[FROST, Robert (1874-1963)]. A large archive of materials relating to the life and work of Robert Frost as collected by his cousin, Joseph W.P. Frost.

An archive of approximately 100 items including newspaper articles about Robert Frost, pamphlets with addresses by President John F. Kennedy about Frost, auction catalogs, book catalogs, and issues of The New England Quarterly, The Robert Frost Review, The Yale Review which featured Frost's poetry, with numerous pamphlets and broadsides SIGNED BY ROBERT FROST including:

An Anniversary. 1940. -- The Four Beliefs. 1944. -- From Snow to Snow. 1936. -- The Library of Congress Presents Robert Frost Reading His Poems. 1960. -- The New Hampshire Troubadour. 1946. -- Octet for a Printer. 1955. -- Robert Frost. Middlebury College, 1954. -- Robert Frost in A Tribute to Tagore. 1961. -- Several Short Poems. 1924.

This collection was created by Joseph William Pepperrell Frost, cousin of the poet Robert Frost. Though nearly four decades apart in age, the two formed a close bond, with Frost sending his young cousin books, magazines, and Christmas cards that the younger Frost would use as the basis of a book collection that would continue to grow long after Robert Frost had passed away. Provenance: Joseph Frost.

Property from the Frost Family Collection, New Hampshire

This lot is located in Chicago.