Box 3
Contains 66 Results:
Commonplace books, 1855-1877
Extracts, poems and quotations from Richter, Schilling, Holtz, and others; Herbarium
Some entries in German; pencil sketches of landscapes, costumes and people.
Excerpted quotations, in Larcom’s hand
Poetry and prose by contemporary authors: Brooks, Carey, Emerson, Greenwell, Morris, Stanley, Ware, Whittier. 8 fragments, n.d. A longer fragment on “Religion,” “True Religion,” and “Peace,” “From Channing, Wm E.,”
“Poems Remembered”
List of poets and titles. With note regarding Annals of a Quiet Neighborhood [by George MacDonald (1824-1905), NY: Harper & brothers, 1867; fiction]
Excerpted quotations, in other’s hands
Includes Tennyson.
Articles
Contemporary with Lucy Larcom, 1880-1892
Written Works
“Prayer At Sunset.” A Poem, “Cascade Lake. Adirondacks, Sept.”, 1887
“The Christ-Standard.” A Poem, n.d. Published as “’Be Ye Therefore Perfect,’” in At the Beautiful Gate, Boston: Houghton and Mifflin, 1892
“Good Books.”
Written for the opening of the Norton Public Library, 2 pp., APoemS, 1 Feb. 1888. Eliza Baylies Wheaton’s note re. purpose on back. See also printed version. Ms. copy in a modern hand, 4 leaves, n.d.
“Just Eighteen,” A Poem, 1 Jan , 1859
“Laugh Away Sarah,” A Poem, Nov., 1855
Written for Sarah B. Allen W1855-57, with correspondence re. gift of poem by Prof. William Guild Howard of Harvard, son of S.B. Allen, 18 Dec. 1940
“Lowell at Sunset,” A Poem, Lowell, Oct., 1885
With note, “Written for Our Home, 1885.”
“Mount Moriah from Bethel,” Draft and A Poem, Sept., 1882
Published in Larcom’s Poetical Works, 1885.
“Nearer to Christ.” Draft of final stanza, “Nearer to Thee, O Christ…,” ADraft fragment, n.d.
Published in At the Beautiful Gate and other songs of Faith, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1892.
“No matter what the almanac may say,” A Draft.
“The Old Scholars”, 1885
2 Draft copies. Mss. “given to the Seminary by the author.” on envelope in unknown hand.
“Pentecost,” A Draft.
“A Prairie Nest.” a draft, first 8 stanzas only.
Published in Larcom’s Poetical Works, 1885.
“Shall the ‘scholar’ toil for learning,” A Poem, July , 1855
Written for Julliette F. Sumner, Class of 1855.