Gift of Frostiana

The College has been the beneficiary of extensive gifts of Robert Frost manuscripts and other papers, presented by Kathleen Johnston Morrison of Cambridge, Mass.

The gifts were announced at a.reception honoring Mrs. Morrison and her husband, Theodore Morrison, Professor of English Emeritus at Harvard, in the Treasure Room of Baker Library on March 26, which would have been the poet's 99th birthday.

Professor and Mrs. Morrison were close friends of the Frosts. After Mrs. Frost's death in 1938, Mrs. Morrison became the poet's secretary and manager. When he died in 1963, Robert Frost left her all his personal papers and manuscripts. They have since been in Baker Library for safekeeping, and over the years 'Mrs. Morrison has made substantial annual gifts from both the bequest and other Frost papers which she acquired during the poet's lifetime. Professor Morrison has also presented his personal correspondence with Frost to Baker Library's collection.

Edward Connery Lathem '5l, Dean of Dartmouth Libraries, himself the editor of the definitive edition of Frost's poems and a number of other books on the poet, expressed the gratitude of the College for the "thousands of items of correspondence, as well as a vast quantity of literary manuscripts and other personal papers and memorabilia," resources which he said are of "unrivaled significance, in both extent and detail of coverage, for future study of Mr. Frost and his works."