The Library of Edwin Arlington Robinson: Addenda

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1 Colby Quarterly Volume 7 Issue 9 March Article 5 March 1967 The Library of Edwin Arlington Robinson: Addenda Richard Cary Follow this and additional works at: Recommended Citation Colby Library Quarterly, series 7, no.9, March 1967, p This Article is brought to you for free and open access by Digital Colby. It has been accepted for inclusion in Colby Quarterly by an authorized administrator of Digital Colby. For more information, please contact mfkelly@colby.edu.

2 Cary: The Library of Edwin Arlington Robinson: Addenda 398 Colby Library Quarterly Edwin Arlington Robinson, as Stanley T. Williams observed, "wound his solitary horn before his dark tower." He saw the darkness in man, and as he moved such characters as Richard Cory, Miniver Cheevy and old Eben Flood across the pages of his poems, he sought to portray the bitter, the wormwood in life and to nlanifest it in irony. The "Annandale" trilogy fits well the Robinson pattern and must be reinterpreted in light of the knowledge that the poet drew upon Moliere and the Bible for the characters Argan and Damaris, and, therefore, that there is not nlercy but revenge in the killing of Annandale. Robinson's poetry is too carefully contrived for these rare nanles to be mere chance selections by the poet; they did, in fact, help him to portray "the bla~k and awful chaos of the night." I N THE LIBRARY OF EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON: ADDENDA By RICHARD CARY 1950 the Colby College Press published a trim sextodecimo volume entitled The Library of Edwin Arlington Robinson, compiled by Janles Humphry, III, then Librarian of the College. It contains a seven-page "Preface" and a thirty-six page "Descriptive Catalogue" of the 372 books in this category then housed in the Rebinson Memorial Room of the Colby College Library. Over the intervening years 173 additional books have accrued to that assemblage, mostly through the generosity of Mrs. Ruth Robinson Nivison, the poet's niece and literary executrix, Miss Margaret Perry, Mrs. Chester A. Baker, Miss Mabel Daniels, Mr. H. B. Collamore, and the Colby Library Associates. Because of their importance as insignia of Robinson's tastes and associations, they are presented herewith as a supplement to Humphry's meticulous listing. It must be remembered that the books in "Robinson's Library" include those which accumulated in the Gardiner home and were accessible to him during his childhood and youth, as well as those he bought himself, received from or gave to his family and friends, and presentations from other authors (not, Published by Digital Colby,

3 Colby Quarterly, Vol. 7, Iss. 9 [1967], Art. 5 Colby Library Quarterly 399 however, presentation copies of his own titles which have found their way back to our basic collection of his works). In striking parallel to the library. of William Faulkner, many of the books were acquired by Robinson's parents,1 some by his brothers, and, in his years of repute, a good proportion came unsolicited from writers and publishers. Like Faulkner, Robinson never developed the practice of marking the text of his books. The exceptions are infinitesimal: a line in a margin, an underscored word or phrase. Since he persistently refused to review books, his reactions must be sought in letters, in his infrequent forewords, and in verbal comments reported by his biographers. An inestimable number of the books that passed through his hands, and presumably through his mind, are yet ungarnered. Chard Powers Smith recalls Robinson keeping an "enormous wooden box where he piled his presentation copies" near the entrance to his rooms. 2 These he would dispense to friends or to visitors whose company he had enjoyed. After leaving Gardiner for good, Robinson lived in a succession of boarding houses, hotels, friends' homes, borrowed studios, and at the MacDowell Colony, so that his material possessions were in a constant state of attrition. "I am not a collector and have really no place for books," he said to a young bibliomane. 3 From the books, noted below, may be construed valuable indices to Robinson's fanlily relationships, to his personal and professional attachments, to his literary preferences, and to his philosophic concepts. For one, the assumptive view of his father as a forbidding Philistine nlust be at least partially revised. And, despite Robinson's explicit disengagement from home ties, his unflagging gifts of books to his three nieces demonstrates strong 1 Laura E. Richards, E. A. R. (Cambridge, Mass., 1936), 5-6. "His father was a man of substance and position, his mother a rare and lovely woman. Both had bookish tastes; in the pleasant house on Lincoln Street, where Mr. Robinson established his family, the library grew with the children... At five [E. A. R.] was reading 'The Raven' to his mother as she sat sewing; at seven he discovered Shakespeare.... He and his father never tired of poring over Bryant's Library of Poetry and Song." Edward Robinson's copy of Bryant's anthology is listed in Humphry, p. 20, and his copy of Shakespeare's works, below. Herman Robinson's later issues of Poe are listed below; the volume Edwin read at five has not been recovered. 2 Where the Light Falls: A Portrait of Edwin Arlington Robinson (New York,. 1965), 30-3l. 3 Letters of Edwin Arlington Robinson to Howard George Schmitt, ed. Carl J. Weber (Waterville, Me., 1943),

4 Cary: The Library of Edwin Arlington Robinson: Addenda 400 Colby Library Quarterly psychological need for a secure base to contravene his physical drifting. For another, here are clear leads to the degree of anlicability Robinson could rise to and arouse: his adolescent attraction to Ed Moore's sister, his fondness for "M. W. D." (Mabel Wheeler Daniels, the renowned composer of symphonies who dubbed him "P. V. M." in honor of his zeal for Vergil), his affection for Willie Butler and George Burnham (lifelong friends he first met at Harvard), for Dr. Schumann his early mentor, for Josephine Peabody, Percy MacKaye, John Drinkwater, and Witter Bynner (writers he esteemed as people), for Hagedorn who arranged entry for him to the MacDowell Colony and became his first biographer, and for the Perrys and the Ledouxs, who gave him a second sense of family. Besides the obvious Bible, Shakespeare, Aesop, Bunyan, Burns, and Milton, one finds a prominence of authors who indubitably affected Robinson's emergent style and content: Browning, Hardy, Hawthorne, Kipling, and Edward Young, not to mention Edson Clark's possible impress on the poet's fixation about "races." Robinson's gift of The Moonstone and his retention of The Deadly Dowager testify to his expansive appetite for mysteries and thrillers, which he absorbed at the rate of one a day, and whose melodramatic elements occasionally seeped into his poems. And for insights into Robinson's dilating personality, here are two abortive stamp albums and several Harvard textbooks, upon one of which he inscribed his name in four places - an odd departure from his normal reticence in this regard. ABBOTT, JOHN S. C. The Empire of Austria. New York: Dodd, Mead &Co., [1882]. "Edward Robinson" on title page The Empire of Russia. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., [1882]. "Edward Robinson" on title page The History of Prussia. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., [1882]. "Edward Robinson" on title page Italy, and the War for Italian Independence. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., [1882]. "Edward Robinson" on title page. Published by Digital Colby,

5 Colby Quarterly, Vol. 7, Iss. 9 [1967], Art. 5 Colby Library Quarterly 401 AESOPUS. The Fables of Aesop. Ed. J. Walker McSpadden. New York: ThomasY.Crowell&Co., [1903]. "To Marie from Uncle Win. Christmas, 1904" on flyleaf. ALCOTT, LOUISA M. Little Women; or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., "Marie Robinson fronl Uncle Win. Christmas, 1907" on flyleaf. AMMERS-KULLER, Jo VAN. The Rebel Generation. Trans. M. W. Hoper. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., [1928]. "For Lilla Cabot Perry from E. A. Robinson" on flyleaf. The Poetical Works. Complete ed. Intro. Nathan Haskell Dole. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., [1897]. "Robinson (R. N.)" on flyleaf. ARNOLD, MATTHEW. AUSTEN, JANE. Emma. Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, "E. M. M., Dec 25 '92" on title page Mansfield Park. Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, "E. M. ~1., Dec 25 '92" on title page Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion. Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, "E. M. M., Dec 25 '92" on title page Pride and Prejudice. Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, "E. M. M., Dec 25 '92" on title page Sense and Sensibility. Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, "E. M. M., Dec 25 '92" on title page. The Beauties of Festus. Compo with a copious Index by a Festonian. Boston: Benjamin B. Mussey & Co., "Presented to Mary E. Palmer [Robinson's mother] by J. G. Little, Whitefield, Mar. 1852" on flyleaf. BEEBE, LUCIUS MORRIS. Franrois Villon: Certain Aspects. Cambridge, [Mass.]: Privately printed [by S. Marcus], BETTS, CRAVEN LANGSTROTH. The Perfume Holder, a Persian Love Poem. New York: Monarch Press, Dedicated to Edwin Arlington Robinson. "To George Burnham from his friend Craven Langstroth Betts" on half-title page. 4

6 Cary: The Library of Edwin Arlington Robinson: Addenda 402 Colby Library Quarterly Selected Poems. New York: Associated Authors & Compilers, "Craven Langstroth Betts to Edwin Arlington Robinson" on flyleaf The Two Captains at Longwood, at Trafalgar. New York: Alfred Allen Watts Co., "Craven Langstroth Betts To myoid chum, Robinson. May 9th '21" on verso of title page. Bible. Holy Bible. Trans. out of the Original Tongues. New York: Stereotyped by A. Chandler for the American Bible Society, "Dean Robinson" on front endpaper. BROWN, ABBIE FARWELL. Heart of New England. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., "Edwin Arlington Robinson, His Book, by Abbie Farwell Brown, 1920" on flyleaf The Silver Stair, Poems. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., "To Edwin Arlington Robinson, Abbie Farwell Brown, 1926" on flyleaf. BROWNE, THOMAS. Religio Medici. Ed. W. A. Greenhill. London: Macmillan & Co., BROWNING, ROBERT. Selections from the Poetical Works. First Series, new ed. New York: Macmillan & Co., "E. Mabel Moore. 25 December, E. A. R." on title page Selections from the Poetical Works. Second Series, new ed. New York: Macmillan & Co., "E. M. M." on title page. BUCHAN, WILLIAM. Domestic Medicine; or, A Treatise on the Prevention and Cure of. Diseases, by Regimen and Simple Medicines. Boston: Printed for J. Bumstead, "Kendall Crosby" and "Sarah E. Gould" on flyleaf, with penciled biog. note on the latter. BUNYAN, JOHN. The Pilgrim's Progress, and Holy War. London: William P. Nimmo, "Robinson, Gardiner, Me." on added engraved title page The Pilgrim's Progress. Intro. the Right Rev. Handley C. Published by Digital Colby,

7 Colby Quarterly, Vol. 7, Iss. 9 [1967], Art. 5 Colby Library Quarterly 403 G. Moule. London: Ernest Nister; New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., n.d. "To Barbara Robinson from Uncle Win. Christmas, 1906" on flyleaf. BURKE, EDMUND. Two Speeches on Conciliation With America, and Two Letters on Irish Questions. London: George Routledge & Sons, BURNS, ROBERT. The Poetical Works. Ed. the Rev. Robert Aris Wilmott. Boston: Lee & Shepard; New York: Lee, Shepard & Dillingham, CARLYLE, THOMAS. The French Revolution. 2 vols. Chicago: Donohue, Henneberry & Co., n.d Heroes and Hero Worship. Chicago: Donohue, Henneberry & Co., n.d Sartor Resartus, the Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh. London: Ward, Lock & Bowden, "J. W. Marr from E. A. Robinson, March 1897" on flyleaf. Century Cyclopedia of Names. Ed. Benjamin E. Smith, et al. New York: Century Co., Printed label "The Property of Florence Peltier Perry" pasted on front endpaper. CERVANTES, MIGUEL DE. The Adventures of Don Quixote of La Mancha. London: J. M. Dent & Co.; New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., "To Ruth from Uncle Win, Christmas, 1905" on flyleaf. CESTRE, CHARLES. "Le Dernier Poeme d'edwin Arlington Robinson: Cavender's House," Revue Anglo-Americaine, VII (August 1929), [489]-507. "a E. A. Robinson, en temoignage d'admiration et de sympathie. C. Cestre. Revue Anglo-Americaine, aout 1929" at head of title "L'Oeuvre Poetique d'edwin Arlington Robinson," Revue Anglo-Americaine, I (April 1924), [279] "Please return to E. A. Robinson, 328 E. 42 St." on front cover "Recit, Drame et Symbole chez Edwin Arlington Robinson," Revue Anglo-Americaine, IX (June 1932), [406]

8 Cary: The Library of Edwin Arlington Robinson: Addenda 404 Colby Library Quarterly. "Le Tristran d'edwin Arlington Robinson," Revue Anglo-Americaine, V. (December 1927), [97]-110; (February 1928), [219]-228. CHARDENAL, C. A. First French Course; or, Rules and Exercises for Beginners. London, Paris: Hachette, [1887]. "E. A. Robinson" on front cover; "Edwin A. Robinson. Harvard Oct. 1891" on flyleaf Second French Course; or, French Syntax and Reader. London, Paris: Hachette, n.d. "E. A. Robinson" on front cover; "Edwin A. Robinson" on front endpaper; "Edwin A. Robinson, French A. Harvard Feb 12 '92" on title page; "E. A. Robinson" on fore-edge. CHESTERTON, G. K. Charles Dickens: A Critical Study. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., "Ruth Robinson from Uncle Win, Christmas, 1908" on flyleaf. CLARK, EDSON L. The Races of European Turkey. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., [1878]. "Edward Robinson" on title page. CLARK, RUFUS W. The New Question Books on the Great Truths of the Bible. First Series. Boston: Published for the author; for sale by Mass. S. S. Society, Henry Hoyt, Graves & Young; New York: M. W. Dodd, A. D. F. Randolph, [1866]. "Herman Robinson" on flyleaf. [CLEMENS, SAMUEL L.]. The Prince and the Pauper, a Tale for People of All Ages, by Mark Twain. New York: Harper & Brothers, "To Marie Robinson from Uncle Win, Christmas, 1906" on flyleaf. COLERIDGE, SAMUEL TAYLOR. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Ill. by Gustave Dare. New York: American News Co., n.d. "Edward Robinson" on flyleaf; "Ruth Robinson" stamped on front endpaper. COLLINS, WILKIE. The Moonstone. Intro. T. S. Eliot. [London] : Oxford University Press, Humphrey Milford, [1928]. "George Burnham from E. A. Robinson, April 17, 1930" on flyleaf. Published by Digital Colby,

9 Colby Quarterly, Vol. 7, Iss. 9 [1967], Art. 5 Colby Library Quarterly 405 [COOPER, JAMES FENIMORE]. The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish, by the author of The Pioneers, Prairie, etc. Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, "Edward Robinson, Alna, Me." on flyleaf. DAVISON, EDWARD. Harvest of Youth. New York: Harper & Brothers, "Lilla Cabot Perry from E. A. Robinson" on flyleaf. DELLHORA, GUILLERMO. La Iglesia Catolica, ante la critica en el pensamiento y en el arte. Mexico: Dellhora, "To E. A. Robinson, as a token of my highest appreciation, the autor Guillermo Dellhora, Mexico N F, 1 V 1930" on page [9]. DEMORGAN, WILLIAM. Somehow Good. New York: Henry Holt & Co., "Ruth Robinson from Uncle Win. Christmas, 1909" on flyleaf. DRINKWATER, JOHN. John Bull Calling, a Political Parable in One Act. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, "To Edwin Arlington Robinson with affectionate greetings from John Drinkwater, Christmas 1928" on flyleaf To Be Spoken With an Appeal for Funds for the Rebuilding of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratfordupon-Avon. [London: 1926]. Twenty-five Special copies printed. "No. 16, for Edwin Arlington Robinson from John Drinkwater" on page [4]. DRYDEN, JOHN. The Poetical Works. Ed. W. D. Christie, with memoir and notes. London: Macmillan & Co., DURANT, WILL. On the Meaning of Life. New York: Ray Long & Richard R. Smith, A letter by Robinson on pp EDDINGTON, A. S. The Nature of the Physical World. New York: Macmillan Co.; Cambridge, Eng.: University Press, "George Burnham from E. A. Robinson. May 10, 1929" on flyleaf. 8

10 Cary: The Library of Edwin Arlington Robinson: Addenda 406 Colby Library Quarterly EMERSON, RALPH WALDO. Poems. New and rev. ed. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., FICKE, ARTHUR DAVISON. Mountain Against Mountain. Garden City, N. Y.: Doubleday, Doran & Co., "For Edwin Arlington Robinson with the admiring affection of his friend, A. D. F., Feb. 1929" on flyleaf. GODOY, ARMAND. Ite, Missa Est. Glose by Jean Royere. Paris: Bernard Grasset, [1933]. "Hommage d'armand Godoy, 39 boulevard Momtmorency, Paris, XVIe, absent de Paris" on slip laid in. GREENWOOD, EDWIN. The Deadly Dowager. Fore. Arthur Machen. Garden City, N. Y.: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Published in England under the title of Skin and Bone. "H. B. Collanl0re" on flyleaf. HAGEDORN, HERMANN. The Three Pharaohs, a Dramatic Poenl. New York: John Day Co., [1932]. "For E. A. R. with love from H. H., 1932" on half-title page. HARDY, THOMAS. Life's Little Ironies, a Set of Tales. New York: Harper &Brothers, "E. A. Robinson from W. E. B." on flyleaf Life's Little Ironies, a Set of Tales. New York: Harper & Brothers, [ci894]. "M. 'V. D. from P. V. M." on flyleaf The Mayor 0/ Casterbridge. New York: Harper & Brothers, [1895]. "To M. W. D. from P. V. M. 1925" on flyleaf The Return of the Native. New York: Harper & Brothers, [1895]. "M W D from P V M 1926" on flyleaf Wessex Tales. New York: Harper & Brothers, [1896]. "M. W. D. from P. V. M. 1926" on flyleaf The Woodlanders. New York: Harper & Brothers, [ci895]. "To M. W. D. from P. V. M. 1925" on flyleaf. HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL. The Scarlet Letter. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., "E. A. Robinson (R. N.)" on flyleaf. Published by Digital Colby,

11 Colby Quarterly, Vol. 7, Iss. 9 [1967], Art. 5 Colby Library Quarterly 407. A Wonder-Book, Tanglewood Tales, and Grandfather's Chair. Boston: Houghton, Mifllin & Co., [1883]. "To Ruth from Uncle Win, Christmas 1903" on flyleaf. "Ruth Robinson" stamped on front endpaper. HAZLITT, WILLIAM. Essays. Ed. Frank Carr, with intra. and notes. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co., n.d. "E. Mabel Moore" on title page. HEADLEY, JOEL T. Illustrated Life of Washington. New York: G. & F. Bill, "Edward Robinson" on title page. HERFORD, OLIVER. A Child's Primer of Natural History. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, "To Marie from Uncle Win, Christmas 1905" on flyleaf. HERRICK, MARVIN THEODORE. The Poetics of Aristotle in England. New Haven: Yale University Press, Cornell Studies in English XVII. "To Edwin Arlington Robinson, with the sincere regards of Marvin T. Herrick" on front cover. HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL. The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Riverside ed. "Ellen C. Moore fronl E. A. Robinson" on title page Over the Teacups. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Riverside ed. "Ellen C. Moore from E. A. Robinson" on title page The Poet at the Breakfast-Table. Boston: Houghton, Miftlin & Co., Riverside ed. "Ellen C. Moore from E. A. Robinson" on title page The Professor at the Breakfast-Table, with The Story of Iris. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Riverside ed. "Ellen C. Moore from E. A. Robinson" on title page. HOMERUS. The Iliad, and The Odyssey. Trans. Alexander Pope, with notes and intro. by the Rev. Theodore Alois Buckley. New York: John B. Alden, "H. E. Robinson, 1887" on flyleaf. HULLAH, JOHN, camp. The Song Book, Words and Tunes from 10

12 Cary: The Library of Edwin Arlington Robinson: Addenda 408 Colby Library Quarterly the Best Poets and Musicians. London: Macmillan & Co., "Ruth Robinson from Uncle Win. 25 December, 1899" on flyleaf. HUNT, LEIGH. Essays. Ed. Arthur Symons, with intro. and notes. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co., n.d. "E. Mabel Moore" on flyleaf. The International Mark Twain Society, Its History and Members. Webster Groves, Mo.: International Mark Twain Society, "To Louis V. Ledoux with Cyril Clemens' homage, July 1935" on title page. Jacques Visits the Colony, a Birthday Fantasy in One Act. N.p.: [1924]. "The scene is laid in a studio of the MacDowell Colony." JOHNSON, SAMUEL. Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1892]. JONES, LLEWELLYN. First Impressions, Essays on Poetry, Criticism, and Prosody. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, "T. S. Perry from E. A. R., Hancock: Nov 11, 1925" on flyleaf. JONES, M. The Story of Captain Cook's Three Voyages Round the World. Boston: Lee & Shepard; New York: Lee, Shepard & Dillingham, "Edward Robinson, Lincoln St., Gardiner" on title page. KENYON, THEDA. "Judgment Hour," American Poetry Journal (July 1933), "For Edwin Arlington Robinson, in all humility and admiration, Theda Kenyon. July, 1933" at head of poem. KINGSLEY, CHARLES. The Water-Babies, a Fairy Tale for a Land Baby. New York: Macmillan Co., "Ruth Robinson from Uncle 'Vin, Christn1as 1898" on flyleaf. KIPLING, RUDYARD. Just So Stories for Little Children. New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., "To Marie from Uncle Win, Christmas 1903" on flyleaf Puck of Pook's Hill. New York: Doubleday, Page & Published by Digital Colby,

13 Colby Quarterly, Vol. 7, Iss. 9 [1967], Art. 5 Colby Library Quarterly 409 Co., "To Ruth Robinson from Uncle Win, Christmas, 1906" on flyleaf. LAFoNTAINE, JEAN DE. Fables de La Fontaine. Notes by Francis Tarver. London, Paris: Librairie Hachette et Cie., "E. A. Robinson, 1716 Camb. St." on flyleaf. LAMB, CHARLES. The Essays of Elia. Intro. Ernest Rhys. New York: Frederick A. Stokes, n.d. "E. Mabel Moore" on title page. ILANERTON, EDWARD GRANVILLE]. Rattlin the Reefer. Ed. Captain Marryat. London: George Routledge & Sons, [1880]. "Willie E. Butler" stamped on gilt-bordered slip pasted on flyleaf. LANG, ANDREW. Rhymes a la Mode. London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., "E. M. M., Oct 20 '91" on title page. LEDOUX, LatHS V. The Shadow of Aetna. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, The Story of Eleusis, a Lyrical Drama. New York: Macmillan Co., LOWELL, AMY. Tendencies in Modern American Poetry. New York: Macmillan Co., LUDWIG, EMIL. Goethe, the History of a Man, Trans. Ethel Colburn Mayne. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, "Lilla Cabot Perry from E. A. Robinson. November 2, 1928" on flyleaf. On second flyleaf Mrs. Cabot has written an account of "Goethe as a person" told to her by the mother of her German teacher. MACAULAY, THOMAS BABINGTON. Lays of Ancient Rome. London: Dent, "To Ruth from Uncle Win. Christmas, 1904" on flyleaf. MCCOAN, J. C. Egypt as it Is. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., [1882]. "Edward Robinson" on title page. l\1ackaye, CHRISTY. Wind in the Grass. Intro. letter by Edwin Arlington Robinson. New York: Harper & Brothers,

14 Cary: The Library of Edwin Arlington Robinson: Addenda 410 Colby Library Quarterly "For E. A. Robinson with the most appreciative thanks from Christy MacKaye" on flyleaf. MACKAYE, KEITH. Wings for Hands, Grist for a Crow Play in the Theatre of Evolution. Chapel Hill, N. C.: Milton A. Abernethy, MACKAYE, PERCY. The Faith of Poetry, an Essay. N.p.: Reprinted from The Oxford Criterion, February "To E. A. R. from PMK, 1/34" on title page. MARRYAT, FREDERICK. Frank Mildmay; or, The Naval Officer. London: George Routledge & Sons, [1880] Jacob Faithful. London: George Routledge & Sons, [1880] Japhet in Search of a Father. London: George Routledge & Sons, [1880]. "Willie E. Butler from Auntie, December 25, 1884" on flyleaf The King's Own. London: George Routledge & Sons, [1880] Mr. Midshipman Easy. London: George Routledge & Sons, [1880] Newton Forster; or, The Merchant Service. London: George Routledge & Sons, [1880] alia Podrida. London: George Routledge & Sons, [1880]. "Willie E. Butler" stamped on gilt-bordered slip pasted on flyleaf The Pacha of Many Tales. London: George Routledge & Sons, [1880] Peter Simple. London: George Routledge & Sons, [1880] The Phantom Ship. London: George Routledge & Sons, [1880] The Pirate, and The Three Cutters. London: George Routledge & Sons, [1880]. Published by Digital Colby,

15 Colby Quarterly, Vol. 7, Iss. 9 [1967], Art. 5 Colby Library Quarterly 411. The Poacher. London: George Routledge & Sons, [1880]. "Willie E. Butler" stamped on gilt-bordered slip pasted on flyleaf Valerie, An Autobiography. London: George Routledge & Sons, [1880]. "Willie Butler, Longwood Ave." and "E. A. Robinson, Gardiner, Me." on flyleaf; "Willie E. Butler" stamped on gilt-bordered slip pasted on flyleaf. MARVIN, F. S. The Adventures of Odysseus. With R. J. G. Mayor & F. M. Stawell. London: J. M. Dent & Co.; New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., n.d. "To Ruth Robinson from Uncle Win, Christmas, 1902" on flyleaf. MILTON, JOHN. Paradise Lost. Boston: Timothy Bedlington, MONTGOMERY, WALTER, ed. Tales of Ancient Troy, and The Adventures of Ulysses. Boston: Dana Estes &Co., [1892]. "Marie Robinson from Uncle Win, December 25, 1900" on flyleaf. MOORE, THOMAS. The Poetical Works. With memoir and notes. New York: American News Co., [188-]. "H. E. Robinson" on flyleaf; "E. A. Robinson 1886" on title page. MORRIS, LLOYD. The Rebellious Puritan: Portrait of Mr. Hawthorne. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., "For E. A. R. with affection and friendship, Lloyd. 3 March 1,,927" on flyleaf. ~ MUKERJI, DHAN GOPAL. The Face of Silence. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., [1926]. "George Burnham from E. A. Robinson" on flyleaf. NEWELL, PETER. Peter Newell's Pictures and Rhymes. New York: Harper & Brothers, "Marie Robinson, from Uncle Win, 25 December 1899" on flyleaf. O'CONOR, NORREYS JEPHSON. "Edwin Arlington Robinson," The Landmark, X (July 1928), [428]-432. PALGRAVE, FRANCIS T. The Golden Treasury. London, Macmil- 14

16 Cary: The Library of Edwin Arlington Robinson: Addenda 412 Colby Library Quarterly Ian & Co., "Ruth Robinson from E. A. R. 1900" on flyleaf. PEABODY, JOSEPHINE PRESTON. The Singing Man, a Book of Songs and Shadows. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., Percy MacKaye, a Symposium on His Fiftieth Birthday, Fore. Amy Lowell. Hanover, N. H.: Dartmouth Press, Pictures and Lessons for Little Readers. Boston: American Tract Society, [1864]. "Herman Robinson" on flyleaf. POE, EDGAR ALLAN. The Poetical Works. Pref. Joseph Skipsey. London: Walter Scott, The Prose Tales. 2 vols. New York: A. C. Armstrong & Son, "H. E. Robinson" on flyleaf of vol. 1 & 2. Postage Stamp Album. Contains eleven pages of United States stamps collected by Robinson. (See Triflet, F., Postage Stamp Album for Young Collectors.) RANCK, CARTY. The Mountain, a Drama in Four Acts. Fore. Edwin Arlington Robinson. Rock Island, 111.: Frederick B. Ingram Productions, [1934]. "For Edwin Arlington Robinson with the friendship and admiration of Carty Ranck. Boston, Nov. 7, 1934" on flyleaf The Weakest Link, a Drama in Three Acts. Philadelphia: Penn Publishing Co., "For Edwin Arlington Robinson with the friendship of Carty Ranck" on title page. RICHARDS, LAURA E. Stepping Westward. New York: D. Appleton & Co., "To Mrs. Perry from E. A. Robinson, November 19, 1931" on flyleaf. SCHUMANN, ALANSON TUCKER. The Man and the Rose. Boston: Richard G. Badger, "To Edwin C. Ranck. From Alanson Tucker Schumann. June, 1913" on flyleaf. SCOTT, WALTER. Poetical Works. London: Frederick Warne & Co.; New York: Scribner, Welford & Co., [1868]. "Edward Robinson" on flyleaf. Published by Digital Colby,

17 Colby Quarterly, Vol. 7, Iss. 9 [1967], Art. 5 Colby Library Quarterly 413 SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM. As You Like It. Ed. William J. Rolfe. New York: Harper & Brothers, "L. M. Shepherd' on front endpaper King Lear. Ed. William J. Rolfe. New York: Harper & Brothers, "Edwin A. Robinson. Harvard. Feb. 1892" on flyleaf Measure for Measure. Ed. William J. Rolfe. New York: Harper & Brothers, "Edwin A. Robinson. March 11 '92" on flyleaf The Works. Glossary, notes, and memoir by Alexander Chalmers. New York: Oliver S. Felt; Boston: Crosby & Ainsworth, n.d. "Edward Robinson" on flyleaf. SHARP, WILLIAM, ed. Sonnets of This Century. Intra. William Sharp. London: Walter Scott, SIENKIEWICZ, HENRYK. Quo Vadis, a Narrative of the Time of Nero. Trans. Jeremiah Curtin. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., Some Imagist Poets, 1916, an Anthology. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., "Edwin Arlington Robinson, with kind regards, from Amy Lowell. May, 1916" on flyleaf. SPEYER, LEONORA, compo American Poets, an Anthology of Contemporary Verse. MUnchen: Kurt Wolff Verlag, [1923]. "To Lilla Cabot Perry from E. A. Robinson, 1924" on flyleaf. STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS. A Child's Garden of Verses. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons; London: John Lane, "Ruth, from Uncle Win, Christn1as 1897" on flyleaf. "Ruth Robinson" stamped on front endpaper Poems and Ballads. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, SULLIVAN, MARK. Our Times, the United States, I, The Turn of the Century. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, "T. S. Perry from E. A. Robinson, October 21, 1926" on flyleaf. 16

18 Cary: The Library of Edwin Arlington Robinson: Addenda 414 Colby Library Qua,rterly SWEET, HENRY. An Anglo-Saxon Reader in Prose and Verse. With intro., notes, and glossary. Oxford: Clarendon Press, "E. A. Robinson" on flyleaf; "Edwin A. Robinson. Oct. 5, 1891" on half-title page. TRIFLET, F., compo Postage Stamp Album for Young Collectors. Contains 78 pages of United States and foreign stamps collected by Robinson, with four-page Index in his hand. "Edwin A. Robinson, Gardiner, Me., ApI. 25, 1878" on flyleaf. (See Postage Stamp Album.) TUCKERMAN, FREDERICK GODDARD. The Sonnets. Ed. Witter Bynner, with intro. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, "To Edwin Arlington Robinson. What do you think of him? E. A., Witter Bynner" on flyleaf. UNTERMEYER, LOUIS.,, And Other Poets." New York: Henry Holt & Co., "Ruth Robinson. Mar 4 '16" on flyleaf , ed. Modern British Poetry, a Critical Anthology. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., [1925]. "Lilla Cabot Perry from E. A. R." on flyleaf. UPTON, BERTHA. The Adventures of Two Dutch Dolls and a HGolliwog." Boston: DeWolfe, Fiske & Co., n.d. UPTON, GEORGE P. The Standard Symphonies, Their History, Their Music, and Their Composers. Chicago: A. C. Mc Clurg & Co., VAN DOREN, MARK. Edwin Arlington Robinson. New York: Literary Guild of America, "To E. A. Robinson from Mark Van Doren. April 26, 1927" on flyleaf. VANNAH, KATE. From Heart to Heart. Boston: J. G. Cupples Co., [1893]. "A. T. S. From Kate Vannah, July 1895" on flyleaf. VERGILIUS MARO, PUBLIUS. The Works of Virgil. Trans. John Dryden. New York: John B. Alden, "H. E. Robinson, 1884" on flyleaf. WALLIS, J. H. Laughter of Omnipotence. New York: Harold Published by Digital Colby,

19 Colby Quarterly, Vol. 7, Iss. 9 [1967], Art. 5 Colby Library Quarterly 415 Vinal, "To E. A. Robinson from J. H. Wallis. February 12th, 1927" on flyleaf; also, in Robinson's hand, "See p. 15" where he has put a mark along ten lines of the poem "Directions For My Funeral." WINTER, WILLIAM. Gray Days and Gold in England and Scotland. New York: Macmillan Co., London: George Rout Wise Sayings of the Great and Good. ledge & Sons, [c1867]. WOLFE, HUMBERT. Humoresque. New York: Henry Holt & Co., "For E. A. Robinson, with the profound admiration and friendship of Herbert S. Gornlan, and Jean" on flyleaf; above Robinson's name is penciled "Given to Lilla Cabot Perry by". Wonderful Animals. Comprising King Donkey's Doings, Dog's Dinner Party, King Gobble's Feast, Wandering Bunny, Spoilt Piggy Wiggy, Cat's Party. New York: McLoughlin Bros., n.d. "Christmas, Herman E. Robinson from father" on flyleaf. YOUNG, EDWARD. Night Thoughts, on Life, Death and Immortality. Salem: Thomas Carey, From the London ed.,