Notebook

Archive

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St. Joseph Museums

Name/Title

Notebook

Entry/Object ID

2022.29.1

Scope and Content

Small, olive green, three-ring binder containing Runcie Club documents

Context

A 26-page presentation given by Miss Doherty of various writings addressing 'Madam President * Ladies of the Runcie Club * Mrs. Brown'; short biography and readings of T. S. Elliot ('Journey of the Magi' and 'Chorus VI from "The Rock"), Joseph Auslander ('Mardi Gras', 'I Turn to Autumn', 'Snow Advent'), Lizette Woodworth Reese (A Lile Song of Life', 'Tears'), Countess Cullen ('Yet Do I Marvel', 'Simon the Cyrenian Speaks', 'Incident'), Joyce Kilmer (The House With Nobody In It'), and T. E. Brown ('My Garden'). An 11-page presentation given to 'Madam President, Members of the Runcie Club' on the "Illustrations of the various trends in the writing of poetry in America since before the watershed of 1890's down to present time . . . by giving parts of poems as representing the thinking of people who wrote them and the times they lived in'. Including the poem 'Snowbound' and 'The Man Against the Sky (1916) by Bewick Finzer. An outline of the a presentation: I. We come in natural sequence . . . II. Many poetic forms . . . III. The frame of reference A. B. with sub-headings of 1. through 4. 4. with sub-headings of a. through e. C. A printing of the poems: " Troop Train'; 'In The Elegy Season'; 'Old Laughter'; 'The Face'; 'Of Course Not'; 'Politics'; 'Storm Warnings'; 'Walking'; 'To an Anthologist'; 'An Alien Speaks'; and 'Reverie in Gray'. Inside the back cover is a newspaper clipping written by Leslie Cross in the Milwaukee Journal (no date). The headline reads 'T. S. Eliot's Critic Still Bewildered Over Allusions In A Strange Poem'.

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Tertiary Object Term

Notebook

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Blankbook

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Book, Writing

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Writing Media

Nomenclature Class

Written Communication T&E

Nomenclature Category

Category 06: Tools & Equipment for Communication

Archive Details

Primary Language

French & English

Dimensions

Dimension Notes

6.5" x 9"