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Correspondence of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet James Tate (1943-2015) sent to professor and historian Eugene DeGruson (1932-1997) between 1962 and 1983. Tate was a student at the Kansas State College of Pittsburg (now Pittsburg State University) in the early 1960s, where “Gene” DeGruson was a professor of literature and languages. DeGruson would later become the Curator of the Kansas Collection and Special Collections. The correspondence from Tate details his readings, publishing, teaching, and personal life.

Finding Aid: Eugene DeGruson Papers, 1841-1997 (MS194)