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Collection Number: 04001

Collection Title: Robert Chester Ruark Papers, 1942-1965

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Size 54.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 12,000 items)
Abstract The collection of white author and journalist Robert Chester Ruark contains typed drafts and copies of novels, short stories, newspaper and magazine articles, and screenplays, 1942-1945. Also included is professional and personal correspondence. Other papers relate to Ruark's service in the U.S. Navy during World War II, and to his travels and safaris in different part of the world, particularly Africa. His correspondents included friends Ernest Hemingway (one letter and one note, 1953-1954), Bernard Baruch (66 letters, 1953-1965), Richard Nixon (6 letters, 1958-1960), and J. Edgar Hoover (4 letters, 1958-1959); associates, especially his secretary, Alan Ritchie, and his literary agent, Harold Matson; and relatives, especially his wife, Virginia Webb Ruark. The correspondence covers a wide range of personal and literary topics, including journalism, literary philosophy, and African politics. Also included are research materials, reviews, photographs, financial materials, and writings by others. Volumes are chiefly scrapbooks of columns and related clippings.
Creator Ruark, Robert Chester, 1915-1965.
Curatorial Unit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Language English
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Restrictions to Access
This collection contains additional materials that are not processed and are currently not available to researchers. For information about access to these materials, contact Research and Instructional Services staff. Please be advised that preparing unprocessed materials for access can be a lengthy process.
Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law. Literary copyright is retained by the Ruark estate.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the Robert Chester Ruark Papers #4001, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Acquisitions Information
Received from Alan M. Ritchie in 1973-1974 and 1985 with subsequent additions from various sources between 1986 and 2015 (Acc. 82059, 85101, 86072, 98807, 99132, 99902, 101415, 101581, 102336, and 102483).
Sensitive Materials Statement
Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.
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Processed by: SHC Staff, 1975-1997

Encoded by: Jackie Dean, 1997

Revisions: Nancy Kaiser, January 2006; Caroline Moakley, April 2008; Nancy Kaiser February 2009; Laura Hart, April 2019; Nancy Kaiser, March 2021

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Robert Chester Ruark (1915-1965), journalist, author, world traveler, sportsman, and syndicated columnist; born in Wilmington, N.C.; received his A.B. from the University of North Carolina, 1935; eventually resided in London, England, and Palamos, Spain.

Robert Chester Ruark, Jr., was born in Wilmington, N.C., on 29 December 1915. He started college at age 15 at the University of North Carolina and was graduated with an A.B. in journalism in June 1935. After graduation, he worked as a cub reporter for the Hamlet News Messenger and later transferred to the Sanford Herald. During the next few years, Ruark worked as an accountant with the Works Progress Administration in Washington, D.C., enlisted as an ordinary seaman, and worked at the Washington Post and the Star before settling down at the Washington Daily News. In 1938, he married Virginia Webb, an interior decorator from Washington, D.C.

During World War II, Ruark joined the Navy as a gunnery officer and later became a press censor the Pacific. He returned to the Washington Daily News in 1945 to become a syndicated columnist. During this time, he began writing. His first novel, Grenadine Etching, was published in 1947. It was followed by I Didn't Know it Was Loaded (1948), One for the Road (1949), and Grenadine's Spawn (1952). Ruark also published articles regularly in the Saturday Evening Post, Colliers, Pic, Esquire, and Field and Stream.

After 1950, Ruark began spending time in Africa. In 1953, he published Horn of the Hunter, about an African safari, and Something of Value in 1955. Something of Value, based on the Mau Mau uprisings, was a major success. He made over a million dollars on the royalties and the film rights which he sold to Metro Goldwyn Mayer. After visiting North Carolina in 1957, Ruark permanently settled in Spain. He wrote three autobiographical novels, The Old Man and the Boy (1957), Poor No More (1959), and The Old Man's Boy Grows Older (1961). In 1962, he published another work on race relations in Africa, Uhuru and his last book was The Honey Badger published in 1964. Ruark died while receiving medical attention for an attack in June 1965.

From: Dictionary of North Carolina Biography. Ed. William S. Powell. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994.

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The collection of white author and journalist Robert Chester Ruark contains typed drafts and copies of novels, short stories, newspaper and magazine articles, and screenplays, 1942-1945. Also included is professional and personal correspondence. Other papers relate to Ruark's service in the U.S. Navy during World War II, and to his travels and safaris in different part of the world, particularly Africa. His correspondents included friends Ernest Hemingway (one letter and one note, 1953-1954), Bernard Baruch (66 letters, 1953-1965), Richard Nixon (6 letters, 1958-1960), and J. Edgar Hoover (4 letters, 1958-1959); associates, especially his secretary, Alan Ritchie, and his literary agent, Harold Matson; and relatives, especially his wife, Virginia Webb Ruark. The correspondence covers a wide range of personal and literary topics, including journalism, literary philosophy, and African politics. Also included are research materials, reviews, photographs, financial materials, and writings by others. Volumes are chiefly scrapbooks of columns and related clippings.

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Contents list

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Folder 1-3

Folder 1

Folder 2

Folder 3

Introductory Materials

Folder 4

Navy, 1942-1948

Folder 5-7

Folder 5

Folder 6

Folder 7

Navy, 1945: Clippings

Folder 8

Publishers, 1946-1948

Folder 9

Frank Sinatra (subject folder)

Folder 10

Africa, pre-1953

Folder 11-35

Folder 11

Folder 12

Folder 13

Folder 14

Folder 15

Folder 16

Folder 17

Folder 18

Folder 19

Folder 20

Folder 21

Folder 22

Folder 23

Folder 24

Folder 25

Folder 26

Folder 27

Folder 28

Folder 29

Folder 30

Folder 31

Folder 32

Folder 33

Folder 34

Folder 35

Correspondence, 1945-1953

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Folder 36

Inventory of Library

Folder 37-38

Folder 37

Folder 38

Obituaries

Folder 39-61

Folder 39

Folder 40

Folder 41

Folder 42

Folder 43

Folder 44

Folder 45

Folder 46

Folder 47

Folder 48

Folder 49

Folder 50

Folder 51

Folder 52

Folder 53

Folder 54

Folder 55

Folder 56

Folder 57

Folder 58

Folder 59

Folder 60

Folder 61

Miscellaneous Correspondence, A-Z

Folder 62-68

Folder 62

Folder 63

Folder 64

Folder 65

Folder 66

Folder 67

Folder 68

Harold Matson

Folder 69

A. D. Peters

Folder 70

Doubleday and Co., Inc.: Lee Barker

Folder 71

Esquire

Folder 72

Fawcett Publications, Inc.

Folder 73

Field and Stream

Folder 74

Hamish Hamilton

Folder 75

Holt, Rinehart, and Winston

Folder 76

McGraw-Hill Book Company

Folder 77

Playboy

Folder 78

Readers' Digest

Folder 79

Saturday Evening Post

Folder 80

Scripps-Howard Newspapers

Folder 81

Scripps-Howard Newspapers: Walker Stone

Folder 82

This Week

Folder 83

True

Folder 84

United Feature Syndicate

Folder 85

Miscellaneous Literary Correspondence, A

Folder 86

Miscellaneous Literary Correspondence, B

Separated Folder SEP-4001/1

Letters from Ernest Hemmingway to Robert Ruark, 22 December 1953 and 14 January 1955

Restriction to Access: The original item is not available for immediate or same day access. Please contact staff at wilsonlibrary@unc.edu to discuss options.

Folder 87

Miscellaneous Literary Correspondence, C

Folder 88

Miscellaneous Literary Correspondence, D

Folder 89

Miscellaneous Literary Correspondence, E

Folder 90

Miscellaneous Literary Correspondence, F

Folder 91

Author's Guild

Folder 92

Rolls Royce, Ltd.

Folder 93

Royal Auto Club

Folder 94

Studebaker

Folder 95

Alaska

Folder 96

Africa

Folder 97

Bernard M. Baruch

Folder 98

Celebrities

Folder 99

Far Eastern and New Guinea

Folder 100

Roger Brown

Folder 101

Ralph A. Brooks

Folder 102

Film

Folder 103

Movie: Uhuru

Folder 104

Show Biz: Curt Weinberg

Folder 105

Television

Folder 106

Chemical Bank N.Y. Trust

Folder 107

Chase Manhattan Bank

Folder 108

Bank of London and South America

Folder 109

Union Bank of Switzerland

Folder 110

World Commerce Corporation

Folder 111

Bank Statements

Folder 112

Income Tax

Folder 113

Investment

Folder 114-115

Folder 114

Folder 115

Palamos House

Folder 116

London Apartment

Folder 117

Virginia House

Folder 118

Southport House

Folder 119

Insurance, Accident

Folder 120

Insurance, Auto

Folder 121

Insurance, Fire

Folder 122

Social Security

Folder 123

Lawyer: Paul Gitlin

Folder 124

William B. Jaffe

Folder 125

Lawyer: Jorge P. Queralto

Folder 126

Enrique de Quintana Verges

Folder 127

Tiger Trails and Allwyn Cooper, Ltd.

Folder 128

Game Preservation

Folder 129

Safaris

Folder 130

Miscellaneous Hunting

Folder 131

Mozambique,Angola, Safaris

Folder 132

Rowland Ward, Ltd.

Folder 133

Safari

Folder 134

Selby and Holmberg Safaris

Folder 135

Taxidermist

Folder 136

Council Notices

Folder 137

Copies of Spanish Correspondence

Folder 138

Spanish Information

Folder 139

Ministries: Prensa

Folder 140

Publicity: Spanish

Folder 141

American Export Lines, Inc.: John F. Gehan

Folder 142

TWA, PAA, AA

Folder 143

Travel

Folder 144

Passport and Travel Cards

Folder 145

Cables

Folder 146

Copies of Correspondence

Folder 147

Customs

Folder 148

Documents: Miscellaneous

Folder 149

Dogs

Folder 150A-150L

Domestic Correspondence, 1953-1965

Folder 151

Fan Mail

Folder 152

Working Notes

Folder 153

Golf Club

Folder 154

Instruction Books

Folder 155

Medical

Folder 156

Recipes

Folder 157A

Jet Age

Folder 157B

Hotel Bills and Travel Notes

Folder 157C

Calling Cards, Addresses

Folder 157D

Christmas Cards

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Folder 158-161

Folder 158

Folder 159

Folder 160

Folder 161

Uhuru 1-4a

Folder 162-167

Folder 162

Folder 163

Folder 164

Folder 165

Folder 166

Folder 167

Uhuru 4b-7c

Folder 168-177

Folder 168

Folder 169

Folder 170

Folder 171

Folder 172

Folder 173

Folder 174

Folder 175

Folder 176

Folder 177

Uhuru 8a-10d

Folder 178-187

Folder 178

Folder 179

Folder 180

Folder 181

Folder 182

Folder 183

Folder 184

Folder 185

Folder 186

Folder 187

Uhuru 11 (notes and forward) 13d

Folder 188-197

Folder 188

Folder 189

Folder 190

Folder 191

Folder 192

Folder 193

Folder 194

Folder 195

Folder 196

Folder 197

Uhuru 13e-20

Folder 198-204

Folder 198

Folder 199

Folder 200

Folder 201

Folder 202

Folder 203

Folder 204

The Honey Badger 1-7

Folder 205-212

Folder 205

Folder 206

Folder 207

Folder 208

Folder 209

Folder 210

Folder 211

Folder 212

The Honey Badger 8-15

Folder 213-217

Folder 213

Folder 214

Folder 215

Folder 216

Folder 217

Poor No More, sample treatment 1-5

Folder 218-219

Folder 218

Folder 219

Poor No More, uncorrected galley proofs 6-7

Folder 220-221

Folder 220

Folder 221

Poor No More 8-9

Folder 222-223

Folder 222

Folder 223

Poor No More 10-11

Folder 224

Something of Value, treatment 1

Folder 225

Something of Value 2

Folder 226

Something of Value, bound volume 3

Folder 227-229

Folder 227

Folder 228

Folder 229

Grenadine Etching 1-3

Folder 230

Horn of the Hunter, book jacket, captions for illustrations 1

Folder 231-232

Folder 231

Folder 232

Horn of the Hunter 2-3

Folder 233-235

Folder 233

Folder 234

Folder 235

Field and Stream 1-3

Folder 236-238

Folder 236

Folder 237

Folder 238

Old Man and the Boy 1-3

Folder 239-241

Folder 239

Folder 240

Folder 241

Old Man and the Boy 4-6

Folder 242

Old Man's Boy Grows Older

Folder 243-244

Folder 243

Folder 244

Well At Das Raga 1-2

Folder 245

Well At Das Raga, screenplay

Folder 246

Well At Das Raga, bound volume

Folder 247

Grenadine's Spawn

Folder 248

Male Edition

Folder 249

Turnback

Folder 250

The Last Hero

Folder 251

Assorted Stories

Folder 252-257

Folder 252

Folder 253

Folder 254

Folder 255

Folder 256

Folder 257

Magazine Articles 1-6

Folder 258

Magazine Articles 7

Folder 259-262

Folder 259

Folder 260

Folder 261

Folder 262

Columns (typescript) 1-4

Folder 263

Columns, Clippings: 1946

Folder 264-265

Folder 264

Folder 265

1948

Folder 266

1949, January-June

Folder 267

1949, July-December

Folder 268

1950

Folder 269

Extras, 1954-1955

Folder 270

Written in Austrailia

Folder 271

1961

Folder 272

1962

Folder 273

1962, Indian

Folder 274

1963-1964

Folder 275-292

Folder 275

Folder 276

Folder 277

Folder 278

Folder 279

Folder 280

Folder 281

Folder 282

Folder 283

Folder 284

Folder 285

Folder 286

Folder 287

Folder 288

Folder 289

Folder 290

Folder 291

Folder 292

United Feature Syndicate Columns, January 1954-December 1958

Folder 293-301

Folder 293

Folder 294

Folder 295

Folder 296

Folder 297

Folder 298

Folder 299

Folder 300

Folder 301

United Feature Syndicate Columns, January 1959-December 1964

Folder 302

Assorted Column Ideas

Folder 303-310

Folder 303

Folder 304

Folder 305

Folder 306

Folder 307

Folder 308

Folder 309

Folder 310

Column Ideas (clips sent by Ralph Brooks in 1957)

Folder 311-313

Folder 311

Folder 312

Folder 313

Column Ideas (clips 1965)

Folder 314-315

Folder 314

Folder 315

War Time Writing (typescripts)

Folder 316

Clippings, Magazine Articles: 1941-1949

Folder 317

1950-1953

Folder 318

1954-1957

Folder 319

1958-1960

Folder 320

1961-1965

Folder 321

Undated, Miscellaneous

Folder 322

Assorted Whole Magazines

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Folder 323

Dick Gregory

Folder 324

Mining/Peace Corps

Folder 325

Foreign Legion: Stewart B. Hopps

Folder 326

Crime and Guns

Folder 327

Tax Problems and Expense Accounts

Folder 328

Fuller Brush

Folder 329

Albert Schweitzer

Folder 330

Aircraft

Folder 331

Miscellaneous Authors

Folder 332-338

Folder 332

Folder 333

Folder 334

Folder 335

Folder 336

Folder 337

Folder 338

Kennedy Assasination 1-7

Folder 339

Lyndon Baines Johnson

Folder 340

Texas

Folder 341-344

Folder 341

Folder 342

Folder 343

Folder 344

Portugal,Angola,Mozambique 1-4

Folder 345

Azores

Folder 346-347

Folder 346

Folder 347

Various Countries 1-2

Folder 348-350

Folder 348

Folder 349

Folder 350

Poor No More 1-3

Folder 351-352

Folder 351

Folder 352

Reviews: Poor No More 1-2

Folder 353

Honey Badger

Folder 354

Reviews: Honey Badger

Folder 355

Book Reviews: Uhuru

Folder 356

Something of Value

Folder 357-358

Folder 357

Folder 358

Horn of the Hunter

Folder 359

Grenadine's Spawn

Folder 360

One for the Road

Folder 361

I Didn't Know It Was Loaded

Folder 362

Old Man and the Boy

Folder 363

Old Man's Boy Grows Older

Folder 364-366

Folder 364

Folder 365

Folder 366

Spanish Publicity 1-3

Folder 367

Public Relations

Folder 368-369

Folder 368

Folder 369

Miscellaneous Publicity Clippings 1-2

Folder 370-371

Folder 370

Folder 371

Miscellaneous Clippings 1-2

Folder 372-390

Folder 372

Folder 373

Folder 374

Folder 375

Folder 376

Folder 377

Folder 378

Folder 379

Folder 380

Folder 381

Folder 382

Folder 383

Folder 384

Folder 385

Folder 386

Folder 387

Folder 388

Folder 389

Folder 390

Africa

Folder 391-392A

Africa: Articles (clippings)

Folder 392B

Africa: NBC Broadcast

Folder 392C

Uhuru Propaganda

Folder 392D

Africa: Columns

Folder 393-398

Folder 393

Folder 394

Folder 395

Folder 396

Folder 397

Folder 398

Kenya

Folder 399

Kenya Wildlife

Folder 400-402

Folder 400

Folder 401

Folder 402

The Poole Case

Folder 403

Kenya Digest

Folder 404

Africa: Maps

Folder 405

Africa: Pamphlets

Folder 406

Africa: Magazines

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About 1500 items.

Identified photographers include Ralph A. Brooks, New York, N.Y.; Monroe Campbell, Chapel Hill, N.C.; Mario Agosto, Genoa, Italy; Foto Rossi, Capri, Italy; James J. Kriegsman, New York; Rinaldo Serrat and A. Paal, Palamos, Spain; Cecil Maurice, Glebe, Va.; Jonas Brothers Taxidermy Art Studios, Denver, Colo.; Roy R. Erikson, Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; Bert Stoll, East Tawas, Mich.; New Brunswick Travel Bureau; Peter Scheer, Signal Corps, U.S.A.; Hall and Co., Sydney, Australia; M. F. Nichols, Sydney, Australia; Herbert Fishwich, Sydney, Australia; Herald Sun Feature Service, Melbourne, Australia; Leon Trice, New Orleans, La.; Studio Du Vieux Carre, New Orleans, La.; and Miami Herald Staff.

Image Folder PF-4001/1-5

PF-4001/1

PF-4001/2

PF-4001/3

PF-4001/4

PF-4001/5

Candid photographs of Ruark

Oversize Image Folder OP-PF-4001/1

Oversize candid photographs of Ruark

Also includes one oversize portrait of Ruark and a painting of a fishing scene and a photograph of a hunt, both with dedications to Ruark.

Oversize Image Folder OP-PF-4001/2

Oversize photographs

Image Folder PF-4001/6

Ruark with his Rolls Royce in his hometown of Wilmington, N.C.

Image Folder PF-4001/7

Portraits of Ruark

Image Folder PF-4001/8

Ruark with sculptor making of the Ruark bust, 1961

Image Folder PF-4001/9

Ruark and Dr. Paul Sanger, Clarence Lockwood, Wallace Thompson, Granville Q. Adams, Steve Hannagan, Mohmoud Hassan, Mohamed Naguib, and the Phoenix Singers

Image Folder PF-4001/10

Ruark at Phi Kappa Sigma

Image Folder PF-4001/11-14

PF-4001/11

PF-4001/12

PF-4001/13

PF-4001/14

Ruark with groups

Image Folder PF-4001/15

Unidentified women, 1950-1965

Image Folder PF-4001/16-17

PF-4001/16

PF-4001/17

Unidentified men, 1950-1965

Image Folder PF-4001/18-20

PF-4001/18

PF-4001/19

PF-4001/20

Unidentified groups, 1955-1965

Image Folder PF-4001/21

Candid and posed photographs of children, some of them with adults

Image Folder PF-4001/22

Ruark and friends in various stages of stalking, shooting, and retrieving assorted fowl

Image Folder PF-4001/23

Fishing

Image Folder PF-4001/24-25

PF-4001/24

PF-4001/25

Dogs trained for combat, 1944

Combat-trained dogs under simulated battle conditions, wounded and specially trained parachute dogs.

Image Folder PF-4001/26-32

PF-4001/26

PF-4001/27

PF-4001/28

PF-4001/29

PF-4001/30

PF-4001/31

PF-4001/32

Ruark with cats and dogs, 1950

Extra Oversize Image Folder XOP-PF-4001/1

X-rays of dog

Image Folder PF-4001/33-34

PF-4001/33

PF-4001/34

Landscapes, 1937-1957

Spain, Canada, Australia, Texas, and unidentified locations; boats and planes.

Image Folder PF-4001/34-37

PF-4001/34

PF-4001/35

PF-4001/36

PF-4001/37

Travel

Includes Hawaii and Venezuela.

Image Folder PF-4001/38-39

PF-4001/38

PF-4001/39

Venezuela military

Image Folder PF-4001/40-41

PF-4001/40

PF-4001/41

Palamos, Spain

Includes images of construction of home.

Image Folder PF-4001/42-48

PF-4001/42

PF-4001/43

PF-4001/44

PF-4001/45

PF-4001/46

PF-4001/47

PF-4001/48

Home interiors

Possibly Palamos, Spain; big game taxidermy and animal skin decor depicted.

Image Folder PF-4001/49

Miscellaneous

Notable because of format or subject matter, including some that are humorous, erotic, or interesting because of location.

Image Folder PF-4001/50-101

PF-4001/50

PF-4001/51

PF-4001/52

PF-4001/53

PF-4001/54

PF-4001/55

PF-4001/56

PF-4001/57

PF-4001/58

PF-4001/59

PF-4001/60

PF-4001/61

PF-4001/62

PF-4001/63

PF-4001/64

PF-4001/65

PF-4001/66

PF-4001/67

PF-4001/68

PF-4001/69

PF-4001/70

PF-4001/71

PF-4001/72

PF-4001/73

PF-4001/74

PF-4001/75

PF-4001/76

PF-4001/77

PF-4001/78

PF-4001/79

PF-4001/80

PF-4001/81

PF-4001/82

PF-4001/83

PF-4001/84

PF-4001/85

PF-4001/86

PF-4001/87

PF-4001/88

PF-4001/89

PF-4001/90

PF-4001/91

PF-4001/92

PF-4001/93

PF-4001/94

PF-4001/95

PF-4001/96

PF-4001/97

PF-4001/98

PF-4001/99

PF-4001/100

PF-4001/101

Africa

Assorted photographs of Ruark's travel in Africa including big game hunting, fishing, safari expeditions, animals, village scenes, urban scenes, ivory trading, Tanzania (including Ngorongoro), South Africa (including Johannesburg), indigenous Africans (including Maasai), agricultural work, market scenes, improvised showers.

Image Folder PF-4001/102

African game exhibits

Image Folder PF-4001/103-104

PF-4001/103

PF-4001/104

Hunting

Includes big game and fowl.

Image Folder PF-4001/105-106

PF-4001/105

PF-4001/106

Jonas Bros. Taxidermy Art Studio

Image Folder PF-4001/107-108

PF-4001/107

PF-4001/108

Photographs of artwork

Image Folder PF-4001/109

Photographs of Ruark's gravesite

Image Folder PF-4001/110

Ruark by Eva Monley

Acquisitions Information: Accession 99902 (Addition of September 2004)

Special Format Image SF-P-4001/1-2

SF-P-4001/1

SF-P-4001/2

Uncataloged color slides

Acquisitions Information: Accession 85101 (Addition of July 1985)

Chiefly images of African animals, village scenes, safari.

Photograph Album PA-4001/1

Photograph album

Images of social gatherings, travels, sporting events, friends, and pets. Album also contains a caricature by Al Capp, seven drawings by Ruark, two drawings by Tom Lea, and certificates from Sons of the Revolution and Sigma Delta Chi.

Film F-4001/1

"Robert Ruark, Head"

Ruark describes returning to his hometown of Wilmington, N.C., with his Rolls Royce (16mm, color, about 4 minutes).

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Oversize Volume SV-4001/1

Scrapbook of columns

Oversize Volume SV-4001/2

Ruark columns 1

Oversize Volume SV-4001/3

Ruark columns 2

Oversize Volume SV-4001/4

Ruark columns 3

Oversize Volume SV-4001/5

Ruark columns 4

Oversize Volume SV-4001/6

Ruark columns 5

Oversize Volume SV-4001/7

Ruark columns 6

Oversize Volume SV-4001/8

Magazines 1

Oversize Volume SV-4001/9

Magazines 2

Oversize Volume SV-4001/10

Magazines 3

Oversize Volume SV-4001/11

Magazines 4

Oversize Volume SV-4001/12

Magazines

Oversize Volume SV-4001/13

"Fotographs"

Oversize Volume SV-4001/14

Something of Value: Book and film reviews

Oversize Volume SV-4001/15

Black leather volume

Oversize Volume SV-4001/16

Untitled

Oversize Volume SV-4001/17

Untitled

Oversize Volume SV-4001/18

Publicity

Oversize Volume SV-4001/19

Ruark columns

Oversize Volume SV-4001/20

Scrapbook of columns

Oversize Volume SV-4001/21

Grenadine Etching, scrapbook

Oversize Volume SV-4001/22

Scrapbook

Oversize Volume SV-4001/23

Scrapbook

Folder 454

Volume 24: Daily calendar, 1950

Folder 455

Volume 25: Daily calendar, 1951

Folder 456

Volume 26: Daily calendar, 1952

Folder 457

Volume 27: Daily calendar, 1953

Folder 458

Volume 28: Daily calendar, 1964

Folder 459-463

Folder 459

Folder 460

Folder 461

Folder 462

Folder 463

Volumes 29-33: Address books

Folder 464

Volume 34: Daily calendar, 1960(?)

Folder 465

Volume 35: Uhuru, "movie pat-me, stickum side one."

Folder 466

Volume 36: "Original Honey B notes"

Folder 467-468

Folder 467

Folder 468

Volumes 37-38: The Honey Badger, notes

Folder 469-471

Folder 469

Folder 470

Folder 471

Volumes 39-41: Chiefly notes on India

Folder 472

Volume 42: Chiefly notes on Mozambique

Folder 473

Volume 43: Chiefly notes on New Guinea

Folder 474-489

Folder 474

Folder 475

Folder 476

Folder 477

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Volumes 44-59: Chiefly notes on Africa

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Volume 60: Chiefly notes on Australia and New Zealand

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Volumes 61-78: Miscellaneous notes

Oversize Volume SV-4001/79

Newspaper bundle with Holiday Magazine and newspaper pages

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Folder 512

Volume 80: The Tiger's Roar

By Jack Davies and Henry Blyth, first draft treatment.

Folder 513

Volume 81: The Tiger's Roar

First draft screen play.

Folder 514

Volume 82: F:28, Episode 1: "Call of the Horns"

By Paul Dudley, typed screenplay.

Folder 515

Volume 83: The Man Who Never Was, 7 April 1955

By Nigel Balchin, screenplay.

Folder 516

Volume 84: The Black Camera

Episode 1: "Man of Steel" By Paul Dudley, screenplay.

Folder 517

Volume 85: The Pink Panther 26 September 1962

By Maurice Richlin and Blake Edwards, revised final draft.

Folder 518

Volume 86: Kiboko, 1958

By Daniel P. Mannix, galleys.

Folder 519

Volume 87: Knight in the Sun: The Story of Harper B. Lee, First American Matador, 1962

By Marshall Hall, illustrated by Tom Lea (Ruark's friend), galleys.

Folder 520

Volume 88: Once for the Asking

By Owne G. Arno, typescript.

Folder 521

Volume 89: Witch's Money

By John Collier, typescript.

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Volume 90: Slattery's Hurricane

By Herman Wouk, typescript.

Folder 523

Volume 91: Compulsion, 1957

By Meyer Levin, typescript.

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Folder 524

Uhuru screenplay, typescript

Folder 525

Poor No More

Folder 526

"The Well at Ras Daga"

Folder 527

"Amelia": The Honey Badger, Part 1

Folder 528

"Amelia": The Honey Badger, Part 2

Folder 529

"Amelia": The Honey Badger, Part 3

Folder 530

"Amelia": The Honey Badger, Part 4

Folder 531

"Amelia": The Honey Badger, Part 5

Folder 532

The Honey Badger, Part 1

Folder 533

The Honey Badger, Part 2

Folder 534

Ruark pencil sketches, 1934-1936

Folder 535

Copies from F. S. Forsberg (gift July 1970)

Folder 536

Miscellaneous additions from the North Carolina Collection, 6 June 1975

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Valuable duplicates, 1940-1963

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Doubleday, 1948-1963; Holt, 1957-1963

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Uhuru

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Folder 548

The Old Man's Boy Grows Older

Folder 549

Membership card for Lt. (j.g.) Robert C. Ruark, 1944

Acquisitions Information: Accession 98807 (Addition of December 2000).

Officers' Mess, U.S. Naval Station-New Orleans, 1944. Includes envelope postmarked Robert, La., 23 Feb. 1951, and Ruark, Va., 15 February 1951.

Folder 550

Poster for movie, Something of Value

Acquisitions Information: Accession 99132 (Addition of November 2001).

Movie starred Rock Hudson, Dana Wynter, and Sidney Poitier. Inscribed "For Marie Love Bob."

Folder 551

Robert Ruark Society of Chapel Hill pamphlet

Acquisitions Information: Accession 99902 (Addition of September 2004).

With illustration of Robert Ruark by cartoonist Dwayne Powell.

Box 35

Ibiza manuscript, circa 1957-1965

Acquisitions Information: Accession 102336 (Addition of October 2015).

Includes an undated letter written on Ruark's Spanish letterhead. The manuscript contains descriptive captions for images that are not included.

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Oversize papers

Extra Oversize Paper Folder XOPF-4001/1a

Extra oversize papers

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