Essays, Speeches and Public Letters Book

	Biographical Note
	Foreword
	Acknowledgments
	Editor's Preface to the First Edition
I	Essays
	A Note on Sherwood Anderson, 1953	3
	Mississippi, 1954	11
	A Guest's Impression of New England, 1954	44
	An Innocent at Rinkside, 1955	48
	Kentucky: May: Saturday, 1955	52
	On Privacy, 1955	62
	Impressions of Japan, 1955	76
	To the Youth of Japan, 1955	82
	Letter to a Northern Editor, 1956	86
	On Fear: Deep South in Labor: Mississippi, 1956	92
	A Letter to the Leaders in the Negro Race, 1956	107
	Albert Camus, 1961	113
II	Speeches
	Funeral Sermon for Mammy Caroline Barr, February 4, 1940	117
	Upon Receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1950	119
	To the Graduating Class, University High School, 1951	122
	Upon Being Made on Officer of the Legion of Honor, 1951	125
	To the Delta Council, 1952	126
	To the Graduating Class, Pine Manor Junior College, 1953	135
	Upon Receiving the National Book Award for Fiction, 1955	143
	To the Southern Historical Association, 1955	146
	Upon Receiving the Silver Medal of the Athens Academy, 1957	152
	To the American Academy of Arts and Letters in Presenting the Gold Medal for Fiction to John Dos Passos, 1957	153
	To the Raven, Jefferson, and ODK Societies of the University of Virginia, 1958	155
	To the English Club of the University of Virginia, 1958	160
	To the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO, 1959	166
	To the American Academy of Arts and Letters upon Acceptance of the Gold Medal for Fiction, 1962	168
III	Introductions
	Foreword to Sherwood Anderson & Other Famous Creoles, 1926	173
	Introduction to the Modern Library Edition of Sanctuary, 1932	176
	Foreword to The Faulkner Reader, 1954	179
IV	Book Review
	The Road Back, by Erich Maria Remarque, 1931	185
	Test Pilot, by Jimmy Collins, 1935	188
	The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway, 1952	193
V	Public Letters
	To the Book Editor of the Chicago Tribune, July 16, 1927	197
	To the President of the League of American Writers, 1938	198
	To the Editor of the Memphis Commercial Appeal, July, 12, 1941	199
	"His Name was Pete," Oxford Eagle, August 15, 1946	200
	To the Editor of the Oxford Eagle, March 13, 1947	202
	To the Editor of the Memphis Commercial Appeal, March 26, 1950	203
	To the Editor of the Memphis Commercial Appeal, April, 9, 1950	205
	To the Secretary of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, June 12, 1950	206
	"To the Voters of Oxford," September 1950	207
	To the Editor of the Oxford Eagle, September 14, 1950	208
	To the Editor of Time November 13, 1950	210
	Statement to the Press on the Willie McGee Case, Memphis Commercial Appeal, March 27, 1951	211
	To the Editor of the New York Times, December 26, 1954	212
	To the Editor of the Memphis Commercial Appeal, February 20, 1955	214
	To the Editor of the Memphis Commercial Appeal, March 20, 1955	215
	To the Editor of the New York Times, March, 25, 1955	217
	To the Editor of the Memphis Commercial Appeal, April 3, 1955	218
	To the Editor of the Memphis Commercial Appeal, April 10, 1955	220
	To the Editor of the Memphis Commercial Appeal, April, 17, 1955	221
	Press Dispatch on the Emmett Till Case, September 9, 1955	222
	To the Editor of Life, March 26, 1956	224
	To the Editor of the Reporter, April 19, 1956	225
	To the Editor of Time, April 23, 1956	226
	To the Editor of Time December 10, 1956	227
	To the Editor of the New York Times, December 16, 1956	227
	To the Editor of Time, February 11, 1957	228
	To the Editor of the Memphis Commercial Appeal, September 15, 1957	229
	To the Editor of the New York Times, October 13, 1957	230
	Notice, Oxford Eagle, September 24, 1959	231
	"Notice," Oxford Eagle, October 15, 1959	232
	To the Editor of the New York Times, August 28, 1960	232
VI	Essays
	Verse, Old and Nascent: A Pilgrimage, 1924	237
	On Criticism, 1925	242
	Sherwood Anderson, 1925	246
	Literature and War, 1925	254
	And Now What's To Do, 1925	256
	The Composition, Editing, and Cutting of Flags in the Dust, c. 1928	260
	Mac Grider' Son, 1934	264
	Note on A Fable, c. 1953	270
VII	Speeches
	Funeral Sermon for Mammy Caroline Barr February 5, 1940	275
	Address to the Congres pour la Liberte de la Culture, 1952	277
	Address at the American Literature Seminar, Nagano, 1955	279
	Address upon Receiving the Andres Bello Award, Caracas, 1961	283
	Address at the Teatro Municipal, Caracas, 1961	285
VIII	Introductions
	Two Introductions to The Sound and the Fury	289
	Oxford, Mississippi, August 19, 1933	289
	Oxford, Mississippi, 1946	296
	Prefatory Note to "Appendix: Compson, 1699-1945," 1946	301
IX	Book and Drama Reviews
	In April Once, by W. A. Percy, 1920	307
	Turns and Movies, by Conrad Aiken, 1921	309
	Aria da Capo: A Play in One Act, by Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1922	312
	American Drama: Eugene O'Neill, 1922	314
	American Drama: Inhibitions, 1922	317
	Linda Condon - Cytherea - The Bright Shawl, by Joseph Hergesheimer, 1922	321
	Ducdame, by John Cowper Powys, 1925	323
	Test Pilot, by Jimmy Collins (The uncut text), 1935	328
X	Public Letters
	To the New Orleans Times-Item, April 4, 1925	337
	To the Editor of the Memphis Commercial Appeal, February 15, 1931	338
	Blurb for Men in Darkness, by James Hanley, 1932	344
	Blurb and Promotional Use of Letter to Clifton Cuthbert, 1933	344
	Classified AD in the Memphis Commercial Appeal, January 22, 1936	345
	Inscription on the Monument to Lafayette Country's World War II Dead, 1947	346
	To the Memphis Commercial Appeal, April 30, 1950	347
	Blurb for The End of the Affair, by Graham Greene, 1955	349
	Draft of September 15, 1957, Letter to the Memphis Commercial Appeal	350
	Estate Administrator's Notice in the Oxford Eagle, 1960	352