UALR.0007 A-2 JOHN GOULD FLETCHER PAPERS

4 Boxes. 1913-1970. Estate Purchase. revised May 2008 jlm

This collection contains the personal letters, manuscripts, published poetry and prose, and photographs of John Gould Fletcher. Fletcher won the Pulitzer Prize for his "Selected Poems" in 1939. He is distinguished as the first poet from west of the Mississippi to receive this award and Arkansas' only Pulitzer Prize winning poet to date (1993). His writings available in the collection cover the period from 1913 to 1950.

A native of Little Rock, Arkansas, John Gould Fletcher was born January 3, 1886, the son of John Gould and Adolphine Krause Fletcher (Sr.). Educated in Little Rock, Andover, and Harvard, Fletcher traveled extensively in Europe and lived in England where he established himself as an Imagist Poet. He returned to Arkansas during the mid-thirties and in 1936 married children's author Charlie May Simon. They lived in their home "Johnswood" until his tragic death in 1950.

Note 1: See also: Fletcher-Terry Family Papers (UALR.0018) Charlie May Simon Papers (UALR.0006) Simon book collection listed in online catalogue, http://library.ualr.edu/ JGF's marginalia listed in card catalogue. Art works belonging to JGF are included in coll. UALR.0006, Series V

Note 2: Photocopying is restricted to printed materials only. All reproductions of original documents are courtesy of the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville Special Collections and are provided for research purposes only.

Note 3: Requests for permission to publish materials from this collection should be requested from: Dr. Ethel Simpson Trustee of the Fletcher-Simon Literary Estate Mullins Library University of Arkansas Fayetteville, AR 72701

Arrangement: correspondence from JGF arranged alphabetically (1913-1947); manuscripts; photographs; and printed materials: includes poetry, prose, a play, music and critiques.

Note : When requesting materials, please specify collection number (UALR.0007), box number, and file number.

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FILE TITLES

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File 1 - Correspondence From: John Gould Fletcher, 1913-1947. (A-F) 14 items. To: Stringfellow Barr, Beaumont, Donald Davidson, Davis, Mrs. Fletcher, and T. Fletcher. File 2 - Correspondence From: John Gould Fletcher, 1913-1947. (G-Z) 16 items. To: John and Alletah Glasier, Miss [Amy] Lowell, Mr. Miller, Owsley, U.M. Rose, Catherina A. Schimmer, Van Wyck, a letter fragment, and a Christmas Card from JGF. File 3 - Correspondence To: John Gould Fletcher. 1927-1948, n.d. 26 items. File 4 - Diaries: John Gould Fletcher, 1904 and 1924. 2 items. File 5 - Poetry by: John Gould Fletcher, [handwritten]. 7 items. Titles: J.G.F. [in Spanish]. Color Study. Dixie. Recipe for a Fletcher Poem. To Charles Hogue. Swordfish House, Theaters, Swordfish Weathervane (photocopy). Untitled. File 6 - Poetry by: John Gould Fletcher, [typescript]. 10 items. Titles: Canadian Crossing. The Cart Horses. Cotton Seed Oil Mill, Christmas. 1949. The Flight From Egypt, Christmas Greeting. n.d. Room on the Highway. Sailboats. The Summons Home. To Almighty God. The Tree at Hiroshima, Christmas Greetings from JGF. 1946. Untitled. File 7 - Manuscripts: John Gould Fletcher (on Poetry, the Poet, and Writing Poetry) A-E. [typescript]. 3 items. Titles: Alice Corbin and Imagism. American Poetry - Is it Regional or National? The Evolution of Poetic Form. File 8 - Manuscripts: John Gould Fletcher (on Poetry, the Poet, and Writing Poetry) F-I. [typescript]. 4 items. Titles: How Poems are Made. Humanism and the Gang Spirit in Criticism. Image and Rhythm in Poetry. Introduction to Poems of John McCarthy.

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File 9 - Manuscripts: John Gould Fletcher (on Poetry, the Poet, and Writing Poetry) J-O. [typescript]. 10 items. Titles: Modern Poetry. 1900-1923. Modern Poetry. 1936-1945 [revised lecture]. (2 parts). Modern Poetry, I. The Romantic Phase. (2copies). II. The Experimental Phase. (2 copies). Note on Polyphonic Prose. (2 copies). The Orient and Contemporary Poetry. File 10 - Manuscripts: John Gould Fletcher (on Poetry, the Poet, and Writing Poetry) P-Pq. [typescript]. 7 items. Titles: The Poet. Poetry and Painting. Poetry and Philosophy. Poetry and Social Faith. Poetry and the Common People. Poetry and the Modern Consciousness. Poetry -- Its Value and Its Significance Today. File 11 - Manuscripts: John Gould Fletcher (on Poetry, the Poet, and Writing Poetry). Pr-S. [typescript]. 10 items. Titles: Preface. Preface to Irradiations. (2 copies). Preface to some Imagist Poets. (2 copies). The Quiet Ones. The Relationship of the Arts to Poetry. The Southern Poet and His Background. (Lecture series IV). The Standard of the Difficult. (2 copies). File 12 - Manuscripts: John Gould Fletcher (on Poetry, the Poet, and Writing Poetry). T-Z. [typescript]. 6 items. Titles: What has happened to American Poetry since 1912? William Blake. The Workings of the Poet's Mind. (lecture). Writing as a Career -- With Special Attention to Poetry. Writing as a Career. Writing Poetry as a Career. File 13 - Manuscripts: John Gould Fletcher (on Poetry, the Poet, and Writing Poetry). untitled manuscript fragments. [typescript]. 2 items. Item #1 - Untitled manuscript fragment on style, p. 10-38, includes: Irradiation V, VI, VII, VII, IX. Blue Symphony, Green Symphony, The Aster Flower, In the Garden of Dreams. Arizona Poems: The Well in the Desert, Mexican Quarter, Cliff- Dwelling.

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Down the Mississippi: Embarkation, Heat, Full Moon, The Moon's Orchestra, Stevedores, Night Landing, The Silence. Lincoln. Spring. The Swan. London Night Fall. To Columbus. Item #2 - untitled manuscript fragment on style, p. 25-42: Lecture on the differences of style used in English and Oriental poetry. File 14 - Manuscripts: John Gould Fletcher (Prose). 2 items. Titles: Frank Lloyd Wright - A Portrait and an Estimate. Translation and Introduction to Rousseau's "The Reveries of a Solitary."

Box 2

File 1 - Printed Materials: Poetry and Prose by JGF, The Book of Nature. 1913. (photocopy). File 2 - Printed Materials: Poetry and Prose by JGF, Visions of the Evening. 1913. (photocopy). File 3 - Printed Materials: Poetry and Prose by JGF. 1915-1916. Titles: The Poet, Poetry Journal. 1915. The March of the Dead Men, Poetry Journal. 1916. File 4 - Printed Materials: Poetry and Prose by JGF. 1918. Titles: The Waking of the Guns, Poetry Journal. Jan 1918. The Great Silence, Poetry Journal. Jan 1918. Harold Monro, Poetry Journal. Mar 1918. The Young Poets of England, Youth Poetry of Today. Oct 1918. (2 copies) The Passing of the Armies, Youth: Poetry of Today. Dec 1918. (2 copies) File 5 - Printed Materials: Poetry and Prose by JGF. 1919-1935. Titles: Las Poesie d'Andre Fontainas. 1919. The Tree of Life, 3 American Poets. 1921. To Almighty God, The New Leader Book. 1926. Blake's Affinities with Oriental Thought, The Rising Generation. 1931. Incantations and The Modern Southern Poets, The Westminster Magazine. 1935. File 6 - Printed Materials: Poetry and Prose by JGF. 1936-1949. Titles: Gerard Manley Hopkins-Poet or Priest? The American Review. 1936. The Squire of Gayeta Lodge, The Saturday Review of Literature. 1941. On Poetic Drama. Bulletin of the Dramatists' Assembly. 1939. Ode to New York, Quarterly Review of Literature. 1944. Pacific Beach, Variegation. 1947. File 7 - Printed Materials: Poetry and Prose by JGF. 1950-1954. Titles: Some Folk-Ballads and the Background of History, The Arkansas Historical Quarterly. 1950. Palominos, Southwest Review. Spring 1950. Cotton Field in Harvest, Southwest Review. Autumn 1950.

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Charles Baudelaire, William Blake, Sonnets at Sunset, and Evening of Life - Four Posthumous Poems, Poetry. 1954. File 8 - Printed Materials: Poetry and Prose by JGF. n.d. Titles: Lincoln (2 copies). The Grand Canyon of the Colorado, This is Grand Canyon. In Poetry, Man Travels, Trace. The House Without Birds, Wonderful News. List of John Gould Fletcher's poetry on discs of Brander Matther Dramatic Museum Columbia University. File 9 - Music: Lyrics by JGF. c.1934. Titles: Three Songs for Baritone (music by Laurence Powell) Repose The Silence Night Soul Four Songs for a Young Lady (music by Henry Leland Clarke) The Yardstick File 10 - Play: by JGF. "A Sparrow Falls", c.1939. program first performance, 1952.

Box 3

File 1 - Printed Materials: The Freeman, Jul - Dec 1920. Critiques by JGF include the writings of: D.H. Lawrence, Aldous Huxley, John Masefield, J.C. Squire, and John Drinkwater. File 2 - Printed Materials: The Freeman, Jan - Jun 1921. Critiques by JGF include the writings of: Walter de la Mare, Robert Bridges, Helen Dircks, Walt Whitman, and Wilfred Owen. File 3 - Printed Materials: The Freeman, Jul - Dec 1921. Critiques by JGF include the writings of: John Freeman, Edmund Blunden, Theodore Maynard, and William Henry Davies. File 4 - Printed Materials: The Freeman, Jan - May 1922. Critiques by JGF include the writings of: John Milton, Richard Aldington, Edward Thomas, Anna Wickham, Havelock Ellis, Charlotte Mew, John Freeman, and Percy Bysshe Shelley. File 5 - Printed Materials: The Freeman, Jun - Dec 1922. Critiques by JGF include the writings of: John Drinkwater, Walter de La Mare, Thomas Hardy, and Robert Graves. File 6 - Printed Materials: The Freeman, Jan - Jun 1923. Critiques by JGF include the writings of: Gregor Drause and Karl Witz, Miguel de Unamuno, Jean de Bosschere, Elie Faure, Edvin Curran, Louis Untermeyer, and Julius Meier-Graefe. File 7 - Printed Materials: The Freeman, Jul - Dec 1923, Feb 1924. Critiques by JGF include the writings of: Elinor Wylie, Willa Cather, Muna Lee, Herbert W. Hartman, Vachel Lindsay, Matthew Josephson, George Sterling, Henrik Ibsen, Wilbert Snow, Mary Austin, Wallace Stevens, and Robert Frost. File 8 - Printed Materials: Reviews of JGF's Poetry, 1913-1915.

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File 9 - Printed Materials: Reviews of JGF's Poetry, 1926-1956. File 10 - Newsclippings: Reviews of JGF's Poetry, 1920-1946. File 11 - Newsclippings: Literary Career of Pulitzer Prize-Winning Poet John Gould Fletcher. File 12 - Newsclippings: Elegies on the death of John Gould Fletcher. 1951-1954. File 13 - Mementoes: JGF's Marriage to Charlie May Simon. Jan 18, 1936. File 14 - Memorabilia: Programs from "Arkansas Art Hendrix College" and "The Phoenix". Letter JGF transcribed from Albert Pike to President Andrew Jackson.

Box 4 - Photographs and Prints.

File 1 - Photographs #1-9. #1 - John Gould Fletcher, on the beach, c.1923. #2 - JGF, with children, n.d. #3 - JGF, with children, n.d. #4 - Unidentified woman [Daisy Fletcher]. #5 - Unidentified woman, seaside. n.d. #6 - Unidentified woman, seaside. n.d. #7 - Unidentified woman. #8 - Unidentified woman. #9 - Unidentified woman. Files 2-5 - Photographs #10-44 - John Gould Fletcher's European Tour. c.1927. [includes: street scenes, landscapes, seascapes, villages, boats, and steamship]. File 6 - Photographs #45-52. #45 - Merry-Go-Round, London. c.1913. #46 - Lawrence. n.d. #47 - John Keats Life Mask. #48 - John Cournos, 1923. #49 - Unidentified man. #50 - Ana Twyer Russell. #51 - Horace Bradzk, 1912. #52 - Post Card of Portland Art Museum. File 7 - Block Prints #53-64. #53 - The Free Library, by C.W. Taylor. #54 - Waterloo Bride, by Muirhead Bone. #55 - Ploughing, by Clare Leighton. #56 - Breaking up a Barge, by Clare Leighton. #57 - Lambing, by Clare Leighton. #58 - Richmond Terrace, by C.W. Taylor. #59 - Sychnant Pass, by C.W. Taylor. #60 - Cows, by Hester Sainsbury. #61 - Mainz Cathedral, by Emma Bormann. #62 - Bowlplayers, by Gwendolen Raverat. #63 - Christ Stilling the Waves, by Emma Schlangenhausen. #64 - Untitled.

Loose items in Box 4

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#65 - Copper plates: a) portrait of JGF. b) address.?? (instead, calling card plate of Mrs. Jesse Turner, Sr.) #66 - Metal printing plate of "Noted Arkansas Editors." #67 - Mounted postcard of Louisiana's Capitol. #68 - Printed bookplates of John Gould Fletcher. #69 - Rubber stamp, with name and address. #70 - Norman Holmes Pearson, 1940.

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