Leonard Bacon papers (MSS-0094)

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Rhode Island College
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Series 1. Correspondence, 1888-1953

Container	Description	Date
Box 1, Folder 1	Outgoing	1927-1928
Box 1, Folder 2	Abbott- Bacon, S. (1902-1907)	1888-1953
Box 1, Folder 3	Bacon, S.	1908-1926
Box 1, Folder 4	Bates- Fisher	1906-1936
Box 1, Folder 5	Gardiner- Kittle	1910, 1925-1935
Box 1, Folder 6	Longwell- Putnam	1916-1945
Box 1, Folder 7	Other	1925-1936
Box 1, Folder 8	Robinson- Wolff	1910-1937

Series 2. Financial papers, 1925-1943
0.1 cubic feet

This series contains bank statements and checks, as well as material concerning the Valpax Trust.

Container	Description	Date
Box 1, Folder 9	Valpax Trust	1935-1936, 1943
Box 1, Folder 10	Bills, receipts, financial reports	1925-1938
Box 1, Folder 11	Bank statements	1935

Series 3. Legal papers, 1913-1937
0.1 cubic feet

Included in this series are publisher’s agreements with Harper & Brothers for “Earthquakes.” This series is arranged alphabetically.

Container	Description	Date
Box 1, Folder 12	Agreement for “Heroic Ballads of Servia”	1913
Box 1, Folder 13	Agreement for “Earthquakes”	1936
Box 1, Folder 14	Insurance	1935-1937

Series 4. Writings, 1904-1943
0.1 cubic feet

This series includes several book reviews, the galley proofs for “Animula Vagula” and manuscripts copies of several poems.

Container	Description	Date
Box 1, Folder 15	Poems	undated, 1925
Box 1, Folder 16	“Animula Vagula” (gallery proof)	1926
Box 1, Folder 17	“The Marching.” Yale class poem	1909
Box 1, Folder 18	Reviews	1940-1943

Series 5. Other papers, circa 1900-1954
0.45 cubic feet

This series contains two publications given to Bacon by friends, an inventory of Bacon’s California property made at the time of his death, membership documents relating to various literary and social clubs he belonged, as well as architectural drawing of The Acorns, postcards and travel brochures.

Container	Description	Date
Box 2, Folder 1	“El Entusiasmo por España en algunos románticos ingleses” [fragments] by Erasmo Buceta (in Spanish)	1909
Box 2, Folder 2	“Digital reckoning among the ancients” by Leon J. Richardson	1916 January
Box 2, Folder 3	Clippings, membership fliers and fliers, notes	1925, 1935-1936
Box 2, Folder 4	Club memberships and bills	1935-1936
Box 2, Folder 5	Correspondence of Annie Day	1923-1928
Box 2, Folder 6	Inventories of Mission Hill House and Dial House	1954
Box 2, Folder 7	Travel brochures	1935-1936
Box 2, Folder 8	Photographs and postcards	undated, 1905
Oversize Folder 1, Item 1	Drawing of man lecturing “Property of Leonard Bacon, Peace Dale, RI”	undated
Oversize Folder 1, Item 2	American Academy of Arts and Sciences election certificate	1943
Oversize Folder 1, Item 3	Pulitzer Prize citation	1941
Oversize Folder 1, Items 4-7	Preliminary sketches and drawing of alterations and additions to The Acorns, 1932, by architect Thomas Pym Cope	1931
Oversize Folder 1, Item 8	Drawing of alterations and additions to The Acorns, 1932, by architect Thomas Pym Cope	1931

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