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Robert Frost. A Sermon: Spoken on the First Day of The Feast of Tabernacles at The Rockdale Avenue Temple, Cincinnati, Ohio, Thursday Morning, October 10, 1946, Cincinnati, OH: Victor E. Reichert, 1947.

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Dates

  • Creation: 1947.

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for research. Registration with the collection is required. Items in this collection do not circulate and may be used in-house only. Materials will be retrieved from and returned to storage areas by staff members.

Extent

From the Collection: 109 Volumes

Language of Materials

English

Materials Specific Details

Crane, A33. pp. 104: blank; p. 5: title-page; p. 6: ' Copyright 1947 by Victor E. Reichert | Cincinnati Ohio; p. 7: three paragraphs explaining the occasion of the sermon; p. 8: blank; pp. 9-14: text; pp. 15-16: blank; p. 17: 'Five hundred copies of this Sermon have been | printed for Dr. Victor E. Reichert in October, 1947 | at The Spiral Press New York'; pp. 18-20: blank. Cream laid paper with horizontal chainlines approximately 28 mm. apart. Watermark of a castle. Leaves measure 226 X 129 mm.; edges trimmed. Binding: Gray-red (between 19.gyR and 20.d.gyR) wove paper wrappers cut flush with the leaves and folded over pp. 1-2 and 19.20. A gray paper label, 14 X 69 mm., is pasted in a slightly larger blind-stamped panel on the front cover, '[within a dark gray frame rule and lettered in dark gray] Sermon by Robert Frost'. Stapled at the center fold.

Five hundred copies printed for Dr. Victor E. Reichert by The Spiral Press to commemorate Frost's unplanned address to the congregation of the Rockdale Avenue Temple in Cincinnati, of which Reichert was the Rabbi. From the note on p. 7, 'a recording was made while Robert Frost spoke from the pulpit. William S. Clark II and Victor E. Reichert prepared this text on the basis of the recording.' RF did not authorize this publication.

Repository Details

Part of the Nicholson Library Special Collections Repository

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