Selected materials from the UNA Archives Collections...

Among the items in the T.S. Stribling Collection are two oil portraits of Stribling and his wife, Lou Ella Stribling, a complete set of his works with some signed first editions, a bowtie that he wore at the Pulitzer Prize banquet and a copy of the Pulitzer Prize Award.

Also included are the following documents which are reprinted here:

"Miss Simpson's Impression Of Him As A Student" - A document written by Nettie Simpson, one of Stribling's teachers at Florence State Normal College (UNA).

Review of The Store from the Flor-Ala (UNA's newspaper)

"Apology to Florence" - A reprint of an article that Stribling wrote for Wings magazine on why he chose Florence for the setting of his novel Unfinished Cathedral.

A letter to Mrs. R.F. Ridley, Tuscumbia, Alabama from Stribling, February 13, 1933, discussing his life and his works.

A letter to Mrs. Taylor from Stribling on winning the Pulitzer Prize.

A letter to Mr. Fuller, Principal of Mt. Hope High School from Stribling declining to collaborate on a biography of himself.

New York Times Obituary, July 9, 1965.

Funeral service program from the Middle Tennessee Funeral Home, July 9, 1965.

 

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