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An unstamped letter in our rural letter box/ Robert Frost.

Title:
An unstamped letter in our rural letter box/ Robert Frost.
Author:
Frost, Robert, 1874-1963.
Call Number:
811 FV97n
Publication Information:
[New York]: The Spiral Press, 1944.
Physical Description:
10 p.: illustrations, 13 cm.
Series Title:
Kathleen Van Der Aue Robert Frost Collection.
Description:
This 1944 Christmas card is the first edition of the poem which was also published in the collection Steeple Bush. The title page includes a woodcut print of a rural mailbox by Thomas W. Nason. The Spiral Press printed 2,050 copies with imprints, as follows: 1. Robert Frost, 300 copies; 2. Ann & Joseph Blumenthal, 200 copies; 3. Henry Holt and Company, 1,250; 4. Marguerite and Fred Melcher, 100; 5.Margaret and Thomas W. Nason, 100 copies, 6.William Sloan, 100 copies. This copy has a Henry Holt and Company imprint.

[This card is a part of the Holiday Greetings from Frost scrapbook; 811 FV97.]
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Credit Line:
Gift of Kathleen Van Der Aue in memory of her brother Harrison "Dinty" Moore; February 24, 2022;
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