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Robert
Francis Papers
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Information on Use
Terms of Access and Use
Restrictions on access:
The collection is open for research.
Preferred Citation
Cite as: Robert Francis Papers (MS 403). Special Collections and University Archives, W.E.B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
History of the Collection
Acquired from: Robert Francis 1975-1987; Francis
Quinn; the University of Massachusetts Press; and the
Tunnel Press.
Accruals:
Additions to the collection are expected.
Processing Information
Processed by Stephanie Welch and Mark Madigan, 1988. The following letters, now interfiled with the Correspondence series, were previously arranged by Robert Francis in a file called "Help asked for and received."
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| Apodaca, La Verne |
April 20, 1980 |
| Brazeau, Peter |
April 27, 1978 |
| Cochran, J. |
March 30, 1980 |
| Haney, Paula |
May 1, 1980 |
| Juscik, Steve |
n.d. |
| Motts, Dona |
May 28, 1980 |
| Norbutt, John |
January 10, 1979 (with response January 22, 1979) |
| O'Gorman, Ned |
March 8, 1980 (with response March 18, 1980) |
| Quinn, John Robert |
July 22, 1978; July 28, 1978 |
| Richards, Lucie A. (2 copies) |
March 6, 1979 |
| Sussman, Sherry (with photo of Francis) |
n.d. |
| Shetline, Leonard J. |
May 28, 1978 |
| Tuttle, Claire |
September 1978 |
| Liz [?] |
July 30, 1978 |
The following letters, now interfiled with the Correspondence series, were previously arranged by Francis in a file called "Letters of appreciation."
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| Abbe, George |
May 20, 1978 |
| Boyd, Charles |
July 16, 1977 |
| Brown, Rosellen |
November 16 [?] |
| Brown, Rosellen |
May 13, 1977 |
| Cate, Edward W. |
January 22, 1977 |
| Emery, Mary |
December 23, 1977 |
| Faust, Pamela |
March 22, 1980 |
| Hicks, John |
October 5, 1976 |
| Howes, Jeanne |
February 12, 1977 |
| Osborne, Marion A. |
September 6, 1977 |
| Peterson, Lani |
January 17, 1979 |
| Philbrick, Stephen |
November 5 [?] |
| Rand, Frank L. |
December 16, 1955 |
| Reidy, P. Michael |
September 23, 1977 |
| Rigby, Libby |
September 27, 1975 |
| Roberts, Haslin Cherie |
August 13, 1978 |
| Rosten, Norman |
December 6, 1976 |
| Smith, Nathaniel B. |
July 29, 1978 |
| Taylor, Thurston |
October 17, 1977 |
| Tetreault, Phil |
May 29, 1979 |
| Yolsen, Melvin B. |
August 21, 1978 |
| Frank [?] |
December 16, 1954 |
| Shirley [?] |
February 2, 1975 |
The following items, now filed in box 13, folders 165-169, were originally interleaved in the author's copy of The Trouble With Francis in the pages noted below.
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ITEMS |
| Front matter |
Near East, November
1954 |
| 4-5 |
photographs: "Entrance to Market Hill Rd in 1940," "The Old House by the Brook, 1937-38" |
| 12-13 |
photographs (4): "Adamites" |
| 18-19 |
letter to Literary Executor for Robert Frost. |
| 28-29 |
photograph: "Henry King of Flat Hills Road and one of his oxen" |
| 32-33 |
photographs (2): "Forrest Sanborn" |
| 34-35 |
photograph: "Porter Dickinson" |
| 56-57 |
Christmas card (photo of rock.) |
| 64-65 |
photographs "Walter from Brooklyn" & "Lord Wilbur" |
| 70-71 |
photograph: "Richard Gillman at Fort Juniper" |
| 74-75 |
photograph: "Full-grown mantids" |
| 92-93 |
newspaper clippings (3) and photocopies about soybeans |
| 98-99 |
Thanksgiving Dinner menus (8) with photocopies for Fort Juniper |
| 108-109 |
postcard from Rebecca Richmond of Chautauqua Writer's Institute |
| 116-117 |
photographs (2): "Pasquino, Rome" & "Trattoria Pasquino" |
| 118-119 |
newspaper clippings about late birthday card with photocopies; birthday card
delayed in mail nearly 30 years. |
| 122-123 |
Christmas card from Francis Gillespie; postcard of Tyrellspass; vacation
brochure |
| 136-137 |
photographs: "Ferris Pemberton" & "Baptist Church, Greenport,
NY" |
| 142-143 |
photographs: "Aunt Addie" & "Aunt Nell" (2) |
| 150-151 |
photographs: "James Allen Francis" & "West Medford Baptist
Church" |
| 156-157 |
offprint of Matthew Francis photograph postcard: "Tower in Lawrence Fels, West Medford" |
| 158-159 |
photograph: [?] |
| 162-163 |
photograph: Pat Francis [cat] |
| 178-179 |
letter concerning Francis' illness |
| 180-181 |
photographs: "Miss Phelan's house, Cambridge, Mass." (2), "Fellow inmate"
(2) |
| 182-183 |
news clipping, Harvard Alumni Bulletin 5/13/50 |
| 184-185 |
letter of appointment to American University of Beirut, 3/21/23 |
| 186-187 |
photograph: RF with students in Beirut; carbon of letter from Dr. F.J.
McIntyre |
| 188-189 |
letters (2) from Bancroft Beatley; news clipping and news photo of
Harvard |
| 192-193 |
photograph: "Theodore Ward"; typescript epitaph for Theodore Ward |
| 196-197 |
photographs: "Schoonmaker family"; [?] |
| 198-199 |
photographs (2): "Hildegard" |
| 200-201 |
photograph: "Frost's house on Sunset Avenue" |
| 204-205 |
photographs: "Jones Library" (2); "Prof. Arthur John Hopkins" [?] |
| 218-219 |
Harvard Divinity School news clipping; letter to Harvard Divinity School |
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