Representative Purchases for Archives &
Special Collections Made with Friends' Funds
Bell's Poets of Great Britain, boxed as a traveling library for John Pierce Brace, grandfather of Gerald Warner Brace 1922. In two boxes, each designed to look like a stack of folio volumes.
Blake, William. Various facsimiles of his unique works. (Partially from Friends' funds)
Bogan, Louise. Collection of letters to Ben Belitt, with a heavily-corrected typescript of Bogan's essay "What the women said," delivered at Belitt's invitation at Bennington College.
Dickinson, Emily. A book by her friend Emily Fowler Ford that had been presented to her by the author.
Dickinson, Emily. Several variant bindings on early printings of her Poems.
Dunbar, Paul Laurence. Numerous works, including notably his first book, Oak and Ivy, 1893, and his second, Majors and Minors, 1895, as well as many musical settings of his poems.
Eliot, T. S. Collection of nine items, mostly first editions.
Eluard, Paul. Un soupçon. Designed by Iliazd; illustrations by Michel Guino, 1965.
Fitch, Clyde. Nathan Hale. Annotated typescript. (Stitt Fund)
Frost, Robert. Letters and mss. relating to the publication of The Cow's in the Corn.
Frost, Robert. Forest Flowers. A poem in The Pinkerton Annual, 1917. Separately printed by the Friends as a keepsake.
Frost, Robert. 78 rpm recordings of the poet reading his works.
Goodrich, Samuel Griswold. Numerous additions to the collection of his works.
Humphries, Rolfe. Europa and Other Poems and Sonnets. N.Y. 1928. Original typescript, marked up for the printer and accompanied by a mock-up of the book prepared by the designer Frederic Warde. Accompanied by several letters and other miscellaneous items.
O'Neill, Eugene. Collection of various works not already in the Stitt Collection. (Partially funded from Friends' funds, partially from the Stitt Fund)
Thomas, Dylan. Map of Love. Proof copy, previously unrecorded.
Thomson, James. Autograph letter. (Phi Psi Fund)
Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass. 1st ed., 1st issue. 1855. (Partially from Friends' funds, partially from a special appeal)
Willard, Emma. Substantial additions to the collection of her papers given earlier.
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