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Asbury Writings, Folders 01-49

• 1909-1946; Undated (Creation)

49 folders

6/1
"Objectives in Taking this Work...", October 6, 1908
"Ah Well, the Beautiful, Who Saw the Beautiful", October 8, 1908
"The Greatest Question...", October 8, 1908
"Lines on Hearing a Great People Called Dagos", October 10, 1908
"Mrs. Sh[???]fbrey Word", October 13, 1908
"Comment on the Story Read", October 16, 1908
"First Impressions of Symphony Shall", October 17, 1908
"The Second Story I did not Hear...", October 19, 1908
"Of Spirit Over Flesh", October 22, 1908
"The First Poem Read", October 22, 1908
"Aspiration", October 24, 1908
"The Indian Summer Idyll", October 29, 1908
"Retrospect", October 31, 1908

6/2
"Discussion of the Story", November 3, 1908
"On the Story Read", November 5, 1908
"The Philistinism", November 5, 1908
"The Concert for Chamber Music", November 7, 1908
"The Child Story", November 11, 1908
"Mr. Savage's Story", November 12, 1908
"Music at Harvard", November 14, 1908
"Mr. Claff's Essay", November 17, 1908
"Mr. Hood's Story", November 19, 1908
"Major Rat", November 19, 1908
"Major Rat", first draft
"Consideration on the National Elections", November 21, 1908
"Mr. Heabair's Story, and the Other Story Also", November 24, 1908
"Old Familiar Faces", November 28, 1908

6/3
"The Story Read", December 1, 1908
"Metrical Numismatics", December 3, 1908
"The Bibber", December 5, 1908
"Mr. Carb's Story", December 8, 1908
"On Stories Read by the Instructor", December 12, 1908
"The Story Read", December 15, 1908
"A Sonnet Sequence", December 17, 1908
"Mr. Hancock's Essay", December 17, 1908
"A Course in Imitative Prose Composition", December 19, 1908

6/4
"Winds on the Harp", January 7, 1909
"Winds on the Harp", first draft
"On Verse Read in English 5", January 7, 1909
"The Enriched Personality", January 10, 1909
"On Another Subject Than That Assigned", January 12, 1909
"Mr. Maxfield's Story", January 14, 1909
"The Impact of Harvard", January 16, 1909
"Mr. Claff's Reference to the 'Gold Coast'", January 19, 1909
"On Harvard Individualism", January 21, 1909
"On Happiness", January 23, 1909

6/5
"Walter Porter, His Character and His Environment", February 18, 1909
"Walter Porter, His Character and His Environment", first draft
"A Point Suggested by Mr. Hunt's Paper", February 20, 1909
"On "Salt", and "Follow"", February 23, 1909
"Entreaty", February 27, 1909

6/6
"In lieu of Comment on Mr. Follett's Story", March 2, 1909
"Charlatans", March 3, 1909
"Three Views of the Nature of Things", March 4, 1909
"On Extermination", March 5, 1909
"President Eliot and the Irish", March 9, 1909
"The Cambridge School Children", March 13, 1909
"Mr. Claff's Essay", March 18, 1909
"Walter Porter in Gore Hall", March 18, 1909
"Walter Porter in Gore Hall", first draft
"Directions for Two Lectures on Prose Style", March 20, 1909
"Mr. Hood's Poem' March 23, 1909
'The Burlesque", March 25, 1909
"On Pessimism", March 28, 1909
"The Refrain", March 30, 1909

6/7
"My Reading in Porter", April 1, 1909
"My Reading in Porter", first draft
"The Study of Porter", April 6, 1909
"Mr. Shannon's Story", April 6, 1909
"It Was As If --", April 6, 1909
"Mr. Long's Quotation from Hardy", April 8, 1909
"Political Reconstruction", April 10, 1909
"Triangular Debating for Harvard", April 16, 1909
"Triangular Debating for Harvard", first draft
"Modernity", April 18, 1909
"Mr. Winter and "Salvation Hell", April 27, 1909

6/8
"Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came", May 5, 1909
Letter to Dean Briggs, May 8, 1909
"My Standards", May 8, 1909
"A Story, and Its Application", May 11, 1909
"Mr. Long's Comment", May 13, 1909
"My Year's Work in English 5, the Long Themes", May 15, 1909
"Three Themes Against Two Chances", May 18, 1909
"A Last Word on Porter", May 20, 1909
"A Last Word on Porter", first draft
"The Dramatic Club's Program", May 20, 1909
"George Meredith", May 22, 1909
"English and Chemistry", May 25, 1909
"Impersonality in Writing", May 28, 1909

6/9
"Scholar's Books", June 1, 1909
"English and Chemistry (Continued)", June 3, 1909

6/10
"Note to Instructor"
"Wearing to the Spirit"
"Mr. Claff's Essay"
"Note to Dean Briggs"
"Walter Porter's Cosmos", first draft
"Arcadia to Order", first draft
"Nature and the Humanists", first draft
"English at Harvard in 1920", first draft

6/11
Study of alliteration in Tennyson's "The Princess", and "The Holy Grail"

6/12
Study of English hexameters

6/13
Study of rhyme in "Endymion", "Don Juan", and "Castle of Indolence"

6/14
Miscellaneous working papers

6/15
Notes for the play, "The Moral of Nature"

6/16
Play, "The Newcomers"

6/17
"The Farmer's Circus"

6/18
"The Complete Works of the Thirteen Club"

6/19
Notes for the "Thirteen Club"

6/20
"The Ideal Society"

6/21
First prose draft of Prologue

6/22
Outline of the speech, "Composition for the Millions"

6/23
Speech, "Composition for the Millions"

6/24
"All America, All for a Thousand Years"

6/25
"Excelsior"

6/26
Poem, "The Sunset"

6/27
Poem, "Lead Pencil Sonnets on One of the South Mountains"

6/28
Poem, "Bryan"

6/29
Poem, "To Jofan"

6/30
Poem, "After All These Years"

6/31
Poem, "Midst Widows and Orphan's Tears"

6/32
Poem, "The Leazar Buck"

6/33
"What is Poetry?: A Symposium"

6/34
"A Metrical Analysis of Swinebrune's 'Hesperia'"

6/35
"Music as a Means of Historical Research"

6/36
"Democratized Art"

6/37
Remarks to the Pianists Club

6/38
"Naive Music"

6/39
Photostat of "The Head of Medusa", by Rienzi.

6/40
Newspaper articles on Tschaikowsky's concerts in the US in 1891

6/41: Articles on Asbury:
"The "Nativist Texas"..." The Evening Post, New York, March 13, 20
"A Texas Opera" The Dallasite, October 12, 1929
"2 Views of Texas Pioneer Life" Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 1925
"The Professor Says It Stranger" Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 1925
"Doctor Asbury".... by TAES... ", 1942
"Asbury Returns to Part-Time for Age" Texas Agricultural Experiment Station (TAES) newsletter, September 15, 1943
"Sketch of the Week", March 21, 1946
"Whitewashers of History Looked Down on as Trash by Lover of Truth", Undated
"Retired Chemist Working on Cycle of Music Drama" Houston Post, Undated
"Doc Lives Alone But Not Lonely" The Bryan Eagle, Undated
"Doc to Finish Opera in 2059" Houston Chronicle, Undated

6/42
Miscellaneous poetry written by friends of Asbury

6/43
Correspondence concerning the Farmers Short Course at Texas A&M, 1930-1931

6/44
Correspondence concerning music and drama, 1914-1925

6/45
Miscellaneous history correspondence, 1931-1943

6/46
Correspondence concerning roses, 1934-1936

6/47
Correspondence concerning roses, 1937-1942

6/48
Miscellaneous notes on a rose garden

6/49
Articles on rose experiments