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Size | 2.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 275 items) |
Abstract | Poet Howard Ramsden was a native of New England, but lived for many years in Leaksville, N.C. His poems were published in a wide variety of publications, including little magazines, literary journals, and daily newspapers. Materials include letters, 1944-1968 and undated, relating to publication of Ramsden's poems. In the late 1940s, these letters are largely from publications that published Ramsden's poems granting him permission to use those poems in a compilation of his works (probably never published). There are also numerous acceptances and rejection slips for poems Ramsden tried to place. Also included are many poems by Ramsden and poems he collected that were written by others, as well as his notes relating to various literary works. |
Creator | Ramsden, Howard, 1908-1968. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
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Poet Howard Ramsden was a native of New England, but lived for many years in Leaksville, N.C. His poems were published in a wide variety of publications, including little magazines, literary journals, and daily newspapers.
Back to TopMaterials include letters, 1944-1968 and undated, relating to publication of Ramsden's poems. In the late 1940s, these letters are largely from publications that published Ramsden's poems granting him permission to use those poems in a compilation of his works (probably never published). There are also numerous acceptances and rejection slips for poems Ramsden tried to place. Also included are many poems by Ramsden and poems he collected that were written by others, as well as his notes relating to various literary works.
Back to TopArrangement: chronological.
Materials include letters, 1944-1968 and undated, relating to publication of Ramsden's poems. In the late 1940s, these letters are largely from publications that published Ramsden's poems granting him permission to use those poems in a compilation of his works (probably never published). There are also numerous acceptances and rejections slips for poems Ramsden tried to place.
Folder 1 |
1944-1949 |
Folder 2 |
1951-1954 |
Folder 3 |
1962-1968 and undated |
Typed, holograph, and published poems by Ramsden, most of them collected into titled volumes as listed below.
Folder 4-6
Folder 4Folder 5Folder 6 |
The Actual Illusion |
Folder 7-8
Folder 7Folder 8 |
The Clear Destiny |
Folder 9 |
Cry Hylas |
Folder 10-11
Folder 10Folder 11 |
Earthly Season |
Folder 12-13
Folder 12Folder 13 |
Forgiveness in the Thorn |
Folder 14 |
In Discovery of Fate |
Folder 15 |
Inside Thin Houses |
Folder 16 |
A New Budding |
Folder 17 |
A New Say |
Folder 18 |
The Savour and the Shining |
Folder 19 |
Songs from a Buried Grove |
Folder 20 |
Ten Poems |
Folder 21 |
This Person in Front |
Folder 22-23
Folder 22Folder 23 |
The Undying Search |
Folder 24-25
Folder 24Folder 25 |
We Live the Myth |
Folder 26 |
The Western Path |
Folder 27 |
When Things Look Kind |
Folder 28 |
You Clasp the Shadow |
Folder 29 |
The Young World Calling |
Folder 30-37
Folder 30Folder 31Folder 32Folder 33Folder 34Folder 35Folder 36Folder 37 |
Miscellaneous poems |
Folder 38 |
Miscellaneous published poems |
Poems by others collected by Ramsden, with a few of his own poems interspersed.
Folder 39-42
Folder 39Folder 40Folder 41Folder 42 |
Draft of untitled volume of collected poems |
Folder 43 |
Notes on untitled volume of collected poems |
Folder 44 |
The War Years |
Folder 45 |
Miscellaneous collected poems |
Folder 46-48
Folder 46Folder 47Folder 48 |
Miscellaneous notes |
Folder 49 |
The Golden Treasury of Songs and Lyrics (1924) with some annotation |
Image P-4739/1 |
Ramsden, Howard, undated photograph |