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Princeton University Library Collection of Robert Frost Materials
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Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]
This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.
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Robert Frost was a widely-recognized 20th-century American poets who wrote primarily wrote about the character, people, and landscape of New England. Frost taught and lectured at several universities, including Amherst, Harvard, and the University of Michigan. Among Frost's volumes of poetry are New Hampshire (1923), West-Running Brook (1928), Collected Poems (1930), A Further Range (1936), and A Witness Tree (1942). Frost won the Pulitzer Prize four times, and, in 1961, at the inauguration of John F. Kennedy, he became the first poet to read a poem ("The Gift Outright") at a presidential inauguration.
The collection consists of selected correspondence, poetry, photographs, and printed material of and relating to Robert Frost. Included are a letter (1941) by Frost's daughter, Lesley, to professor Lawrence Thompson, a personal letter (1943) by Frost to his editor, William Sloane, and a signed typescript of Frost's poem "The Pauper Witch of Grafton." Additionally, there are several photographs of Frost as a young man and printed ephemera related to birthday celebrations in Frost's honor.
Arranged in order of accession.
The collection was formed as a result of a Departmental practice of combining into one collection material of various accessions relating to a particular person, family, or subject.
Includes various purchases and gifts. AM 18667, AM FL77-14, AM 77-101, AM 78-7, AM 79-95, AM 79-96, AM 14560, and AM 2018-116.
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Finding aid written by James Flannery on February 17, 2006. Folder Inventory added by Hilde Creager (2015) in 2012.
Finding aid updated by Faith Charlton in 2018
No appraisal information is available.
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- Manuscripts Division
- Finding Aid Author
- James Flannery, Jameson Creager (2015), Faith Charlton
- Finding Aid Date
- 2006
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The collection is open for research.
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Live recording on 33-rpm aluminum record (content on both sides) of Robert Frost at Princeton University in the winter of 1953. After being introduced by Professor Carlos Baker, Frost spoke and read some of his poetry.
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