Rosemary Farrar Papers, 1930-1986
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Mortimer Rare Book Room Smith College Northampton, MA
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Rosemary Farrar Papers
Creation of Rosemary Farrar Papers
Time of Creation of Rosemary Farrar Papers
Farrar, Rosemary
Biographical History for: Rosemary Farrar Papers
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.
The Rosemary Farrar papers were a gift of Elizabeth Rose in 1986. Ms. Farrar left the contents of this collection to Mrs. Rose.
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.
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.
Processed by Melvin Carlson, Jr., 2007
Poets, American-20th Century-Biography-Sources
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Farrar, Rosemary.
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Poetry Society of Georgia
series
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
History, vol. 1-2, School writings on historic topicsn.d.
Music score book, containing exercises and compositions n.d.
Manuscripts (typescript originals and/or carbon copies) of published poems, with notations as to where published 1951-1971, n.d.
Manuscripts (mostly carbon copies, but also typescript originals) of 30 unpublished poems (not in Voices Will Ring)n.d.
The Little Yellow Cats (carbon copy), an unfinished short story (3 copies) and handwritten drafts 1972-1976, n.d.
Manuscript (carbon copy) of Voices Will Ring n.d.
Notes and copies of letters related to the publication of Voices Will Ring 1981, n.d.
Folder of reviews on Voices Will Ring1982-1983
Letters to Rosemary Farrar or Elizabeth Rose on Voices Will Ring 1983-1986
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
The Grey Squirrel (in The Paebar Anthology of Verse: Third Series. New York: The Paebar Co., 1935, p. 17) 1935,
Rustic Paradox (in American Women Poets 1937. Edited by Margery Mansfield. New York: Henry Harison Poetry Publisher, 1937, p. 37) 1937
Miss Caroline (in Kaleidograph 9 Dec 1937): no. 8, p. 10)1937
Twilight Snow (in Yankee 5 (Mar 1939): no. 3, p. 29) 1939
The Land Not Rained Upon (in The Writer 52 (Sep 1939): no. 9, p. 275) 1939
The Cocks Have Crowed (in Voices: A Quarterly of Poetry 103 (Autumn 1940, p. 41)1940
The Cocks Have Crowed (in The Poetry Society of America Anthology. New York: The Fine Editions Press, 1946, p. 57) 1946
Counsel (in This is my America. Washington, D.C.: The Washington Poetry, 1946, p. 37) 1946
The Lilac (in mimeographed pamphlet of poems, p. [12] Also another similar pamphlet of poetry.n.d.)
Folder of seven poems published in newspapers that had previously been published 1940
SERIES III. OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Poems for Every Mood. Complied by Harriet Monroe and Morton Dauwen Zabel. Racine, Wis.: Whitman Publishing Co. 1933
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
The Poetry Society of America 66th Annual Dinner: program 22 April 1976
The Lyric 57 (Fall 1977): no. 4 1977
The Poetry Society of Virginia [membership list]1979
Yearbook of the First Resistance Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution 1980-1981
The Poetry Society of America Membership List 1981
Alford Garden Club 1981