Collection Overview
Farrar, Rosemary
Rosemary Farrar Papers
1930-1986
MS 270
2 boxes
(1 linear ft.)
English
Mortimer Rare Book Room
Smith College
Northampton, MA
Contains some manuscripts and published works by Rosemary Farrar. Also has an extensive run of the annual volumes of The Poetry Society of Georgia (1944-1984).
Historical Note
Rosemary Farrar was born in Boston, Massachusetts on July 8, 1915, the daughter of Frederick C. and Freda F. Kelsey Farrar. They moved to Alford, Massachusetts, in 1921, and it was there that she lived most of her life. Farrar attended school in Dalton and Great Barrington, Massachusetts, and graduated in 1932 from the Searles High School of Great Barrington.
Farrar was employed as a bookkeeper and accountant during her working career in a Ford automobile agency that successively went by the names Whalen & Kasther Agency, Mahaiwe Motors and then Whittaker Ford.
Farrar started writing while still in high school and continued to write poetry all of her adult life. Her poems were published in various publications, including the
New York Times, the Christian Science Monitor, the Washington Post and Yankee magazine. In 1981 her book of poetry Voices Will Ring was published. She was a member of the Poetry Society of America, the Poetry Society of Georgia, the Poetry Society of Virginia and the Massachusetts State Poetry Society, as well as an associate member of the Academy of American Poets. She was also a member of St. James' Episcopal Church in Great Barrington and a longtime member of the Alford Garden Club.
Rosemary Farrar died on March 2, 1986 in the Willowood Nursing Home in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.
Scope and Contents of the Collection
The Rosemary Farrar Papers consists of some manuscript copies of her poems and a collection of publications containing her poetry. Also included are some reviews of her only book of poetry,
Voices Will Ring.
Organization of the Collection
This collection is organized into three series:
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[I. MANUSCRIPTS](list-ser1)
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[II. PUBLISHED POETRY](list-ser2)
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[III. OTHER PUBLICATIONS](list-ser3)
The collection is open to research according to the regulations of the Mortimer Rare Book Room.
The Rosemary Farrar Papers are the physical property of the Mortimer Rare Book Room, Smith College. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors of the works or their legal representatives.
Please use the following format when citing materials from this collection:
Rosemary Farrar Papers, Mortimer Rare Book Room, Smith College, Northampton, MA.
The Rosemary Farrar papers were a gift of Elizabeth Rose in 1986. Ms. Farrar left the contents of this collection to Mrs. Rose.
Processed by Melvin Carlson, Jr., 2007
Farrar, Rosemary.
Poets, American-20th Century-Biography-Sources
Farrar, Rosemary
Poetry Society of Georgia
I. MANUSCRIPTS
The manuscripts include some school writings, manuscripts of published and unpublished poems and the manuscript of Farrar's book
Voices Will Ring, along with reviews. The manuscripts are arranged in chronological order.
II. PUBLISHED POETRY
This series consists of a collection of books, magazines and newspaper clippings containing poems of Rosemary Farrar. The printed versions of Farrar's poems are arranged in chronological order.
III. OTHER PUBLICATIONS
This series consists of a collection of books, pamphlets and annual publications with which Farrar was associated. The publications are arranged in chronological order.
SERIES I. MANUSCRIPTS
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History, vol. 1-2, School writings on historic topicsn.d.
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Music score book, containing exercises and compositions n.d.
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Manuscripts (typescript originals and/or carbon copies) of published poems, with notations as to where published 1951-1971, n.d.
Includes the poems: Christmas Eve, Simple Song, Leisure, Special Grace, The Grey Squirrel, The Under-Mountain Road, Golden Anniversary, Twilight Snow, The Cocks Have Crowed
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Manuscripts (mostly carbon copies, but also typescript originals) of 30 unpublished poems (not in Voices Will Ring)n.d.
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The Little Yellow Cats (carbon copy), an unfinished short story (3 copies) and handwritten drafts 1972-1976, n.d.
Verso: Whisper, a poem published in 1976
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Manuscript (carbon copy) of Voices Will Ring n.d.
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Notes and copies of letters related to the publication of Voices Will Ring 1981, n.d.
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Folder of reviews on Voices Will Ring1982-1983
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Letters to Rosemary Farrar or Elizabeth Rose on Voices Will Ring 1983-1986
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Letter from Mary Shepard White, 27 Jul 1983; from Luther Starnes, 30 Nov 1983; from Elizabeth J. Hodges, 11 Aug 1986 1883, 1986
SERIES II. PUBLISHED POETRY
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The Grey Squirrel (in The Paebar Anthology of Verse: Third Series. New York: The Paebar Co., 1935, p. 17) 1935,
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Rustic Paradox (in American Women Poets 1937. Edited by Margery Mansfield. New York: Henry Harison Poetry Publisher, 1937, p. 37) 1937
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Miss Caroline (in Kaleidograph 9 Dec 1937): no. 8, p. 10)1937
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Twilight Snow (in Yankee 5 (Mar 1939): no. 3, p. 29) 1939
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The Land Not Rained Upon (in The Writer 52 (Sep 1939): no. 9, p. 275) 1939
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The Cocks Have Crowed (in Voices: A Quarterly of Poetry 103 (Autumn 1940, p. 41)1940
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The Cocks Have Crowed (in The Poetry Society of America Anthology. New York: The Fine Editions Press, 1946, p. 57) 1946
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Counsel (in This is my America. Washington, D.C.: The Washington Poetry, 1946, p. 37) 1946
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The Lilac (in mimeographed pamphlet of poems, p. [12] Also another similar pamphlet of poetry.n.d.)
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Folder of seven poems published in newspapers that had previously been published 1940
SERIES III. OTHER PUBLICATIONS
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Poems for Every Mood. Complied by Harriet Monroe and Morton Dauwen Zabel. Racine, Wis.: Whitman Publishing Co. 1933
Inscribed by Rosemary Farrar to her mother, 1935
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The Poetry Society of Georgia [annual volume]. Holdings are: 20 (1944), 23 (1947), 30 (1954)-32 (1956), 49 (1973)-60 (1984)1944, 1947, 1954, 1956, 1973, 1984
Farrar had poems published in: v. 23, p. 18: Golden Anniversary; v. 52, p. 28-29: Waterlude; v. 53, p. 30-31: Property Settlement
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The Poetry Society of America 66th Annual Dinner: program 22 April 1976
Also newspaper article on one of the honorees: Margery Mansfield
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The Lyric 57 (Fall 1977): no. 4 1977
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The Poetry Society of Virginia [membership list]1979
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Yearbook of the First Resistance Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution 1980-1981
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The Poetry Society of America Membership List 1981
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Alford Garden Club 1981