Resources for the Study of Simms:
- The William Gilmore Simms Digital Edition of the University of South Carolina Libraries contains digital surrogates of all of Simms’s published works, his personal scrapbooks, and the complete run of the Simms Review academic journal from 1993-2014.
- The authoritative biography of Simms is Simms: A Literary Life by John C. Guilds.
- For those new to Simms, the best one-volume introduction to Simms’s work is Reading William Gilmore Simms: Essays of Introduction to the Author’s Canon, edited by Todd Hagstette.
- Print-on-demand editions of the majority of Simms’s published works are available through the University of South Carolina Press.
- Manuscript materials–including personal memoranda and manuscripts of unpublished works–are available in the Charles Carroll Simms Collection, South Caroliniana Library, University of South Carolina.