - Rhetoric & Composition
File 11 - English 453 - Great World Novels
File 12 - English 203 - Prose - Intro. to Lit.
File 13 - English 453 - Great World Novels
File 14 - Novel
File 15 - English 473 & 5380 - American Fiction
File 16 - English 453 - Novel
File 17 - English 203 - Prose
File 18 - English 413 & 3340 - Poetry of Chaucer
File 19 - English 403 - Victorian Age
File 20 - English 473 - American Writers
File 21 - English 204 - Prose
File 22 - English 313 - Language and Grammar
File 23 - Miscellaneous Teaching Material
File 24 - Miscellaneous Teaching Material
File 25 - Miscellaneous Teaching Material
File 26 -
File 27 - Miscellaneous
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