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Collection Number: 03825

Collection Title: William T. Couch Papers, 1926-1988.

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Size 22.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 12000 items)
Abstract William Terry Couch was director of the University of North Carolina Press, 1932-1945; director of the University of Chicago Press, 1945-1950; editor-in-chief of Collier's Encyclopedia and Yearbooks, 1952-1959; editor of the American Oxford Encyclopedia, 1959-1963; and co-director of the Center for American Studies in Burlingame, Calif., 1963-1964. Correspondence, notes, writings, subject files, card files, and photographs documenting Couch's life from 1926 through 1988. Much of the material covers his career in publishing, including his work at university presses during the 1930s and 1940s and his work with encyclopedia companies such as Crowell-Collier Publishing Company and J. J. Little and Ives Company during the 1940s and 1960s. Couch's official press records during the time he was director of the University of North Carolina Press are not included; most of the correspondence during that period is with friends and colleagues. Couch was dismissed in 1950 from his position as director of the University of Chicago Press by Robert M. Hutchins, and there are notes, writings, and correspondence on this controversy and the related issue of academic freedom. From Couch's later years, there are letters from conservative thinkers such as William F. Buckley and Russell Kirk and writings by Couch about his anti-communist sentiments and support of racial segregation. Other correspondents include Paul Green, Allen Tate, James Feibleman, Josephus Daniels, Jonathan Daniels, Louis Round Wilson, Luther Hodges, Holt McPherson, Cleanth Brooks, David Hoggan, R. J. Rushdoony, F. Maynard Adams, G. Warren Nutter, Daniel Singal, Henry Regnery, and Eliseo Vivas.
Creator Couch, William T. (William Terry), 1901-
Curatorial Unit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Language English
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[Identification of item], in the William T. Couch Papers #3825, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Acquisitions Information
Received from William Terry Couch of Chapel Hill, N.C., in November 1969; and from Mrs. William Terry Couch of Chapel Hill, N.C., in June 1988.
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William Terry Couch

1901 Born 4 December in Pamplin, Va., son of a Baptist minister.

1917 Moved with family to farm between Chapel Hill and Durham. N.C.

1917-1918 Worked on farm and with Southern Power Company.

1920 Entered the University of North Carolina (January).

1920-1922 Served in the army; failed physical exam to enter West Point.

1922-1925 Returned to UNC. Worked as library assistant and as editor of Carolina Magazine.

1925 Married Elizabeth Calvert.

1925 Asked to direct the UNC Press by its director, Louis R. Wilson, while he took a leave of absence.

1926 Graduated with a B.A. degree from UNC.

1926 Appointed assistant director of the UNC Press.

1932 Appointed director of UNC Press when Dr. Wilson went to the University of Chicago.

1933 Edited and published Culture in the South.

1936 Appointed associate director of N.C. Writers Project. Supervised writing of North Carolina state guide.

1938-1941 Served as regional director of the Federal Writers Project.

1939 Edited and published These Are Our Lives.

1941-1943 Served as president of the American Association of University Presses.

1945 Resigned from UNC Press to accept offer from University of Chicago Press (August).

1945-1950 Served as director of University of Chicago Press.

1950 Fired from University of Chicago Press (November).

1951-1952 Moved to Medfield, Conn.; searched for a job and considered graduate work at Harvard or Yale.

1952 Hired by Crowell-Collier Publishing Co. Moved to New York (August).

1952-1959 Served as editor-in-chief of Collier's Encyclopedia and Year Books.

1959 Resigned from Crowell-Collier to accept job with J.J. Little and Ives Co. (July).

1959-1963 Served as editor of American Oxford Encyclopedia, published by Little and Ives.

1963 Resigned from Little and Ives to join the staff of the newly formed Center for American Studies in Burlingame, circa (March).

1963-1964 Served as co-director of Center for American Studies.

1965 His wife, Elizabeth Calvert, died (September).

1965 Returned to Chapel Hill.

1967-1968 Lived in New York while writing a book.

1967 Married Caro Mae Green, sister of Paul Green (March).

1968 Retired in Chapel Hill.

1970 Divorced from Caro Mae Green (October).

1972 Married Florence Stullman.

1988 Died on 10 December in Charlottesville, Va.

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These papers document both professional and personal aspects of the adult life of William Terry Couch. His professional life is more thoroughly documented than his personal life, and the majority of personal material appears after his retirement. His careers at the UNC Press, University of Chicago Press, Crowell-Collier Publishing Company, J.J. Little and Ives, and the Center for American Studies are covered in separate series. The official University records from his years as director of the UNC Press are found in the University Archives (UNC Press Records, Subgroup 2, the Director's Records).

The largest series in the collection is Series 8 which contains two subject file runs arranged by Couch and one run of miscellaneous subject files. The original order has been maintained in the first two runs.

An arrangement scheme was imposed on the remainder of the collection.

This collection was received and processed at the Southern Historical Collection in two parts. The first accession consisted largely of what are now Series 1-5; the second consisted largely of the remainder of the collection. There is some consequent overlap between Series 1-5 and Series 8.

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Series 1. UNC Press Years, 1926-1945.

About 700 items.

Arrangement: chronological and by subject.

This series consists entirely of general non-Press related correspondence from 1926, just after Couch began working for Louis Round Wilson, to September 1945 when he left Chapel Hill. It contains letters to and from numerous friends and colleagues, including Paul Green, Allen Tate, James Feibleman, and Josephus and Jonathan Daniels. There is correspondence with the editors of several magazines and newspapers to which Couch contributed, with discussions of various controversial topics, most notably the Sacco and Vanzetti case and the Gastonia textile workers' strike in the late 1920s.

Couch received several job offers during the 1930s and 1940s and there are a number of letters relating to two prospects that he seriously considered, the F.S. Croft Company in the late 1930s and the Princeton University Press in 1941. Also included are papers related to occasional speaking engagements Couch made around the South and to outside consultant work he did in drawing up publishing surveys for the American Library Association and for the University of Texas.

For material related to his directorship of the UNC Press, see the UNC Press Records, particularly Subgroup 2, the Director's Records, in the University Archives.

Folder 1

1926

Folder 2

1927

Folder 3

1928

Folder 4

1929

Folder 5

1930

Folder 6

1931

Folder 7

1932-1933

Folder 8

1934-1935

Folder 9

1936-1937

Folder 10

1938-1940

Folder 11

1941

Folder 12

1942-1944

Folder 13

Jan-July 1945

Folder 14

Aug 1945

Folder 15

Sept 1945

Folder 16

Publishing Surveys American Library Association, 1942

Folder 17

Publishing Surveys University of Texas, 1945

Folder 18

Miscellaneous Notes

Folder 19

Resignation, 1945

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About 2000 items.

Arrangement: chronological and by subject.

This series covers the period from September 1945 when Couch took over as director of the University of Chicago Press to November 1950 when he was fired by the University's president, Robert M. Hutchins. It also includes papers from the interim period when Couch moved to Connecticut in December 1950 to look for work and consider graduate school through August 1952 when he began work with Crowell-Collier's in New York. His papers while at Chicago consist of personal correspondence, material on the editorial and financial policy of the Press, and on the controversy over a book he published in 1949, entitled The Case of General Yamashita, dealing with the trial and execution of a Japanese general as a war criminal just after World War II. But the bulk of this series is made up of papers dealing with the repercussions over Couch's dismissal. Besides background documents circulated by Couch, there is considerable correspondence with friends, associates, magazine and newspaper editors, and various organizations regarding the reasons for the dismissal (Couch claimed it was due to a book on the treatment of Japanese-Americans in California during World War II which he published in 1948 over the University's disapproval). Letters discuss possible means of challenging the action or at least of publicizing it.

Folder 20

Personal Move to Chicago, 1945

Folder 21

Correspondence Oct-Dec 1945

Folder 22

Correspondence Jan-March 1946

Folder 23

Correspondence April-June 1946

Folder 24

Correspondence July-Sept 1946

Folder 25

Correspondence Oct-Dec 1946

Folder 26

Correspondence Jan-June 1947

Folder 27

Correspondence July-Dec 1947

Folder 28

Correspondence Jan-June 1948

Folder 29

Correspondence July-Dec 1948

Folder 30

Correspondence Jan-July 1949

Folder 31

Correspondence Aug-Dec 1949

Folder 32

Correspondence Jan-April 1950

Folder 33

Correspondence May-Nov 1950

Folder 34

UNC Press Correspondence, 1945-1949

Folder 35

UNC Press, Search for New Director, 1947

Folder 36

Travel, 1945-1950

Folder 37

Notes for Speeches

Folder 38

Miscellaneous Items

Folder 39

Professional Organization Memberships American Institute of Graphic Arts, 1946-1949

Folder 40

Professional Organization Memberships Newberry Library Fellowship Committee, 1945-1950

Folder 41

Professional Organization Memberships Society of Typographic Arts, 1945-1950

Folder 42

University of Chicago Press Appointment and Acceptance, 1945

Folder 43

University of Chicago Press Analysis of Operations, 1950

Folder 44

University of Chicago Press Editorial Policy and Procedure, 1946-1948

Folder 45

University of Chicago Press Editorial Policy and Procedure, 1949

Folder 46

University of Chicago Press Editorial Policy and Procedure, 1950

Folder 47

University of Chicago Press Financial Policy, 1945-1950

Folder 48

University of Chicago Press Financial Statements, 1946-1951

Folder 49

University of Chicago Press Personnel, 1945-1948

Folder 50

University of Chicago Press The Case of General Yamashita, by A. Frank Reel, 1949

Folder 51

University of Chicago Press The Case of General Yamashita, by A. Frank Reel, 1950

Folder 52

Dismissal - University of Chicago Press Notices and Appeals, November 1950-January 1951

Folder 53

Correspondence Nov 1950

Folder 54

Correspondence Dec 1950

Folder 55

Correspondence Jan 1951

Folder 56

Correspondence Feb 1951

Folder 57

Correspondence March 1951

Folder 58

Correspondence April 1951

Folder 59

Correspondence May-Aug 1951

Folder 60

Correspondence Sept-Nov 1951

Folder 61

Correspondence Dec 1951

Folder 62

Correspondence Jan-April 1952

Folder 63

Correspondence May 1952

Folder 64

Background Americans Betrayed by Morton Grozdins, 1948

Folder 65

Background Problems with University Administration, 1948-1950

Folder 66

Background Compiled Documents, 1948-1950

Folder 67

Background Board of University Publication, Minutes and Conferences, 1948-1952

Folder 68

Background Printing Department, 1945; 1950

Folder 69

American Civil Liberties Union, 1952

Folder 70

Articles on Couch Dismissal and List of Published Items, 1951

Folder 71

Couch's Article, Scene Magazine, January-May, 1951

Folder 72

Collectivism on the Campus, by E. Merrill Root (chapter on Couch dismissal), 1953-1955

Folder 73

Couch's Sub-committee Testimony and Summary of Events, 1950

Folder 74

Correspondence with Morton Grozdins, 1951-1952

Folder 75

Interim Correspondence, November 1950-July 1951

Folder 76

Interim Correspondence, 1951

Folder 77

Interim Correspondence, 1952

Folder 78

Interim Job and Graduate School Prospects, 1951

Folder 79

Interim The Educational Reviewer, 1951-1952

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About 950 items.

Arrangement: chronological and by subject.

These papers begin in August 1952 when Couch became editor-in-chief of Collier's Encyclopedia and end with his resignation in July 1959. Much of the material related to his work deals with specific articles written for either the yearbooks or for revised editions of the encyclopedia, as well as with more general editorial and financial concerns. Couch's personal correspondence during this period reflects his interest in such issues as civil rights, academic freedom, the threat of communism, and the need for stronger conservative forces in the country. His correspondents include William F. Buckley, editor of the new National Review, and Robert Welch, head of the John Birch Society, both of whose efforts Couch supported. There are also numerous letters to and from North Carolina Governor Luther Hodges, Holt McPherson, Kenneth Colgrove, Russell Kirk, and Cleanth Brooks. See also subseries 8.2 which contains subject files compiled during this period.

Folder 80

Personal Correspondence 1952-1953

Folder 81

Personal Correspondence 1954

Folder 82

Personal Correspondence 1955

Folder 83

Personal Correspondence 1956

Folder 84

Personal Correspondence 1957

Folder 85

Personal Correspondence 1958

Folder 86

Personal Correspondence 1959

Folder 87

Personal Correspondence Undated

Folder 88

Personal Education, 1953

Folder 89

Personal The Educational Reviewer, 1953-1955

Folder 90

Personal The Freeman, 1953-1955

Folder 91

Personal Ford Foundation, 1955

Folder 92

Personal Senior Officers Course, 1958-1959

Folder 93

Personal Conferences, 1955; 1957

Folder 94

Personal Miscellaneous Items

Folder 95

Collier's Encyclopedia Job Offer and Acceptance, 1952

Folder 96

Collier's Encyclopedia Budget, 1958-1959

Folder 97

Collier's Encyclopedia Contributors, 1954-1958

Folder 98

Collier's Encyclopedia Correspondence, 1953-1955

Folder 99

Collier's Encyclopedia Correspondence, 1956-1959

Folder 100

Collier's Encyclopedia Crowell-Collier Company - General, 1956-1958

Folder 101

Collier's Encyclopedia Editorial Policy and Procedure, 1953-1959

Folder 102

Collier's Encyclopedia Revisions, 1954-1959

Folder 103

Collier's Encyclopedia Sales, 1953-1957

Folder 104

Specific Articles Academic Freedom

Folder 105

Specific Articles Anarchism

Folder 106

Specific Articles Communication

Folder 107

Specific Articles Freedom

Folder 108

Specific Articles Objectivity

Folder 109

Specific Articles Propaganda

Folder 110

Specific Articles Regionalism

Folder 111

Specific Articles Republic

Folder 112

Specific Articles Scientific Method

Folder 113

Specific Articles Miscellaneous

Folder 114

Staff, 1956-1958

Folder 115

Year Books, 1955-1959

Folder 116

Resignations, 1953, 1955, 1959

Folder 117

Correspondence after Resignation, 1960

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About 250 items.

Arrangement: chronological and by subject.

From August 1959 to March 1963, Couch served as editorial vice-president of Little and Ives in New York. His primary responsibility was the revision of their American Oxford Encyclopedia, and this brief series is made up primarily of papers related to that task. The personal correspondence is mostly with Ivan R. Bierly concerning ideas for a bicentennial encyclopedia for Americana and other proposals.

Folder 118

Personal Correspondence, 1959-February 1962

Folder 119

Personal Correspondence, March 1962-1963

Folder 120-121

Folder 120

Folder 121

American Oxford Encyclopedia Articles, Editing and Revision, 1959-1961

Folder 122

American Oxford Encyclopedia Specific Articles Invention

Folder 123

American Oxford Encyclopedia Specific Articles Miracle

Folder 124

American Oxford Encyclopedia Specific Articles Public Opinion

Folder 125

American Oxford Encyclopedia Specific Articles Sacrifice

Folder 126

American Oxford Encyclopedia Correspondence, 1959-1962

Folder 127

American Oxford Encyclopedia Editorial Policy and Procedure, 1960-1961

Folder 128

American Oxford Encyclopedia Miscellaneous Items

Folder 129

American Oxford Encyclopedia Resignations, 1961, 1963

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About 500 items.

Arrangement: chronological and by subject.

The Center for American Studies was a research organization organized in 1963 and financed by the William Volker Fund. Its purpose was to initiate and encourage various scholarly endeavors in order to bring about "a revival of conservative principles in America". Couch was involved in the establishment of the Center and there is correspondence beginning in 1957 on in which the development of the concept can be traced. Although his primary responsibility while at the Center was the production of an Encyclopedia of Americana, Couch also had a hand in many other projects, including a Vital Issues Series of books and several bicentennial proposals. This series includes correspondence and memoranda dealing with all of these. Also of major concern were a controversy involving the association of the Center with two neo-Nazi writers, David Hoggan and R. J. Rushdoony, and negotiations with Stanford University, ultimately unsuccessful, for a merger of the Center with the Hoover Institute. The Center closed late in 1964.

Folder 130

Personal Move to California, 1963

Folder 131

Personal Correspondence, 1963-1964

Folder 132

Center for American Studies Preliminary Correspondence, 1957-1963

Folder 133

Center for American Studies Statements of Purpose and Policy, 1962-1963

Folder 134

Center for American Studies Statements of Purpose and Policy, 1964

Folder 135

Center for American Studies A New Type of Educational Institution

Folder 136

Center for American Studies Advisors, 1964

Folder 137

Center for American Studies Correspondence, 1963

Folder 138

Center for American Studies Correspondence, 1964

Folder 139

David Hoggan Controversy Correspondence and Memoranda, 1963-1964

Folder 140

David Hoggan Controversy Published Material, 1962-1964

Folder 141

David Hoggan Controversy R.J. Rushdoony's Writings, 1962-1964

Folder 142

Negotiations with Hoover Institution, Stanford University, 1964

Folder 143

Projects Encyclopedia of Americana, 1963-1964

Folder 144

Projects Vital Issues Series, 1963-1964

Folder 145

Projects Miscellaneous, 1961-1964

Folder 146

Travel, 1963

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About 700 items.

Arrangement: chronological.

Chiefly correspondence with friends and relatives although Couch continued to correspond with some of his professional associates and wrote numerous letters to editors of newspapers expressing his political views.

Family letters include news of his children and grandchildren. There is scattered correspondence detailing his relationships with his second and third wives, Caro Mae Green and Florence Stullman, and his relationship with Emily Maclachlan.

In his letters to his friends, he expressed his views on current situations in the United States such as his concerns over higher education and the civil rights movement in the South. Also included is general social correspondence.

Folder 147

1965

Folder 148

1966

Folder 149

1967

Folder 150

1968

Folder 151

1969

Folder 152

1970

Folder 153

1971

Folder 154

January-August 1972

Folder 155

September-December 1972

Folder 156

1973

Folder 157

1974

Folder 158

1975

Folder 159

1976

Folder 160

1977

Folder 161

1978

Folder 162

1979

Folder 163

1980

Folder 164

1981

Folder 165

1982

Folder 166

1983

Folder 167

1984

Folder 168

1985

Folder 169

1986

Folder 170

1987

Folder 171

1988

Folder 172

Undated

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Series 7. Writings, 1929-1984 and undated.

About 270 items.

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About 250 items.

Arrangement: alphabetically by title.

Articles, editorials, book reviews, and other writings by Couch, some of which were published. Also included is a manuscript version of his book, The Human Potential published by Duke University Press in 1974. Most entries consist of both the text (in typescript or printed form) and correspondence related to it. Some contain only one or the other as the folder list indicates.

This subseries does not include the two books Couch edited which were published by the UNC Press. For material on those, see the UNC Press Records, Subgroup 2, Director's Records, and Subgroup 4, Author/Title Publication Records.

Folder 173

The Adverse Descent. (T)

Folder 174

An Agrarian Programme for the South (T)

Folder 175

The Agrarian Romance. 1937 (T)

Folder 176

American Universities as Publishers. 1949 (T&C)

Folder 177

Are All Men Created Equal. 1945 (T)

Folder 178

Articles on the Constitution of the United States. 1936 (T)

Folder 179

Basic Problems of Pacifism. 1950 (T)

Folder 180

Bookmaking in Chapel Hill has its Troubles. (T)

Folder 181

Bookmaking in the South. 1938 (T)

Folder 182

Books From Chapel Hill. 1945 (T)

Folder 183

Books that Ought to be Written. 1942 (T)

Folder 184

A Case History in Book Publishing. 1949-1950 (T&C)

Folder 185

Can Language Teaching Be Improved. 1929 (T)

Folder 186

Can the University of Chicago Explain. (T)

Folder 187

Centralization: The End of Democracy. 1939? (T)

Folder 188

Consequences of a Nazi Victory. 1942 (T)

Folder 189

The Critical Problem in Scholarly Publishing. 1950 (T&C)

Folder 190

The Critical Temper Unleashed. 1984 (T)

Folder 191

The Critical Temperament at the Mourner's Bench. 1983 (T)

Folder 192

Culture in the South. (T)

Folder 193

Do Intellectuals Have Minds? 1947 (T&C)

Folder 194

Dynamite in Burlington. (With J.O. Bailey) 1935-1936 (T&C)

Folder 195

Economic Planning. (T&C)

Folder 196

Economic Planning in the South. 1935 (T)

Folder 197-199

Folder 197

Folder 198

Folder 199

Education: Illusions and Necessities. (T)

Folder 200

Encyclopedias and Education. 1962 (T&C)

Folder 201

The Fault, Dear Brutus. (T)

Folder 202

For a New Southern Economy. (T)

Folder 203

For the Rescue of the Declaration From Its Friends. 1980 (T)

Folder 204

Foundations and Freedom. (T)

Folder 205

A Free and Responsible University. (T)

Folder 206

Freedom of Communication. (T)

Folder 207

Freedom of the Press. (T)

Folder 208

The Gostaks Distimn Academic Freedom. (T)

Folder 209

Guide to Selected Materials on the Early Days of the UNC Press. 1976 (T)

Folder 210

Higher Education in Trouble. 1984 (T)

Folder 211

Higher Learning and University Presses. (T)

Folder 212

History and Patriotism. (T)

Folder 213

Hope for Man on Earth. (T)

Folder 214-221

Folder 214

Folder 215

Folder 216

Folder 217

Folder 218

Folder 219

Folder 220

Folder 221

The Human Potential. (Chapter IX missing, sent to Guy Berns 10/16/72) (T)

Folder 222

Hutchins and Full, Frank, Free Discussion. 1954 (T)

Folder 223-224

Folder 223

Folder 224

It Costs Us Nothing. 1948 (T&C)

Folder 225

Life in the South. (T)

Folder 226

A Little Learning. (T)

Folder 227

A Look at the Foundations of the American Political Tradition. 1980? (T)

Folder 228

Meditations, Ruminations. (T)

Folder 229-233

Folder 229

Folder 230

Folder 231

Folder 232

Folder 233

Memoirs. 1970 (T)

Folder 234-236

Folder 234

Folder 235

Folder 236

Miscellaneous book reviews

Folder 237

More About the Human Potential. 1975 (T)

Folder 238

More Declarations on the Declaration. 1980 (T&C)

Folder 239

Mr. Beal's American Earthquakes. 1940 (T)

Folder 240

Negroes and the University. (T)

Folder 241

Newspaper clippings by and about Couch

Folder 242

Notes

Folder 243

Objectivity and Social Science. 1958 (T&C)

Folder 244-247

Folder 244

Folder 245

Folder 246

Folder 247

On Knowing Ourselves and the World. 1982 (T&C)

Folder 248

On Understanding the Words 'All Men Are Created Equal'. 1980 (T&C)

Folder 249

Pennsylvania Detectives in North Carolina. 1934? (T)

Folder 250

Plans and Purposes. 1934 (T)

Folder 251

Poverty or Abundance in Georgia. (T)

Folder 252

Prediction, Postdiction and Conjecture. 1982 (T&C)

Folder 253

Preface, Collier's Encyclopedia Year Book - 1955. (T)

Folder 254

Preface to American Oxford Encyclopedia. 1962 (T)

Folder 255

Pro and Con On Encyclopedia-Editing Principles. 1962 (T)

Folder 256

The Problem of Objectivity. (T)

Folder 257

Publisher's Introduction to `What the Negro Wants'. 1944 (T)

Folder 258

Publishing for the World of Learning. (T)

Folder 259

Ramon's Cup. (T&C)

Folder 260

Reflections on the Southern Tradition. 1936 (T)

Folder 261

Regional Publishing. (T)

Folder 262

Regionalism in Literature. 1953 (T)

Folder 263

Remarks on Design. 1949 (T&C)

Folder 264

The Road to Recovery. 1933 (T&C)

Folder 265

The Sacred and Golden Cord. 1976 (T)

Folder 266

The Sainted Book Burners. 1955 (T)

Folder 267

The Scholar and Gyges. (T)

Folder 268

The Scholars' Publishing Problem. (T)

Folder 269

Scholarship and Publishing. 1952 (T&C)

Folder 270

The Social Science Foundation Affair. (T)

Folder 271

Some Facts on Academic Freedom. (T)

Folder 272

Some Reflections on Pacifism. (T)

Folder 273

Southerners Inspect the South. 1938 (T)

Folder 274

The Student Mobs. (T)

Folder 275-277

Folder 275

Folder 276

Folder 277

Superior and Subordinate. 1974 (T&C)

Folder 278

Toward a Better South. (T)

Folder 279

Toward an Idea of Progress. 1936 (T&C)

Folder 280

A Trip on Horseback. (T)

Folder 281

Truth and Freedom in Learning. 1949 (T)

Folder 282

Twenty Years of Southern Publishing. 1949-1950 (T&C)

Folder 283

The University Press. (T)

Folder 284

The University Press as an Aid to Scholarship. 1934 (T)

Folder 285

University Press Essentials. 1942 (T)

Folder 286

A University Press in the South. 1930s (T)

Folder 287

The University Presses. 1949 (T)

Folder 288-290

Folder 288

Folder 289

Folder 290

Untitled manuscript (T&C)

Folder 291-293

Folder 291

Folder 292

Folder 293

Untitled miscellaneous writings.

Folder 294

Utopia, Reality and Sanity. (T)

Folder 295

What is Daniel Joseph Singal's Book 'The War Within' About. 1982 (T&C)

Folder 296

What it Takes to Start a University Press. 1945 (T)

Folder 297

What Kind of a Man is Robert M. Hutchins? 1951 (T)

Folder 298

Why the Confederacy Failed. (T)

Folder 299

The Word and the Rope. 1957 (T&C)

Folder 300

The Work of the University Press. 1950 (T&C)

Folder 301

You and Your Freedom. (T)

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Subseries 7.2. Writings By Others, 1930s-1968 and undated.

15 items.

Arrangement: alphabetical by author.

Chiefly typescripts of book length items written by Couch's friends and colleagues. Included are a few shorter articles by E. M. Adams, professor of philosophy at the University of North Carolina; two book-length manuscripts written by Couch's sister, Janie Haltiwanger, one of which is about family history; a typed manuscript entitled True Deliverance, by Charles B. Wood, a fictional account of a murder trial; a book-length collection of essays by Crouch's son-in-law, G. Warren Nutter, a professor of economics and Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs from 1969 to 1973. Also included is a copy of part of The War Within, by Daniel Singal, which contained a chapter on Couch. Couch penciled in notes and comments.

Folder 302-305

Folder 302

Folder 303

Folder 304

Folder 305

Adams, E.M.

Folder 306

Brandt, Joseph A.

Folder 307

Colgrove, Kenneth, and Willmoore Kendall

Folder 308-309

Folder 308

Folder 309

Douty, Kenneth

Folder 310-313

Folder 310

Folder 311

Folder 312

Folder 313

Haltiwanger, Janie Couch

Folder 314-316

Folder 314

Folder 315

Folder 316

Nutter, G. Warren

Folder 317

Singal, Daniel

Folder 318-323

Folder 318

Folder 319

Folder 320

Folder 321

Folder 322

Folder 323

Wood, Charles B.

Folder 324

Miscellaneous writings by others

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Series 8. Subject Files, 1933-1988 and undated.

About 5100 items.

This series contains three separate subject file runs.

The first two were established by Couch. The first run, subseries 8.1, dates primarily from after Couch's retirement. The second run, subseries 8.2, appears to have been compiled between 1950 and 1959 when Couch worked at Crowell-Collier.

The third subject file run, subseries 8.3, consists of miscellaneous subject files pulled together during processing.

expand/collapse Expand/collapse Subseries 8.1. Subject File 1, 1938-1988 and undated.

About 4000 items.

Arrangement: alphabetical.

Correspondence, notes, memos, brochures, writings, and financial material pertaining to all aspects of Couch's personal and professional life.

Files include correspondence with personal friends such as J. O. Bailey and A. N. J. Den Hollander, who discussed their disapproval of student activism in the 1970s. Henry Regnery wrote about putting together a festschrift on Eliseo Vivas. Couch wrote several angry letters to William F. Buckley because The National Review had refused to publish a letter from Couch replying to criticisms of him by Harry Jaffa. Russell Kirk wrote about many topics including Couch's experiences at the University of Chicago. There are also letters from E. M. Adams, Eliseo Vivas, and other friends.

A large group of files, which begin with the title "Book," are about the book Couch wrote entitled, The Human Potential, which was published by Duke University Press in 1974. Another large group of files deal with The War Within by Daniel Singal, which contained a chapter on Couch.

Also included is a file on agrarianism. Couch had been interested early in his career in equal distribution of land as a way of alleviating poverty in the South. This file contains copies of some of his writings, as well as correspondence on this issue.

Also included are files on members of Couch's family. These are filed under the headings "Couch" and "Nutter," the married name of his daughter. One of the major topics was the illness of his son-in-law, G. Warren Nutter. Nutter had offered to be a guinea pig in testing the effects of using marijuana to combat nausea from chemotherapy, and Couch wrote numerous letters to government officials trying to get approval for the project.

Folder 325

Accident in Chapel Hill, 1981

Folder 326

Adams, E.M. (See also Chapel Hill Newspaper)

Folder 327

Addresses (Address file)

Folder 328

Agrarianism

Folder 329

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Folder 330

Articles, 1978

Folder 331

Articles, 1979

Folder 332

Articles, 1980, 1981, 1982

Folder 333

Articles - Economics, 1950s

Folder 334

Articles - Ives (Encyclopedia articles revised by WTC and not used, vetoed by H.W. and WTC)

Folder 335

Atlantic, Time, and Harper's

Folder 336

Automobile Driver's Handbook

Folder 337-339

Folder 337

Folder 338

Folder 339

Automobile, 1968

Folder 340

Bailey, J.O. and The Human Potential

Folder 341

Banks

Folder 342

Barnes, Don

Folder 343

Bencini, Sara

Folder 344

Blanshard, Brand

Folder 345-347

Folder 345

Folder 346

Folder 347

Book, Correspondence about reviews of The Human Potential

Folder 348

Book, Duke

Folder 349

Book, Peddling

Folder 350

Book, Permissions

Folder 351

Book, Preface, Acknowledgment

Folder 352

Book, Reviews and Correspondence about The Human Potential

Folder 353

Book, Reviews and Publicity

Folder 354

Book, Reviews of The Human Potential

Folder 355

Book, The Human Potential and Related Materials

Folder 356

Book, The Human Potential, Index

Folder 357

Book, WTC Memoir

Folder 358

Book Reviews of MS

Folder 359

Book-of-the-Month Club

Folder 360

Britannica

Folder 361

Buckley, William F., Sr.

Folder 362

Burns, Augustus, Graham-Smith

Folder 363

Carol Woods

Folder 364

Chapel Hill Newspaper

Folder 365

Chapel Hill, Water etc.

Folder 366

Communism and related papers

Folder 367

Congress, the executive, the government in Washington generally

Folder 368

Controversial Issues

Folder 369

Correspondence, 1920s-1930s

Folder 370

Correspondence, 1938-1942

Folder 371

Couch, Jane, Finances

Folder 372

Couch, Jane, Terry et al.

Folder 373

Couch, Jane, "Warren's MS"

Folder 374

Couch, Joe & Harriet

Folder 375

Couch, Terry

Folder 376-377

Folder 376

Folder 377

Couch Family

Folder 378-379

Folder 378

Folder 379

Couch Personal

Folder 380

Dominion Resources

Folder 381-382

Folder 381

Folder 382

Editor, The

Folder 383

Education, General

Folder 384

English, Raymond (GCSSP)

Folder 385

Governor, President

Folder 386

Green Turtle

Folder 387

Hollander, A.N.J. Den

Folder 388

Income Tax, 1978

Folder 389

Income Tax, 1979

Folder 390

Income Tax, 1980

Folder 391

Income Tax, Estimated Payments 1977

Folder 392

Income Tax, Estimated Payments 1978

Folder 393

Intangible Tax, 1978

Folder 394

Intangible Tax, 1979

Folder 395

Jaffe, David

Folder 396

Jobs

Folder 397-401

Folder 397

Folder 398

Folder 399

Folder 400

Folder 401

Kirk, Russell

Folder 402

Krueger, Thomas A.

Folder 403

Lance, Bert

Folder 404

Lawyers

Folder 405

Leary, Lewis

Folder 406

Life Histories, Problems

Folder 407-408

Folder 407

Folder 408

Little & Ives

Folder 409

Little & Ives, 1965

Folder 410

Little & Ives, Stocks

Folder 411

Lottinville, Savoie

Folder 412

McCormack, Patricia

Folder 413

McGraw-Hill

Folder 414

Maps

Folder 415

Merrill Lynch

Folder 416

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Folder 417

Miller, Eugene F.

Folder 418

Modern Age

Folder 419

Montgomery, Marion

Folder 420

Morris, Ruth

Folder 421

Nash, Georgia

Folder 422

Natural Law

Folder 423

Negro

Folder 424

North Carolina Historical Society

Folder 425

North Carolina Utilities Commission

Folder 426

Notes: Jacques Ellul

Folder 427

Notes: Miscellaneous

Folder 428

Nutter, Congress-Government Agencies

Folder 429

Nutter, Jane

Folder 430

Nutter, Jane & Warren

Folder 431

Nutter, Warren

Folder 432

Nutter, William Warren

Folder 433

On Knowing Ourselves and the World - 1981

Folder 434

Pattullo, Liz Titus

Folder 435

Pellegrini, Sheila

Folder 436-437

Folder 436

Folder 437

Pellegrini, Sheila, 1965-1966

Folder 438

Pellegrini, Sheila, 1967-

Folder 439

Quotes

Folder 440

Regnery, Henry

Folder 441

Reid, James

Folder 442

Ryan, John

Folder 443

Sand, G.W.

Folder 444

Severance Pay

Folder 445

Singal-Couch Correspondence, 1982

Folder 446

Singal-Couch Correspondence, 1983

Folder 447

Singal, Dan

Folder 448

Singal, Dan, Chapter VII

Folder 449

Singal, Dan, Reviews etc.

Folder 450

Singal, Letter to President Friday

Folder 451

Singal, Miscellaneous Correspondence

Folder 452

Singal, Oral History Permissions, Contract

Folder 453

Singal, The War Within

Folder 454

Southern Conference for Human Welfare

Folder 455

Southern, David W.

Folder 456

Southern Policy Committee

Folder 457

Steiner, Michael

Folder 458

Sugden, Sherwood

Folder 459

Superior and Subordinate

Folder 460

Terry, Chat et al.

Folder 461

Transportation

Folder 462

UNC Press

Folder 463

UNC Press, Hodgson Press Board

Folder 464

UNC Press, 1982-1983

Folder 465

University of Chicago-Affairs

Folder 466

University of Chicago-Benefits

Folder 467

University of North Carolina

Folder 468

University Presses

Folder 469

Utilities

Folder 470

Utopianism

Folder 471

Value Line

Folder 472

Vivas, Eliseo

Folder 473

Wall Street Journal

Folder 474

Wallace, Robert M.

Folder 475

Wieck, Fred

Folder 476-479

Folder 476

Folder 477

Folder 478

Folder 479

Wood, Charles

Folder 480

Wood, Charles, 1982

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Subseries 8.2. Subject File 2, 1933-1964 and undated.

About 800 items.

Arrangement: alphabetical.

The bulk of this material dates from 1950 to 1959 when Couch worked at Crowell-Collier. It is chiefly correspondence between Couch and university professors, publishers, and editors. Among the correspondents are William F. Buckley, Kenneth Colgrove, David S. Collier, Russell Kirk, and Henry Regnery. Also included are a few files of correspondence with E.O. Fontain and John Ryan who worked at Crowell-Collier.

Couch often expressed his support for conservative viewpoints and his strong opposition to Communism. In letters to Henry E. Garrett and to J. J. Kilpatrick, Couch also expressed his support for segregation and his unhappiness with liberal propaganda.

Folder 481

Academic Freedom

Folder 482

Addresses (For various clubs which Couch belonged to)

Folder 483

American Textbook Publishers Institute

Folder 484

Barnes, Donald

Folder 485

Buckley, William

Folder 486

The Case of Earl Warren

Folder 487

Colgrove, Kenneth

Folder 488

Collier, David S.

Folder 489

Davidson, Eugene

Folder 490

Den Hollander, A. N. J.

Folder 491

Fontaine, E. O.

Folder 492

Garrett, Henry E.

Folder 493

Graham, Frank

Folder 494

Henry Regnery Company

Folder 495

Hobbs, A. H.

Folder 496

Jenkins, W. S.

Folder 497

Kendall, Willmoore

Folder 498

Kilpatrick, J. J. (Richmond News Leader)

Folder 499

Kirk, Russell

Folder 500

Murphy, Robert and Mullendore, W. C.

Folder 501

The New Leader

Folder 502

New York Time and Others

Folder 503

Regnery, Henry

Folder 504

Rorty, James

Folder 505

Ryan, John

Folder 506

Saturday Review

Folder 507

Schoeck, Helmut

Folder 508

Shores, Louis

Folder 509

Southern Conference for Human Welfare

Folder 510

Stevens, John P.

Folder 511

Time Magazine

Folder 512

University of North Carolina Transcript

Folder 513

U.S. Armed Services

Folder 514

U.S. World War II, App. Papers

Folder 515

Wade, J. D.

Folder 516

Warren, Robert P.

Folder 517

Weaver, Richard M.

Folder 518

Welch, Robert H. W., Jr.

Folder 519

Werkmeister, W. H.

Folder 520

Westbrook, J. S.

Folder 521

Whitman and School Administrators

Folder 522

Wieck, Fred

Folder 523

Wormser, Rene

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Subseries 8.3. Subject File 3, 1930-1978 and undated.

About 300 items.

Arrangement: alphabetical.

Chiefly correspondence dealing with specific family matters. Included is correspondence between Couch and his brothers and sisters concerning two other brothers, Henry and Adrian Couch, who went insane at the beginning of the 1930s. Also included are letters relating to family disputes over ownership of property left by Couch's parents. Also included are letters between Couch and his second wife, Caro Mae Green Couch, chiefly during 1969 and 1970 when they divorced.

Folder 524

Caro Mae

Folder 525-526

Folder 525

Folder 526

Couch, Adrian and Henry

Folder 527

Couch, John (and other family letters)

Folder 528

Financial Statements

Folder 529-531

Folder 529

Folder 530

Folder 531

Miscellaneous

Folder 532-533

Folder 532

Folder 533

New Hope Farm

Folder 534

Selected Readings on Objectivity

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Series 9. Card Files, Undated.

About 1500 items.

Arrangement: alphabetical.

Three boxes of index cards containing quotations and other bits of information on ideas and concepts such as "habit," "knowledge," and "will." Most cards include the source of the quotation and are filed alphabetically by author of the work.

Box 15

A-K

L-Z

A-Z

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Series 10. Pictures, 1933-1974 and undated.

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