Guide to the Naomi Phelps Papers
1935-1939

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Table of Contents
  Overview of the Collection
   
  Biographical Note
   
  Content Description
   
Use of the Collection
   
Administrative Information
   
Detailed Description of the Collection

 

Published Material

 

Poems

 

Short Stories

 

Manuscripts on Idaho History

  Subjects

Overview of the Collection

Creator: Phelps, Naomi
Title: Naomi Phelps Papers
Dates: 1935-1939 ( inclusive )
Quantity: 2 linear feet (4 containers)
Collection Number: Ax 222
Summary: Collection includes manuscripts of published and unpublished poems, as well as research notes about Idaho, by American author Naomi Phelps.
Repository: University of Oregon Libraries
Special Collections & University Archives

1299 University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403-1299 USA
URL: http://libweb.uoregon.edu/speccoll/index.html

Languages: Collection materials are in English. 
Sponsor: Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Biographical Note

No biographical information available.

Content Description

Collection includes manuscripts of published and unpublished poems by American author Naomi Phelps. Collection also includes research notes toward a history of Idaho, with information ranging from agriculture to Wells Fargo. Published material includes a scrapbook of poems and a pamphlet, Briar Pipes (N.Y. 1935).

Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Access :  

Collection is open to the public.

Collection must be used in Special Collections & University Archives Reading Room.

Restrictions on Use :  

Property rights reside with Special Collections & University Archives, University of Oregon Libraries. Copyright resides with the creators of the documents or their heirs. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted to the Manuscripts Librarian in Special Collections & University Archives. The reader must also obtain permission of the copyright holder.

Preferred Citation :  

[Identification of item], Naomi Phelps Papers, Ax 222, Special Collections & University Archives, University of Oregon Libraries, Eugene, Oregon.

Administrative Information

Arrangement :

Collection is organized into the following series:

  • Published Material
  • Poems
  • Short Stories
  • Manuscripts on Idaho History

Processing Note :  

Collection processed by processing staff.

Detailed Description of the Collection

The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection.

Published Material
Container(s)
Description
Box
Folder
1 1 Scrapbook of Published Poems
1 1 Binder of Church Mouse Sayings
1 1 Briar Pipes

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Poems
Container(s)
Description
Box
Folder
1 2 A.W.O.L.
1 2 Abiding
1 2 About Us Woman
1 2 Achievement
1 2 Ad Extremum
1 2 Addressed to Cassandra
1 2 Admonition
1 2 Advice
1 2 Advice to a Bachelor
1 2 After Sunday
1 2 Aftermath
1 2 Against Time
1 2 Age “one step beyond…”
1 2 Age “seasons depart…”
1 2 Agronomist
1 2 Akin to truth
1 2 Alchemy
1 2 Alibis
1 2 Anchored
1 2 And thus forget
1 2 Another Mary
1 2 Another Spring
1 2 Antiphonal
1 2 Applied Optimism
1 2 Apprentice
1 2 Apropos
1 2 Arithmetic
1 2 As You Choose
1 2 An Aside to the Early Bird
1 2 Assayed
1 2 Assayed Winds
1 2 Attempted Escape
1 2 Attention Class
1 2 Augury
1 2 Averment
1 2 Bargains
1 2 Barker
1 2 Bauble
1 2 Being of a Sound Mind
1 2 Belated Revenge
1 2 Beside the Still Waters
1 2 The Better Part
1 2 Black Magic
1 2 Boredom
1 2 Brief Sermon
1 2 Broken Tryst
1 2 Camouflage
1 2 Caste Leveling
1 2 Catalogued
1 2 Caveat
1 2 Challenge
1 2 Chant at Random
1 2 Charity
1 2 Chivalry a la Mode
1 2 Choice “He kept the cash…”
1 2 Choice “You’ll be safe…”
1 2 Chosen of the Gods
1 2 Civic Pride
1 2 Clinic
1 2 Collation
1 2 Commission
1 2 Companions
1 2 Comparative
1 2 Complaint Registered
1 2 Complete
1 2 Comprehension
1 2 Consequence
1 2 Constancy
1 2 Content
1 2 Contentment
1 2 Contribution
1 2 Coquette
1 2 Counterfeit
1 3 Deduction
1 3 Defeat
1 3 Departure
1 3 Deserted Rooms
1 3 Devotee
1 3 Did You?
1 3 Discourse on Sophistication
1 3 Disguise
1 3 Distant Fields
1 3 A Dream
1 3 Driftwood
1 3 Dry Goods
1 3 Dusk
1 3 Earth to Her Children
1 3 East to West
1 3 Elegy
1 3 Elemental
1 3 Enough
1 3 Erudition
1 3 Evaluation
1 3 Exalted
1 3 Experientia Docet Stultos
1 3 Exhibit A
1 3 Fable for a Young One
1 3 Fables
1 3 Far Travelers
1 3 Feminine Recompense
1 3 Finale “Gamble on Fate…”
1 3 Finale “Here ends, and well…”
1 3 Finis “All Beginnings…”
1 3 Fishermen
1 3 Flute
1 3 Foiled
1 3 For Another to Reap
1 3 Forbidden Parts
1 3 Foreword
1 3 Forgotten
1 3 Francois Villon
1 3 Fruition
1 3 Frustrated Utopia
1 3 Frustration
1 3 Fugue
1 3 Full Harvest
1 3 Greater Vision
1 3 Grown Ups
1 3 Grief Guest
1 4 The Hard Way
1 4 The Hardest Way
1 4 Hardly Pan
1 4 Heart
1 4 The Heart with Dissolution Spent
1 4 Heloise and Abelard
1 4 High Finance
1 4 High Noon
1 4 Hobby
1 4 Home-Made Goods
1 4 Humanity
1 4 Hungry Grass
1 4 Husbandry
1 4 Hymn of the Cynic
1 4 I Promise You
1 4 Idealist
1 4 Idol “Exalted in the Temple…”
1 4 Idol “While ash upon…”
1 4 Idolator
1 4 Illusion In the Crystal
1 4 Inculcation
1 4 The Inevitable
1 4 Infallibility Compound
1 4 Ingredients
1 4 Inherence
1 4 Inscription for a gravestone
1 4 Intolerance “Pulped and sore…”
1 4 Intolerance “I’ll mark and claim…”
1 4 Introspection
1 4 Inventoried Gratitude
1 4 Investment
1 4 Invincible
1 4 It Works
1 4 Judge Not
1 5 Kittery Widow
1 5 Kitty Clive
1 5 Late Love
1 5 Lesson One
1 5 Liberated
1 5 Life “ A goblet…”
1 5 Life “There’ll be lessons…”
1 5 Life the Jester
1 5 Limited Generosity
1 5 Lion’s Share
1 5 Live and Learn
1 5 Live to Learn
1 5 The Living Dead
1 5 Londonderry Aid
1 5 Lullaby
1 5 Lyrics
1 5 Malnutrition Market Slump
1 5 Marketing Done
1 5 Mastery
1 5 A Matter of Personal Philosophy
1 5 Memory
1 5 A Mild Barrage at Tradition Militant
1 5 Militant
1 5 Minority “When you stand…”
1 5 Minority “Whether I walk…”
1 5 Mnemosyne
1 5 Monition
1 5 Moron
1 5 Most Moderns Moths
1 5 Moutain Meaning
1 5 The Muse Declaims
1 5 My Garden
1 5 My Heart in Your Keeping
1 5 My Wish
1 5 M’Est Ce Pas
1 5 Nautical Observations
1 5 Nautical Revelation
1 5 A Negligible Treatise on Memories
1 5 New Hearing
1 5 No Originality
1 6 O Tempora! O Mores!
1 6 Ode of Little Nell
1 6 Ode to Opportunity
1 6 On Record “Tethers and staked…”
1 6 On Record “Well I know it…”
1 6 One Better
1 6 One Harvest
1 6 One Twilight
1 6 One Way
1 6 Outcast
1 6 Overrated
1 6 Outing
1 6 Oversight
1 6 Pabulum
1 6 Paean of the Nonconformist
1 6 Paean for the Nonconformist
1 6 Pagan Prayer
1 6 Page a Psychiatrist
1 6 Parable
1 6 Parade “There was him…”
1 6 Parade “See the bannered…”
1 6 Pariah
1 6 Pattern
1 6 Pay Off
1 6 Pen Sketch
1 6 Perplexity
1 6 Perseverance
1 6 Piper Time
1 6 Pity for the Credulous
1 6 Playthings
1 6 Plea for Eloquence
1 6 Plundered
1 6 Polish
1 6 Pomposity
1 6 Portrait “Her eyes were…”
1 6 Portrait “There is a one…”
1 6 Portrait of a Lady
1 6 Practical Maid
1 6 Prayer of the Modern Maid
1 6 Preachment
1 6 Precaution
1 6 Premature
1 6 Premonition
1 6 Primacy
1 6 Problem Child
1 6 Problem vs. Solution
1 6 Prodigal
1 6 Prophecy
1 6 Proportion
1 6 Quantum Sufficient
1 6 Questionnaire
1 6 Quite the Thing
1 7 Rarity
1 7 Reformation
1 7 Remedial
1 7 Remedy
1 7 Remnants
1 7 Remote
1 7 Rendezvous
1 7 Repetition
1 7 Resignation
1 7 Return
1 7 Reward
1 7 Rivals
1 7 Romany Sight
1 7 Rules for Housekeeping
1 7 Ruthless “For one whose word…”
1 7 Ruthless “Who are you…”
1 7 Sans Reproche
1 7 Sans Sportsmanship
1 7 Sans Triumphe
1 7 Satiate
1 7 School Days
1 7 School of Experience
1 7 Scrambled Theory and Theology
1 7 Second Hand Store
1 7 Selective
1 7 Self Appointed
1 7 Self Assertion
1 7 Self Righteous
1 7 Shadow of the Cross
1 7 Shard
1 7 Shield and Tower
1 7 Short Essay on Architecture
1 7 Short Short Story
1 7 Sight Seeing
1 7 Silhouette
1 7 The Singer
1 7 Smoke
1 7 Social Problem
1 7 Solace
1 7 Soliloquy on Fame
1 7 Solution “If words were…”
1 7 Solution “Oh, I’ll be a wise one…”
1 7 Solution “What a boone…”
1 7 Somnolence
1 7 Soul
1 7 Speaking of the World
1 7 Spinster
1 7 Spinster’s Declamation
1 7 Stakes
1 7 Standard
1 7 Stars on a Night Remembered
1 7 Stars too Remote
1 7 A Story
1 7 Strange Children
1 7 Study
1 7 Success Code
1 7 Sufficient
1 7 Suggestion
1 7 Suggestions Regarding Footprints
1 7 Summation
1 7 Superior
1 7 Surface
1 7 Surfeited
1 7 Surprise
1 7 Sustenance
1 8 Taboo
1 8 Tale of a Short Season
1 8 Tant Mieux
1 8 Tavern
1 8 Technique
1 8 Three Balls
1 8 Time the Appocathary
1 8 To a New Hero
1 8 To a Pedagogue
1 8 To Eulogies on Death
1 8 Told in Autumn
1 8 Trail’s End
1 8 Transient
1 8 Travesty
1 8 The Tree
1 8 Tribute “Oh, You’ll wear…”
1 8 Tribute “In this is stands…”
1 8 Tryst
1 8 Tyche
1 9 Inescapable
1 9 Until Then
1 9 Vacancy
1 9 Vanquished
1 9 Vigilance
1 9 Vindication
1 9 Vintage “Filter Silence…”
1 9 Vintage “Never Drink…”
1 9 Vulnerable
1 9 Way of a Woman
1 9 Weapon
1 9 Well Meaning
1 9 What Price Renown
1 9 Why
1 9 Willows
1 9 Winter Pastoral
1 9 Without Discernment
1 9 Woman in Black
1 9 Woman
1 9 Word Figments
1 9 A Word to the Wise
1 9 The Written Word

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Short Stories
Container(s)
Description
Box
Folder
1 10 Bivouac
1 11 Bright Curtain
1 12 By Stars and White Heather
1 13 By Way of Substitute
1 14 Once on a Night
1 15 Riddle Me This
1 16 Untitled

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Manuscripts on Idaho History
Container(s)
Description
Box
Folder
2 1 Agriculture
2 2 Animals
2 3 Art
2 4 Banking
2 5 Beauty Aids
2 6 Boise Basin
2 7 Business Concerns
2 8 Characters
2 9 Chinese
2 10 Civil War
2 11 Commodities
2 12 Correspondence
2 13 Currency
2 14 Emigrants
2 15 Expressions
2 16 Ferries
2 17 Firearms
2 18 Flowers
3 1 Freighting
3 2 Gambling
3 3 Gold Adulteration
3 4 Gold Weights-Measures
3 5 Gold Transporting
3 6 Homes and Household Furnishing
3 7 Hunting
3 8 Idaho City
3 9 Idaho Territory
3 10 Indians
3 11 Law and Order
3 12 Lawlessness
3 13 Mail
3 14 Military Posts
3 15 Miners
3 16 Mines
3 17 Mining
3 18 Mining Laws
3 19 Mining Types
3 20 Mints
3 21 Miscellaneous
3 22 Newspapers
3 23 Pack Trains
3 24 Politics
3 25 Pony Express
4 1 Railroads
4 2 Sawmills
4 3 Schools
4 4 Ships
4 5 Sickness
4 6 Social Life
4 7 Stages and Stagecoaches
4 8 Styles
4 9 Superstitions
4 10-11 Towns and Locales
4 12 Telegraph
4 13 Transpiration
4 14 Wages
4 15 Wells-Fargo

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Subjects

This collection is indexed under the following headings in the online catalog. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or places should search the catalog using these headings.

  • Subject Terms :
  • American poetry--20th century
  • American poetry--Women authors
  • Women authors, American--20th century
  • Women poets, American--20th century

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