![]() ![]() The East-to-West-Coast transaction is not without its ironies. Hayes Ward, her brother, was the editor-you will note on a letter his pencilled testimony of Frost’s merit as a poet. Miss Ward (who conducted the poetry department of The Independent) was literary godmother. should prove the most interesting in existence. It was, as Foley’s letter indicated, a promising group: ![]() The latest transaction, en route from Boston to California, included over two decades of correspondence and manuscripts sent to The Independent, a weekly magazine published in New York City, by a young poet named Robert Frost. An entire building, constructed on the San Marino grounds for the sole purpose of housing the collection and hailed in 1921 by the Boston Evening Transcript as “the world’s finest private library,” was already filled to the brim with ongoing acquisitions. Huntington’s vast private library had recently been transplanted from his New York City residence to his estate in San Marino, California. Huntington’s assistant curator of rare books. Foley, a well-known Boston bookseller and bibliographer, wrote a letter to Robert O. ![]()
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