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Mary Borland Thayer Fox papers (Ms. 78.14)

Brown University Library

Box A, John Hay Library
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
Tel: 401-863-2146
Fax: 401-863-2093
email: hay@brown.edu

Inventory

Series 1. Writings, 1919-1938
1 box, 15 folders

A. Poetry, 1919-1938
46 folders

Folders 2-33 are an alphabetical arrangement of poems written by Fox. Originals and carbon copies; also, later (1950's) typed manuscripts of these poems which were used as the basis for the posthumous volume 'A Path Across the Night'.

Container Description Date
Box 1, Folder 1 Early verse
8 items
Box 1, Folders 2-3 Verse: A
Box 1, Folders 4-5 Verse: B
14 items
Box 1, Folders 6-7 Verse: C
17 items
Box 1, Folder 8 Verse: D
2 items
Box 1, Folder 9 Verse: E
11 items
Box 1, Folders 10-12 Verse: F
20 items
Box 1, Folder 13 Verse: G-H
6 items
Box 1, Folders 14-15 Verse: I
23 items
Box 1, Folder 16 Verse: J-K
3 items
Box 1, Folders 17-18 Verse: L
17 items
Box 1, Folder 19 Verse: M
9 items
Box 1, Folder 20 Verse: N
5 items
Box 1, Folders 21-22 Verse: O
20 items
Box 1, Folder 23 Verse: P-Q
4 items
Box 1, Folder 24 Verse: R
10 items
Box 1, Folders 25-28 Verse: S
47 items
Box 1, Folders 29-30 Verse: T
30 items
Box 1, Folder 31 Verse: U-V
8 items
Box 1, Folder 33 Verse: W-Z
11
Box 1, Folder 33 Verse: Untitled
31 items
Box 1, Folder 34 Published poetry of Mary Borland Thayer Fox
11 items

Contents Note:
  • In Mode of Wisdom
  • Necessities for Heaven
  • Petra, the Lost City
  • Into the Woods
  • Lonliness
  • The Bowl
  • Immortal Gold
  • Evenings
  • On the Kenelly-Heaviside Sayer
  • From the Japanese I
Box 1, Folders 35-38 The Madman
4 items

Contents Note: Two originals, two typed manuscripts.
Box 1, Folders 39-41 A Path Across Night
3 items

Contents Note: Typescripts which were drafts for publisher, including final submitted version.
Box 1, Folder 42 Notebook of Verse (Notes on the season)
1 item

Contents Note: Draft versions of poetry contained in Box 1: folders 2 - 33.
Box 1, Folder 43 Notebook of Verse ("Poems")
1 item

Contents Note: Draft versions of poetry contained in Box 1: folders 2 - 33
Box 1, Folders 44-45 Commonplace Books
2 items

Contents Note: Original verse by Fox (typescripts in box 1: folders 2-33) and verses by others.
Box 1, Folder 46 Notebook of poems
1 item

Contents Note: Transcriptions made by Fox

B Prose works, 1919-1938
39 folders

Container Description Date
Box 1, Folder 47 The art of charm
1 item
Box 1, Folder 48 The artistic impulse
1 item
Box 1, Folder 49 Character and Immortality
1 item
Box 1, Folder 50 Christman shopping
1 item
Box 1, Folder 51 Conversation with an imbecile
1 item
Box 1, Folder 52 The day-lily
1 item
Box 1, Folder 53 The decay of individualism
1 item
Box 1, Folder 55 Elinor Wylie
1 item
Box 1, Folder 55 The fairies in the rain-drops (2 copies)
2 items
Box 1, Folder 56 The familiar dragon (3 copies)
3 items
Box 1, Folder 57 Fashions for birds and insects (4 copies)
4 items
Box 1, Folder 58 Findle and Julia (2 copies)
2 items
Box 1, Folder 59 From far away (2 copies)
2 items
Box 1, Folder 60 The galloping ancestor (3 copies)
3 items
Box 1, Folder 61 Gray Hair
1 item
Box 1, Folder 62 The Horse-Thieves
1 item
Box 1, Folder 63 A hunting accident
1 item
Box 1, Folder 64 Iseult of the Tawny Hair (2 copies)
2 items
Box 1, Folder 65 Let's stop here (3 copies)
3 items
Box 1, Folder 66 The Little gargoyle (4 copies)
4 items
Box 1, Folder 67 The lonely Naiad (3 copies)
3 items
Box 1, Folder 68 Magic and religion
i tem
Box 1, Folder 69 On Joyful wing (3 copies)
3 items
Box 1, Folder 70 One winter's day (what God is like) (3 copies)
3 items
Box 1, Folder 71 The order which is our refuge
1 item
Box 1, Folder 72 Reading as a vice
1 item
Box 1, Folder 73 Rich food
1 item
Box 1, Folder 74 The Sky-Heifer
1 item
Box 1, Folder 75 Sunday
1 item
Box 1, Folder 76 Tommy and the Troll
1 item
Box 2, Folder 1 Too Much Leisure
1 item
Box 2, Folder 2 Towards a new literature
1 item
Box 2, Folder 3 The two apple-trees (2 copies)
2 items

Contents Note: Under the pseudonym of Penelope Deveruex.
Box 2, Folder 4 Two fables
1 item
Box 2, Folder 5 Upon Thee the sins of the world
1 item
Box 2, Folder 6 Wash Day
1 item
Box 2, Folder 7 Where the moon rises (5 copies)
5 items
Box 2, Folder 8 Why the spring was late this year (4 copies)
4 items
Box 2, Folder 9 Russian Diary: 1936
1 item

Contents Note: Basically, a tourist's description of Leningrad, Moscow and Kiev, some very perceptive accounts of the Russian people and mores.

C. Libretti
4 folders

Box 2

Container Description Date
Box 2, Folders 10-13 Libretti
27 items

Contents Note: Libretti for ballets, some of which were performed.

D. Other materials
2 folders

Box 2

Container Description Date
Box 2, Folder 14 Scrapbook
1 item

Contents Note: Verse and illustrations clipped from journals and/or hand-written by Fox.
Box 2, Folder 15 Scrapbook
1 item

Contents Note: Verse and illustrations clipped from journals and/or written by Fox.

Series 2. Correspondence
20 folders

Container Description Date
Box 2, Folders 16-22 The art of dying
34 items

Contents Note: Letters addressed to Fox replying to her article on approaching death, which appeared anonymously in "The Atlantic Monthly", April 1925. The letters are arranged alphabetically by author.
 1925
Box 2, Folder 23 Published verse
5 items

Contents Note: Letters addressed to Fox complimenting her on her poetry.
Box 2, Folders 24-29 Publication of 'A path across the night'
47 items

Contents Note: Correspondence dealing with publication of book, including lay-out, forword, and poems which were not selected; chiefly between literary executor of Fox, Mrs. Sydney L. (Kit) Wright and Fox's husband and son. Familial and personal matters are discussed. Arrangement is chronological.
Box 2, Folders 30-34 A path across night
31 items

Contents Note: Letters addressed to Fox's husband, William Logan Fox, congratulatory on posthumous volume of wife's writings.
Box 2, Folder 35 Correspondence to W. L. Fox
14 items

Contents Note: Miscellaneous matters discussed including his comments on a decision of the Supreme Court and his opinion of Felix Frankfurter.

Series 3. Printed materials
5 folders

Container Description Date
Box 2, Folders 36-37 Atlantic Monthly
2 items

Contents Note: Two copies of the issue containing Fox's anonymously printed "The art of dying."
 1935 Apr
Box 2, Folder 38 Forum
1 item

Contents Note: Contains Fox's "Minor and Major Poetry".
 1937 Jun
Box 2, Folder 39 American Poetry Journal
1 item

Contents Note: Contains Fox's "The Swan Maiden".
 1935 Apr
Box 2, Folder 40 Newspaper clippings
5 items

Contents Note: Contemporary commenst on Fox's poetry and prose and also some comments on posthumous volume, "A path across the night."

Series 4. Sheet music
2 folders

Container Description Date
Box 2, Folders 41-42 Original and printed sheet music
7 items

Contents Note:
  • "In mock of wisdom": music by Charles Cohen; lyrics by Mary Borland Thayer Fox; autograph manuscript signed
  • "Alas, that spring should vanish with the rose": music by Charles Cohen; words from Rubaiyat of Omar Khayan; printed
  • "The Lamb": music by Arthur Farwell; words by William Blake; autograph manuscript signed
  • "These saw Vision": music by Arthur Farwell; words by Emily Dickinson; autograph manuscript signed
  • "Land of Luthany"; Two songs; Vale of Enitharmon: Music by Arthur Farwell; printed

Series 5. Photograph
1 folder

Container Description Date
Box 2, Folder 43 Photograph of Mary Borland Thayer Fox
1 item