THE SARAH M. B. PIATT COLLECTION:
GUIDE AND INVENTORY
SPEC.CMS.116

Paula Bernat Bennett’s Research Materials for Her Collection of Sarah M. B. Piatt Poems Palace-Burner:
The Selected Poetry of Sarah Piatt (2001)

(Compiled by Mary Manning, Amy Thompson, and Kyle Roberts, 2003)

INTRODUCTION

Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt (1836-1919) was born in Lexington, Kentucky, but spent most of her life in Ohio. Her earliest poems, influenced by the British Romantics, especially Shelley Coleridge, and Byron, were published in newspapers, notably George Prentice’s Journal. Later, she contributed to journal and magazines such as Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s and St. Nicholas. Piatt published seventeen volumes of poetry, and during her lifetime, was reviewed as a serious writer, receiving favorable reviews from many distinguished writers, including William Butler Yeats, Robert Browning, and William Dean Howells. A prolific, successful writer who was considered a serious writer in her own time, Piatt, in the twentieth century, had been included with the sentimental women writers of the late nineteenth century. Although women published frequently during this period, their work was perceived as lighter, more sentimental and domestic than often-similar work of their male counter parts, and modern literary attitudes toward these women writers deemed them as a whole, unworthy of canonical status.

Piatt treated sentimental, “genteel,” themes such as motherhood in her poetry, and was known during her day for her conventional, “genteel” poems. In fact, Piatt’s poetry about motherhood and children constitutes the single largest body of poetry on the subject in the English language (Bennett, Palace Burner, "Preface"). Many of her books of poetry were marketed as poetry for children, when, in reality, they often employed a dramatic dialogue between an adult and child in order to examine solemn social and cultural situations, including effects of social corruption on children and loss of innocence. Many of her unconventional poems were not published in her lifetime.

Today, literary scholars argue that there is greater depth to Piatt’s poetry than previously recognized. The same poems that were criticized for being too original in the late nineteenth-century are precisely the poems that are interesting to readers today: “What nineteenth century readers and publishers valued in Piatt’s work was not her originality--of which her reviews deemed she had an overplus--but her unusually competent handling of the genteel style” (Bennett, xxvii). Many of Piatt’s poems, especially those considered too original, too unconventional in her day, are more in line with modern sensibilities than with the sentimental. Whereas Piatt’s poetry was criticized in her day for being too difficult, “difficulty” has come to be admired in modern literature, and readers already familiar with the ironic poetry of the twentieth century will be more comfortable with (and less likely to misread) Piatt’s ironic poetry. Additionally, many of Piatt’s poems were concerned with the Civil War and its aftermath, and Civil War poetry, although largely ignored in the twentieth century, has lately been receiving much critical attention. Emerson and Melville’s political works have only recently been uncovered and taught.

Paula Bernat Bennett, scholar from University of Southern Illinois and author of an anthology of Piatt’s poems, Palace Burner: The Selected Poetry of Sarah Piatt (2001), argues that Piatt’s poetry, read ironically and politically, is perhaps understood better today than it was when it was published. Piatt’s poetry, grounded in her region and in her time, can be better understood using the literary theories, such as cultural studies and new historicism, that are widely employed today. There has been a sharp increase of interest Piatt’s poetry over the last few years. Two anthologies of her poetry have been published recently, one by Larry Michaels (That New World: Selected Poems of Sarah Piatt 1861-1911, published in 1999), and Bennett’s Palace Burner. Moreover, Piatt is included in Janet Gray’s She Wields a Pen: American Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century (1997) and is beginning to be included in major anthologies of American literature such as the University of Michigan’s current digitalization project, American Free Verse.

This collection contains research materials for Paula Bennett’s collection of Sarah Piatt poems, Palace Burner: The Selected Poetry of Sarah Piatt. All the materials are either photocopies of Bennett’s research materials or documents printed-out from computer diskettes donated by Bennett. Boxes I and II contain information printed out from the diskettes. The photocopied materials are in Boxes III-VI. Materials in Boxes V and VI are bound together in such a way that they correspond to binders in Bennett’s original research materials.

The information printed out from the donated diskettes (Boxes I and II ) includes transcriptions of all-known versions of Piatt’s poems from various nineteenth-century journals, magazines, and anthologies--both mature works and juvenalia. Bennett and graduate students transcribed Piatt poems from journals, magazines, and anthologies and proofed all of the mature poetry; Rare Books and Manuscript employees Mary Manning and Kyle Roberts proofed the transcripts of the juvenalia against copies of the New York Ledger and microfilm of the Louisville Courier-Journal. Facsimile photocopies of the juvenalia are included along with the proofed juvenalia.

The photocopied materials include facsimile copies of all of Sarah Piatt’s book-length publications (Box III). Piatt’s books are very rare, and we hold only a few in Rare Books and Manuscripts. Other photocopies include miscellaneous research materials (Box IV), a three-volume, bound variorum of Piatt’s poetry (Box V), and other bound materials, including copies of poems used in Palace Burner (Box VI). The miscellaneous research materials include photocopies of letters (both Bennett’s regarding her research and publications and Sarah’s), nineteenth-century reviews of Piatt poetry (of both Sarah and her husband John James), recent reviews of Bennett’s books, as well as books, articles, and entries on the Piatts (primarily Sarah).

Paula Bennett’s original research materials contained photocopies of poetry by Sarah Piatt’s husband, John James Piatt. Some books were copied in their entirety. These were not photocopied, as all of his books are held in the OSU Libraries collections.

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THE SARAH PIATT PAPERS -

CATALOGUE OF INVENTORY, OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY

Detailed Listing/ Box and Folder Listing:

Box 1

Folder Number #1-21

1. Floppy disks (“Piatt1" and “Piatt2") donated by Bennett and containing all material found in this box. The contents have been burned to a CD, and the file names are listed in parentheses for each folder, in case the researcher wishes to consult the original files.
2. Paula Bennett’s letters to Margaret Piatt, Richard Piatt, and David Boysel regarding her research. (LETPIATT.DOC)
3. A typed list of known Piatt manuscript locations, organized by state and institution. (MSLOCS.DOC)
4. Bennett’s notes from an Ohio research trip. Includes miscellaneous notes on John James and Sarah’s careers and some poems. (JJ.DOC)
5. Paula Bennett's typed notes and transcriptions of Piatt letters from Yale University Beinecke and Sterling Libraries. (COLUNIV.DOC)
   • Poems by Sarah found in Hearth and Home and other magazines.
   • Paula Bennett’s typed notes from letters held in Yale University's Beinecke Library - 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s.
   • Typed notes from letters held in The Piatt Family Papers in Yale University's Sterling Library (frequently spelled "Stirling" in PB's notes) - 1840s-50s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s.
   • Typed notes and transcriptions of Piatt letters from the New York Public Library Manuscript Room.
   • Typed notes and transcriptions of Piatt letters from Columbia University’s Edmund C. Stedman collection, most of which are from John James.
   • Typed transcriptions of Piatt letters from the Kroch Library at Cornell University, all addressed to Bayard Taylor.
6. The contents of this folder are exactly the same as those in folder #5. Although the text is sometimes rearranged between the two versions, neither can stand alone as the authority. One must compare the two to see the intentions of the researcher, Paula Bennett. (LIB95.DOC)
7. This folder contains more complete transcriptions of letters mentioned only in notes in folders 5 and 6. (comlet.doc.doc)
   • Typed transcriptions of letters found at Beinecke Library from both Sarah and John James. These letters are of a more personal nature.
   • Typed transcriptions of letters from The Piatt Family Papers held in Yale University Libraries.
   • Typed letters from The Piatt Family Letters in the New York Public Library. Also, letters from the Century Collection at New York Public Library.
   • Typed letters from the Richard and Elizabeth Stoddard Collection, held at the New York Public Library. Includes letters from John James to Stoddard.
   • Typed letters from John James to E.C. Stedman, held in the E.C. Stedman Collection at Columbia University. Also includes letters from Stedman to John James.
   • Typed letters held at Kroch Library at Cornell University, all of which are John James’s letters to Bayard Taylor.

8. The file in this folder appears to be an edited version of that in folder #7 (FAMILETS.DOC)
   • Typed transcrciptions of letters found at Beinecke Library from both Sarah and John James. These letters are of a more personal nature.
   • Typed transcrciptions of letters from The Piatt Family Papers held in Yale University Libraries.
   • Typed letters from The Piatt Family Letters in the New York Public Library. Also, letters from the Century Collection at New York Public Library.
   • Typed letters from the Richard and Elizabeth Stoddard Collection, held at the New York Public Library. Includes letters from John James to Stoddard.
   • Typed letters from John James to E.C. Stedman, held in the E.C. Stedman Collection at Columbia University. Also includes letters from Stedman to John James.
   • Typed letters held at Kroch Library at Cornell University, all of which are John James’s letters to Bayard Taylor.
9. Typed transcriptions of letters held in the Yale University libraries from both Sarah and John James. These letters are transcribed in their entirety. Many are letters to family. (YALELET.DOC)
10. Typed letters from the Ohio Historical Society Archives from the Delores Cameron Venable Memorial Collection. Letters are from Sarah and John James and are addressed to Mr. or Dr. Venable. Some are summaries or transcribed excerpts, but many are transcribed in their entirety. (OHSLETT.DOC)
11. Typed letters held in the Library of Congress, possibly from the Moulton Collection. Letters are from both John James and Sarah and are addressed to Mrs. Moulton and Mr. Stedman. These letters are transcribed in their entirety. (LOFC.DOC)
12. The text in this folder is an attempt to gather all Piatt letters into one document. Letters are organized by year and the holding institution is noted for each letter. Most of these letters are summarized. (TOTLETT.DOC)
13. Contains a finding list for Sarah Piatt's poetry, noting the various books and serials in which they were published. SOme of the books are reproduced in photocopies in box 3. (Final Piatt finding list 2001)
14. Contains an alphabetical listing of the Piatt poems gathered by Paula Bennett, followed by the first group of the poems themselves, in transcription, with sources noted; poems from "A Child's City" through "A Pique at Parting." (PIATTPO1.DOC)
15. The alphabetical arrangement of transcribed poems continues, with sources noted, from "A Queen's Epitaph" through "The Cup of Life." (PIATTPO2.DOC)
16. The alphabetical arrangement of transcribed poems continues, with sources noted, from "Death Before Death" through "His Dream." (PIATTPO3.DOC)
17. The alphabetical arrangement of transcribed poems continues, with sources noted, from "His fairy Godmother" through "On Leaving and Old Home." (PIATTPO4.DOC)
18. The alphabetical arrangement of transcribed poems continues, with sources noted, from "One From the Dead" through "Stanzas." (PIATTPO5.DOC)
19. The alphabetical arrangement of transcribed poems continues, with sources noted, from "Stanzas" through "Worthless Treasure." Several additional poems are added at the end, out of the alphabetical ordering. (PIATTPO6.DOC)
20. Contains poems from the Capital, signed by or attributed to Sarah Piatt. (CAPITAL.DOC)
21. Contains a selection of Piatt poems, from various sources. The nature and purpose of this selection is not noted. (ADDEDPO.DOC)

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Box 2

Folder Number #22-29

This box contains xeroxes and transcriptions of Piatt’s juvenile poems that appeared in the Louisville Daily Journal and the New York Ledger.

22. Contains diskettes holding all information in this folder. Copies of the bibliographic records for the Louisville Daily Journal and the New York Ledger have been inserted for the convenience of the researcher.
23. Contains an index of poems in the juvenalia collection.
24. Contains xeroxes of poems from the Louisville Daily Journal.
25. Contains Bennett’s transcriptions of poems in the Louisville Daily Journal with OSU emendations shown.
26. Contains the Ohio State copy of transcriptions of poems from the Louisville Daily Journal.
27. Contains xeroxes of poems from the New York Ledger.
28. Contains Bennett’s transcriptions of poems in the New York Ledger with OSU emendations shown.
29. Contains the Ohio State copy of transcriptions of poems from the New York Ledger.

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Box 3

Folder Number #30-44

This box contains complete photocopies of Piatt’s books. Bibliographic information is given.

30. Piatt, John James and Sarah M. Bryan. The Nests at Washington and Other Poems. New York: Walter Low, London: Sampson Low, Son & Co., 1864.
31. Piatt, Mrs. Sarah Morgan Bryan. A Woman’s Poems. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1871.
32. Piatt, Mrs. S. M. B. A Voyage to The Fortunate Isles, Etc. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1874.
33. Piatt, Mrs. S. M. B. Poems in Company with Children. Boston: D. Lothrop and Company, 1877.
34. Piatt, Mrs. S. M. B. That New World, and Other Poems. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1877.
35. Piatt, Mrs. S. M. B. Dramatic Persons and Moods, with Other New Poems. Boston: Houghton, Osgood, and Company, 1880.
36. Piatt, Sarah M. B. An Irish Garland. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1885.
37. Piatt, Sarah M. B. In Primrose Time: A New Irish Garland. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, & Co., 1886.
38. Piatt, Sarah M. B. The Witch in the Glass, etc. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1889.
39. Piatt, Sarah M. B. An Irish Wildflower, etc. London: T Fisher Undwin, 1891.
40. Piatt, Sarah. Poems. Vol. I. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1894.
41. Piatt, Sarah. An Enchanted Castle and other poems: Pictures, Portraits and People in Ireland. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1893.
42. Piatt, Sarah. Poems. Vol. II. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1894
43. Piatt, Sarah. Child’s-World Ballads and Other Poems. Westminster: Archibald Constable and Co., 1895. (Missing pages 30, 31, 32, 33, 86, 87, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 120 were replaced with photocopies from a copy of this book borrowed from the State Library of Ohio.)
44. Piatt, Sarah. The Gift of Tears. Cincinnati: The Western Literary Press, 1906.

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Box 4

Folder Number #45-56

The research materials in folders #45 through #51 were originally held in the same three-ring binder and are mostly photocopies of reviews of Sarah Piatt's poetry, although there are reviews of John James's poetry as well. This box also contains miscellaneous research materials, notes, bibliographic lists, transcriptions of poems, etc. The photocopied materials in folder #45 were copied from materials located in the front pocket of the previously-mentioned binder and include notes on John James Piatt and W.D. Howells's poems from Poems of Two Friends, as well as handwritten notes and bibliographic information, largely on books of 19th century American women writers. The materials in folders #46 through #51 were copied from materials secured inside the rings of the binder.

45. Piatt poems from books and journals.
    Note card lists citations concerning Piatt in gossip page of London newspaper.
46. • Note cards containing miscellaneous notes and bibliographic information concerning Sarah's poems and reviews of her poems.
    
    
    
    • Typed notes from the National Library, Dublin, from reviews in Irish journals.
    
    
    
    • Typed notes from the Cincinnati Historical Society, from transcripts of letters between Sarah, John James, and Alice Brotherton.
    
    
    
    • Letters from Sarah Piatt to Mr. and Mrs. Emerson Venable. Manuscript of the poems: "A Word with a Sky Lark (A Caprice of Homesickness)" and "O Singer at My Window." Both transcribed.
    
    
    
    • Handwritten notes on and transcriptions of three of John James’s letters to James Russell Lowell and a list of other libraries holding John James letters.
    
    
    
    • Letter, May 23, 2000. To: Paula Bennett. From: Margaret Piatt. Concerns plans for Piatt Castles, archives, and Bennett's research/archival materials.
    
    
    
    • Two emails, both dated September 9, 1996. To: Paula Bennett. From: Pamela Kincheloe (a graduate student, working with Bennett at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale).
    
    
    
    • List of letters of John James, Sarah, Elizabeth B. Stoddard, and Richard Henry and the archives that hold them.
    
    
    
    • Information from the New York Times Personal Index.
    
    
    
    • A bibliography of biographical material on the Piatts, from late-19th century, early-20th century sources.
    
    
    
    • A bibliography of books containing biographical information.
47. • "Mr. John James Piatt. Mrs. S.M.B. Piatt." In R.H. Stoddard's Poet's Homes, 1877, title page and pp. 56-75.
    
    
    
    • "Poets in Exile: Mr. and Mrs. Piatt at Queenstown" by Katharine Tynan. In The Critic Sat. 2/24/1894, title page and pp. 121-123.
    
    
    
    • "Chapter XXVI, 1888." In Katharine Tynan and Mrs. H.A. Hinckson’s Twenty-Five Years: Reminiscences, London: Smith, Elder, and Company, 1913, title page and pp. 274-279.
    
    
    
    • "Two American Poets." In Katharine Tynan’s Memories, London: Eveleigh, Nash, and Grayson Limited, 1924, title page and pp. 179-192.
    
    
    
    • "Sarah Morgan Piatt Bryan." In Emerson Venable’s (ed.) Poets of Ohio, Cincinnati: Stewart and Kidd Co., 1912, title page and pp. 183-185.
    
    
    
    • "Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt" by Emerson Venable. In Library of Southern Literature compiled under the direct supervision of Southern men of letters: Edwin A. Alder, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles W. Kent, Vol. IX., pp. 4003-4005.
    
    
    
    • Selected letters containing references to John James from Letters of W.B. Yeats to Katherine Tynan, pp. 40, 41, and 160.
48. • Review of Poems by Two Friends. In Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 5, No. XXX, April 1860, pp. 510-511.
    
    
    
    • Handwritten notes and transcriptions from The Capital (newspaper), published by Mac-a-Cheek Press, West Liberty, Ohio. Covering years 1865-1878. Commentary on John James’s poems and "Social Gossip.”
    
    
    
    • Review of Poems of John James Piatt in North American Review, Oct. 1868, from American Periodical Series, pp. 660-663.
    
    
    
    • Handwritten notes and transcriptions from The Capital (newspaper), Mac-A-Cheek Press, West Liberty, OH, December 22, 1865, pp.92. Review of John James's Poems in Sunshine and Firelight.
    
    
    
    • Review of Sarah's A Woman's Poems. In Atlantic Monthly, Vol. XXVII, June 1871, No. CLXIV, pp. 773-775.
    
    
    
    • Review of Sarah's A Woman's Poems. In Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 43, No. 255, Aug. 1871, p. 460. Reproduces "A Child's First Sight of Snow."
    
    
    
    • Review of Mr. Piatt's "new volume." In Atlantic Monthly, Vol. XXIX, No. CLXVIII, March 1872, p. 367.
    
    
    
    • Review of Sarah's Voyage to the Fortunate Islands. In Overland Monthly, Vol. 13, No. 3, Sept. 1874, pp. 295-6.
    
    
    
    • Review of A Woman's Poems, "Art Versus Heart." In Southern Monthly Vol. VIII, No. 4, Aug. 1874, pp. 501-2.
    
    
    
    • Review of Sarah Piatt’s poetry, "Mrs. Piatt's little book of poems," written by W.D. Howells. In The Atlantic Monthly Vol. 34, No. 201, pp. 140-5. Reproduces the following poems in their entirety: "Sometime," "The Favorite Child," "Baby or Bird?," "Love-Stories," and "A Woman's Birthday."
    
    
    
    • Review of Sarah Piatt's A Voyage to the Fortunate Isles. In The Literary World, July 1874, p. 27.
    
    
    
    • Review of Sarah Piatt’s A Woman's Poems and A Voyage to the Fortunate Isles, written by W.D. Howell. In The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. XXXIX, No. 231, pp.87-91. Reproduces most of the poem "Comfort in a Coffin," and all of "Giving up the World" and "The Altar at Athens."
    
    
    
    • Review of That New World and Other Poems, "Mrs. Piatt's Poems." In Scribner's Monthly, Vol. XIVI, May 1877, p.118-9.
    
    
    
    • Review, "Some Recent Volumes of Verse." In Atlantic Monthly, Vol. XLI, No.CCXLVII, May 1878, pp. 629-32.
    
    
    
    • Review of Sarah's Poems in Company with Children. In Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 56, No. 334, March 1878, p. 628.
    
    
    
    • Review of poems in Company with Children. In The Nation, No. 666, p. 232.
    
    
    
    • Review of John James's Poems of House and Home. In Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 43, No. CCLVIII, April 1879, pp. 546-7.
    
    
    
    • Review of Dramatic Persons and Moods, with Other Poems. In Southern Monthly, Vol. 19, No. 4, February 1880, p. 634-5. In the "Recent Poetry by Women" section.
    
    
    
    • Review of John James's Idyls and Lyrics of the Ohio Valley in Harper's, Vol. LXIII, No. CCCLXIII, June 1881, pp. 153-4
    
    
    
    • Review, "Two Elegant Volumes by Longman and Company." In Irish Monthly: A Magazine of General Literature, Reverend Matthew Russell, Ed., Dublin: M.H. Gill and Son, Vol. 22, Nov. 1894, pp. 613-4.
    
    
    
    • Handwritten notes (four pages and possibly Bennett's) list sources for Piatt reviews.
    
    
    
    • Review of poems from A Voyage to the Fortunate Isles and Other Poems, An Irish Garland, In Primrose Time, and Children Out of Doors, "Mrs. Piatt's Poems." In Irish Monthly, Vol. 14, June 1886, pp. 385-90. Reproduces: "A Wall Between," "At Hans Anderson's Funeral, " "Little Christian's Trouble," "Broken Promise," "The Happier Gift," "In Doubt," and "For Another's Sake."
    
    
    
    • Review of John James's Idyll's [sic] and Lyrics of the Ohio Valley, as well as a discussion of Sarah's poetry “of motherhood.” In Irish Monthly Vol. 14, pp. 452-3.
    
    
    
    • Review of five volumes including Sarah's A Voyage to the Fortunate Isles, "Five Books of Verse." In The Critic, February 13, 1886, Vol. III, No. 80.
    
    
    
    • Review of In Primrose Time. In Atlantic Monthly, Vol. LIX, No. CCCLIII, March 1887, pp. 413-6.
    
    
    
    • Review of The Witch in the Glass and Other Poems. In Irish Monthly, Vol. 77, Jan. 1889, pp. 51-2.
    
    
    
    • Typed notes and transcriptions of reviews from various sources in the National Library in Dublin (5/15/96). Review of Voyage to Fortunate Isles in Dublin Evening Mail, Wed. April 7, 1886. Article "Linked Poets," about John James and Sarah, in The Nation, Dec. 5, 1885 ng. Article "Two Irish Women Poets," United Ireland, Sept. 16, 1863. Notes on "DSP" who lived in a suburb of Dublin
49. • Entries on “Piatt, Donn,” “Piatt, John James,” and “Piatt, Mrs. Sarah Morgan (Bryan).” In Biographical Dictionary and Synopsis of Books Ancient and Modern, Ed. Charles Dudley Warren, Akron: Werner Co. 1965, pp. 428-9.
    
    
    
    • Selected pages from Bert Rollin’s Children in American Poetry 1610-1900, Nashville: George Peabody College, 1930, title page and pp.134-7, 146-7, 184-5. Pages concerned with Sarah Piatt and Celia Thaxter.
    
    
    
    • Entry on “Piatt, Sarah Morgan Bryan” (1836-1919). In John MacKay Shaw’s Children in Poetry, Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1967, pp. 1999-2000.
    
    
    
    • Entry on Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt in Frances E. Williard and Mary A. Livermore's American Women: Fifteen Hundred Biographies, Vol. II, New York, Chicago, Springfield, OH: Mast Crowell and Kirkpatrick, 1897, pp. 568-570.
    
    
    
    • Entry on “Piatt, John James” and “Piatt, Sarah Morgan Bryan.” In John MacKay Shaw’s (ed.) Childhood in Poetry: A Catalogue of the Books of English and American poets in the Library of The Florida State University, The Robert M Strolzier Library, The Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, title page and pp. 1926-8, 747-65, and 1391-4.
    
    
    
    • Review of a publication concerning Sarah Piatt, author unknown, possibly a blind reader’s rejection of a publication.
    
    
    
    • A memorial tribute essay in honor of John James Piatt, written shortly after Piatt's death. "Editor's Easy Chair" by W.D. Howells. In Harpers Monthly Magazine, Vol. 135, No. 1306, July 1917, pp. 291-3.
    
    
    
    • Sarah Piatt poem "A Legend of the Mammoth Cave." In Ida Raymond’s Southland Women's Writers Biographical and Critical Sketches, Philadelphia: Claxton, Remser, and Haffelfinger, pp. 138-141.
    
    
    
    • Typed transcription of "Worthless Treasure." In The Capita, Vol. 5, No. 35, p. 6, Oct. 31, 1875.
    
    
    
    • "A Cuckoo's Call." In SMa [?] Vol. 43, No. 3, March 1908, p. 282.
    
    
    
    • Six pages of handwritten notes, including lists of books that Bennett hoped to consult.
    
    
    
    • "War Poetry of the South." In Land We Love, no other bibliographic information. Pp 71-5.
    
    
    
    • Two copies of an illustration of a 19c. woman, one with bibliographic information. In Harper's Weekly, Vol. 23, No. 1171, Sat [illegible] 7, 1879.
    
    
    
    • Approximately twenty pages of handwritten notes from Dictionary of American Biography; notes concern Bryan family documents and history and contain transcriptions of various John James poems.
50. • Illustrations of 19th-century U.S. Army uniforms.
    
    
    
    • Print out of online articles on Edmund Spencer, Chanson de Roland, and history of Ireland.
    
    
    
    • Part of article concerning the Civil War. Source unknown. Pp. 92-6.
    
    
    
    • Illustration of a Colossal Human-Headed Winged Bull from the palace of Sargon II at Khorsabad. Source unknown.
    
    
    
    • Printout of Britannica web page: “Spain, history of and Philip I.”
    
    
    
    • Entries on Egyptian mythology and Assyro-Babylonian Mythology. Four pages. Includes illustrations. No bibliographic information.
    
    
    
    • Entry: "George Francis Train (1829-1904)." Source unknown.
    
    
    
    • Entry: "Season." Source unknown.
    
    
    
    • Article: "Two Visions of Fairy: Ireland and the Monumental Discourse of the Nineteenth-Century American Tourist," by Pamela Kincheloe, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. In Irish Studies Review, Vol. 7, No. 1, 1999, pp. 41-51.
    
    
    
    • Publisher's reviews of John James Piatt’s poems, “Mr. Piatt’s Poems.” Includes extracts from poems and information on price and how to contact publisher. Advertisement.
51. • [These materials were copied from materials within a gray binder marked “Piatt Bio Material”]
    
    
    
    • Hand-drawn map of North-Bend area showing location of the Piatt Castles.
    
    
    
    • "Family Group Method" for Morgan Bryan III and Maxemilly Simpson. 2 pages with hand-written notes on the Bryan family.
    
    
    
    • List of book sources and biographical indexes containing Piatt biographical material.
    
    
    
    • Ohio network of American historical research centers.
    
    
    
    • Bennett's hand-written notes and phone numbers for contacts.
    
    
    
    • "Index to Piatt Biographical Materials."
    
    
    
    • Ohio newspaper indexes, from Ohio Historical Society, Archives and Libraries Division.
    
    
    
    • Hand-written notes.
    
    
    
    • "The Genealogical Helper." A publication of the Ohio Historical Society. P.18
    
    
    
    • Information on the Ohio Historical Society Archives/Library Division, October 1992, interlibrary loan and reproduction policies, manuscript and audio-visual catalog services.
    
    
    
    • Information on the Cincinnati Historical Society Research Library.
    
    
    
    • Letter, February 12, 1993. To: Paula Bennett. From: Margaret Piatt, Piatt Castles, North Bend, Ohio.
    
    
    
    • Letter, July 28, 1992. To: Paula Bennett. From: Margaret Piatt, Piatt Castles, North Bend, Ohio.
    
    
    
    • Letter, December 30, 1994. To: Paula Bennett. From: Jim Nash, program manager, Piatt Castles, North Bend, Ohio.
    
    
    
    • Letter, February 1, 1995. To: Paula Bennett. From: Jim Nash, program manager, Piatt Castles, North Bend, Ohio.
    
    
    
    • Three maps of Bellefontaine.
    
    
    
    • Letter, April 30, 1999. To: Larry Michaels. From: Paula Bennett.
    
    
    
    • Letter, July 25, 1993. To: Paula Bennett. From: Larry Michaels.
    
    
    
    • Letter, May 22, 1999. To: Paula Bennett. From: Larry Michaels.
    
    
    
    • Ancestor Chart. Includes information on the Bryan family.
    
    
    
    • Print-out of website entry on "Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt--U.S. Poet." Women of Achievement website.
    
    
    
    • Family Group Record.
    
    
    
    • Entries: "Piatt, John James" and "Piatt, Sarah Morgan Bryan." In Garraty, John A. and Mark C. Carnes, Eds. American National Biography, Volume 17, Oxford, New York: Oxford UP, 1999.
    
    
    
    • Entry: "Piatt, Sarah Morgan Bryan" from: Leonard, John William, Woman's Who's Who of America 1914-1915, New York: The American Commonwealth Company, republished by Gale Research Inc, Detroit, Michigan, 1990.
    
    
    
    • Selected pages from Gale Biographical Index Series, No. 1 Biography and Genealogy Master Index 1986-90 Cumulation, Vol. 3, P-Z, Barbara McNeil, Ed, Gale Research Inc, Detroit, Michigan, 1990.
    
    
    
    • Selected pages from Biography and Genealogy Master Index, Volume 6, P-R, Edited by Miranda C. Herbert and Barbara McNeil, 2nd edition.
    
    
    
    • Email, 7/16/1995. To: Paula Bennett. From: Pamela Kincheloe.
    
    
    
    • Hanawalt Bibliography. Sarah and John James Piatt's books.
    
    
    
    • Handwritten notes. Concerning, in large part, contact information, especially libraries.
    
    
    
    • Letter, December 9, 1992. To: Paula Bennett. From: not signed, but possibly Pamela Kincheloe
    
    
    
    • Copy of online article "Her work inspires new look at forgotten past" by Bill Eichenberger, Columbus Dispatch book critic. Review of Bennett's Palace Burner. In Columbus Dispatch, Tuesday, February 27, 2001.
    
    
    
    • Information on Kentucky State Archives.
    
    
    
    • Letter, June 7, 1993. To: Paula Bennett. From: Jim Nash
    
    
    
    • Notes from The Personal Name Index to "The New York Times Index," 1974, p. 185.
    
    
    
    • Letter, February 12,1993. To: Paula Bennett. From: Margaret Piatt.
    
    
    
    • Letter, April 28, 1993. To Paula Bennett. From: John Piatt, Dayton, Ohio.
    
    
    
    • Letter, June 30, 1992. To: Paula Bennett. From: David H. Boysel. Includes bibliography of Sarah’s books and illustrations of John James and Sarah’s home in North Bend.
    
    
    
    • Letter, March 25, 1992. To: Pamela Kincheloe. From: Elisabeth Marshall, program coordinator, Piatt Castles.
    
    
    
    • Letter, July 15, 1992. To: Pamela Kincheloe. From: Cheryl Mathisen, Chair's assistant, Department of English, University of Washington.

52. • Title page of Jean Allen Hanawalt's dissertation “A Biographical and Critical Study of John James and Sarah Morgan (Bryan) Piatt,” University of Washington, 1981.
    
    
    
    • Letter, March 19, 1992. To: Kentucky Courier Journal. From: Pamela Kincheloe, with brief response following, from Sharon Bidwell, reference librarian.
    
    
    
    • Letter, April 23, 1993. To: John Piatt. From: Paula Bennett. With brief response from John Piatt following.
    
    
    
    • Addresses of Margaret Piatt, Richard O. Piatt, David Baysel, and Beth Marshal, on Piatt Castle letterhead, with handwritten notes on back.
    
    
    
    • Letter, July 28, 1992. To: Paula Bennett. From: Margaret Piatt. Photocopied pictures of the Piatt home in North Bend included. Handwritten bibliographic notes on Sarah Piatt's publications.
    
    
    
    • Letter, June 30, 1992. To: Paula Bennett. From: David H. Boysel, historic and period
    
    
    
    • paintwork, San Francisco, California.
    
    
    
    • Letter, August 10, 1992. To: Paula Bennett. From: Richard O. Piatt, Piatt family genealogist.
    
    
    
    • Piatt family tree. Marked “first rough draft.” Dated 5/31/1979.
    
    
    
    • Letter, not dated. To: Paula Bennett. From: Ed (last name not included).
    
    
    
    • Letter, December 20, 1993. To: Paula Bennett. From: Kenneth Cherry, director, University Press of Kentucky. Rejection letter. Enclosure: blind reader’s review of manuscript of The Palace Burner.
    
    
    
    • Letter, August 2, 1995. To: Pamela Kincheloe. From: Marjorie Burress, local historian, North Bend, Ohio. Contains 12 handwritten pages of Burress’s research on John James and Sarah's family.
    
    
    
    • Printout of email response, 3/29/2000. To: Paula Bennett. From: Lucy Frank, Wisconsin University. The e-message to which Lucy Frank responded is attached and dated 3/28/2000.
    
    
    
    • Printout of email, 6/3/2000. To: Paula Bennett. From: Margaret Piatt.
    
    
    
    • Letter, March 10, 2001. To: Paula Bennett. From: Marjorie Burress.
    
    
    
    • Letter, March 8, 2001. To: Paula Bennett. From: Marjorie Burress.
    
    
    
    • Partial letter. From: Marjorie Burress.
    
    
    
    • John James Piatt pamphlet "All Along the Line of the CL and A Electric Rail Road Company C1899."
    • Illustration of the Piatt home, from R.H. Stoddard's Poets Homes (1877).
    
    
    
    • Cover of a publication, possibly the cover for John Piatt’s "All Along the Line of the CL and A Electric Rail Road Company C1899."
    
    
    
    • Typed "Notes about the Piatts," author unknown.
    
    
    
    • Typed notes: "Sarah Piatt Poems."
    
    
    
    • Copy of Piatt home from the "All Along" pamphlet and another copy of the Piatt home, stapled together, marked "for Larry" (possibly Larry Michaels).
    
    
    
    • Title page or cover of "A Souvenir of North Bend." Sticker containing Marjorie Burress's address affixed to front page. Selected pages containing John James and Sarah's poems "In the New House" and "Christening."
    
    
    
    • Duplicate copy of Piatt family tree, dated 5/21/79. With handwritten information
    
    
    
    • Excerpts from various papers. Obituaries of various Piatt family members
    
    
    
    • Letter, August 10, 1992. To: Paula Bennett. From: Richard O. Piatt
    
    
    
    • Diagram of Piatt family tree.
    
    
    
    • Burial record for Sarah Piatt, deceased December 22, 1919. Lists Sarah's cause of death as senility.
    
    
    
    • Census record for John James and Sarah Piatt's family, June 1880.
    
    
    
    • Article “Poetic Mind is Active Although Mind is Numbed.” From Cincinnati Historical Society Archives. Provenance unknown.
    
    
    
    • Article from Louisville Courier/Journal, "Libraries Can Aid Genealogical Hunt." 10/22/1981, P. C5.
    
    
    
    • Death certificate for John James, February 16, 1917. Cause of death listed as cerebral degeneration a duration of 3 years, with senility as a contributing factor.
    
    
    
    • List of contact information for Piatt family member. Compiled by Historical Resources Inc.
    
    
    
    • Letter, February 28, 1949. To: Virginius Hall, curator, Ohio Historical and Philosophical Society, University of Cincinnati. From: John Bunker, Cincinnati Historical Society.
    
    
    
    • Regarding Ohio Valley Poetry Society Books and materials that are related to John James and Sarah Piatt.
    
    
    
    • Selected pages from Personal Name Index to the New York Times Index 1851 - 1974 (copyright 1980), edited by Bryon A. Falk Jr., Succasunna, New Jersey: Roxbury Data Interface. Regarding Sarah and John James Piatt. Notes from entries In Personal Name Index follow.
53. • Handwritten note with various phone numbers that was stapled to two request forms from Archives Research Room, Kentucky. The first request form dated November 19, 1993 and the second dated August 26, 1993. The second form contains a note from archivist stating that he had no luck in finding information on Nelson Talbot Bryan. The archivist suggests other sources to investigate.
    
    
    
    • Entry on "Women's Colleges. " In David C. Roller and Robert W. Twyman’s (eds.) The Encyclopedia of Southern History, Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 1979, title page and pp. 1355-6.
    
    
    
    • Entry on “Education of Women.” In Charles Reagan Wilson and William Ferris’s (eds.) Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, sponsored by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989, title page and pp. 1536-8.
    
    
    
    • Annual announcement and catalogue for Henry Female College, New Castle, KY, 1859.
    
    
    
    • Selected pages from John Mack Faranger’s Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer, New York: Holt, 1992, title page, pp. 38, 39, 42, 43, and two unnumbered illustrated pages.
    
    
    
    • Selected pages from “The Boone-Bryan History,” by J.D. Bryan, a great grand nephew of Daniel Boone, pp. 84-93. Source unknown.
    
    
    
    • Photocopy of selected pages from Edward Bryan’s “The Bryan Lineage and Alliances.” In The Genealogy of the Kentucky Farmer: From the Filson Club History Quarterly, Baltimore: General Publishing Company, 1981, pp. 171-174.
    
    
    
    • Entries for “Piatt, John James” and “Piatt, Sarah Morgan Bryan.” Pp.556-8. Source unknown.
    
    
    
    • Biographical sketch of George Prentice and poems: “To Miss Sallie M. Bryan” and “To Marian prentice Piatt, and Infant.” In The Poems of George D. Prentice, edited and with a biographical sketch by John James Piatt, Cincinnati: Robert Clarke and Company, 1876, title page and pp. xxii-xxv, xxxi-xxxvii, 162-3, and 180-1.
    
    
    
    • Entries on “Piatt, John James” and “Piatt, Sarah Morgan” (Bryan). In Stanley J. Kunitz and Howard Haycroft’s (eds.) American Authors 1600-1900: A Biographical Dictionary of American Literature, New York: H.W. Wilson Co., 1938, title page and pp. 617-618
    
    
    
    • Entries on John James and Sarah Piatt. In Oscar Faye Adams Dictionary of American Authors, Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1904. Republished by Gale Research Co., Book Tower, Detroit, 5th edition. Title page and p. 296.
    
    
    
    • Selected pages concerning John James and Sarah. In George Arms, Richard H. Ballinger, Christopher K. Lohmann, and John K. Reeves’s (eds.) Selected Letters, Volume 1, 1952-1872, Volume 2 1873-1881, Volume 3 1852-1872, Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1979. Volume I: title page and 40-47, 81-83, 106-109, 208-211, 326, 327, 358-691. Volume II: title page and 96, 97, 138, 139, 206-209. Volume III: title page and 10, 11.
    
    
    
    • Selected pages from Life in Letters of William Dean Howells, edited by Mildred Howells, Volume II, Garden City: New York: Doubleday, Doran, and co., 1928, title page and pp. 346, 347. Two letters referencing John James and Sarah.
    
    
    
    • Selected pages from Literary Friends and Acquaintances, New York: Harper Brothers, 1902, pp. 32-3, 82-3, and 92-3.
    
    
    
    • Memorial tribute to John James Piatt. “Editor’s Easy Chair” by W.D. Howells. In Harpers Monthly, year, volume, and number unknown, pp. 291-293.
    
    
    
    • Chapter in book: “Diversions from the Echo Club.” In Bayard Taylor’s The Echo Club and Other Literary Diversions, Boston: J.R. Osgood, 1876, pp. 132-149
    
    
    
    • Entry: “Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt.” In Mary Tardy’s (ed.) Living Female Writers of the South, Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen, and Haffelfinger, 1872, title page and pp 46, 47.
    
    
    
    • Selected pages from Southern Literature (no bibliographic information) with bibliography of Sarah’s book-length publications. Reproduces in full: “Sometime”, “A Child’s Conclusion”, “The End of the Rainbow”, “Caprice at Home”, “Everything (A Fairy Tale),” “The Gift of Tears,”and “A Word with a Skylark.” Pp. 4006-13
    
    
    
    • Selected pages from History of Kentucky, Volume 1, Lewis Collins, Covington Collins, 1878. In section on poets and poetry of Kentucky. Reproduces three Sallie Morgan Bryan Piatt poems: “After Wings,” “To-Day,” and “My Ghost.”
    
    
    
    • Photocopy of selected pages from A Critical Dictionary of English LiteratureM and British and American Authors, Living and Deceased, edited by S. Austin Allibone, Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott and Co., 1878, 3 volumes, volume II, p. 1588. Brief entry on Mrs. Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt
    
    
    
    • Entry: “Piatt, Sarah Morgan (Bryan).” In The National Cyclopedia of American Biography, Volume III, New York: James T. White and Company, 1898. Page number not known.
54. • Entry: “Piatt, Mrs. Sarah Morgan Bryan.” In John Foster Kirk’s A Supplement to Allibones Critical Dictionary of English Literature, Volume II, Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., 1891, p.123-44.
    
    
    
    • Article: “Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt.” In The Magazine of Poetry, Volume III, Number 3. Brief biography and criticism. Contains the following poems: “In Primrose Time,” “There Was a Rose,” “A Doubt,” “Hearing the Battle,” “A Woman’s Birthday,” “Two Hunters,” “The Witch in the Glass.” “The Descent of the Angel,” “The Tragedy of the Night,” “Good-Bye,” “Fred’s Mother,” “Questions of the Hour,” “One Happy Woman,” “Stop the Clock,” “Death,” “Sagacity,” “Love,” “Unsatisfied,” “Knowledge,” “Sorrow,” and “Faith.” Pp. 279-285.
    
    
    
    • Entry: “Piatt, Sarah Morgan [Bryan].” In Robert Fulton Richards’s (ed.) Concise Dictionary of American Literature, New York: Philosophical Library, 1955, title page and pp. 167-168.
    
    
    
    • Selected pages from Charles Dudley Warner’s (ed.) Biographical Dictionary and Synopsis of Books, Ancient and Modern, Akron, Ohio: The Werner Co, (date not on title page). Republished 1965 by The Gale Research Co., Book Tower, Detroit, title page.
    
    
    
    • Selected pages from Charles Edwin Hopkins’s (ed.) Ohio the Beautiful and Historic, Boston: L.C. Page and Co., 1931, title page and pp. 323-5.
    
    
    
    • Entries: “Piatt, John James” “Piatt, Sarah Morgan Bryan.” In William Coles’s (ed.) Ohio Author’s and Their Books 1796-1950, Cleveland: World Publishing Co., 1962, pp. 498-9. Information transcribed from page 500 handwritten on back of page 499.
    
    
    
    • Entry: “Piatt, Mrs. Sarah Morgan (Bryan).” In Nathan Haskell Dole’s The Bibliophile Library of Literature and Art and Rare Manuscripts, New York: International Bibliophile Society, 1966. Not paginated.
    
    
    
    • Entry: “Piatt, John James.” In Max J. Herzberg’s The Reader’s Encyclopedia of American Literature, New York: Thomas Y. Cromwell Co., 1962, p.877
    
    
    
    • Section on “Mrs. S.M.B. Piatt (1836-1913).” In Sister Mary Carmel Browning’s (O.S.U.) Kentucky Author’s: A History of Kentucky Literature, Evansville, Indiana: Keller-Crescent Co., 1968. Brief biography. Contains Piatt poems: “In Clomnel Parish Churchyard,” “A Word with a Skylark,” and “The Gift of Tears.” Pp. 108-111
    
    
    
    • Selected pages in John Wilson Townsend’s Kentucky in American Letters 1784-1917, Two Volumes, Ceder Rapids: Torch, 1913. Brief biographical information on Sarah Piatt and bibliography of Sarah’s book-length publications. Poems: “In Clomnel Parish Churchyard,” “A Word with a Skylark,” and “The Gift of Tears.” Pp. 303-307.
    
    
    
    • Entry: Piatt, Sarah Morgan Bryan. In Edward T. James, Janet Wilson James, and Paul B. Boyers’s (eds.) Notable American Women 1607-1950 A Biographical Dictionary, Volume III (p-z), Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Publisher, a division of Harvard UP, 1971, pp. 63-4, with handwritten notes on back.
    
    
    
    • Entry: “Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt” Lina Mainero’s (Ed.) American Women Writers, New York: Fredrick Ungar Publishing Co., 1981, pp. 387-389.
    
    
    
    • Selected pages from Bibliography of American Literature, compiled by Jack Blank and completed by Virginia L. Smythers and Michael Winship, New Have: Yale UP, 1983, pp. 88-91. Bibliography of John James Piatt’s books.
    
    
    
    • Poem “An Unknown Grave” by John James Piatt and introductory information. In Ohio Archeological and Historical Quarterly, Volume 13, Number 4, October 1904, pp. 555-557.
    
    
    
    • Article: “John James Piatt, Representative Figure of a Monumental Period” by Clare Dowler. In Ohio Archeological and Historical Quarterly, Volume 45, 1936, title page and pp. 1-26
    
    
    
    • Selected pages from Cyclopaedia of American Literature, in 2 volumes, Volume II, New York: Charles Scribner, 1855, title page and pp. 207-11
    
    
    
    • Selected pages from Fralius’s (not sure of spelling) A Night in the Dissecting Room, Volume XLI, Number 3, Philadelphia, September, 1852. Contains the poem by Mrs. Louise Piatt “Fatherly, Motherly.” Page number unknown.
55. • Play: “Mac-A-Cheek Saga.” Written especially for the sesquicentennial celebration of Logan County, Ohio, held at West Liberty, A Rogers Producing Co. Production. “Bill Piatt II” is handwritten across the front page; he is possibly the author.
    
    
    
    • Letter: August 28, 1995. To: Pamela Kincheloe. From: Elise Bernier-Feeley, head reference services, Forbes Library, Northhampton Massachusetts.
    
    
    
    • Selected pages from Out of the Heart by John W. Chadwick, autograph edition. Not paginated.
    
    
    
    • Selected pages from Ohio Centennial Anniversary Celebration, edited by E.O. Randall, Columbus: Ohio State Archeological and Historical Society, 1903, title page and pp. 628-629. Text concerns John James and Sarah Piatt.
    
    
    
    • Map of Miami Township
    
    
    
    • Poems: “A Bird’s Song" and “The Little Boy Away. In The Passing Years: A Book of Verses, Dublin: printed and published at the Sign of the 3 candles [1935], pp. 14-5.
    
    
    
    • Typed notes. Obituaries of Arthur Donn Piatt, Mrs. August Piatt, and Cecil Piatt
    
    
    
    • “An Out Rage in the Name of Patriotism” by Cecil Piatt, New York Times, April 12, 1918, p. 12, column 7.
    
    
    
    • “‘Mrs. Sarah Bryan Piatt’ the poetess wife of John James Piatt the Poet.”
    
    
    
    • Photograph of Sarah Piatt By Nettie Leila Michel. In The Magazine of Poetry, Volume 3, Number 3, July 1891, pp. 279-285.
    
    
    
    • Photographs, including those of Mac-o-cheek, John James and Sarah Piatt, and Piatt graves.
    
    
    
    • List of Piatt Manuscripts Locations.
    
    
    
    • Selected pages from The National Union Catalogue of Manuscript Collections, includes listing for Richard Henry Stoddard papers which include manuscripts of a poem by John James
    
    
    
    • Selected pages from Newspaper in Microfilm: U.S. Listings for Louisville (KY) Courier-Journal
    
    
    
    • Poem: “In Heaven - Tis Always May” by “a lady in the South.” A handwritten note in handwriting that looks like Pamela Isner-Kencheloe’s states that there is “a Bayard-Taylor connection,” but that she doesn’t “sense” Sarah Piatt in the poem.
56. • Letter, May 25, 1872. To: Piatt (possibly John). From: E. C. Stedman.
    
    
    
    • Series of letters from Sarah to the Stedmans and Mrs. Moulton.
    
    
    
    • Photocopies of handwritten letters from Sarah to Mr. and Mrs. Stedman.
    
    
    
    • Photocopies of a handwritten letter to Mr. Warden from John James, accompanied by a typed transcription of the letter.
    
    
    
    • Photocopies of handwritten copies of poems by Sarah and John James
    
    
    
    • Photocopies of handwritten letters from Sarah to her father.
    
    
    
    • Photocopies of handwritten letters from Sarah to various recipients.
    
    
    
    • Photocopy order form from Yale University Library Manuscripts and Archives.
    
    
    
    • Photocopies of handwritten letters from John James to E. C. Stedman.

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Box 5

This box contains a variorum for Piatt’s mature work. These poems have been collected from various sources and are all xeroxed copies from publications or typed copies. This variorum is bound in three separate volumes, the first for the years between 1860 and 1872, the second for 1873 to 1879, and the third for 1880 to 1909. All are labeled.

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Box 6

This box contains two bound sets of photocopies that correspond to two binders in Bennett’s original research materials. The first bound set contains notes to research assistant April concerning the checking of variants, an early (1993) list of Piatt poems in periodicals and books, and photocopies of Piatt poems from newspapers and magazines. The second bound set contains a note that describes the set as “photocopies and originals for the copy of the poem I am actually using - some may be missing but these as a whole should be identical to my ms.”

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