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Books, 1900-1979
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Page, Kirby, editor.
Religious resources for personal living and social action. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., undated. (continued) |
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The prayer attributed to St. Francis became the
text for Warren's work A Prayer of St.
Francis. |
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One of the book's endpages contains several notes
by Warren. |
BOX-FOLDER 66/2 |
Pratt, Waldo Selden.
The history of music: a handbook and guide for students. New York: G. Schirmer, Inc., 1907. |
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Heavily annotated by Warren; probably used during
her studies at Mills College, Oakland, California. |
BOX-FOLDER 66/3 |
Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay.
Principles of orchestration. Paris: Édition Russe de Musique, 1923. |
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Heavily annotated by the composer; Warren said
that she referred to this volume more than any other text throughout her
career. |
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Protestant Episcopal Church.
A hymnal. New York: H. W. Gray Company, 1916. |
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Annotated hymns (first lines): Hosanna to the Living Lord (author: John B. Dykes);
Jesus, from Thy throne on high (author: William
H. Monk); and Peace, perfect peace, in this dark world of
sin? (authors: Charles Vincent; G.T. Caldbeck) |
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Accompanying note from Bortin: Hymnal possibly
given to Warren by her teacher, Clarence Dickinson. The markings may be his
annotations or those of Warren. |
BOX-FOLDER 67/23 |
Quiller-Couch, Arthur, compiler.
The Oxford book of Victorian verse. London: Oxford University Press at the Clarendon Press, 1919. |
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Annotated poems: A
Huguenot (author: Mary E. Coleridge); and Song (author: Richard Le Gallienne) |
BOX-FOLDER 67/24 |
Richards, Mrs. Waldo, compiler.
Hide tide. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, undated. |
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Annotated poem: Magic
(author: Irene Rutherford McLeod) |
BOX-FOLDER 67/25 |
Richards, Mrs. Waldo, compiler.
The magic carpet: poems for travellers. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, undated. |
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Annotated poem: Irish
song (author: Helen Coale Crew) |
BOX-FOLDER 67/26 |
Robinson, Edwin Arlington.
Collected poems of Edwin Arlington Robinson. New York: Macmillan Company, 1937. |
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Poems laid in: Credo;
and The Dark hills. |
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Robinson, Lennox, editor.
A golden treasury of Irish verse. New York: Macmillan Company, 1925. |
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Annotated poems: O dreamy,
gloomy, friendly trees (author: Herbert Trench); and Autumn (author: Forrest Reid) |
BOX-FOLDER 67/28 |
Rossetti, Christina G.
Sing-song: a nursery rhyme book and other poems for children. New York: Macmillan Company, 1928. |
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Poems (laid in): Credo; and The Dark hills. |
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Rossetti, Dante Gabriel.
The poetical works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, undated. |
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Annotated poem: Silent
noon. |
BOX-FOLDER 67/30 |
Sandburg, Carl.
Complete poems. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1950. |
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Annotated poems: Summer
stars; Throw roses; Stars, songs, faces; Good
morning, America (heavily annotated); Sunsets; Mist marches across the
valley. |
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The book's endpages contain detailed notes by
Warren. |
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Carl Sandburg inscribed this book for Warren
(photocopy) |
BOX-FOLDER 67/31 |
Sandburg, Carl.
Smoke and steel - Slabs of the sunburnt west - Good morning, America. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1920. |
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Annotated poems: Summer
stars; Stars, songs, faces; Tawny days. |
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Sechrist, Elizabeth Hough, compiler.
One thousand poems for children. Philadelphia: Macrae-Smith Company, 1946. |
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Annotated poems: The
Clock (author: anonymous); The Little
plant (author: Kate Louise Brown); Who has seen
the wind (author: Christina Rossetti); The
Christ candle (author: Kate Louise Brown) |
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The first two poems were set in her Songs for young voices; the third poem text was used
in Who has seen the wind; and the fourth text was
used in her song Christmas candle. |
BOX-FOLDER 67/33 |
Stevenson, Burton Egbert, compiler.
The home book of modern verse. New York: Henry Holt and Company, undated. |
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Annotated poems: The Full
heart (author: Robert Nichols); The Night will
never stay (author: Eleanor Farjeon) and Who
loves the rain (author: Frances Shaw) |
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Inscribed to Warren by Carlotta King, Christmas,
1933. |
BOX-FOLDER 67/34 |
Stevenson, Robert Louis.
The poems and ballads of Robert Louis Stevenson. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1913. |
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Annotated poems: Windy
nights; and an untitled poem with the first line: Bright is the ring of words. |
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Inscribed to Warren by Miss Cocke
(undated) |
BOX-FOLDER 67/35 |
Sullivan, A. M.
The bottom of the sea. [S.l.]: Dun & Bradstreet Inc., 1966. |
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Inscribed to Warren by A. M. Sullivan, May 15,
1967. |
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Teasdale, Sara.
Dark of the moon. New York: Macmillan Company, 1926. |
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Teasdale, Sara.
Flame and shadow. New York: Macmillan Company, 1920. |
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Annotated poems: Gray
eyes and It will not change. |
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Several measures of musical notation accompany
other markings. |
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Teasdale, Sara.
Love songs. New York: Macmillan Company, 1930. |
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Annotated poem: I shall not
care. |
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Teasdale, Sara.
Rivers to the sea. New York: Macmillan Company, 1916. |
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Annotated poem: The
Fountain. |
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Warren signed and dated this book of peoms on
August 21, 1927. |
BOX-FOLDER 67/40 |
Teasdale, Sara.
Stars to-night: verses new and old for boys and girls. New York: Macmillan Company, 1930. |
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Annotated poem: The
Fountain. |
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Warren has written a possible concert schedule,
listing vocal artists and musical works on a blank page; another page contains
an untitled handwritten poem by Edwin Arlington Robinson. |
BOX-FOLDER 67/41 |
Tennyson, Alfred Lord.
The poetical works of Alfred Lord Tennyson. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1900. |
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Two sections of this volume were photocopied. One
section (pages 114-117), contains The Day dream,
which includes subsections of verse, including The
Sleeping palace; The Sleeping beauty,
The Arrival; The
Revival; and The Departure - each
showing Warren's textual markings, changes and musical ideas that led to her
work The Sleeping Beauty. Another photocopied
section of this work is part of Tennyson's The Passing of
King Arthur (pages 372-279), the annotations again showing Warren's
textual changes made prior to the preliminary musical sketches of her The Passing of King Arthur. |
BOX-FOLDER 67/42 |
Thompson, Blanche Jennings, compiler.
More silver pennies. New York: Macmillan Company, 1946. |
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Annotated poem: I heard it
in the valley (author: Annette Wynne) |
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Tibbett, Grace.
Shadows on this wall. [S.l. : s.n.], 1932. |
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Contains the following poem: To Elinor. |
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Inscribed to Warren from Grace Tibbett (Mrs.
Lawrence Tibbett), February 1933. |
BOX-FOLDER 67/44 |
Tibbett, Mrs. Lawrence.
Wood etchings. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1923. |
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Contains the following poem: To Elinor. |
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Inscribed to Warren from Grace Tibbett (Mrs.
Lawrence Tibbett), August 1, 1925. |
BOX-FOLDER 67/45 |
Turner, Nancy Byrd.
A riband on my rein. Hartford, Connecticut: Edwin Valentine Mitchell, Inc., 1930. |
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Annotated poems: Tahe Little
Christ and The Little road. |
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The books' endpages are filled with Warren's notes
regarding history's thinkers. |
BOX-FOLDER 67/46 |
Untermeyer, Louis.
Modern American poetry: a critical anthology; revised and enlarged edition. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company,
1921. |
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Annotated poem: At the
crossroads (author: Richard Hovey); later used by Warren for song
At the crossroads. |
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Inscribed to Warren by Gertude Ross, Christmas,
1921. |
BOX-FOLDER 67/47 |
Untermeyer, Louis.
Modern American poetry: a critical anthology; 5th revised edition. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, undated. |
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Annotated poems: Out of the
cradle endlessly rocking (author: Walt Whitman); The Dark hills (author: Edwin Arlington Robinson);
Stopping by woods on a snowy evening, The Road not taken (author: Robert Frost); To a golden-haired girl (author: Vachel Lindsay); and
Water lilies (author: Sara Teasdale) |
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Teasdale's poem became the text for Warren's song
If you have forgotten. |
BOX-FOLDER 67/48 |
Untermeyer, Louis.
Modern British poetry. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920. |
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Annotated poem: Ode
(author: Arthur O'Shaughnessy) |
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Bortin note: "This text was set to music Warren
titled We are the music makers." |
BOX-FOLDER 67/49 |
Untermeyer, Louis.
A treasury of great poems, English and American. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1942. |
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Annotated poem: Ballad of
good counsel (author: Geoffrey Chaucer; modern version by Henry van
Dyke) |
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The endpages contain several notes by
Warren. |
BOX-FOLDER 67/50 |
Van Doren, Mark, editor.
American poets, 1630-1930. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1932. |
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Annotated poems: A Forest
hymn (author: William Cullen Bryant); Hymn of
the city (author: William Cullen Bryant); My
lost youth (author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) and Why is it (author: Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow) |
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Warren has written additional notes on the
endpages. |
BOX-FOLDER 67/51 |
Van Doren, Mark, editor.
An anthology of world poetry. New York: Literary Guild of America, 1928. |
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Annotated poems: On being
sixty (author: Arthur Waley); Ode
(author: unknown) |
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Warren has written additional notes on thr
endpages. |
BOX-FOLDER 67/52 |
Verhaeren, Emile.
Afternoon. New York: John Lane Company, 1917. |
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Annotated poems: XII
and XVI-XVII. Heavily annotated - in
French. |
BOX-FOLDER 66/4 |
Warren, James G.
Warren - Remick and allied families: a genealogical outline with biographical notes. [Privately printed for the author by] American Historical Company,
Inc., 1949. |
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Privately printed genealogy compiled by Elinor
Remick Warren's father - James Garfield Warren, just before his death, in 1949.
Contains Warren's mother's family (Remick) and other related
families. |
BOX-FOLDER 67/53 |
Whitman, Walt.
Leaves of grass. New York: The Heritage Reprints, undated. |
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Annotated poem: Song for all
seas, all ships. |
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Warren has used the book's endpages to write notes
regarding other poems found in the book. |
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Laid into the original volume: four typed poems
found by Virginia Bortin prior to sending the book to the New York Public
Library. |
BOX-FOLDER 67/54 |
Widdemer, Margaret.
The old road to paradise. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1918. |
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Annotated poem: The dark
cavalier. |
BOX-FOLDER 66/5 |
Yearbook. Westlake School for Girls.
Vox Puellarum, volume 13, number 1. Los Angeles, California: Westlake School for Girls, June 1918. |
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Photocopy containing portions of the Yearbook that
feature Warren. |
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Two of Warren's early songs were included in the
Yearbook: A Song of Christmas, text by Agnes
Moulton, and My love is like a red, red rose, text
by Robert Burns. |
BOX-FOLDER 67/55 |
Yeats, W. B.
The Oxford book of modern verse, 1892-1935. New York: Oxford University Press, 1936. |
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Annotated poem: Cat's
meat (author: Harold Monro) |
BOX 75, 84 |
Miscellany, 1961-1975
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A small notebook, containing various composition aids and tips; a tour guidebook
of Israel, dated 1975; a metal printer's plate of the title page to Warren's
printed score of Abram in Egypt; a watercolor painting of Abram in Egypt; a poster of Warren's Requiem; and a small envelope containing unused Elinor Remick Warren
bookplates. |
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Arranged alphabetically by subject. |
BOX-FOLDER 75/13 |
Bookplates, undated
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Several unused bookplates identical to the
bookplates found on Warren's personal books. |
BOX-FOLDER 75/14 |
Notebook of musical composition aids,
undated
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Small notebook containing musical notes and tips
useful to composition. |
BOX-FOLDER 84/4 |
Painting, Abram in Egypt, circa June 1961
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Watercolor painting on poster board of Abram in Egypt, painted by Pat Hopper, a member of
the Roger Wagner Chorale; presented to Warren following the premiere of the
work on June 7, 1961. |
BOX-FOLDER 84/5 |
Poster, Requiem, November 1965
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Announced ticket sales for three spring 1966
concerts, one being Warren's new work Requiem (the
world premiere took place on April 3, 1966) |
BOX-FOLDER 75/15 |
Printing plate, circa 1960s
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The plate contains a reverse image of the title
page to the choruses only score of Abram in Egypt,
H. W. Gray Company, Inc. |
BOX-FOLDER 75/16 |
Tour guide, 1975
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Used by Warren and her husband during their August
1976 trip to Israel for a series of Abram in Egypt
performances. The book contains two pages of handwritten notes. |