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Roberts, Martha R., papers A Guide to the Martha R. Roberts papers, undated M 170 A Collection in Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, Collection number M 170

A Guide to the Martha R. Roberts papers, undated M 170

A Collection in Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, Collection number M 170


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B. Pittman

Repository
VCU James Branch Cabell Library
Identification
M 170
Title
Martha R. Roberts papers undated
URL:
http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=vcu-cab/vircu00071.xml
Quantity
4 Linear Feet
Creator
Roberts, Martha Ann Richford
Language
English .

Administrative Information

Use Restrictions

There are no restrictions.

Access Restrictions

Collection is open to research.

Preferred Citation

Martha R. Roberts papers, Collection # M 170, Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA.

Biographical / Historical

Ms. Roberts attended the Columbia School of Journalism and for a time she was on the New York stage. She lived in Charlottesville, Virginia, and had published her poems in numerous magazines.

Scope and Contents

Contains materials relating to her publications, correspondence, and drafts of her work.

Arrangement

Collection is arranged alphabetically. Series I--Personal materials (n.d.) ; Series II--Correspondence (n.d.) ; Series III--Poetry (n.d.) ; Series IV--Fiction (n.d.) ; Series V--Miscellaneous (n.d.)

Subjects and Indexing Terms

  • Dancers -- United States
  • Poets, American -- Virginia

Significant Persons Associated With the Collection

  • Roberts, Martha Ann Richford
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Container List

Series I--Personal Materials
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    Address Book
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    Biography
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    Charlottesville--Business Transactions
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    Charlottesville-Domestic
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    Charlottesville-Memberships
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    Charlottesville--Roberts vs. First and Merchants
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    Charlottesville-Social Contacts
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    Christian Science-DeLange
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    Christian Science--Hodges, Alice B.
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    Christian Science--Norwood, Dr. Robert
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    Christian Science-Notes
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    Correspondence--Early New York
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    Correspondence-Early Richmond
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    Correspondence--Roberts, Robert
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    Ephemeral
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    New York City Remembered
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    Photographs-Family
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    Photographs-Miscellaneous
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    Theater (New York)
  • Mixed Materials box: 1
    Roshanara
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Series II--Correspondence
  • Mixed Materials box: 2
    Christian Science
  • Mixed Materials box: 2
    Early Poetry
  • Mixed Materials box: 2
    Charlottesville-General
  • Mixed Materials box: 2
    Charlottesville-General
  • Mixed Materials box: 2
    Lewisohn, Irene
  • Mixed Materials box: 2
    Miscellaneous
  • Mixed Materials box: 2
    Miscellaneous
  • Mixed Materials box: 2
    Roshanara
  • Mixed Materials box: 2
    These Go In Flight
  • Mixed Materials box: 2
    Travels Abroad
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Series III--Poetry
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    Affirmation
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    After Damascus
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    After Dark
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    And Now This Wind
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    Autumn Pain
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    Away
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    Bed-Time
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    Before Damascus
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    Beyond Flight
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    Bon Voyage
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    Caravans
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    Chain of St. Francis
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    Chapel Prayer
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    Charity
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    Child's Prayer
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    City --Adagio
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    City -Adagio, Entr'acte
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    City-Arcady in the Gutter
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    City -Broadway at Noon
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    City -Broadway at Noon, Entr'acte, Adagio, Adante
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    City -Entr'acte
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    City -Entr'acte, In the Park
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    City -In the Church
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    City -In the Park
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    City -Overture
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    City -Pavas, Harlem Boy
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    City -Towers, Entr'acte, Afternoon Gavotte
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    City -Towers, Entr'acte, Crescendo
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    Dark Jehane
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    Devil's Lady
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    Dream-Thrall
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    Early Poetry
    1915-1920
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    Envoi
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    Envoi
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    Envoie
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    Experiment
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    Faith
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    For Alice Meynell
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    For A Letter to E.
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    For Mareyne
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    Friends and Special Occasions
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    Friendship
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    Hear Now the City/Crazy City
  • Mixed Materials box: 3
    Katherine Mansfield
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Kathleen O' Houlihan
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Keepsake
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Making of Mareyne
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Master
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Maturity
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Nativity
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Nostalgia
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Notes for Poetry Talk
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Old Path
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    On Meeting a Certain Person
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Open Letter
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Oracle
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Patmos
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Perhaps
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Poet Replied
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Point of No Return
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Reply to an Ideologist
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Running for the Rain
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Sic Transit Gloria Cordis
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Song for Remembrance
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Song for Sighing
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Song for Trieste
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Spring Song
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Song of Amicus
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Sisters
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    These Go Into Flight
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    These Go Into Flight-Manuscript
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    These Go Into Flight-Related materials
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Thirtieth Piece
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    To a Pretty Lady
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Waiting
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Wanderers
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Wed-Lock
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Winter-Born
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Within Our Dates
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Series IV--Fiction
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Annabel and the Moon-Man
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Annabel and the Moon-Man (draft)
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Art Works-Miscellaneous
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Beauty and the Beast-Script
  • Mixed Materials box: 4
    Begums in New York
  • Mixed Materials [A11423644096] box: 5
    Best Role of Emily Gage
  • Mixed Materials [A11423644096] box: 5
    Bread of Angels
  • Mixed Materials [A11423644096] box: 5
    Bread of Angels (draft)
  • Mixed Materials [A11423644096] box: 5
    Child Memories of India, Begums Pay a Visit, Tale of Tea
  • Mixed Materials [A11423644096] box: 5
    Christmas Plays-Charlottesville
  • Mixed Materials [A11423644096] box: 5
    Cinderella
  • Mixed Materials [A11423644096] box: 5
    Clippings
  • Mixed Materials [A11423644096] box: 5
    Clippings
  • Mixed Materials [A11423644096] box: 5
    Correspondence-Children's Literature
  • Mixed Materials [A11423644096] box: 5
    Correspondence-Publisher's replies
  • Mixed Materials [A11423644096] box: 5
    Critical Reviews-Miscellaneous
  • Mixed Materials [A11423644096] box: 5
    Critical Reviews-WINA
  • Mixed Materials [A11423644096] box: 5
    Date in the Desk
  • Mixed Materials [A11423644096] box: 5
    Deep Garden-Draft
  • Mixed Materials [A11423644096] box: 5
    Deep Garden-Unfinished Draft
  • Mixed Materials [A11423644101] box: 6
    Deep Garden-Unfinished Draft
  • Mixed Materials [A11423644101] box: 6
    Deep Garden-Unfinished Draft
  • Mixed Materials [A11423644101] box: 6
    Excerpts and Drafts
  • Mixed Materials [A11423644101] box: 6
    Experiments, Drafts, and Random meditations
  • Mixed Materials [A11423644101] box: 6
    Florentine Idyl
  • Mixed Materials [A11423644101] box: 6
    From the Sea
  • Mixed Materials [A11423644101] box: 6
    Goat in the Jewel
  • Mixed Materials [A11423644101] box: 6
    Goat in the Jewel
  • Mixed Materials [A11423644101] box: 6
    Hands on Bidha
  • Mixed Materials [A11423644101] box: 6
    Hands of Bidha-excerpts from a dramatic version
  • Mixed Materials [A11423644101] box: 6
    How Great Grandmother helped Ann
  • Mixed Materials [A11423644101] box: 6
    In an Afternoon
  • Mixed Materials [A11423644101] box: 6
    Informer (WINA)
  • Mixed Materials [A11423644119] box: 7
    Island Christmas (Radio Play)
    1953
  • Mixed Materials [A11423644119] box: 7
    Kindergarten Book
  • Mixed Materials [A11423644119] box: 7
    Little Adventure in Memory
  • Mixed Materials [A11423644119] box: 7
    Memories of a Little Street
  • Mixed Materials [A11423644119] box: 7
    Nocturne in Minor (unfinished)
  • Mixed Materials [A11423644119] box: 7
    Nocturne in Mistral (unfinished)
  • Mixed Materials [A11423644119] box: 7
    Noise
  • Mixed Materials [A11423644119] box: 7
    Notes-Personal (Miscellaneous)
  • Mixed Materials [A11423644119] box: 7
    Path of Adventure
  • Mixed Materials [A11423644119] box: 7
    Payment Deferred
  • Mixed Materials [A11423644119] box: 7
    Piece of Silk
  • Mixed Materials [A11423644127] box: 8
    Published Works
  • Mixed Materials [A11423644127] box: 8
    Published Works
  • Mixed Materials [A11423644127] box: 8
    Silken Soul of Shirmene
  • Mixed Materials [A11423644127] box: 8
    Silver Nocturne
  • Mixed Materials [A11423644127] box: 8
    Social Commentary-Ecology
  • Mixed Materials [A11423644127] box: 8
    Social Commentary-International Guild of Workers
  • Mixed Materials [A11423644127] box: 8
    Social Commentary-Miscellaneous
  • Mixed Materials [A11423644127] box: 8
    Sweet, Sweet Daughter
  • Mixed Materials [A11423644127] box: 8
    They Eat Crystal Bread (alternate version of Bread of Angels)
  • Mixed Materials [A11423644127] box: 8
    Unfinished Stories-Children's Literature
  • Mixed Materials [A11423644127] box: 8
    WINA-Miscellaneous
  • Mixed Materials [A11423644127] box: 8
    Writings-Miscellaneous
  • Mixed Materials [A11423644127] box: 8
    Writings-Miscellaneous Drama
  • Mixed Materials [A11423644127] box: 8
    Writings-Miscellaneous Fiction
  • Mixed Materials [A11423644127] box: 8
    Writings-Miscellaneous Joan of Arc
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