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Notes on meeting Robert Frost

Full notes of Eleanor Farjeon's last meeting with Robert Frost during his return to England in 1957 which were used as the basis for her foreward to Frost's posthumously published volume of poetry, "You Come Too" [original title "Come With Me"]. Written in Farjeon's hand in the margin "Robert Frost - written rapidly an[d)] inconsecutively - must be arranged in its order - Try to describe his way of talking"

Olga Eckert

Letters from Robert P Eckert's widow. Includes news of Eckert's death with a newspaper obituary from The Times from 11 November 1966, and discusses a home for his Edward Thomas collection, which is now at the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford

"One More Brevity" Christmas greeting

Annual Christmas greeting from Robert Frost. 4,501 copies printed by The Spiral Press, New York. Includes decorations by Philip Grushkin. This was one of the 375 copies printed with Frost's name as the sender. This poem was collected in "The Clearing" published 1962

Original manuscript of poem "Walking Tom" and related items

Pencil original written alternatively by Clifford Bax and Herbert Farjeon and including crossings out and re-workings, Venice September 1913. Missing page 1.
Also includes photocopy of a manuscript version held by the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Centre, University of Texas, Austin [who believed theirs was the original until this version was discovered amongst the Farjeon papers], photocopy of G F Sims (Rare Books) sale catalogue describing the Harry Ransom version, and photocopy of extracts from "Edward Thomas: The Last Four Years" referring to the poem

Other Publications

Transcript of the introduction to Rowland Watson's book "Old Inns" by Clifford Bax

"Strawberry Hill Then and Now" pamphlet by Reverend P J Dunning

Photocopy of "New Paths: Verse, Prose and Pictures 1917-1918"

Typescript of poem "Red Pardoy (after Browning)" initialled T H

Order of service for the funeral of James Edward Charles Langham, 12 October 1967

List of materials displayed at the "Poets of the First World War Exhibition" at the Imperial War Museum November 1974 - June 1975

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