Scope and Content of the Collection From the Collection: Material assembled in 1951-1953 by scholar William Van O'Connor for a study of the work of William Faulkner. Mainly newspaper clippings, many from The Oxford Eagle of Oxford, Mississippi, either about or by Faulkner, and several articles. Also, a group of incoming letters from people associated with Faulkner, which consists of responses to O'Connor’s search for personal information about the novelist, particularly his military career in the Royal Air Force and his experience as a Hollywood...