"How the negros [sic] became McCaslins too...": A New Faulkner Letter

• Published in: Southern cultures 1999-10, Vol.5 (3), p.103-108
• Main Author: POLK, NOEL
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Academic libraries; African Americans; Air forces; Daughters; Evans, Hugh; Faulkner, William (1897-1962); Governors; Library collections; Not Forgotten; Politeness; Sons; War; World War I; World War II; World wars
• ISSN: 1068-8218; 1534-1488; 1534-1488
• DOI: 10.1353/scu.1999.0083

Wiley, the great historian of the Civil War, was on the faculty at the University of Mississippi from 1938 to 1946, with some time out for service in World War II. Clearly, however, the author at his desk. william faulkner, courtesy of the center for faulkner studies, southeast missouri state university. p.103 Faulkner got along very well with the Wileys, who seem to have made part of a group of Oxonians who socialized together on a number of occasions. Bell I. Wiley, interview with Orley Caudill, 4 June 1976, Oral History Program, University of Southern Mississippi, 41-47; John Wiley, Bell's youngest son, in an interview with J. H. Segars, December 1995, mentioned that Faulkner was infatuated with his mother, adding "that William Faulkner made passes." Joseph Blotner and Noel Polk (Library of America, 1994), 197-99. p.105 faulkner's letter to mary frances wiley, 23 june 1942. courtesy of the bell i. wiley papers, special collections department, robert w. woodruff library, emory university. p.106 out of the worst tales of Old South history, of his grandfather's egregious sins and decides to repudiate that tainted inheritance.