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Papers of Robert Frost, in the Clifton Waller Barrett Library, Accession #6261, etc., Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.
This collection was acquired ca. 1960-1997 through multiple gifts of Clifton Waller Barrett, Lesley Frost Francis Ballentine, and Lesley Lee Francis.
Robert Lee Frost (born March 26, 1874 in San Francisco, Calif., died January 29, 1963 in Boston Mass.), was one of America's leading 20th-century poets and a four-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
The Frost family moved to Massachusetts in 1885, following Frost's father's death. Frost graduated from Lawrence High School in 1892 and entered Dartmouth College, where he remained less than one semester. Frost returned to Massachusetts where he taught school and worked in a mill and as a newspaper reporter. In 1894 he sold "My Butterfly: an Elegy" to The Independent, a New York literary journal. He married Elinor White in 1895. From 1897 to 1899 he attended Harvard College as a special student but left without a degree. Over the next ten years he wrote (but rarely published) poems, operated a farm in Derry, New Hampshire (purchased for him by his paternal grandfather), and supplemented his income by teaching at Derry's Pinkerton Academy.
In 1912, at the age of 38, he sold the farm and used the proceeds to take his family to England, where he could devote himself entirely to writing. His efforts to establish himself and his work were almost immediately successful. A Boy's Will was accepted by a London publisher and brought out in 1913, followed a year later by North of Boston. Favorable reviews on both sides of the Atlantic resulted in American publication of the books by Henry Holt and Company, Frost's primary American publisher, and in the establishing of Frost's transatlantic reputation.
The Frosts returned to the United States in February 1915 and landed in New York City two days after the U.S. publication of North of Boston, the first of his books to be published in America. Sales of that book and of A Boy's Will enabled Frost to buy a farm in Franconia, N.H.; to place new poems in literary periodicals and publish a third book, Mountain Interval (1916); and to embark on a long career of writing, teaching, and lecturing. In 1924 he received a Pulitzer Prize in poetry for New Hampshire (1923). He received the Pulitzer again for Collected Poems (1930), A Further Range (1936), and A Witness Tree (1942). Over the years he received an unprecedented number and range of literary, academic, and public honors.
The collection contains manuscripts of poetry, plays, addresses, essays, notebook, a workbook, and other writings by Frost. Many are fair copies written for Earle Bernheimer, Clifton Waller Barrett and others. With these are some proof and other publication materials for the Limited Editions Club volume of The Complete Poems of Robert Frost.
Manuscripts by the Frost children include notebooks of poetry and short stories by Lesley, Carol, and Irma Frost, and "The Bouquet " magazine by the Frost children and English friends.
Manuscripts about Robert Frost include notes or articles by John T. Bartlett, Margaret Bartlett, Elizabeth Jennings, and Dorothy Judd Hall; as well as page proof of Sidney Cox's A Swinger of Birches and a typescript of "The constant symbol " by Clifton Waller Barrett.
Frost family correspondence includes letters from Robert and Elinor to daughter Lesley Frost Francis, and grandson William Prescott Frost, as well as correspondence of granddaughter Lesley Lee Francis. There are also five letters of Frost's parents William Prescott Frost, Jr. and Isabelle Moodie Frost.
Letters to Earle J. Bernheimer discuss his writing, health, family affairs, and Bernheimer's Frost collection. Letters to Robert S. Hillyer touch on readings, honors, and Hillyer's poetry. Lengthy letters to former student John T. Bartlett discuss family and work. Letters from English friends during World War I mention the English war effort.
Other correspondents include Clifton Waller and Cornelia Barrett, William Stanley Braithwaite, LeBaron R. Briggs, Abbie Farwell Brown, Cyril Clemens, Padraic Colum, Lewis Henry Cohn, Grace Hazard Conkling, Aaron Copland, Clarence R. Decker, George Dillon, Frank D. Fackenthal, Wilfred Wilson Gibson, Vera Harvey, J. J. Lankes, Edward Connery Lathem, John Masefield, Harry Meacham, Harold Monro, Kathleen Morrison, Thomas B. Mosher, Robert S. Newdick, William Jay Smith, R. W. Stallman, Will Orton Tewson, Lawrance R. Thompson, Wade Van Dore, and John Hall Wheelock.
Miscellaneous material includes programs; playbills; invitations; brochures; two pencil drawings by Frost; a painting "The sound of the trees Robert Frost" by E. A. Anderson; reviews; clippings; maps; articles; photographs; and recordings of Robert Frost readings and of his memorial service with narration by Allen Tate.
This collection is arranged in three series. Series I, Manuscripts, is arranged in three subseries: Subseries A. Manuscripts by Robert Frost, sub-arranged as Poetry, Plays and Other Writings; Subseries B. Manuscripts by the Frost Children; and Subseries C. Manuscripts by Others about Robert Frost.
Series II, Letters, is arranged in three subseries: Subseries A. Correspondence of Robert Frost, Elinor Frost and the Frost Family; Subseries B. Correspondence of Lesley Frost Ballantine; and, Subseries C. General Correspondence.
Series III, Miscellaneous, includes documents outside the scope of the first two series, printed materials, photographs and recordings.
With two photoreproductions of the poem and two telegrams used to form Christmas cards by Earle Bernheimer [in Bernheimer file]
"Stars", "Storm Fear", "Wind and Window Flower", "To the Thawing Wind", "Flower-Gathering", "Into My Own", "Ghost House", "My November Guest", "Love and a Question", "A Late Walk", "Rose Pogonias", "Waiting -- Afield at Dusk", "In a Vale", "In Neglect", "The Vantage Point", "Mowing", "Going for Water", "Revelation", "Trial by Existence", "In Equal Sacrifice", "The Tuft of Flowers", "The Spoils of the Dead", "Pan with Us", "Now Close the Windows", "The Demiurge's Laugh", "A Line-storm Song", "October", "My Butterfly", "Reluctance"
"But He Meant It" ["The Broken Drought"], "US 1946 --King's X", "Bursting Rapture", "The Planners", "One Step Backward Taken", "Why Wait for Science", "No Holy Wars for Them", "Etherealizing", "To the Right Person", "We Can Have It Any Size We Please" ["Any Size We Please"], "A Young Birch", "A Mood Apart", "From the Papyrees Prisse", "Something for Hope", "The Spire" ["A Steeple on the House"], "The Night Light", "To an Ancient", "A Rogers Group", "Upsilon Iota Subscript" ["Iota Subscript"], "In the Long Night", "On Making Sure Anything Has Happened" ["On Making Certain Anything Has Happened", "A Wish to Comply", "Astrometaphysical", "A Cliff Dwelling", "Beyond Words", "Innate Helium", "Two Leading Lights", "The Importer" ["An Importer"], "Her Fear" ["The Fear of Man"], "The Ingenuities of Debt", "Bravado", "The Play" [It Bids Pretty Fair"], "A Bed in the Barn", "The Courage to be New", "Skeptic", "On Being Idolized", "The Middleness of the Road", "Haec Fabula Docet", "US 1946 King's X"
"An Unstamped Letter in Our Rural Letter Box", "Blind Individualist" ["Haec Fabula Docet"], "To an Ancient", "On Being Idolized", "To the Right Person", "The Middleness of the Road", "Skeptic", "On Our Deciding to Have Our Universe Smaller" ["Any Size We Please"], "A Young Birch", "Ten-Thirty A. M." (Not in published volume), "The Courage to be New", "The Fear of God", "Why Wait for Science", "No Holy Wars" ["No Holy Wars for Them"], "The Planners", ["A Steeple on the House"], ["Innate Helium"], "Etherealizing", "The Importer" ["An Importer"], "The Cliff Dwelling" ["A Cliff Dwelling"], "Astrometaphysical", "Were I in Trouble with Night Tonight" ["Were I in Trouble"], "A Case for Jefferson", "Two Leading Lights", "Bravado", "It Bids Fair" ["It Bids Pretty Fair"], "Beyond Words", "The Night Light", "The Ingenuities of Debt", "The Common Danger" or "Fear of Man" [The Fear of Man"], "Upsilon Iota Subscript" ["Iota Subscript"], "Nature I Loved and Next to Nature Art" or "Lucretius versus the Lake Poets", "A Mood Apart", "A Wish to Comply", "The Broken Drought", "In the Long Night", "On Making Sure Anything Has Happened" ["On Making Certain Anything Has Happened"]
"The Silken Tent", "A Cloud-Shadow", "Come In", "Give All to Time" ["I Could Give All to Time"], "Carpe Diem", "To a Moth Seen in Winter", "Happiness Makes Up in Height for What It Lacks in Length", "Time Out", "Triple Plate" ["Triple Bronze"], "Wilfull Homing", "It is Almost the Year Two Thousand", "Telescopic --A Loose Mountain" ["A Loose Mountain (Telescopic)"], "To a Young Wretch" ["To a Young Wretch (Boethian)"], "The Literate Farmer and the Planet Venus --A Dated Popular Science Medley", "Never Again Would Birds Be the Same", "All Revelation", "A Considerable Speck" ["A Considerable Speck (Microscopic)"], "The Gift Outright", "An Admirer of the Flag" ["Not of School Age"], ["The Secret Sits"], ["An Answer"], ["A Question"], "On the Difficulty of Keeping Up in Sympathy" ["On Our Sympathy with the Under Dog"], ["Assurance", "The Most of It", "Beech", "Sycamore"
"To a Moth Seen in Winter", "A Considerable Speck (Microscopic)", "The Lost Follower", "For the Fall of Nineteen Thirty Eight" ["November"], "The Rabbit Hunter", "A Loose Mountain (Telescopic)", "It is Almost the Year Two Thousand", "In a Poem", "On Our Sympathy with the Under Dog", "Boeotion", ["The Secret Sits"], "An Equalizer", ["Assurance"], ["A Question"], ["An Answer"], "Trespass", "A Nature Note", "Of the Stones of the Place", "Not of School Age", "A Serious Step Lightly Taken", "The Literate Farmer and the Planet Venus", "Beech", "Sycamore", "The Silken Tent", "All Revelations", "Happiness Makes Up in Height for What It Lacks in Length", "Come In", "I Could Give All to Time", "Carpe Diem", "The Discovery of the Madeiras --A Rhyme of Hackluyt", "The Wind and the Rain", "The Most of It", "Never Again Would Birds Song Be the Same", "The Subverted Flower", "Willfull Homing", "A Cloud Shadow", "The Quest of the Purple-Fringed", "The Gift Outright", "Triple Bronze", "Our Hold on the Planet", "To a Young Wretch" ["To a Young Wretch (Boethian)"], "The Lesson for Today", "Time Out",
"The Silken Tent", "Come In", "Geode", "Triple Plate", "To a Moth Seen in Winter", "Wilfull Homing", "A Considerable Speck-Microscopic", "A Cloud Shadow", "Happiness Makes Up in Height for What It "Lacks in Length", "A Loose Mountain-Telescopic", "Trespass", "A Serious Step Lightly Taken", "In Praise of Waste", "To a Young Wretch", ["The Gift Outright"], ["The Secret Sits"],
Collection of 26 poems in blue paper cover, with autograph inscription by K[athleen] M[orrison]: "This is a special selection of poems made by Mr. Frost for Mr. Barrett..."
"Never Again Would Birds Song Be the Same", "Against Thinking", "Mowing", "The Line-gang", "Closed for Good", "Dust of Snow", "The Tuft of Flowers", "The Mountain", "Blue-butterfly Day", "Reluctance", "My November Guest", "Hyla Brook", "November", "A Blue Ribbon at Amesbury", "Astrometaphysical", "Why Wait for Science", "For Columbus Day", "Choose Something Like a Star", "Tree at My Window", "Wanton Waste", "Good- bye and Keep Cold", "Something for Hope", "A Young Birch", "A Leaf Treader", "The Lost Follower", "The Gift Outright",
Poem published originally in the Lawrence, Massachusetts High School Bulletin
Poem published originally in the Lawrence, Massachusetts High School Bulletin
Poem published originally in the Lawrence, Massachusetts High School Bulletin
Selection, biographical introduction, and commentary by Louis Untermeyer, illustrated by John O'Hara Cosgrave, II, and published by Henry Holt and Company, inscribed by Robert Frost to Earle Bernheimer. Also inscribed proofs of the title page and a Cosgrave illustration.
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"Directive", "The middleness of the road", "Astrometaphysical." With correction by Frost. Signed "R. Frost o.k." Removed from Papers of the Virginia Quarterly Review, RG-24/3/1.571
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"The gift outright", "To a moth seen in winter", "Time out." Removed from Papers of the Virginia Quarterly Review, RG-24/3/1.571
Includes: Proof, 2 l., ca. 1950, Galley proof of Frost's introduction "The Figure a Poem Makes" for The Complete Poems of Robert Frost with printer's instructions by Rogers; Proof, ca. 1950, Proof of the half-title to Volume I of ; Proof, ca. 1950, Hand proof of title to Volume I of The Complete Poems of Robert Frost ; Layout, ca. 1950, Layout for contents page of The Complete Poems of Robert Frost ; Layout, ca. 1950, Pencilled layout for colophon by Rogers for The Complete Poems of Robert Frost ; TMs, 1 p., ca. 1950, Typescript, with pencilled corrections, of copyright notice for The Complete Poems of Robert Frost
Essay published originally in the Lawrence, Massachusetts High School Bulletin.
Essay published originally in the Lawrence, Massachusetts High School Bulletin.
Essay published originally in the Lawrence, Massachusetts High School Bulletin.
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Describes the collaboration of between Frost and J. J. Lankes; inscribed by Frost to Earl Bernheimer. 6261-bi
Featuring John Hall Wheelock, Donald Stauffer and Theodore Spencer discussing Frost's poetry; inscribed by Frost to Russel Alberts. 6261-bi
A heart-felt letter, declaring his feelings for her and proposing marriage.
Urging her to join him out west, telling of his success in selling articles to newspapers, and giving information on train travel. [incomplete].
Discussing the changes in his life, including moving out west, becoming a city editor, and getting married and having a child [Robert Frost].
Acknowledging her letter and discussing extended family.
Following her return east and the birth of their daughter [ Jeanie Florence Frost], writing that "Bob is just as queer as ever about some things..."
Concerning Robert Frost's manuscript in progress and a reserve fund in Vermontthat she has set aside on Frost's behalf.
Commenting on the Abercrombrie's troubles, Elinor Frost's poor health "just at this moment when our fortunes begin to look up a little --," and discussing the effects and current status of the disastrous contract with his first publisher, Mrs. Nutt. Postscript of September 30 written after receiving legal advice concerning his contract with Mrs. Nutt; discussing his obligations and intentions in fulfilling the contract.
Commenting on his sending "something more than books: this is friendship."
Indicating his willingness to autograph anything for him and giving his various places of residences.
Concerning Robert Frost's slow recovery from nervous exhaustion, and his willingness to autograph some books for him.
Acknowledging his fine collection of Frost's books and writing his willingness [to inscribe them].
Writing that he "might not be able to refuse serious money for the unique Twilight, " with notation at top, "Beginning of negotiations--November. 1939. E. J. B."
Writing that he is in need of two thousand dollars and offering the sale of two of his most valuable manuscripts, with note on verso in red pencil, "1 year after purchase of Twilight. O. K."
Extending membership to Frost, inscribed "For Earle to keep for me R. F."
Mentioning "that Jonathan Cape had brought out A Witness Tree in a pretty little war economy format in England, " his being touched by the interest, and his appreciation of and obligation to the English. Stating that his contact with the war is through his grandson, William Prescott Frost III, who enlisted. Discussing his transition as faculty from Harvard to Dartmouth.
Listing his spring schedule, discussing personal health and other news; and, the war and that "our kind of people are beginning to speak up for our kind of world," mentioning Louis Bromfield, John Chamberlain, and Ray Nash.
... "good joke between friends."
Reassuring him that the accident could not make any difference in their friendship, and promising that he will have the copy of Masque of Reason soon.
Discussing his college lectures and still promising to send the copy of Masque of Reason.
Indicating that Dartmouthis anxious to obtain Bernheimer's collection, and praising Ray Nashof Dartmouthas a great authority and as being instrumental in Frost being made the George Ticknor Fellow in the Humanities.
Enclosing the copy of Robert Frost's "A Masque of Reason" and promising to send a poem, "Two Leading Lights," to use for his Christmas card.
Saying that Robert Frost suggests he use the poem sent the previous day for a Christmas card.
Enclosing [poem] identified at top as "The original jottings that finally became the poem, 'Provide, Provide.' E. J. B." Writing that the proofs of New Hampshire and Mountain Interval have turned up.
Writing that he has had the idea for the final touch needed for Masque of Mercy, and that he will send it to him soon. Mentioning a party given in Frost's honor by Henry Holt and Company, a possible lecture at Berkeley, and his interest in writing on the second Masque or a poem now and then.
Mentioning personal news including the divorce of his daughter, explaining that the name Twilight came from an expression used in real estate, and discussing his works Masque and Steeplebush.
Concerning a social event at the Bohemian Cluband a lecture at a nearby college, with autograph note at end, "leaving here for Cambridge this week..."
(Incomplete), writing news of Steeplebush and the second Masque, and of his many spring lecture engagements.
Acknowledging his generosity and understanding of Frost manuscripts and books; giving permission to use "The Waterfall" for a Christmas card; and commenting on his daughter's divorce and commitment to a hospital for the insane and on Bernheimer's Frost collection.
Mentioning his troubles in regard to his daughter's divorce and insanity; and, compromising on his use of a passage from The Guardeen.
Concerning a lecture tour in Californiaand asking for particulars.
Testifying to Frost's honorable dismissal from college.
Regretfully unable to think of something clever to write in his books and having "to end ignominously by copying you out a poem or two that I care a little for."
Thanking her for the book and the dedication and assuring her that the book will be for all six of them; and, calling it "a brown day" as he also received mail from Alice Brownand George Browne.
Concerning an arrangement for several authors to read to her, and mentioning Amy Lowell.
Concerning some books he has to inscribe for her, and saying that he will use "some irrelevant poem" of his as an inscription; and, reminiscing about his visit to Boston.
Describing London, their cottage and the town of Beaconsfield, and the people of England.
Accepting the honor of having a book dedicated to him.
Congratulating him on the Pulitzer Poetry Prize for A Witness Tree, with Frost's autograph reply beneath, "Getting it for the fourth time rather stops me from saying anything against a fourth term as president. R. F."
Asking if he is still interested in some of his poems, with a copy of "Lost in Heaven."
Thanking him for wanting "The Census-Taker" and enclosing the three-page TMsS poem; and, commenting that Hillyer's poems are "in the right road for you. Now go the whole length of it."
Writing that he has a volume of poetry in safekeeping for him and asking whether he wants him to read in public for him.
Concerning plans for November.
Concerning his publisher's refusal to send a copy of Frost's latest book to Hillyer for review.
Offering to nominate him for membership in "the Institute" and praising him for receiving the "reward from the Pulitzers."
Accepting an invitation to visit his alma mater Harvard Collegeon April 17th.
Concerning Frost's inability to write a poem for his reading [at Harvard College] the previous September and Hillyer's support; and, a request from Shirley Barkerfor assistance in obtaining a scholarship at Radcliffe.
Sending congratulations on his latest honor.
Enclosing a newspaper clipping from the New York Evening Post, June 11, 1915.
Concerning Rogers's design for The Complete Poems of Robert Frost for the Limited Editions Club.
Enclosing copies of two autograph poems, beginning "There was never naught" and "Behind his back as he went off to work."
Enclosing printed poems, "Portion" by Leslie Jennings and "I Stood at Twilight" by Bernice Van Slyke, with autograph comments on each.
Writing about her family.
Concerning a dinner engagement.
Informing her of Charles Chandler's return home, strikes in England, shortages in the country, and life in Ledburyduring the war.
Agreeing to autograph anything she wants.
Writing of his activities at St. Felix School and the return of the school to the east coast of England.
Frost thanks Gardner for his magazine "Reign" that had he sent which included some of his drawings and poems. She describes the Christmas season around her home, her desire for skis, and the beautiful landscape filled with snow laden firs. Of note is Frost's description of a buck and doe sighting on one of her walks that was likely the inspiration for Robert Frost's poem "Two Look at Two" according to Lesley Lee Francis in her article "Robert Frost: Franconia Christmas 1915."
Mentioning industrial unrest, a future lecture tour in the United States by her husband, and the reconstruction part of the peace program.
Concerning the mountains and area she was visiting.
With family news, noting that she was taking first aid as part of the English war effort.
Describing a trip to her childhood home and stories about her life, a visit from Mr. [Edward] Thomas and the Abercrombies.
Concerning Clifton Downs, Bristol.
Showing a picture of her childhood home, "On the Downs, Bristol"
Describing the various chores performed by women in the English war effort.
Describing the qualifications for nurses in England, approval of the new English government, a visit by Catherine Abercrombie and Edward Thomas, letters censored by the postmaster, and the publication of Eleanor Farjeon's book.
Discussing Catherine Abercrombie's health and visit, Lascelles Abercrombie's unfinished plays, news of Merfyn Thomasentering the army, and Edward Thomas' second book of poems.
Inquiring if Robert Frost ever received any of her husband Jack's letters, and if the Frosts planned to visit England again.
Acknowledging her letter.
Thanking her for her letter in which she asked him to be the captain on a ship the children wanted to build.
Referring to the Frost children's sea trip from Scotland.
Writing of her family, her illness, and her Christmas plans.
Asking her to visit and telling her about a school play.
Writing about a play and a possible visit by Lesley.
Concerning her visit to Meredith, New Hampshire, and other activities.
Describing the journey of the Frost family to England, and their cottage at Beaconsfield.
Asking her not to tell anyone that she wanted to know the name of Mr. [Robert] Frost's book.
Describing a party.
Describing two rainbows.
Mentioning Christmas presents and the work of her parents.
Mentioning the mutiny of demobilized British soldiers, annoyance regarding Woodrow Wilson, labor disturbances, and the lack of good plays.
Congratulating her on the opening of her new book shop, and mentioning her own work at the League of Nations Unionand the Liberal Party.
Describing her Christmas presents.
Thanking him for his kind letter and expressing his enjoyment of North of Boston.
Concerning family news.
Telling her good-bye and enclosing a letter from "Anne" and seven "notes" to be opened daily while on passage home to the United States.
Describing her school and holiday plans.
Describing her visit to a circus, including an autograph poem "The Flint Arrow-head," and enclosing a photograph of her father, [James Cruickshank] Smith, and two poems.
Thanking them for sending the magazine ["The Bouquet"].
Thanking her for her picture of the "Gallows" and offering her the use of an enclosed poem (carbon) "October" in her next magazine.
Writing of camp in London, [ Ontario, Canada] and possibly receiving a communion in a Welsh regiment, and discussing his family's life at Steep, [ Petersfield, Hants, Nova Scotia, Canada].
Mentioning family news, especially of a visit by Edward Thomas, the Irish rebellion, and World War I; and, enclosing two photographs of herself, Merfyn, Bronwen, and Myfanwy Thomas.
Concerning several items he is sending for the magazine, ["The Bouquet"], and a bike trip with his father.
Apologizing for keeping the magazine too long and sending a story for the July issue.
Informing Bernheimer that Robert Frost is recovering from a minor operation and will send him a signed copy of ["Twilight"?] insured by express on Monday.
While still in the hospital, Frost expresses concern over the best way to send him a copy of ["Twilight"?] and asks if he would like to come get it at Casa Marina Key West.
Discusses school at Southwold and his family. Mentions war-related matters, including Phyllis doing engineering drawing on motor paper as a form of war work, having a petrol permit for six gallons per month, and sending the Rein war Numer.
Mentions going to Scotland.
Questions the distinction between being a major or minor force in poetry and relating that "America is waiting for a poet to indicate to her her true ambitions..." and asks if that poet is him. She mentions the [Walt] Whitman that he read and Ezra Pound. (From the original in Dartmouth College Library).
Concerns some of his drawings, her friend Mrs. Mair, and the English review of A Boy's Will . (From the original in the Dartmouth College Library).
Apologizes for the possibility of offending him at the club and relating personal news. (From the original in the Dartmouth College Library).
Suggests that she and Mrs. Muir take care of their little ones so that the Frosts can have a little honeymoon. (From the original in the Dartmouth College Library).
Mentions paper dolls, tether ball, playmates, and school.
Inquires about the paper ("The Bouquet") that she had mentioned.
Mentions photographs taken at Kingsbarns.
Mentions Edinburgh and Arthur Seat and soldiers being there.
Mentions news of the war and chickenpox in the family, and discusses at length their musical festival for Whitsunday.
Refers to peoples' opinions on the war, giving news of the Smiths, inquiring of her Literary Society and whether she writes poetry. She relates the war work of her mother at the Ministry of Food as private secretary to Lord Will[iam Henry] Beveridge.
Mentions the Smiths' return to Edinburgh and her mother being made an officer of the British Empire, and encloses a typed copy of a poem beginning "I planned for a roadside arbor..."
Describes some of the activities celebrating Armistice Day in London; mentions her family's war efforts; her cousing Lord Will[iam Henry] Beveridge and the economic problems in Vienna, Austria, President Woodrow Wilson making a visit to London, and peoples' opinions on King George and on President Wilson.
Comments on Lesley's trip to Edinburgh where she saw regiments of soldiers and met a great granddaughter of Flora MacDonald.'
Writes that she is preparing for school examinations and commenting on the story "The Valley of Mist" and William Butler Yeats' The Land of Heart's Desire .
Mentions her activities including playing in a concert in St. Andrews Hall and taking photographs; accepts her offer to join her magazine ( The Bouquet ); discusses the activities at their school's summer picnic; and, encloses two of her poems, "The Passing of Elaine" and "Ode to Late October."
Mentions the Frosts' trip to Edinburgh and encloses her poem, "October Weather."
Comments favorably on The Bouquet and inquires whether she invents "The Usual Story Reversed."
Relates a humorous story about their little Anne and attending church by herself.
Comments on the Scotch language and not being able to write of the war.
Written for Lesley Frost's The Bouquet .
Writes that he has heard from Bronwen [Thomas] and inquires about a good book on baseball.
Describes his project of making a model sawmill with his school partner, Heman Chase, and getting used to living in East Alstead, New Hampshire.
Sends a cypher for The Bouquet and comments that his friend, Heman Chase, probably will not contribute to the magazine.
Encloses the first installment as his share of the profits on the sale of The Annual of New Poetry and comments on the book; relates news of Wilfred W. Gibson and family.
Re his teaching of poetry.
Expressing gratitude that he wishes him [Frost] to be included in the next anthology.
Enclosing Robert Frost's letter of August 11th. Commenting at length on "Frost's heart and friendly cooperations" concerning the anthology.
Concerning writing out a poem for Miss [Margaret] Carpenter.
Written on first page of five-page printed poem, "Kitty Hawk," with cover sheet inscribed with title by Frost. Commenting on dedicating poems to those he knows intimately, and promising to copy out one of his poems for the [anthology] display.
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Presenting a copy of his doctoral dissertation on Robert Frost and an article derived from it.
Sending her a copy of his Robert Frost article based on his dissertation, TMs, "Robert Frost's Sense of Place and Religious Consciousness."
Inviting her to ceremonies including presentation of the seventh Robert Frost Contemporary American Award to Dr. J. Duane Squires.
Re attending the ceremonies honoring J. Duane Squires.
Inviting them to a program of Robert Frost readings and his being awarded the MacDowell Medal.
Asking permission to quote from material held by the Frost estate for her thesis, and enclosing a copy of an essay about Robert Frost; and asking for a recommendation for a fellowship/scholarship.
Asking him to forward Robert Frost keepsakes to members of the Frost family .
Sending her a copy of the minutes adopted by the faculty in memory of Robert Frost, with two enclosures.
Thanking her for attending a dinner in honor of Robert Frost.
Concerning Mrs. Ballantine's preface to Crane's book, Robert Frost: A Descriptive Catalogue of Books and Manuscripts in the Clifton Waller Barrett Library, University of Virginia.
Thanking her for Going on Two, and a photograph of the Ann Arbor Frost house.
Expressing her admiration for the bibliography of Robert Frost.
Regarding the preservation of the Frost house at Franconia.
A list of honorary degrees by date is included: Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts (1962-1963); Bates College, Lewiston, Maine (1962); Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts (1963); Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine (1962); California, University of, Berkeley, California (1962); Cambridge University, Cambridge, England (1963); Cincinnati, University of, Cincinnati, Ohio (1963); Colby College, Waterville, Maine (1963); Colgate University, Hamilton, New York (1962); Colorado, University of, Boulder, Colorado (1962); Columbia University, New York, New York (1962); Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire (1962- 1963); Dublin University, Dublin, Ireland (1963); Duke University, Durham, North Carolina (1962-1963); Durham, University of, Durham, England (1962); Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (1962); Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel (1963); Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio (1963); Marlboro College, Marlboro, Vermont (1962); Massachusetts, University of, Amherst, Massachusetts (1962); Miami University, Oxford, Ohio (1963); Miami, University of, Coral Gables, Florida (1963); Michigan, University of, Ann Arbor, Michigan (1963); Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont (1962-1963); New Hampshire, University of, Durham, New Hampshire (1962); New York University, New York, New York (1963); North Carolina, University of, Chapel Hill, North Carolina (1963); Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio (1963); Oxford University, Oxford, England (1963); Pennsylvania, University of, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1962); Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey (1962); St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York (1962); Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York (1963); Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts (1963); Vermont, University of, Burlington, Vermont (1962); Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut (1962); Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts (1962); Wooster College, Wooster, Ohio (1963); Wyoming, University of, Laramie, Wyoming (1963); Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (1962).
Concerning his description of "the little Frost notebook," which he enclosed on a separate typed leaf, and thanking her for the opportunity of examining it.
Concerning proofs of "The Meeting of Mounted Men. "6261-bi
Obverse: Head of Robert Frost with legend "1874 Robert Lee Frost 1962." Reverse: "California Friends of Robert Frost/Born/San Francisco/March 26, 1874/Newspaper Boy/Bobbin Boy/Teacher/Journalist/Farmer/Poet/Died, Boston, Mass./January. 29, 1963"
Caption: Robert Frost about 1915. From Robert Frost and John Bartlett: The Record of a Friendship by Margaret B. Anderson, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc.