[Letter from Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings to Edwin Mims]

This letter confirms the importance of letters for biographical research. Edwin Mims, who taught English at Vanderbilt from 1912 to 1942, was an editor at South Atlantic Quarterly, and co-edited Southern Prose and Poetry for Schools (1910) with Bruce R. Payne, wrote novelist Ellen Glasgow a letter in 1948 about his plans to write her biography. When Rawlings came across this letter in her own research for a Glasgow biography, she wrote Mims to confirm that her work would not conflict with his.