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THE ESTHER FORBES COLLECTION
Series 1: Esther Forbes’ Papers
TITLE
DATE
Folder 1
Complete File of the Chronapax
Jan. 1900- May 1901
Folder 2
The Sons of Ugo
Manuscript Novel in
Eighteen Notebooks
Notebook Number
1
1 II
2 II
3 II
2
3
Began 1901
The Sons of Ugo
Manuscript Novel in
Eighteen Notebooks
Notebook Number
4
5
6
7
8
9
Began 1901
The Sons of Ugo
Manuscript Novel in
Eighteen Notebooks
Notebook Number
10
11
12
13
14
15
Began 1901
PIECES
Box 1
Folder 3
Folder 4
Folder 5
15
18
8
10
9
17
10
15
13
12
15
18
Essays Written at University of
Began 1901
Wisconsin with Teachers’ Criticisms
13
11
16
17
15
11
Comparison of Pope’s Windsor
& Thomson’s Winter
Imprompter
Imprompter
Songs in the Plays studied
Squirrels
King-ship as a test of character
Marlowe’s Religious
Beliefs as shown in plays
English Art as influenced
by the Romantic spirit
Untitled
The Grey Muffler
The Sally Pond
Five Plays
Untitled
The Tea Drinker
Hans Klausen
Witter Bynner
Witter Bynner
Untitled
Robert Service’s “Rhymes
of a Red Cross Man”
Untitled
Untitled
Untitled
Untitled
The Enjoyment of Sadness
The Women in Richard III
Untitled
Untitled
Untitled
The Serve in Tennis
The Charwomen in the
Capitol
Back of the Main Hall
Daily Theme
Untitled
Untitled
Untitled
Untitled
Untitled
Untitled
Untitled
Imprompter
Oct. 16, 1916
4
n.d.
n.d.
n.d.
Oct. 24
n.d.
Nov. 18, 1916
2
3
3
1
3
3
n.d.
3
n.d.
March 7, 1917
March 25
Feb. 17, 1917
Nov. 22, 1916
March 3, 1917
April 5, 1917
Nov. 24, 1916
Nov. 24, 1916
Dec. 3, 1916
Nov. 24, 1916
2
3
3
4
1
3
3
1
1
1
1
n.d.
n.d.
Nov. 27,
Nov. 31, 1916
n.d.
Dec. 5
n.d.
n.d.
Dec. 16
Oct. 27
Oct. 27
1
1
1
1
3
5
1
1
1
1
1
Oct. 25, 1916
Oct. 27
n.d.
n.d.
n.d.
n.d.
n.d.
Nov. 22, 1916
Nov. 16, 1916
Jan. 11, 1916
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
2
Folder 6
Essays Written at the University of Wisconsin with Teachers’ Criticisms
Animal Heroes
Coleridge
The Cat in the Sack
Untitled
Untitled
Untitled
The Women in Isben’s &
Strindberg Social Plays Compared
The Good Which Browning
found in Villains
A letter from Jess to
Esther Forbes
The Beauty Shop
The City Desolate
Untitled
A Sick Fly
Untitled
Untitled
A Sunday in May
Why We Read What We Read
Arnold Bennett’s Whom
God Hath Joined
Romance & Realism in
Don Juan
Untitled
Untitled
Untitled
Untitled
Untitled
Untitled
Untitled
Brownings the Confessional I
Untitled
Untitled
Untitled
Untitled
Untitled
To an American Killed in the War
Esiest Ferbotess (?)
Untitled
Untitled
n.d.
Nov. 27
n.d.
Nov. 4, 1916
n.d.
n.d.
n.d.
8
4
3
2
1
1
10
n.d.
3
n.d.
1
Oct. 24, 1916
March 8, 1917
Oct, 30, 1916
Nov. 2, 1916
Nov. 16, 1916
Oct. 30, 1916
May 17, 1917
May 14, 1917
n.d.
1
7
1
1
1
1
1
2
2
n.d.
4
Nov.2
n.d.
n.d.
n.d.
n.d.
n.d.
n.d.
Jan. 2, 1917
Nov. 15, 1916
Nov. 4, 1916
Nov. 10, 1916
Dec. 13, 1916
Nov. 15
Nov. 8, 1919
n.d.
May 9, 1917
Nov. 31,
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
4
1
1
1
1
2
3
3
3
2
Box 2
Folder 1
Folder 2
Folder 3
A Nameless Contrivance
Book I
II
V
VI
IX
XI
XIV
XVII
fragments
Jan. 24, 1928
2
8
1
9
4
6
12
11
4
When Brighter Cars are Built
n.d.
Plays - The Vengeance of Il Grand Feb 5, 1918
Captain Fervertaufer
Miscellaneous Correspondence
July 18, 1912
Miscellaneous Articles
n.d.
Illustrations, etc. (research materials)
Miscellaneous Articles,
n.d.
Illustrations, etc. (research materials)
57
8
Perides & Achilles
Patroclus (not an Elsie)
Dimemon; not a dime novel)
Patroclus (nickel novel of Troy)
Patroclus (dime novel of Troy)
Patroclus
Patroclus (5)
Patroclus
May 14, 1906
6
54
Fall 1912
27
40
5
26
26
Folder 3
Aunt Elenor
Nov, 1906
2
Folder 4
Fragment
Bertha
Sept. 18 1907
Dec. 15 1907
1
9
Folder 5
The One Who Failed
The Heart Maiden
The Oldest House in Worcester
A Sunset on the Bosphorus
1908
Summer 1908
March 1908
March 3, 1908
10
7
1
2
Folder 6
The Seventeeth of January
1911
10
Folder 4
Folder 5
Folder 6
3
119
61
BOX 3
Folder 1
Folder 2
Folder 7
Folder 8
Kenny’s New Place
Aviation Meet
July 22, 1911
Sept. 2, 1911
9
1
Port Style: 1. Bay of Naples
2. Purple Hat
An Amateur at Poverty
(1 typed & 1 printed copy)
His Very Best Story (1
typed and 1 printed copy)
The Duke My Word
Macha
False Starts
Starting Out for Fun
Untitled
The Balkan War, Angus
Hamilton
1912
5
Spring 1912
9
Sept. 21, 1912
7
Spring 1912
Nov. 1, 1912
Winter 1912-1913
July, 1913
July 2, 1913
April 8, 1913
7
7
9
7
1
2
Folder 9
Starting Out for Fun
40 Miles to Ostend
The Hermits of the Boat Deck
The Hermits of the Boat Deck
The Silly Age
The Son of a Millionaire
Jan. 1914
Aug. 1914
Oct. 17, 1914
Nov. 1914
Nov. 8, 1914
July 28-Aug 7, 1914
8
7
6
9
4
8
Folder 10
Break Neck Hill
The Blackest Night
Introductions
Mary of Moores End
The Blackest Night II
May 3, 1915
May 31- June 1 1915
1915
May 9, 1915
Sept. 24, 1915
11
7
14
7
5
Folder 11
The White Moth
The Hard Heart of Vivian
Imaginary Conversation
The Open Season
Fragments
Home Games
March 22, 1916
June 21, 1916
Oct. 23 1916
Oct. 27, 1916
Oct. 30, 1916
June 12, 1916
9
13
3
4
4
10
Folder 12
The Wings in the Dark
Stormer Pasha
Folder 13
Untitled
Dec. 13, 1917
Aug. 29-Nov. 13 1917
Oct 30., 1918
7
8
4
BOX 4
Folder 1
Shaw’s Opinion on War
n.d.
15
Folder 2
Prophets of Apollo
Guido’s Children
To Be Married
At the Wheel
Vereingetorix
The Chariot Race
Rothenberg
False Starts (early)
The Transfiguration of Dr. Hodge
The Way of the Transgressor
n.d.
n.d.
Dec. 28
n.d.
n.d.
n.d.
n.d.
n.d.
n.d.
n.d.
15
13
9
9
8
10
14
6
4
6
Folder 3
The Algebra Paper
The Outcast or the Garden
of Gay Flowers
The New Year
Untitled
The Hostage
Life II
The Garden of Gay Flowers
Untitled
List of Characters for Play
n.d.
n.d.
2
35
n.d.
n.d.
n.d.
Sept. 26
n.d.
n.d.
n.d.
3
10
35
4
1
3
1
Folder 4
Untitled
The Passing Turk
Untitled
The Master Player
The Man of Iron
Bay of Naples
Untitled
Untitled
The Rescue of Gaveston
Untitled
n.d.
n.d.
n.d.
n.d.
n.d.
n.d.
n.d.
n.d.
n.d.
n.d.
2
6
7
12
6
2
5
6
14
17
Folder 5
Thru the Night
n.d.
Perides (published version in The Historian)
The Silly Age
n.d.
Joan d’Arc Marrieu
n.d.
Strafford
n.d.
List of Peoples Names
n.d.
The Fact That
n.d.
Fragment
n.d.
Tahis
n.d.
4
2 of 8 pgs
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
Warner Taylor
To Northboro
Fragment
To Triumph Romans
My Gardens
Fragments
Untitled
n.d.
June 23
n.d.
n.d.
n.d.
n.d.
n.d.
1
1
1
1
1
4
1
(notebook)
Folder 6
Fragment
Index
Untitled
Untitled
Untitled
Fragments
n.d.
n.d.
n.d.
n.d.
n.d.
n.d.
1
1
27
18
17
2
Folder 7
Untitled
The Amethyst Cup
Cotta for the Captain of Calvary
The Hostages
The VII Legend
Untitled
The Captain of the Calvary
Fragment
n.d.
n.d.
n.d.
n.d.
n.d.
n.d.
n.d.
n.d.
14
23
5
7
2
9
1
1
Folder 8
Untitled
Untitled
Fragment
Untitled
Chronological Table of Events
Connected with the Diaries
Untitled
Exercises
n.d.
n.d.
n.d.
n.d.
3
2
1
4
n.d.
n.d.
n.d.
2
8
3
BOX 5
Folder 0
Folder 1
Folder 2
Folder 3
Folder 4
Folder 5
Folder 6
Folder 7
Paradise
Correspondence & Mss. I & Part of II
Correspondence on Paradise
Oct 6, 1933-May19,1936
Paradise Manuscript I pgs 1-80
Paradise Manuscript I pgs 81-185
Paradise Manuscript I pgs 186-281
Paradise Manuscript I pgs 282-421
Paradise Manuscript I pgs 422-505
Paradise Manuscript I pgs 506-end
Paradise Manuscript II pgs 1-134
Folder 8
Folder 9
Folder 10
Folder 11
Paradise Manuscript II pgs 135-281
Paradise Manuscript II pgs 282-403
Paradise Manuscript II pgs 404-599
Paradise Manuscript II pgs 600-686
BOX 6
Folder 1
Folder 2
Folder 3
Folder 4
BOX 7
Folder 1
Folder 2
Folder 3
Folder 4
Folder 5
Folder 6
Folder 7
Folder 8
Folder 9
Folder 10
Folder 11
Folder 12
Folder 13
Folder 14
Folder 15
Folder 16
Folder 17
Folder 18
Paradise Mss. Part II & III
Paradise Mss. III pgs 1-121
Paradise Mss. III pgs 122-462
Paradise Mss. III pgs 463-734
Materials brought to library by Louise Erskine
Manuscript revisions for Paradise
History of MA [unfinished work]
Correspondence, 1951
Mss., Research Notes
unfinished work ch.1 Mss. (Hist. of MA)
unfinished work ch.1 Mss. (Hist. of MA)
unfinished work ch.2 Mss. (Hist. of MA)
unfinished work ch.3 Mss. (Hist. of MA)
unfinished work ch.3 Mss. (Hist. of MA)
unfinished work ch.3 notes (Hist. of MA)
unfinished work – early writers (Hist. of MA)
unfinished work – Indians (Hist. of MA)
unfinished work – 1650-1775 100 pgs II (Hist of MA)
research notes
unfinished works – 1775-1850 III (Hist of MA)
research notes
unfinished work – 1630 puritan (Hist of MA)
research notes
unfinished work – pilgrims (Hist of MA)
research notes
Weymouth, Smith, Hunt, Lemens, Squanto etc. (Hist. of MA)
Research notes
1850-1950 civil war-present research notes (Hist of MA)
Correspondence Feb 15-Oct 2, 1951 (Hist of MA)
Originals folders that contained unfinished work
newspaper articles about Esther Forbes 1960-1976
correspondence about Esther Forbes 1966 + 1968
BOX 8
Folder 1-15
The Running of the Tide Mss.
TRotT ch. 1-15 (1 ch. per folder)
BOX 9
Folder 1
Folder 2
Folder 3
Folder 4
Folder 5
Folder 6
Folder 7
Folder 8
Folder 9
Folder 10
Folder 11
Folder 12
Folder 13
BOX 10
Rainbow on the Road Mss.
RotR Mss. ch. 1-4
RotR Mss. ch. 5-7
RotR Mss. ch. 8-11
RotR Mss. ch. 12-14
RotR Mss. ch. 15-19
RotR Mss. ch. 20-23
RotR Mss. ch. 24-27
RotR Mss. ch. 28-32
RotR Mss. ch. 33-35
RotR Mss. ch. 36-41
RotR Mss. ch. 42-43
RotR Mss. ch. 44-47
RotR Mss. ch. 48-51
Photograph of Esther Forbes – 1926
Biblio Log summer 1976
Esther Forbes Exhibit Papers – Fall, 1991
Esther Forbes Bio Sheet
Series 2: The Jack Bales Papers
This is bibliographic material about Esther Forbes that was collected by Jack Bales. It was
published as: Esther Forbes: A Bio-Bibliography of the Author of Johnny Tremain, by The
Scarecrow Press, Inc., Lanham, Md., 1998, Scarecrow Author Bibliographic Series, No. 98.
BOX 1
BOX 2
Reviews and other materials about books by Esther Forbes
O Genteel Lady (1926)
Mirror For Witches (1928)
Miss Marvel (1935)
Paradise (1937)
The General’s Lady (1938)
Paul Revere and the World He Lived In (1942)
Johnny Tremain (1943)
Reviews and other materials about books by Esther Forbes
America’s Paul Revere (1946)
Boston Book (1947)
Running of the Tide (1948)
Rainbow on the Road (1954)
Other Writings by Esther Forbes
1906-1930
1931-1971
Plays by Esther Forbes
BOX 3
Magazine and Journal Articles about Esther Forbes
1926-1951
1953-1998
Historical Novel and American Literature References
1940-1974
1976-1996
BOX 4
Vitae and Biographies in Reference Books
1928-1982
1983-1995
Books and Educational Materials about Johnny Tremain
BOX 5
Anthologies and Critical Studies about Johnny Tremain
1946-1969
1970-1981
1982-1987
1988-1991
1992
1993-1995
BOX 6
Newspaper Articles
1910’s to 1920’s
1930’s
1940’s
1950’s
1960’s
1970’s to 1990’s
Thesis and Dissertations
Book Essays
Obituaries
Harriette Merrifield Forbes
Jack Bales Correspondence with Erskine Family
2 folders