| Other author/creator | Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989 inscriber. |
| Other author/creator | Clark, Eleanor Phelps, former owner. |
| Other author/creator | Jarrell, Randall, 1914-1965 former owner. |
| Other author/creator | Jarrell, Mary, 1914-2007, former owner. |
| Other author/creator | Starr, Milton, former owner. |
| Other author/creator | Starr, Zaro, former owner. |
| Other author/creator | Wright, Stuart, 1948- former owner. |
| Contents |
To a little girl, one year old, in a ruined fortress: Sirocco ; Gull's cry ; The child next door ; The flower ; Colder fire -- Promises: What was the promise that smiled from the maples at evening? ; Court-martial ; Gold glade ; Dark woods ; Country burying (1919) ; School lesson based on word of tragic death of entire Gillum family ; Summer storm (circa 1916), and God's grace ; Founding fathers, nineteenth-century style, southeast U.S.A. ; Foreign shore, old woman, slaughter of octopus ; Dark night of ; Infant boy at midcentury ; Lullaby: smile in sleep ; Man in moonlight ; Mad young aristocrat on beach ; Dragon country: to Jacob Boehme ; Ballad of a sweet dream of peace ; Boy's will, joyful labor without pay, and harvest home (1918) ; Lullaby: a motion like sleep ; The necessity for belief. |
| Local note | Joyner Wright Coll. copy 30372014794025 inscribed on front fly-leaf "To Amy [i.e. Eleanor Phelps Clark, Warren's mother-in-law], my best love, Red [i.e., Robert Penn Warren], NYC, August 8, 1957." Includes dust jacket. Stuart Wright Book Collection #1.29. See also related manuscript material in the Stuart Wright Collection, #1169, Robert Penn Warren Papers, in Joyner Library Special Collections. |
| Local note | Joyner Wright Coll. copy 30372016360577 inscribed on front fly-leaf "To Randall & Mary [Jarrell] all the best, as always, Red [i.e., Robert Penn Warren], NYC, August 8, 1957." Includes dust jacket. Laid in are 2 unidentified undated photographs. Stuart Wright Book Collection #1.30. See also related manuscript material in the Stuart Wright Collection, #1169, Robert Penn Warren Papers, in Joyner Library Special Collections. |
| Local note | Joyner Wright Coll. copy 30372014793928 inscribed on front fly-leaf "To Milton + Zaro [Starr] with best love, Red [i.e., Robert Penn Warren], Hyannis, August 1, 1957." Stuart Wright Book Collection #1.15. See also related manuscript material in the Stuart Wright Collection, #1169, Robert Penn Warren Papers, in Joyner Library Special Collections. |
| Local note | Joyner Wright Coll. copy 30372017049120 inscribed "For Robert Penn Warren, with the affection of everybody at Random House - especially Bennett Cerf. November, 1960." Inscribed on title page "To Stuart [Wright], warmest regards and gratitude, Red [Robert Penn Warren]." Publisher's presentation copy to Warren, bound in blue leather with marbled endpapers. Laid in is a with compliments of Bennett Cerf card annotated "With deep affection" (ca. 1988). Stuart Wright Book Collection #169.4. See also related manuscript material in the Stuart Wright Collection, #1169, Robert Penn Warren Papers, in Joyner Library Special Collections. |
| References |
Grimshaw, J. Robert Penn Warren, A15.a1 |
| Acquisitions source |
Joyner Wright Coll. copies 30372014794025, 30372016360577, and 30372014793928 purchased from Stuart Wright, 2010 |
| Acquisitions source |
Joyner Wright Coll. copy 30372017049120 purchased from Stuart Wright, 2012 |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989. Promises. New York : Random House, c1957 |
| LCCN | 57007894 |
