Kingston Public Library: Local History Room
Pamphlet Collection
March 23, 2006
Poetry (Kingston residents)
Bulk dates: circa 1860s – 1930s
Pamphlet Collection, PC-36
1 box (5 linear inches)
Historical sketch: Not applicable: see scope and content note.
Scope and content: This Collection of poetry came together as a result of miscellaneous
documents, of undetermined provenance, needing to be housed and indexed. The only
relationships that these documents have are that they each in some way can be classified
as poetry and many of those who wrote them were either Kingston residents or summer
residents. The majority of the poems seemed to have been written during the late 1800s –
through the 1920s.
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To Christopher Prince Drew, June 27, 1905 by Sarah DeNormandy Bailey
East Wind by Abbie Farwell Brown
Gurnet Light by Anna p. Carll
(2) scrapbooks of poems and clippings comprised by Sally Dawes (Chase)
Mrs. Edward Barker’s House in Triphammer by Ellis Densmore
Song in Memory of Mary Sullivan, 1866 by Catherine Russell Drew
A – sailing down Jones River by Catherine Russell Drew
Elder Brewster 1944 by Eliza Holmes Faunce
In Memoriam (for Kingston High School Reunion of 1910) by Sarah C. Faunce
For the Presentation of the Boston Post Cane to Mr. Augustus Simmons in 1914
by Walter H. Faunce
The Kitchen Spree – rhyme (on temperance) by Walter H. Faunce
Copy of a letter to Mrs. Arthur Ferguson from her son James, 1943
Our Childhood’s Early Home by Deacon James Foster
A Sermon in Rhyme, April 12, 1815 by Deacon James Foster
Isles of Shoals, 1935 by Annie Ames Fuller
Miss Nettie L. Winthington by Annie Ames Fuller
Sunrise and Sunset (ice-storm of 1921) by Carrie M. Gardner
When the Birds Come North Again by Ella Higginson
For Nettie, 1935 by Helen Holmes
Copies of poems from Helen Holmes’ scrapbook of poetry and sayings
Parting Song (for Kingston High School Reunion of 1910) by Mary Russell
Adams Holmes
Old Days in Kingston, 1969 by Helen Keith
God’s Autumn Weaving, 1936 by Mary Lawrance
Gone Before by Miss Fanny Adelia McLauthlin
Hang up the Baby’s Stockings by Emily Huntington Miller
Hiawatha, up to date (based on a family letter) by Sarah S. Holmes Norton
The Ghost Dance of the Sioux by Jane Elliott O’Reilly
From My Hilltop by Jane Elliott O’Reilly
Poems of Doctor Samuel Bartlett Parris from the Remains of Samuel Bartlett
Parris
Uphill by Christine Rossetti
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Kingston Public Library: Local History Room
Pamphlet Collection
March 23, 2006
Poetry (Kingston residents)
Bulk dates: circa 1860s – 1930s
Pamphlet Collection, PC-36
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SeaCall by E. Leslie Spaulding
The Old Kingston Home 1704 – 1880 by Thomas D. Stetson
The Old Bay Road (from Duxbury to Kingston) by Katherine L. Ward
The Rainbow in the Driftwood by Frances Lester Warner
The Village Church (regarding the Second Meeting House in Kingston) by
Henry Washburn
From Christmas Card, 1935 by Kate DeNormandie Wilson
Helen Holmes by Rho Zueblin
Collections of poems from different poems – none seem to relate to Kingston, or
are by Kingston residents.
Acquisition: Retrospectively
Access: Unrestricted.
Copyright: Obtaining proper copyright permission is the responsibility of the
Collection user.
Processing note: Archivist Carrie Elliott processed and prepared the finding aid
for this collection.
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