Series 1: Manuscripts

Correspondence, Christmas cards, original poetry and miscellaneous published works.

Box 1 Folder 1: Frederick G. Schmidt Biographical Information
Box 1 Folder 2: The New Hampshire Troubadour, Robert Frost Issue (2 copies), 1946
Box 1 Folder 3: Old Landmarks of our Neighborhood, How to find them: Lisbon, Sugar Hill, Franconia, Landaff, Lyman, 1938
Box 1 Folder 4: Holiday Card, “Triple Plate,” 1939, Note: From Ann and Joseph Blumenthal
Box 1 Folder 5: Holiday Card, “Our Hold on the Planet,” 1940, Note: From Marguerite and Fred Melcher
Box 1 Folder 6: Holiday Card, “An Unstamped Letter in our Rural Letter Box,” 1944, Note: From Marguerite and Fred Melcher
Box 1 Folder 7: Holiday Card, “On Making Certain Anything Has Happened,” 1945, Note: Two copies. From Henry Holt and Company and from Ann and Joseph Blumenthal
Box 1 Folder 8: Holiday Card, “A Young Birch,” 1946, Note: Includes set of ten sent by Frost to Schmidt. In original packaging addressed by Frost.
Box 1 Folder 9: Holiday Card, “Closed for Good,” 1948, Note: Includes set of seven and two copies sent by Frost to Schmidt.
Box 1 Folder 10: Holiday Card, “From a Milkweed Pod,” 1954, Note: From Ann and Joseph Blumenthal.
Box 1 Folder 11: Holiday Card, “Some Science Fiction,” 1955, Note: From Ann and Joseph Blumenthal.
Box 1 Folder 12: Holiday Card, “My Objection to Being Stepped On,” 1957, Note: From Ann and Joseph Blumenthal.
Box 1 Folder 13: Holiday Card, “Away!,” 1958, Note: From Ann and Joseph Blumenthal.
Box 1 Folder 14: Holiday Card, “A-Wishing Well,” 1959, Note: Two copies; one from Ann and Joseph Blumenthal and a second from Robert Frost.
Box 1 Folder 15: Holiday Card, “The Wood-Pile,” 1961, Note: From Ann and Joseph Blumenthal.
Box 1 Folder 16: Holiday Card, “The Prophets Really Prophesy as Mystics The Commentators Merely by Statistics,” 1962, Note: From Ann and Joseph Blumenthal.
Box 1 Folder 17: “Robert Frost and the Spiral Press,” 1963, Note: “With Greetings and Holiday Good Wishes, 1963-1964, from Ann and Joseph Blumenthal.
Box 1 Folder 18: “Season’s Greetings for the year 1943 from Earle J. Bernheimer,” 1943, Note: Reproduction from an original manuscript of an unpublished Robert Frost play. Number 79 of 96.
Box 1 Folder 19: “Season’s Greetings for the year 1944 from Earle J. Bernheimer,” 1944, Note: Reproduction of the Robert Frost manuscript, “Two Heading Lights.”
Box 1 Folder 20: “Several Short Poems,” 1924, Note: Autographed by Robert Frost. Inscribed. Includes “The Pasture,” “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” “The Oven Bird,” and “An Old Man’s Winter Night.”
Box 1 Folder 21: Calendar, “Dartmouth in Portrait,” 1944, Note: Autographed by Robert Frost. Includes Frost poem, “In the Long Night”
Box 1 Folder 22: Exhibition Catalogue, “Fifty Years of Robert Frost,” Edited by Ray Nash, Baker Library, Dartmouth, 1944, 1944, Note: Two copies. One copy signed by Robert Frost.
Box 2 Folder 1: “What Became of New England,” by Robert Frost, Commencement Address, Oberlin College, June 8, 1937, 1937, Note: Inscribed, “for Richard E. Morse.”
Box 2 Folder 2: “Education by Poetry: A Meditative Monologue,” by Robert Frost, Amherst Alumni Council News, Supplement to Vol. IV, No. 4, March 1931, 1931, Note: Autographed by Robert Frost.
Box 2 Folder 3: “The Place of the Artist in Society,” by President John F. Kennedy. Spoken at the Dedication of the Robert Frost Library, Amherst College, Mass., 1965, Note: “Greetings and Holiday Good Will 1964-1965 from Ann and Joseph Blumenthal”
Box 2 Folder 4: “Robert Frost Speaks Departmentally,” The Robert Frost Library Dedication, October 24, 1965, Amherst, Mass., 1965, Note: Includes facsimile of “Departmental” by Robert Frost
Box 2 Folder 5: “A Prospectus for the first separate edition of a poem by Robert Frost and the initial publication of a new private press,” Hanover, New Hampshire, The New Dresden Press, 1955, 1955, Note: Includes, “New Hampshire,” by Robert Frost
Box 2 Folder 6: “Robert Frost Returns: Poet Welcomed Back to Dartmouth as Ticknor Fellow,” by Charles G. Bolte, Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, November 1943, 1943, Note: Includes two photocopies.
Box 2 Folder 7: “The Four Beliefs,” by Robert Frost, 1931, Note: Autographed by Robert Frost. Inscribed.
Box 2 Folder 8: The Book Collector’s Packet: A Miscellany of Fine Books, Bibliography, Typography and Kindred Literary Matters,” Edited by Lloyd Emerson Siberell, Vol. 4, No. 5, January 1946, 1946, Note: Included the article, “Robert Frost and His Printers” by Ray Nash. Autographed by Robert Frost.
Box 2 Folder 9: “Biblia,” Vol. IX, No. 1, February 1938, 1938, Note: Includes publication of two lectures given by Robert Frost, “Poverty and Poetry,” October 25, 1937 and “The Poet’s Next of Kin in a College,” October 26, 1937.
Box 2 Folder 10: “Library Notes,” Duke University Library, No. 14, April 1945, 1945, Note: Includes information and correspondence about Frost’s visit to Duke University in March 1945.
Box 2 Folder 11: “Poems for Robert Frost,” The Beloit Poetry Journal, Chapbook Number 5, 1957, 1957
Box 2 Folder 12: “The Atlantic,” June 1951, 1951, Note: Includes, “And All We Call American,” and “Poetry and School,” by Robert Frost. Also includes, “Robert Frost’s America,” by Mark Van Doren
Box 2 Folder 13: “The Middlebury College News Letter,” Vol. XIV, No. 1, September 1939, 1939, Note: Includes “Robert Frost: Godfather of Bread Loaf,” by W. Storrs Lee. Included is a separate printed addition of the article.
Box 2 Folder 14: “National Institute News Bulletin,” Vol. V, 1939, 1939, Note: Information regarding the Gold Medal of the National Institute of Arts and Letters for Poetry awarded to Robert Frost.
Box 2 Folder 15: “American Prefaces,” Vol. 4, No. 7, April, 1939, 1939, Note: Includes publication of Frost’s poem, “Trespass.” Autographed by Robert Frost. Inscribed.
Box 2 Folder 16: “American Prefaces,” Vol. 5, No. 9, June, 1940, 1940, Note: Includes publication of Frost’s poem, “Trespass.” Autographed by Robert Frost. Inscribed.
Box 2 Folder 17: “Saturday Review,” April 12, 1958, 1958, Note: Includes the article, “Robert Frost” The Way to the Poem,” by John Ciardi, and the Frost poem, “Of a Winter Evening.”
Box 2 Folder 18: “Time,” Vol. LVI, No. 15, October 9, 1950, 1950, Note: Includes an article and several poems written by Robert Frost.
Box 2 Folder 19: “Woodcuts U.S.A.” by Helen West Heller, 1947, Note: Includes lines from, “After Apple-Picking,” and “The Scholar Gipsy.” Autographed by Robert Frost. Inscribed.
Box 2 Folder 20: “The American Mercury,” Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1924, 1924, Note: Includes advertisement of Frost’s book, “New Hampshire.”
Box 2 Folder 21: Catalogue, “The Earle J. Bernheimer Collection of First Editions of American Authors,” 1950, 1950
Box 2 Folder 22: Leaflet, “Robert Frost,” by George Matthew Adams, 1946, Note: 2 copies, one is autographed by George Matthew Adams. Includes pamphlet, “The George Matthew Adams Vachel Lindsay Collection.”
Box 2 Folder 23: Musical scores featuring text by Robert Frost
Box 2 Folder 24: “Harper’s Magazine,” July 1920, 1920, Note: Includes Robert Frost’s poems, “Fragmentary Blue,” “Place for a Third,” Good-By and Keep Cold,” and “For Once, Then, Something.”
Box 3 Folder 1: “The Poetry Quartos,” May 1929, 1929, Note: Includes, “The Lonely Shall by Choosers,” by Robert Frost.
Box 3 Folder 2: “Poetry: A Magazine of Verse,” Vol. II, No. 2, 1913, Note: Includes a review of “A Boy’s Will.” Pages uncut.
Box 3 Folder 3: “Poetry: A Magazine of Verse,” Vol. V, No. III , 1914, Note: Includes a review of “North of Boston.” Pages uncut.
Box 3 Folder 4: Holiday Card, “To a Young Wretch,” 1937, Note: Includes envelope addressed in Frost’s hand. From Elinor and Robert Frost.
Box 3 Folder 5: Holiday Card, “Neither Far Out Nor In Deep,” 1935, Note: From Elinor and Robert Frost. Autographed. Inscribed.
Box 3 Folder 6: “The Old Farmer’s Almanac,” 1942, Note: Features the poetry of Robert Frost, selected by Frost, on the calendar pages.
Box 3 Folder 7: “The Old Farmer’s Almanac,” 1956
Box 3 Folder 8: “Orris C. Manning Memorial,” 1946, Note: Broadside featuring the first half of Frost, “The Courage to Be New,” printed on the front and the second half written in Frost’s hand on the reverse. Autographed. Inscribed.
Box 3 Folder 9: Holiday Card, “Two Tramps in Mud Time,” 1934, Note: Autographed. Inscribed.
Box 3 Folder 10: Manuscript, “Willful Homing,” c. 1938, Note: This poem first appeared in “The Saturday Review of Literature,” in February 1938 and was later published in Frost’s seventh volume of poetry, “A Witness Tree,” in 1942.
Box 3 Folder 11: Manuscript, “Never Again Would Birds Song be the Same,” ca. 1942, Note: This poem first appeared in Frost’s seventh volume of poetry, “A Witness Tree,” in 1942.
Box 3 Folder 12: Manuscript, “A Loose Mountain,” “Telescopic,” ca. 1942, Note: This poem first appeared in Frost’s seventh volume of poetry, “A Witness Tree,” in 1942.
Box 3 Folder 13: Manuscript, “Trespass,” ca. 1939, Note: This poem first appeared in “American Prefaces,” in April 1939 (See Box 2, Folder 15,” and later appeared in Frost’s seventh volume of poetry, “A Witness Tree,” in 1942.
Box 3 Folder 14: Manuscript, “It is Almost the Year Two Thousand,” ca. 1942, Note: This poem first appeared in Frost’s seventh volume of poetry, “A Witness Tree,” in 1942.
Box 3 Folder 15: Manuscript, “Dust of Snow” (untitled), May 17, 1925, Note: This poem first appeared in the “London Mercury,” December 1920 as “A Favour,” and next appeared in the “Yale Review,” as “Snow Dust,” in January 1921. In its current version the poem was published in “New Hampshire,” in 1923. This manuscript copy was written by Frost after publication.
Box 3 Folder 16: Manuscript, “What Fifty Said” (untitled), ca. 1930, Note: Inscribed for Elizabeth V. F. Vorselles(?). The Poem was added to “West-Running Brook,” (1928) in Frost’s 1930 volume, “Collected Poems.”
Box 3 Folder 17: Photocopied Manuscript, “It Bids Pretty Fair,” Photocopy undated. Poem ca. 1947, Note: This poem first appeared in Frost’s volume, “Steeple Bush,” in 1947.
Box 3 Folder 18: Correspondence, Letter to Mr. Smith (unidentified) from Robert Frost, Amherst, Mass., July 1, 1936, 1936, Note: Possibly regarding a request for poetry.
Box 3 Folder 19: Correspondence, Letter to Mr. Groff(?) Conklin
Box 4 Folder 1: “A Witness Tree,” 1942, Note: Braille version.
Box 4 Folder 2: “The New York Times Book Review,” May 29, 1949, 1949, Note: Includes the article, “Enduring Wisdom from a Poet-Sage: Robert Frost’s Lucid Verse Transcends The Regionalism for Which He Is Noted,” by David Daiches.
Box 4 Folder 3: “The New York Times Book Review,” March 21, 1954, 1954, Note: Includes the article, “A Poet, Too, Must Learn the Magic Way of Poetry” by Robert Frost.
Box 4 Folder 4: “The New York Times Book Review,” June 19, 1960, 1960, Note: Includes the article, “A Complex, Simple Man as Yankee as the Flag,” by Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant.
Box 4 Folder 5: “The New York Times Magazine,” March 26, 1950, 1950, Note: Includes the article, “Close-up of an American Poet at 75: Robert Frost’s agile mind is a treasure-house of this country’s thought, incidents and ideas,” by John Holmes.
Box 4 Folder 6: “Milwaukee Journal,” January 9, 1961, 1961, Note: Includes the article “When Frost Forgot Poetry: America’s Foremost Poet Concentrated on His Team and Plow, and Suddenly the Ideas Locked Inside Him Were Released,” by Frances Stover.
Box 4 Folder 7: Newspaper clippings
Unboxed: Record Album, “Robert Frost reads his poetry,” 1957