[Rarebooks] FS: Three Robert Frost Signatures with Four Lines from Three of His Poems
Charles Agvent
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Mon Apr 22 09:54:07 EDT 2013
[FROST, Robert]. AUTOGRAPH GUEST BOOK SIGNED THREE TIMES BY FROST WITH
FOUR LINES FROM HIS POEMS. Autograph Guest Book (8" x 4-3/4") maintained
1908-1947 by Sara J. Oliphant and dated by her Christmas 1908 on the
front endpaper. The book has been SIGNED three times by the poet in
1915, 1916, and 1925, with four lines from his poems: Mourning: "The
fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows"; A Servant to Servants:
"The way out is through"; Ghost House: "The footpath down to the well is
healed"; and Into My Own: "Or highway where the slow wheel pours the
sand." Two entries are dated in Littleton, New Hampshire and the other
in Amherst, Massachusetts. All are dated and SIGNED by Frost. There are
many other entries by family and acquaintances of Ms. Oliphant. Frost
was a long-time friend of Charles Oliphant, pastor of the First
Congregational Church of Methuen, Massachusetts, and his family. In
1897, Rev. Oliphant, then head of the Methuen School Committee, wrote a
letter of recommendation for Frost when he was a grammar school teacher
there (Crane F7). Some corrosion to several pages not affecting Frost's
entries; covers detached and very worn. Covers poor, contents Very Good.
(#015099) $1,750.00
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