Permission Not Granted , 1953

The collection consists of the personal and business papers of William Turner Catledge (1901-1983), graduate of Mississippi A&M College, journalist, and editor of The New York Times. Catledge was reared in Neshoba County, Mississippi, and worked for several Mississippi newspapers, the Memphis Commercial Appeal, and the Baltimore Sun before beginning his distinguished career with The New York Times in 1929. The bulk of the files date from 1945 to 1968, the period during which Catledge served as assistant managing editor, executive managing editor, managing editor, and executive editor of the Times. Included are correspondence, memoranda, clippings, reports, photographs, tapes, phonograph records, memorabilia, and publications. The collection is divided into two series: 1 - papers transferred to MSU from the Catledge home in New Orleans, mostly personal and dated after Catledge’s retirement from The Times, 1873-1985, and includes some miscellaneous items donated by other people (circa 20 cubic feet), and 2 - office files transferred to MSU from the New York Times office in New York, 1922-1970 (circa 112 cubic feet).