Mary Hoxie Jones: poetry, ca. 1920-1994
Contents include:
Undated poems:
untitled poem re: "Afserco scholars"
untitled poem for Roger, Tuke and Francis
untitled poem re: Cadbury reunion at Moorestown
"Greeting to Mr. and Mrs. Newlin"
"Ode to a handkerchief (To R.O.M.)"
[a group of typed poems about China, as follows:]
"Mulberry leaves"
"Snow"
"Hills"
"Rice fields"
"Apricot and cherry"
"East and West"
"Toys"
"Climbing"
Poems from 1920-1929:
1922
"Prayer"
1923
"The wanderer"
"The immortal spirit"
1923-1925 [these found together]
untitled handwritten drafts of poems [2 pp]
handwritten and typed poems, many with a teacher's comments [with note of Mary Hoxie Jones "Evidently written in 1923-1925 at Mt Holyoke College - for Miss Adams and Miss Snell. MHJ 1985"]
"An anthology of modern verse" [college class assignment, poems by various authors, selected by Mary Hoxie Jones]
1929
"Poems written in 1929 by M. H. J." [4 typed pp.]
"Afternoon tea"
"Happiness (After listening to an atheist-humanist)"
Poems from 1930-1939:
1933-1936
"poems by Mary Hoxie Jones" typed and carbon copies of poems, many dated 1935-1936, some with annotations by Mary Hoxie Jones and numbered [possible candidates for a book?]
typed and carbon copies of poems, many undated but probably ca. 1933-1936?, also 1964 [some are numbered, for possible inclusion in a book?]
typed and handwritten poems (ca. 1935-1936?) [includes 25 sonnets], many of them with a teacher's comments on them, found in a folder inscribed "Mary Hoxie Jones, 419 W. 121st St." [New York City] and "I count you among my best and hope you will want to continue with me in the fall" Also: transcript from Columbia University with grade for English course taken there in spring term 1935-1936
Letter (1936) from Columbia University re: publishing poem "October"
1934
"Headland and Meeting House" [typed]
Poems from 1940-1949:
1940-1941
"Sonnet"
"The blockade"
1945?
"AFSERCO"
untitled Christmas poem
1947
"Listen, the wind!" [typed and handwritten drafts]
Poems from 1950-1959:
1950-1959
handwritten (also a few typed) copies and drafts of poems, 1950-1959
1952-1953
typed and carbon drafts of poems, many dated 1952-1953, submitted to Harper & Brother with letter (1958) from H&B returning same
"Poems by Mary Hoxie Jones" typed carbon drafts of poems, some dated 1952-1953
[see folder 9 for poem from 1951]
Poems from 1960-1969:
1960-1969
handwritten (also a few typed) copies and drafts of poems, 1960-1969
[see folder 9 for other poems from 1960s]
Poems from 1970-1979 and 1980-1989:
1976-1982
6 typed poems dated 1976-1982 with cover sheet "Mary Hoxie Jones" [photocopies]
[see folder 9 for other poems from 1970s and 1980s]
Poems from 1990-1993:
1991-1993
typed, photocopied and handwritten drafts and copies of poems dated 1991-1993; (includes 1992 Christmas letter with poems, poem "Song of the Angels" set to music by Paul Klinkman and Rick Keller)
Other:
handwritten and typed drafts of poems (dated 1951-1983), with 2 form letters from Golden Quill Press regarding contributions to their yearly anthologies for 1969 and 1970; many of the poems have a note on them indicating they were sent to Golden Quill or elsewhere to be published [note on original folder by Mary Hoxie Jones "Original ms."]
Christmas cards (poems):
handwritten Christmas card, 1932
printed Christmas poems by Mary Hoxie Jones, 1936-1973 (incomplete)
photocopies of Christmas poems for 1977, 1978, 1991, 1993
Christmas poems sent to Haverford College Library staff, 1987-1989
Dates
- Creation: ca. 1920-1994
Access Restrictions
The collection is open for research use.
Arrangement
Chronological by year when date of poem is known, undated poems are alphabetically arranged by title in folder 1. [note: Mary Hoxie Jones often dates poems by month and day as well]
Materials Specific Details
(bounded mss.)
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