Manuscript Collection Number: 105
Accessioned: Purchases, 1988-1997
Extent: 50 linear ft.
Content: Correspondence, diaries, poetry, stories, essays, novels, plays, photographs, clippings,
passports, brochures, programs, report cards, printed material, and ephemera.
Access: The collection is open for research.
Processed: 1989-1997 by Anita A. Wellner
Biographical Note
Scope and Contents Note
Series List
Series I: Personal and professional correspondence
Series II: Diaries and Journals, 1929-1970
Series III - IV: Material written by Emily Coleman; Personal miscellany
Supplement and Appendices: Supplement; Appendix A, List of Poems; Appendix B, List of Correspondence
124 Series V. Material written by individuals other than Coleman, 1915-1965
Manuscripts sent to Coleman by friends and correspondents. Arranged
alphabetically by the author. 821 leaves
Series V.1. George Barker, 1960 and [n.d.]
English poet and writer. See supplement (F1689) for Barker's poem
"MCMXXV."
F1556 "8 Beatitudes to Denver," 1960 Jul 3
Printed paste-up bearing the autograph inscription: "For Johnny." 1 item (11
leaves)
F1557 "The Gardens of Altering Eros: A Theological Eclogue on Gerard Manley
Hopkins," [n.d.]
Typescript (mimeograph) for radio. Produced by Douglas Cleverdon and initialed
by Barker and with cover. 1 item (31 leaves) 31 pp.
Series V.2. Djuna Barnes, 1938
American novelist and writer.
F1558 "Call Upon My Soul," 1938
Typescript poem with autograph corrections. 1 item (1 leaf) 1 p.
Series V.3 Raffaeli Bianchetti, 1925-1931
Italian writer.
F1559 "La Creatura Di Bacillus Virgola," 1931 May 12
Typescript with autograph revisions and signed at Assisi. 1 item (6 leaves)
"Dal Diario," 1927 Apr 12
Typescript written in Rome. 1 item (2 leaves)
"Il Dono Di Necros," 1931
Typescript with autograph revisions, signed, with cover. 1 item (6 leaves)
F1560 Two autograph notebooks, with some entries signed, 1925-1930
2 items (118 leaves)
124
Series V.4. Loyd R. Coleman, 1915-1917
Essays and stories written by Loyd Ring Coleman for English or Rhetoric
classes which he attended.
F1561 "The Detective and the Ghost," 1915 May 13
Autograph and signed, for Rhetoric I. 1 item (15 leaves)
"John Bull and Uncle Sam," 1915 Nov 15
Autograph and signed, for English I. 1 item (4 leaves)
"What is a Liberal Education?" 1915 Oct 9
Autograph and signed, for English I. 1 item (5 leaves)
"And Some Believe It," 1917 Feb 1
Autograph and signed, for Rhetoric III. 1 item (3 leaves)
"Old America," 1917 Feb 24
Autograph and signed, for Rhetoric III. 1 item (5 leaves)
"Where There Is No Vision," [n.d.]
Typescript with autograph corrections, signed. 1 item (4 leaves)
"Universities for Peace," [n.d.]
Typescript with autograph corrections. 1 item (6 leaves)
Series V.5. John Coleman-Holmes, [n.d.]
Three short stories.
F1562 "Hazel," [n.d.]
Typescript with a few autograph corrections. New York. 1 item (7 leaves)
"The Unworthy Pedagogue," [n.d.]
Typescript with a few autograph corrections. New York. 1 item (5 leaves)
"Teachers' Dialogue," [n.d.]
Typescript with a few autograph corrections. New York. 1 item (9 leaves)
Series V.6. Peggy Guggenheim, [n.d.]
F1563 "Poem Two (for S.B.)," [n.d.]
Typescript (carbon?) poem. 1 item (1 leaf)
Series V.7. Samuel Hoare, 1920-1921 and [n.d.]
Poems and essays.
F1564 "The Crisis of Western Culture," [n.d.]
Autograph essay which includes notes on books by Wyndham Lewis, Valery, etc.
1 item (41 leaves)
"Afternoon Tea," [n.d.]
Autograph fragment. 1 item (18 leaves)
"Paysage d'Automne" or "Autumn Landscape," [n.d.]
Three drafts.
Autograph draft with French title. 1 item (1 leaf)
Typescript draft with autograph revisions and French title. 1 item (1 leaf)
Typescript draft with English title. 1 item (1 leaf)
"Landscape, with Figure," [n.d.]
Three drafts.
Autograph draft. 1 item (3 leaves)
Typescript draft with autograph revisions. 1 item (1 leaf)
Typescript draft with autograph revisions by Coleman. 1 item (1 leaf)
"The Marriage of Figaro," 1921 Nov
Two drafts.
Autograph draft with revisions. 1 item (2 leaves)
Typescript draft, signed. 1 item (2 leaves)
"Confession," [n.d.]
Autograph, signed. 1 item (1 leaf)
"To Him Who is Deeper Than I," 1920 Jun 21
Typescript with autograph note. 1 item (1 leaf)
Untitled with first line: "There, day by day, wrapped round in mystery," [n.d.]
Typescript. 1 item (1 leaf).
Untitled with first line: "Emily, would I were as clever as thou art!" [n.d.]
Typescript (carbon). 1 item (1 leaf)
Untitled with first line: "I had to make my first response in prose," [n.d.]
Typescript. 1 item (1 leaf)
Untitled with first line: "King Redhead sat, surrounded by his staff," [n.d.]
Autograph. 1 item (1 leaf)
Untitled with first line: "It is the Ecstasy of God," [n.d.]
Typescript with autograph corrections. 1 item (1 leaf)
Series V.8. John Holms, [n.d.]
F1565 Untitled poem with first line: "When she I love turns yet her cheek aside," [n.d.]
Autograph and two typescript copies, one with autograph corrections by Emily
Coleman. 3 items (3 leaves)
Untitled poem with first line: "By the clear sky, no brother takes my hand," [n.d.]
Autograph. 1 item (1 leaf)
*See F1573 and supplement (F1669) for copies of H. T. Hopkinson's short
story "I Have Been Drowned."
125 Series V.9. Lionel Johnson, [n.d.]
F1566 "The Dark Angel," [n.d.]
Typescript poem. 1 item (2 leaves)
Series V.10. Robert Liddell, [n.d.]
F1567 "An Object for a Walk" [n.d.]
Page Proofs with autograph corrections and envelope. 1 item (215 leaves)
F1568 "Feuilles de Journal," [n.d.]
Typescript (carbon) with autograph corrections and envelope. 1 item (16 leaves)
F1569 "The Letters," [n.d.]
Typescript (carbon) with autograph corrections and envelope. A chapter on Jane
Austen's letters. 1 item (16 leaves)125
F1570 Chapters from his book on Jane Austen, [n.d.]
Four segments sent to Coleman. Each typescript bears autograph revisions and
has a separate envelope.
"Wuthering Heights" 1 item (54 leaves)
"Bleak House" 1 item (46 leaves)
"Middlemarch" 1 item (37 leaves)
"Howard's End Revisited" 1 item (26 leaves)
Series V.11. Raissa Maritain, 1945-1965
F1571 "Chagall," [n.d.]
Galley proofs, initialed, with one autograph correction. 1 item (2 leaves)
"Patriarch Tree," 1965 Aug 16
Printed announcement with poem, "L'Acte d'etre," and the English translation,
"Act of Being." 1 item (1 leaf)
"Chanson," 1946
Two drafts written in Rome.
Typescript (carbon). 1 item (1 leaf)
Typescript (carbon) with autograph revisions, initialed. 1 item (2 leaves)
"Colonnes," 1947
Two drafts written in Rome.
Autograph, initialed, with autograph note. 1 item (1 leaf)
Autograph, signed. 1 item (1 leaf)
"La Piste," [n.d.]
Autograph with autograph note, initialed. 1 item (1 leaf)
"Dialogue," [n.d.]
Typescript (carbon) with autograph revisions, initialed. 1 item (3 leaves).
"Sans Demeure," 1946
Two drafts.
Autograph, initialed, 1946 Dec 15. 1 item (1 leaf)
Autograph with autograph note, initialed. 1 item (1 leaf)
"Le Lac," 1946
Two drafts written in Rome.
Autograph, initialed. 1 item (1 leaf)
Typescript (carbon), initialed. 1 item (1 leaf)
"Au point du jour," 1947
Typescript, initialed, written in Rome. 1 item (1 leaf)
"Le soir descend voile de soie," 1946 Jun 22
Two drafts written in Rome.
Typescript (carbon) with autograph revisions, initialed. 1 item (2 leaves)
Typescript (carbon), initialed. 1 item (2 leaves)
"Mosaique," 1945 Dec
Two drafts written in Rome.
Typescript (carbon) with autograph revisions, initialed. 1 item (1 leaf)
Ts (carbon), initialed. 1 item (1 leaf)
"La Dissonance," 1946 Dec 25
Two drafts written in Rome.
Typescript (carbon). 1 item (1 leaf)
Typescript (carbon). 1 item (1 leaf)
"Portes de l"Horizon," 1946
Two drafts written in Rome.
Autograph with autograph revisions, initialed. 1 item (1 leaf)
Typescript (carbon), initialed. 1 item (1 leaf)125
"Meditation," 1946
Two drafts written in Rome.
Typescript (carbon), initialed. 1 item (1 leaf)
Typescript (carbon) with autograph title change, initialed. 1 item (1 leaf)
"Au Latium," 1946 Mar 13
Typescript (carbon) with autograph note, initialed at Rome. 1 item (2 leaves)
Series V.12. Edwin Muir, 1926-1936 and [n.d.]
Includes poetry and a letter from Muir. See supplement (F1683) for
several pages written by Coleman critiquing Muir's work.
F1572 Letter from Muir to Coleman, 1936 Feb 14
TLS, St. Andrews, Fife, with envelope. 1 item (2 leaves).
"The Horses," [n.d.]
Typescript poem with few a autograph corrections. 1 item (1 leaf)
"Chorus of the Newly Dead," 1926
Printed title page (Hogarth Press, 1926), with note on the verso: "To John Holms."
1 item (1 leaf)
"Time," [n.d.]
Two typescript drafts, one with autograph revisions. 2 items (4 leaves)
"Heraldry,"[n.d.]
Typescript with autograph corrections. 1 item (1 leaf)
Untitled fragment, [n.d.]
Typescript with autograph revisions. 1 item (1 leaf)
"The First Day," [n.d.]
Typescript with autograph corrections, partially burned. 1 item (1 leaf)
"The Stationary Journey," [n.d.]
Typescript with autograph corrections and note, plus typescript (carbon?). 2 items
(2 leaves)
"The Fall," [n.d.]
Typescript with a few autograph corrections. 1 item (2 leaves)
"The Field of the Potter." [n.d.]
Typescript with a few autograph corrections. 1 item (2 leaves)
"The Riders," [n.d.]
Typescript with autograph corrections. 1 item (1 leaf)
"The Dilemma," [n.d.]
Typescript. 1 item (2 leaves)
"Variations on a Time Theme," [n.d.]
Typescript (carbon). 1 item (13 leaves)
Untitled fragment with first line: "And hill and plain and wood and tower..."
Typescript with autograph corrections. 1 item (1 leaf)
Series V.13. Material written by unidentified persons, 1937 and [n.d.]
F1573 "The Zodiac," [n.d.]
Typescript poem with a few autograph revisions. 1 item (2 leaves)
Untitled poem with first line: "The ballet...."
Autograph. 1 item (1 leaf)
Untitled poem with first line: "While you're away, it makes to me...."
Autograph with corrections. 1 item (1 leaf)
Untitled poem with first line: "Together we shall merge the songs...."
Autograph with corrections. 1 item (1 leaf)
Untitled poem with first line: "Lack you but one alone...."
Typescript. 1 item (1 leaf)
"I Have Been Drowned" [1937]
Typescript of a story which was originally unidentified in this collection. Bears
autograph corrections. The story has been identified by researcher Jane Dunn and
by material received in the supplement (F1669) as written by Sir H. T. (Thomas)
Hopkinson. 1 item (15 leaves)
126 Series VI. Photographs, 1857-1975
Include photographs of Emily Coleman family, and friends.
Also includes art work and photograph negatives. The photographs, which were
originally housed loosely in five small boxes, have been reorganized into
folders and specific categories in one record center carton numbered Box 126.
Boxes 127-130 no longer exist. A detailed list of the cetegories and the
photographs found in each folder is available in Appendix C at the end of this
findind aid.
See also supplement (F1690) for more photographs of Coleman, her father, son
and grandson. ca. 766 items
Series VI.1. Photographs of Emily Coleman from childhood to adulthood,
1900-1965
Photographs include her with others persons such as her mother, her
brothers (John and William), Loyd Ring Coleman, John Holmes (her
father), her son (John Coleman-Holmes), her grandson (Dunstan), and
others. There is also a photograph of the painting of Emily Coleman
created by Djuna Barnes. 120 items
127-128 Series VI.2. Family Photographs, 1837-1969
Photographs of Emily Coleman's family, including her father,
grandparents, aunts and uncles, etc. Some of the identified names are:
Jessie Wheeler, Charles Freshfield Coaney, Emily Judson Coaney,
W.Hunt Hall, Jake Scarborough, Francis Holmes, Eleanor Holmes,
Eleanor S. Coaney, Lucy A. Coaney, Charlotte [Lottie] Coaney, Pauline
Stephanie Coaney, Gertrude Watson, Henry Morton Cameron, Edward
Dean Adams, George D. Coaney, Charlotte and Dunstan Coleman,
William Hicks Coaney, Fanny Howard. Three photographs of Coleman's
father, John Holmes (F1574) has been removed to the oversize section.
351 items
129 Series VI.3. Friends of Coleman and unidentified individuals, 1900-1975
Names identified in the collection include Eunice Carter, Marie Claire
Coleman, Harriet Adams, Saxe Commins, Raymond Fontaine, Graham
Greene, Raissa Maritain, Luis Ariza, John Gay, W.C. Bryant, Olga Rostik,
Peter Maurin, John Holms, Beatrice Holms, Mary and Roger Siepmann
(with Georgiana), Dorothy Day, Antonia White, Mother Benedict Duss,
Sonia Himmel, Dr. Max Wiskott, Emily Coleman, Dorothy Holms, Ernst
(Putzi) Hansfstangel, Djuna Barnes, Charles Henri Ford, Phyllis Jones,
John Coleman, Mrs. Turgeon (?), Lucy Adams, Beatrice Kathleen Holms,
Palmer, Miss O'Grady. Includes a photograph postcard from Peggy
Guggenheim and a photograph of Dublin's St. Patrick's Day parade in
1928 (with Desmond Fitzgerald). 165 items
130 Series VI.4. Photographs of landscapes, horses, other animals, the
Hindenburg, and pieces of artwork, 1896-1970
Includes an ink drawing of John Holmes Coleman by Thelma Wood
(1956), negatives of photographs shot in Arizona, and children's drawings.
The photograph of the Hindenburg was taken in 1936 when Coleman's
father flew in it to Europe. 127 items
131 Series VII. Family Correspondence and Papers, 1852-1967
Includes Emily Coleman's correspondence with her father and her two
brothers, as well as correspondence among various her various
grandparents, aunts, uncles, and other family members. Arranged
chronologically in subseries. ca. 3390 leaves
Series VII.1. John Milton Holmes (Coleman's father) letters to Coleman,
1918-1951
In addition to Mr. Holmes's letters, this series includes a story, "The
Scarecrow," clippings, quotations from Montaigne's essay on death, a
letter to Deak, a letter from John Holmes to his son (William), and a letter
from Holmes to Leach, Sims & Co. Also includes a letter from Holmes to
Jake Scarborough, a letter from Charles Coaney to Holmes, a poem by
Holmes ("Ye Olde Ashfield Plumbinge"), and an account of Holmes's
mountain climbing in 1901. 194 items (ca. 395 leaves)
F1575 1918-1931
F1576 1932-1935
F1577 1936-1937
F1578 1938-1939 Sep
F1579 1939 Sep-1940
F1580 1941
132 F1581 1942-1943
F1582 1944-1946
F1583 1947
F1584 1948 Jan-Jun
F1585 1948 Jul-Sep
F1586 1949
F1587 1950-1951
F1588 [n.d.]
133 Series VII.2. Emily Coleman letters to John M. Holmes, 1906-1951
Letters include Coleman's report cards and schoolwork, her proxy for
stock, a story written by Coleman ("A New England Quilting Party"),
clippings, graduation program, wedding announcement, photographs, and
drawings. ca. 700 items (950 leaves)
F1589 1906-1910
F1590 1911-1912
F1591 1913
F1592 1914
F1593 1915
F1594 1916-1919
134
F1595 1920-1929
F1596 1930
F1597 1931-1937
F1598 1938-1939
F1599 1940-1949
F1600 1950-1951
135 F1601 [n.d.]
F1602 [n.d.]
F1603 [n.d.]
F1604 [n.d.]
F1605 [n.d.]
136 Series VII.3. General Family Correspondence, 1852-1967
Includes letters among Coleman's immediate family (brothers, parents,
children & grandchildren) and her grandparents, aunts, uncles, and others.
Family material includes medical reports on Emily's mother. Includes
letters from: Harriet Sampson, Louis H. Jones, Henry J. Williams,
Charlotte Louise Greene, Mrs. Eunice Tyler, James Hadley, Rev. and Mrs.
John Milton Holmes, Charles L. Thomas, Caroline Morgan, William and
Sara Bridgman, Mary Smith, George Scovill, Libbie C. Walker, Lucy
Adams Coaney Holmes (Emily's mother), F.F. Thompson, Louise Coaney,
Gloria Coleman, Charlotte Coleman (Emily's granddaughter), Ina M. King,
"Polly," H. A. Watson, Eleanor Coaney, Mary S. Adams, Grace Mitchell
Clark, C. S. Kremer, Lettie B. Ring, Francis S. Williams, H. Coaney,
William Holmes (Emily's brother), John M. Holmes, Jr. (Emily's brother),
Viola and W. H. Spaulding, P.G. Palmer, Jennie P. Serrell, Charles
Freshfield Coaney, Mrs. Jones, Dr. Amos J. Givens, Dr. F. H. Barnes, L.
H. Earle, R. M. Bissell, Herbert Raymond Smith, J. H. Campbell, Louise
Coleman, John Coleman, Dr. D. J. Knowlton, and unidentified
individuals. Also includes copies of Rev. John M. Holmes' (Emily's
grandfather) "An Interesting Letter from Europe," "Rambles in
Switzerland," and an 1868 letter to his congregation. Also includes report
cards, schoolwork of John Holmes, clippings, wedding announcements,
marriage certificate, fabric, an announcement for "The Pacific
Underwriter," poems, programs, telegrams, checks, information
concerning the American Academy of Immortals, brochures ("The Earnest
Exercise," Craig View, and Taylor's Supporter), 1913 newspaper,
photographs, a rejection slip from Century Magazine, religious brochures,
John Holmes' membership cards, invitations, artwork, calling cards, art
exhibition announcement, a copy of "Numerology of Charles Freshfield
Coaney," notes on the Tyler family history, and Brighton Beach program.
ca. 1000 items (ca. 1600 leaves)
F1606 1852-1859
F1607 1860
F1608 [1859-1861]
F1609 [1861-1862]
F1610 1863-1868
F1611 1869-1870
137 F1612 1871-1886
F1613 1896 Jan-Feb
F1614 Mar-Jun
F1615 Jul
F1616 Aug
F1617 Sep-Dec
138
F1618 1897 Jan-Mar
F1619 Apr-May
F1620 Jun-Aug
F1621 Sep-Dec
F1622 1898 Feb-Jun
F1623 Jul-Nov
139 F1624 1899 Jan-Mar
F1625 Apr-May
F1626 Jun
F1627 Jul-Aug
F1628 Sep-Nov
F1629 Dec
140 F1630 1900 Jan-Feb
F1631 Mar-May
F1632 Jun-Dec and [n.d.]
F1633 1901 Jan-Feb
F1634 Mar-Apr
F1635 May-Jun
F1636 Jul-Dec
141 F1637 1902-1907
F1638 1909-1911
F1639 1912-1913
F1640 1914-1919
F1641 1920-1925
F1642 1926-1929
F1643 1930-1931
F1644 1936-1944
F1645 1945-1949
F1646 1950-1951
142 F1647 1952-1955
F1648 1956-1959
F1649 1960-1967
F1650 [n.d.]
F1651 [n.d.]
F1652 [n.d.]
F1653 [n.d.]
143
Series VII.4 A Sketch of Lottie's Life by Eleanor S. Coaney, [n.d.]
F1654 Two copies of a book about Charlotte Hale Coaney, [n.d.]
Charlotte Coaney was Lucy Coaney Holmes's sister and Emily Coleman's aunt. 2
items (128 pp.)
Series VII.5. Passport for John M. Holmes, 1928-1932
F1655 Passport.
1 item (32 pp.)
Series VII.6. John Holmes Coleman's journal (Coleman's son), 1951-1954
F1656 Typescript journal, 1951-1954
Written in English and French it bears autograph notes and revisions and includes
clippings. Includes his thoughts, quotations, and other information. 168 leaves
Series I: Personal and professional correspondence
Series II: Diaries and Journals, 1929-1970
Series III - IV: Material written by Emily Coleman; Personal miscellany
Supplement and Appendices: Supplement; Appendix A, List of Poems; Appendix B, List of Correspondence
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