Miscellaneous manuscript ephemera from the Robert Frost Collection, Clifton Waller Barrett Library, 1938-1963.

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Miscellaneous manuscript ephemera from the Robert Frost Collection, Clifton Waller Barrett Library, 1938-1963.

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The collection contains an announcement of the funeral service for Elinor Frost, 1938; wedding announcements for William Prescott Frost, 1947, and Lesley Frost Ballantine, 1952; a telegram from Kathleen Morrison regarding Frost's arrival in Chicago, 1953; an unsigned carbon typescript of Frost's statement in United States vs. Ezra Pound, 1958; and a photo post card of Frost's cabin in Ripton, Vt., inscribed to Cornelia and Waller Barrett, 1963. Also one of five proofs of "Meeting of Mounted Men" by Ray Nash describing the collaboration between Frost and J.J. Lankes, inscribed by Frost to Earl Bernheimer, together with a letter from Nash to Bernheimer, 1944. Also the typescript of a speech given by C. Waller Barrett quoting Robert Frost's defininition of poetry given at the 53rd annual dinner of the Poetry Society of America January 17, 1963, on the occasion of the formation of the Patrons and Sponsors of the Poetry Society of America. Also a copy of the Russell Alberts/Robert Frost bookplate privately printed (no 3 of 5), 1945; the text for the C.B.S. radio talk show "Invitation to learning," 1946 August 18, featuring John Hall Wheelock, Donald Stauffer and Theodore Spencer discussing Frost's poetry, inscribed by Frost to Alberrts; and the initialled text for Frost's introduction to a broadcast of his poems, March 27, n.y.

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