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Robert Frost Exhibit Labels- 5 -A Boy's Will First edition, fourth issue. A Boy’s Will First edition, first issue. WOOD ENGRAVING "Mower" - 6 -North of Boston First edition, sixth issue To Emma May Laney Selected Poems Inscribed on fly leaf: and later inscribed: - 8 -West-running Brook Were that star shining there by name As vast as men of science claim All I could say would be the star Would surely have to be as far As men of science also claim To shine with such a tiny flame Prove A by B then B by A Things prove each other in a way- Robert Frost For Emma May Laney One thousand copies of West-running Brook have been specially printed and bound, and have been signed by the Author. Of these nine hundred and eighty copies are for sale. This copy (Number 872) is Marjorie’s Robert Frost [Marjorie was the poet’s daughter.] WOOD ENGRAVING "The Brook" "West-Running Brook" "A WINTER EDEN" Five stanzas of the poem appearing in West-running Brook, written in ink, on one sheet of notebook paper. - 9 -A WITNESS TREE First Printing Presentation inscription on fly leaf: WOOD ENGRAVING "The Witness Tree" PERIL OF HOPE A manuscript copy of 16 lines, written in ink, given by the poet for the Agnes Scott collection in January, 1961. In the published version in In the Clearing the poem has been reduced to 12 lines, and there are some changes in wording. - 12 -Steeple Bush Trade edition, with dust wrapper. Presentation inscription (1948) A Way Out. A One Act Play The first separate limited edition, published May 29, 1929. Presentation inscription on fly leaf: - 14 -PENCIL AND WATERCOLOR Drawing of Webster’s Corners September 2, 1931. Inscribed: New Hampshire. "This first separate edition of Robert Frost's poem New Hampshire is limited to 750 numbered copies" signed by the author Robert Frost. Copy number: 197 Inscribed on title page: - 15 -Christmas Cards One of the most interesting and valuable parts of any Frostiana collection is the series of Christmas cards which the poet and his friends sent over the years. Most of those in our collection were the gift of Mr. Frost himself. In 1929 four friends of Mr. Frost used as a Christmas greeting the poem "Christmas Trees" which had been previously published in 1916 in the poet’s book entitled Mountain Interval. In 1934 the poem "Two Tramps in Mud-Time" was used as a greeting card by Mr. and Mrs. Frost and five friends. This poem was included in the collection entitled A Further Range, published in 1936. The card for 1935 bearing the poem "Neither Out Far Nor In Deep," also published in A Further Range, was sent by the Frosts and seven friends. Cards containing Frost’s poems were published each year from 1934 until 1962 with the exception of 1936 and 1943 when no cards were issued. The poems used for these greeting cards were hitherto unpublished poems with the exception of the one for 1961, "The Wood Pile" which was included in the poet’s second published book, North of Boston. In the Agnes Scott collection will be found cards for each year, with complete sets of cards for the years 1941, 1944, 1945 and every year from 1947 through 1962 with the exception of 1953, for which one card is lacking. A set consists of one card from Mr. Frost and one card from each of the friends and relatives who used the card for that particular year. In every case the poem is exactly the same, the only difference being in the printed name of each person who used the card as his or her greeting. The number of friends and relatives using the Frost card as a Christmas greeting steadily increased until in 1961 the card was used by the poet and twenty friends. Adapted from Robert Frost at Agnes Scott College, by Edna Hanley Byers, 1963 "KITTY HAWK" Robert Frost considered “Kitty Hawk” to be the most important and most deeply philosophical poem he wrote during his later years. Working on it with great care, he subjected it to many revisions and expansions. The first appearance was in booklet form as the poet’s Christmas greeting for 1956. This version contains 128 lines. The fifth and final version, 471 lines, appeared in In the Clearing [1961]. - 17 -PHOTOGRAPH (103/8” by 133/8”) by C. R. Pugh, Jr., at Agnes Scott College, January, 1956. Inscribed: FOR COLUMBUS DAY A manuscript of 84 lines, on four sheets, written in ink. This poem was published in The Atlantic Monthly of June, 1951, with the title "And All We Call American," and in In the Clearing the title was changed to read "America Is Hard to See." There is a little variation in the wording of the poem in the different printings. - 18 -GOLD FOR CHRISTMAS Collection contains six manuscript pages representing various early drafts of this poem. The poet intended to publish it in In the Clearing as a character sketch, in the form of a dramatic monologue. But he was not satisfied with it, at the time he sent his manuscript to the publisher, as so "Gold for Christmas" was held out. This first sheet, sixteen lines, is entitled "Gold for Christmas."
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