[Collection of birthday broadsides] 1994-1999.

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[Collection of birthday broadsides] 1994-1999.

The broadsides, each with a poem by David McCord, were published by Boston Public Library in honor of the poet's birthday from 1994-1996, and in his memory on the anniversary of his birth, with two broadside poems in 1997, his hundreth anniversary. Poems were selected from his collected verse for children, "One at a time" (Boston : Little, Brown, 1980) and printed by Sun Hill Press.

7 broadsides : ill. ; 25-33 cm.

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Boston Public Library

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McCord, David Thompson Watson, 1897-1997

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David Thompson Watson McCord (1897-1997), noted poet and essayist, was graduated from Harvard College in 1921. He earned a masters degree in 1922, and in 1956 he was awarded Harvard's first honorary doctorate of humane letters. Well-known for his literary and humorous approach to fundraising, McCord served as Executive Director of the Harvard Fund from 1925 until his retirement in 1962 and was editor of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin from 1940 to 1946. From the description of Papers of ...