Frost, Robert, 1874-1963

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Includes holograph notes taken by Violet Chatfield during the 1964 dedication of the Robert Frost marker in Ripton, Vermont. Also includes typescript copy of the invocation and benediction given by Rabbi Victor Reichert during the ceremony, a ceremony program, a program from Robert Frost's memorial service with holograph notes on the back (presumably Chatfield's), and two newspaper clippings.

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1 interview with Douglas Stowe Beers, Middlebury College Professor of English. Beers discussed his undergrad and graduate experience at Yale; salary; President Moody; Breadloaf; his experience as head of the acting department; President Stratton; his experience of chairman of the division; staff relations; student social activites; comprehensive exams; chaperoning frat parties; class stories; other job offers; female vs. male students; and Robert Frost.

Scope and Contents 1 interview with John H. Clagett, Middlebury College Professor of English. Clagett discusses the Naval academy; Yale; creative writing; size of faculty; student faculty ratio; major requirements; salary for Professors; President Stratton; President Armstrong; Walter Brooker; Armstrong's favoritism; his fiction writing courses; how he started writing; his writing inspiration; low salary; why he retired; Howard Munford; faculty administration relations; tenure; student faculty relations;...

Scope and Contents Collection primarily contains correspondence and prints. Correspondence includes letter written by either J.J. or J.B. Lankes, usually to Corrine Davids. Collection also contains woodcut bookplates, Christmas cards, and mementos printed by Lankes. Note that some items in this series are also signed by Lankes. This series also contains cutouts from magazines and newspapers pertaining to Lankes, multiple various obituaries for J.J. Lankes, miscellaneous notes and letters by Lankes, and...

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Series contains typescript letters written by Cook to various authors and literary contacts, often with invitation for them to speak at the Bread Loaf School, as well as their replies. Notable contacts include E.E. Cummings, Robert Frost, William Carlos Williams, Saul Bellow, and Thornton Wilder.

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Contains correspondence between Ralph Flanders and various recipients, primarily regarding the recently-deceased Robert Frost. The letters discuss the Frost's memorial service and editorials about him appearing in the Rutland Herald (including one written by Vermont author Walter Hard). Also includes letters written by Flanders to Frost before prior to the poet's death.

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Includes holograph letters written by Robert Frost to various recipients including "Mr. Brown," Thomas Bird Mosher, David Nutt, Leila McNeil, "Miss Goodman," "Helen," Earl Bernheimer, and Helen Hartness Flanders. Also includes the Bread Loaf 25th Anniversary Tribute (1944) and correspondence between Isabella A. Cole and Robert Frost. All letters are dated between 1913 and 1949.

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Photographs taken and postcards sent by Ella Richey Wells during her time at the Bread Loaf School of English between 1937 and 1942. One of the photographs is of Robert Frost at a baseball game. Also includes postcards sent to Wells by BLSE professor Andrea Lunsford during the 1990s.

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The Abernethy manuscript miscellany collection is comprised of 19 boxes (18 regular and 1 oversize) organized alphabetically by author last name. This collection includes original manuscript and typescript letters and writings from American authors throughout the 19th and 21st centuries. Transcriptions of original manuscript letters are available for some items.

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The Abernethy manuscript miscellany collection is comprised of 19 boxes (18 regular and 1 oversize) organized alphabetically by author last name. This collection includes original manuscript and typescript letters and writings from American authors throughout the 19th and 21st centuries. Transcriptions of original manuscript letters are available for some items.

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This scrapbook, compiled by Gray Taylor, contains programs and photographs from plays and other performances at the Bread Loaf School of English between 1935 and 1940. Subjects of the photographs are identified in writing. The scrapbook includes two photographs from the 1939 performance of Robert Frost's poem "Snow."

The scrapbook also includes a collection of photographs of people and landscapes at the Bread Loaf School of English in 1935.

Scope and Contents 1 interview with Marion Holmes, Class of 1933. Holmes discussed gender segregation on campus; women lacking quality professors because they could only have female professors; sororities; her work as secretary to the registrar and to faculty; her salary; changes to college size; rising cost of tutition; positives about Middlebury College; Winter Carnival; Breadloaf; Forrest Hall; classes in the chapel; compulsory chapel; Hamlin Hall burned down by a student; Robert Frost; President Stratton;...

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Lawrance Thompson’s collection consists of three Hollinger boxes containing drafts of The Years of Triumph (1970). Included are drafts with corrections by Thompson and his designer P. J. Conkwright, as well as end notes with corrections by Thompson and his editor.

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Two holograph letters written by Paul Lemperly. The first, addressed to Francis [Wilson] and dated December 19, 1915, contains Lemperly's recommendation of Robert Frost's poetry. The second, addressed to [Le Roy] Phillips and dated November 18, 1930, concerns a book that the latter has given to the former.

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Includes four holograph letters from Robert Frost to Mrs. Halley Phillips Gilchrist, written between 1919 and 1921. In the letters, Frost mentions postponing a poetry reading because of his hay fever (1919), jokes about his "whereabouts" and mentions being made an honorary member of Phillips' poetry society (February 13, 1921), discusses the poetry society in New York (April 9, 1921), and writes about meeting the members of Phillips' poetry society (August 20, 1921).

Scope and Contents Six holograph signed letters written by Robert Frost to writer and literary critic William Stanley Braithwaite (1878-1962), dated between 1915 and 1920. The letters mention Frost's first two books and his "theories of art" (March 22, 1915), Frost's poems for Braithwaite's Anthology of magazine verse and Ezra Pound (August 24, 1915), Frost's promise to Braithwaite that he will write a "poem on Shakespeare" (March 21, 1916), granting permission to Braithwaite to publish poems in his...

Scope and Contents This collection primarily consists of typescript and holograph letters written to Louis Untermeyer between 1916 and 1977. Untermeyer frequently wrote to unknown or little-known poets when he appreciated their work. Correspondents include Stanley Burnshaw, Robert Grant Burns, Allen Ginsberg, John Tagliabue, Guy Daniels, Peter Viereck, Myron Wilder, and others. The letters typically pertain to the poetry of Untermeyer and his correspondents, and also include works that were mailed to...

Abstract This collection comprises letters written to Marguerite Wilkinson from contemporary American poets. The bulk of the correspondence was written in 1919, and primarily concerns Wilkinson’s poetry anthologies: Golden Songs of the Golden State (1917), New Voices (1919), Contemporary Poetry (1923) and The Way of the Makers (1925), with responses from authors to her requests for permission to use their poems. These responses frequently include suggestions of different poems or discussions of...

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This scrapbook comprises photographs and other ephemera from Wendling's tenure as a graduate student at the Bread Loaf School of English. Composed primarily of photographs, the scrapbook also includes printed poems, graduation cards, newspaper clippings, a menu, and a greeting card, handwritten on birch bark. The scrapbook includes several photographs of Robert Frost, taken by Wendling.

Scope and Contents 1 interview with Louise (Hubbard) McCoy, Middlebury College Class of 1936, by Tom Alderman. During the interview, McCoy discusses her Rochester home; Depression; the French major; the music minor; living in the Chateau; her career; performing arts; her Sorbonne fellowship; acquaintances; her undergraduate experience; Middlebury/MIT affiliation; student social life; academics; her status as first in her class at Middlebury; family; post-graduate Middlebury relationships; Robert Frost; meeting...

Scope and Contents Includes three holograph drafts written by Robert Frost: Preface to the English edition of The Masque of Reason. Holograph signed, with five lines of text on verso of first and secon leaves. At head: "first draft of a preface." At end: "English edition. For Corinne Daveds' Wales Hawkins collection in The Abernethy Library." Dated September 20, 1952. ' "Telescopic." Holograph signed copy of poem. Early draft, two lines longer than published...

Scope and Contents 1 interview with Howard McCoy Munford, Class of 1934. Munford discusses Reginald Cook; department of American literature; resigning in protest; President Armstrong; studying as an undergraduate; Harvard; President Moody; Middlebury's reputation; restrictions on women; fraternities; social life; fraternities exclusion; gender segregation; women's separate college; qualitifications of the women; number of student applicants; comparing grades of men and women; women professors; Eleanor Ross;...

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1 interview with Howard (Class of 1934) and Marion (Class of 1932) Munford by Professor Robert Hill. During the interview, the Munfords discuss meeting Robert Frost at Bread Loaf.

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1 interview with Howard (Class of 1934) and Marion (Class of 1932) Munford by Professor Robert Hill. During the interview, the Munfords discuss meeting Robert Frost at Bread Loaf.

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1 interview with Howard (Class of 1934) and Marion (Class of 1932) Munford by Professor Robert Hill. During the interview, the Munfords discuss meeting Robert Frost at Bread Loaf.

Scope and Contents From the mid-1920s until Frost's death in 1963, Reginald L. Cook, Middlebury College graduate, professor, head of the American Literature department, and long-time director of the Bread Loaf School of English, kept detailed notes of all meetings with Robert Frost. The resulting journals include records of private conversations, intimate information about Frost, and transcriptions of Frost's formal lectures. The diary entries are presented with accuracy rather than style, by the author's own...

Scope and Contents Collection contains the handwritten journals (1943-1955) of Reginald L. Cook, notes from his early years teaching at Middlebury, unpublished typescript drafts of various novels and other writings, newspaper clippings, typescript draft of 1951 "Frost Book," typescript draft of Henry Thoreau: A Problem in Tactic, Frost research materials, Frost lectures and talks on cassette and reel-to-reel tapes, various literary publications, books belonging to Cook, as well...

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Typescript draft of Robert Frost and the Constant Symbol by Philip Booth. Includes holograph corrections and notes.

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Includes one archived website for Robert Frost at Bread Loaf: An Online Exhibit Presented by Special Collections at Middlebury College.

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Audio recordings of poetry readings and lectures by Robert Frost, primarily at the Bread Loaf School of English.