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Roberts, Martha R., papers A Guide to the Martha R. Roberts papers, undated M 170 A Collection in Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, Collection number M 170

A Guide to the Martha R. Roberts papers, undated M 170

A Collection in Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, Collection number M 170


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B. Pittman

Repository
VCU James Branch Cabell Library
Identification
M 170
Title
Martha R. Roberts papers undated
URL:
http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=vcu-cab/vircu00071.xml
Quantity
4 Linear Feet
Creator
Roberts, Martha Ann Richford
Language
English .

Administrative Information

Use Restrictions

There are no restrictions.

Access Restrictions

Collection is open to research.

Preferred Citation

Martha R. Roberts papers, Collection # M 170, Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA.

Biographical / Historical

Ms. Roberts attended the Columbia School of Journalism and for a time she was on the New York stage. She lived in Charlottesville, Virginia, and had published her poems in numerous magazines.

Scope and Contents

Contains materials relating to her publications, correspondence, and drafts of her work.

Arrangement

Collection is arranged alphabetically. Series I--Personal materials (n.d.) ; Series II--Correspondence (n.d.) ; Series III--Poetry (n.d.) ; Series IV--Fiction (n.d.) ; Series V--Miscellaneous (n.d.)

Subjects and Indexing Terms

  • Dancers -- Archives -- United States
  • Poets, American -- Archives -- Virginia

Significant Persons Associated With the Collection

  • Roberts, Martha Ann Richford
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Container List

Series I--Personal Materials
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    Address Book
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    Biography
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    Charlottesville--Business Transactions
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    Charlottesville-Domestic
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    Charlottesville-Memberships
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    Charlottesville--Roberts vs. First and Merchants
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    Charlottesville-Social Contacts
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    Christian Science-DeLange
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    Christian Science--Hodges, Alice B.
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    Christian Science--Norwood, Dr. Robert
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    Christian Science-Notes
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    Correspondence--Early New York
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    Correspondence-Early Richmond
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    Correspondence--Roberts, Robert
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    Ephemeral
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    New York City Remembered
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    Photographs-Family
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    Photographs-Miscellaneous
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    Theater (New York)
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    Roshanara
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Series II--Correspondence
  • Mixed Materials box: 2
    Christian Science
  • Mixed Materials box: 2
    Early Poetry
  • Mixed Materials box: 2
    Charlottesville-General
  • Mixed Materials box: 2
    Charlottesville-General
  • Mixed Materials box: 2
    Lewisohn, Irene
  • Mixed Materials box: 2
    Miscellaneous
  • Mixed Materials box: 2
    Miscellaneous
  • Mixed Materials box: 2
    Roshanara
  • Mixed Materials box: 2
    These Go In Flight
  • Mixed Materials box: 2
    Travels Abroad
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Series III--Poetry
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    Affirmation
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    After Damascus
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    After Dark
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    And Now This Wind
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    Autumn Pain
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    Away
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    Bed-Time
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    Before Damascus
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    Beyond Flight
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    Bon Voyage
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    Caravans
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    Chain of St. Francis
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    Chapel Prayer
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    Charity
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    Child's Prayer
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    City --Adagio
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    City -Adagio, Entr'acte
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    City-Arcady in the Gutter
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    City -Broadway at Noon
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    City -Broadway at Noon, Entr'acte, Adagio, Adante
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    City -Entr'acte
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    City -Entr'acte, In the Park
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    City -In the Church
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    City -In the Park
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    City -Overture
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    City -Pavas, Harlem Boy
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    City -Towers, Entr'acte, Afternoon Gavotte
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    City -Towers, Entr'acte, Crescendo
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    Dark Jehane
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    Devil's Lady
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    Dream-Thrall
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    Early Poetry
    1915-1920
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    Envoi
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    Envoi
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    Envoie
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    Experiment
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    Faith
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    For Alice Meynell
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    For A Letter to E.
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    For Mareyne
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    Friends and Special Occasions
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    Friendship
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    Hear Now the City/Crazy City
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    Katherine Mansfield
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Kathleen O' Houlihan
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Keepsake
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Making of Mareyne
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Master
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Maturity
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Nativity
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Nostalgia
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Notes for Poetry Talk
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Old Path
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    On Meeting a Certain Person
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Open Letter
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Oracle
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Patmos
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Perhaps
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Poet Replied
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Point of No Return
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Reply to an Ideologist
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Running for the Rain
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Sic Transit Gloria Cordis
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Song for Remembrance
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Song for Sighing
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Song for Trieste
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Spring Song
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Song of Amicus
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Sisters
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    These Go Into Flight
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    These Go Into Flight-Manuscript
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    These Go Into Flight-Related materials
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Thirtieth Piece
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    To a Pretty Lady
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Waiting
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Wanderers
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Wed-Lock
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Winter-Born
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Within Our Dates
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Series IV--Fiction
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Annabel and the Moon-Man
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Annabel and the Moon-Man (draft)
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Art Works-Miscellaneous
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Beauty and the Beast-Script
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Begums in New York
  • Mixed Materials box: 5
    Best Role of Emily Gage
  • Mixed Materials box: 5
    Bread of Angels
  • Mixed Materials box: 5
    Bread of Angels (draft)
  • Mixed Materials box: 5
    Child Memories of India, Begums Pay a Visit, Tale of Tea
  • Mixed Materials box: 5
    Christmas Plays-Charlottesville
  • Mixed Materials box: 5
    Cinderella
  • Mixed Materials box: 5
    Clippings
  • Mixed Materials box: 5
    Clippings
  • Mixed Materials box: 5
    Correspondence-Children's Literature
  • Mixed Materials box: 5
    Correspondence-Publisher's replies
  • Mixed Materials box: 5
    Critical Reviews-Miscellaneous
  • Mixed Materials box: 5
    Critical Reviews-WINA
  • Mixed Materials box: 5
    Date in the Desk
  • Mixed Materials box: 5
    Deep Garden-Draft
  • Mixed Materials box: 5
    Deep Garden-Unfinished Draft
  • Mixed Materials box: 6
    Deep Garden-Unfinished Draft
  • Mixed Materials box: 6
    Deep Garden-Unfinished Draft
  • Mixed Materials box: 6
    Excerpts and Drafts
  • Mixed Materials box: 6
    Experiments, Drafts, and Random meditations
  • Mixed Materials box: 6
    Florentine Idyl
  • Mixed Materials box: 6
    From the Sea
  • Mixed Materials box: 6
    Goat in the Jewel
  • Mixed Materials box: 6
    Goat in the Jewel
  • Mixed Materials box: 6
    Hands on Bidha
  • Mixed Materials box: 6
    Hands of Bidha-excerpts from a dramatic version
  • Mixed Materials box: 6
    How Great Grandmother helped Ann
  • Mixed Materials box: 6
    In an Afternoon
  • Mixed Materials box: 6
    Informer (WINA)
  • Mixed Materials box: 7
    Island Christmas (Radio Play)
    1953
  • Mixed Materials box: 7
    Kindergarten Book
  • Mixed Materials box: 7
    Little Adventure in Memory
  • Mixed Materials box: 7
    Memories of a Little Street
  • Mixed Materials box: 7
    Nocturne in Minor (unfinished)
  • Mixed Materials box: 7
    Nocturne in Mistral (unfinished)
  • Mixed Materials box: 7
    Noise
  • Mixed Materials box: 7
    Notes-Personal (Miscellaneous)
  • Mixed Materials box: 7
    Path of Adventure
  • Mixed Materials box: 7
    Payment Deferred
  • Mixed Materials box: 7
    Piece of Silk
  • Mixed Materials box: 8
    Published Works
  • Mixed Materials box: 8
    Published Works
  • Mixed Materials box: 8
    Silken Soul of Shirmene
  • Mixed Materials box: 8
    Silver Nocturne
  • Mixed Materials box: 8
    Social Commentary-Ecology
  • Mixed Materials box: 8
    Social Commentary-International Guild of Workers
  • Mixed Materials box: 8
    Social Commentary-Miscellaneous
  • Mixed Materials box: 8
    Sweet, Sweet Daughter
  • Mixed Materials box: 8
    They Eat Crystal Bread (alternate version of Bread of Angels)
  • Mixed Materials box: 8
    Unfinished Stories-Children's Literature
  • Mixed Materials box: 8
    WINA-Miscellaneous
  • Mixed Materials box: 8
    Writings-Miscellaneous
  • Mixed Materials box: 8
    Writings-Miscellaneous Drama
  • Mixed Materials box: 8
    Writings-Miscellaneous Fiction
  • Mixed Materials box: 8
    Writings-Miscellaneous Joan of Arc
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