Scrapbook, 1943-1966.

ArchivalResource

Scrapbook, 1943-1966.

Scrapbook with autographs; manuscript (holograph) poems by Carl Sandburg, Robert Frost, and others; photographs of Robert Frost; clippings; and invitations, most of which relate to events held by the Friends of Duke University Library. Most items in the scrapbook refer to The Trent Collection and its Walt Whitman materials. Autographs include those of Sculley Bradley, Robert Peter Tristram Coffin, and Clare Leighton.

1 v.

Related Entities

There are 7 Entities related to this resource.

Friends of Duke University Library.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6rw1f0c (person)

The Friends of the Duke University Library promote understanding and gather financial support of the work of the Duke University Libraries. The Friends host serveral events to highlight the scholarship, community, and fellowship within the Duke University Library system. The Engaging Faculty Series of four lectures each academic year features interdisciplinary conversations with Duke faculty scholars. Friends' Dinner and Annual Meeting, held each spring, has included Duke parents an...

Coffin, Robert P. Tristram (Robert Peter Tristram), 1892-1955

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6pg20ff (person)

Robert Peter Tristram Coffin grew up in Maine and attended Bowdoin College, Princeton University, and Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He taught at Wells College in Aurora, New York, and was Pierce Professor of English at Bowdoin College from 1935 until his death. Winner of the 1936 Pulitzer prize in poetry, Coffin authored more than forty books of prose and verse. He was a founder and a faculty member of the Towle Writers' Conference at the University of New Hampshire. ...

Bradley, Sculley, 1897-....

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w69p32dv (person)

Trent Collection

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64v1tnh (corporateBody)

Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6474bfz (person)

Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) was an American author, editor and poet. He won three Pulitzer prizes, two for his poetry and the third for his biography of Abraham Lincoln. From the guide to the Carl Sandburg Collection, 1924-1954, (Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries) American poet, novelist and historian, Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) won two Pulitzer Prizes, one for Abraham Lincoln: the War Years and the other for The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg ...

Leighton, Clare, 1898-1989

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63j3g3j (person)

Engraver and writer; born in London, England. Came to the United States in 1939 and became an American citizen in 1945. In addition to membership in the Royal Society of Painters, Etchers and Engravers, London, she was awarded an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts by Colby College, Maine. From the description of Clare Leighton papers, 1931-1967. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 86132872 English painter and etcher. From the description of Correspondence to Maxwell Struthe...

Frost, Robert, 1874-1963

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6fk35s7 (person)

American poet from New England. Winner of the 1932 Pulitzer Prize. From the description of Letters, 1931-1943. (University of Iowa Libraries). WorldCat record id: 122464432 American Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. From the description of Letter to Mr. Beggen [?], 1928. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 86129842 Robert Frost was an American poet. From the description of Papers concerning the Kenned...