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



Guide to the Naomi Phelps Papers, 1935-1939


Ax 222





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Overview of the Collection

 
Repository Name:
 

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

 
Collection Number:
 

Ax 222

 
Creator:
 

Phelps, Naomi

 
Title:
 

Naomi Phelps Papers

 
Dates:
 

1935-1939 (inclusive)

 
Quantity:
 

2 linear feet
4 containers

 
Languages:
 

Collection materials are in English. 

 
Summary:
 

Collection includes manuscripts of published and unpublished poems, as well as research notes about Idaho, by American author Naomi Phelps.

 

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Collection includes manuscripts of published and unpublished poems by American author Naomi Phelps.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).

Arrangement

Collection is organized into the following series:

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

Administrative Information

Processing Note 

Collection processed by processing staff.

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.

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.

 
American poetry--20th century
American poetry--Women authors
Women authors, American--20th century
Women poets, American--20th century

Detailed Description of the Collection

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


 

Published Material

 
Container(s)
Description
 
box
1
folder
1

Scrapbook of Published Poems
 
 

Binder of Church Mouse Sayings
 
 

Briar Pipes
 

 

Poems

 
Container(s)
Description
 
box
1
folder
2

A.W.O.L.
 
 

Abiding
 
 

About Us Woman
 
 

Achievement
 
 

Ad Extremum
 
 

Addressed to Cassandra
 
 

Admonition
 
 

Advice
 
 

Advice to a Bachelor
 
 

After Sunday
 
 

Aftermath
 
 

Against Time
 
 

Age “one step beyond…”
 
 

Age “seasons depart…”
 
 

Agronomist
 
 

Akin to truth
 
 

Alchemy
 
 

Alibis
 
 

Anchored
 
 

And thus forget
 
 

Another Mary
 
 

Another Spring
 
 

Antiphonal
 
 

Applied Optimism
 
 

Apprentice
 
 

Apropos
 
 

Arithmetic
 
 

As You Choose
 
 

An Aside to the Early Bird
 
 

Assayed
 
 

Assayed Winds
 
 

Attempted Escape
 
 

Attention Class
 
 

Augury
 
 

Averment
 
 

Bargains
 
 

Barker
 
 

Bauble
 
 

Being of a Sound Mind
 
 

Belated Revenge
 
 

Beside the Still Waters
 
 

The Better Part
 
 

Black Magic
 
 

Boredom
 
 

Brief Sermon
 
 

Broken Tryst
 
 

Camouflage
 
 

Caste Leveling
 
 

Catalogued
 
 

Caveat
 
 

Challenge
 
 

Chant at Random
 
 

Charity
 
 

Chivalry a la Mode
 
 

Choice “He kept the cash…”
 
 

Choice “You’ll be safe…”
 
 

Chosen of the Gods
 
 

Civic Pride
 
 

Clinic
 
 

Collation
 
 

Commission
 
 

Companions
 
 

Comparative
 
 

Complaint Registered
 
 

Complete
 
 

Comprehension
 
 

Consequence
 
 

Constancy
 
 

Content
 
 

Contentment
 
 

Contribution
 
 

Coquette
 
 

Counterfeit
 
 
3
Deduction
 
 

Defeat
 
 

Departure
 
 

Deserted Rooms
 
 

Devotee
 
 

Did You?
 
 

Discourse on Sophistication
 
 

Disguise
 
 

Distant Fields
 
 

A Dream
 
 

Driftwood
 
 

Dry Goods
 
 

Dusk
 
 

Earth to Her Children
 
 

East to West
 
 

Elegy
 
 

Elemental
 
 

Enough
 
 

Erudition
 
 

Evaluation
 
 

Exalted
 
 

Experientia Docet Stultos
 
 

Exhibit A
 
 

Fable for a Young One
 
 

Fables
 
 

Far Travelers
 
 

Feminine Recompense
 
 

Finale “Gamble on Fate…”
 
 

Finale “Here ends, and well…”
 
 

Finis “All Beginnings…”
 
 

Fishermen
 
 

Flute
 
 

Foiled
 
 

For Another to Reap
 
 

Forbidden Parts
 
 

Foreword
 
 

Forgotten
 
 

Francois Villon
 
 

Fruition
 
 

Frustrated Utopia
 
 

Frustration
 
 

Fugue
 
 

Full Harvest
 
 

Greater Vision
 
 

Grown Ups
 
 

Grief Guest
 
 
4
The Hard Way
 
 

The Hardest Way
 
 

Hardly Pan
 
 

Heart
 
 

The Heart with Dissolution Spent
 
 

Heloise and Abelard
 
 

High Finance
 
 

High Noon
 
 

Hobby
 
 

Home-Made Goods
 
 

Humanity
 
 

Hungry Grass
 
 

Husbandry
 
 

Hymn of the Cynic
 
 

I Promise You
 
 

Idealist
 
 

Idol “Exalted in the Temple…”
 
 

Idol “While ash upon…”
 
 

Idolator
 
 

Illusion In the Crystal
 
 

Inculcation
 
 

The Inevitable
 
 

Infallibility Compound
 
 

Ingredients
 
 

Inherence
 
 

Inscription for a gravestone
 
 

Intolerance “Pulped and sore…”
 
 

Intolerance “I’ll mark and claim…”
 
 

Introspection
 
 

Inventoried Gratitude
 
 

Investment
 
 

Invincible
 
 

It Works
 
 

Judge Not
 
 
5
Kittery Widow
 
 

Kitty Clive
 
 

Late Love
 
 

Lesson One
 
 

Liberated
 
 

Life “ A goblet…”
 
 

Life “There’ll be lessons…”
 
 

Life the Jester
 
 

Limited Generosity
 
 

Lion’s Share
 
 

Live and Learn
 
 

Live to Learn
 
 

The Living Dead
 
 

Londonderry Aid
 
 

Lullaby
 
 

Lyrics
 
 

Malnutrition Market Slump
 
 

Marketing Done
 
 

Mastery
 
 

A Matter of Personal Philosophy
 
 

Memory
 
 

A Mild Barrage at Tradition Militant
 
 

Militant
 
 

Minority “When you stand…”
 
 

Minority “Whether I walk…”
 
 

Mnemosyne
 
 

Monition
 
 

Moron
 
 

Most Moderns Moths
 
 

Moutain Meaning
 
 

The Muse Declaims
 
 

My Garden
 
 

My Heart in Your Keeping
 
 

My Wish
 
 

M’Est Ce Pas
 
 

Nautical Observations
 
 

Nautical Revelation
 
 

A Negligible Treatise on Memories
 
 

New Hearing
 
 

No Originality
 
 
6
O Tempora! O Mores!
 
 

Ode of Little Nell
 
 

Ode to Opportunity
 
 

On Record “Tethers and staked…”
 
 

On Record “Well I know it…”
 
 

One Better
 
 

One Harvest
 
 

One Twilight
 
 

One Way
 
 

Outcast
 
 

Overrated
 
 

Outing
 
 

Oversight
 
 

Pabulum
 
 

Paean of the Nonconformist
 
 

Paean for the Nonconformist
 
 

Pagan Prayer
 
 

Page a Psychiatrist
 
 

Parable
 
 

Parade “There was him…”
 
 

Parade “See the bannered…”
 
 

Pariah
 
 

Pattern
 
 

Pay Off
 
 

Pen Sketch
 
 

Perplexity
 
 

Perseverance
 
 

Piper Time
 
 

Pity for the Credulous
 
 

Playthings
 
 

Plea for Eloquence
 
 

Plundered
 
 

Polish
 
 

Pomposity
 
 

Portrait “Her eyes were…”
 
 

Portrait “There is a one…”
 
 

Portrait of a Lady
 
 

Practical Maid
 
 

Prayer of the Modern Maid
 
 

Preachment
 
 

Precaution
 
 

Premature
 
 

Premonition
 
 

Primacy
 
 

Problem Child
 
 

Problem vs. Solution
 
 

Prodigal
 
 

Prophecy
 
 

Proportion
 
 

Quantum Sufficient
 
 

Questionnaire
 
 

Quite the Thing
 
 
7
Rarity
 
 

Reformation
 
 

Remedial
 
 

Remedy
 
 

Remnants
 
 

Remote
 
 

Rendezvous
 
 

Repetition
 
 

Resignation
 
 

Return
 
 

Reward
 
 

Rivals
 
 

Romany Sight
 
 

Rules for Housekeeping
 
 

Ruthless “For one whose word…”
 
 

Ruthless “Who are you…”
 
 

Sans Reproche
 
 

Sans Sportsmanship
 
 

Sans Triumphe
 
 

Satiate
 
 

School Days
 
 

School of Experience
 
 

Scrambled Theory and Theology
 
 

Second Hand Store
 
 

Selective
 
 

Self Appointed
 
 

Self Assertion
 
 

Self Righteous
 
 

Shadow of the Cross
 
 

Shard
 
 

Shield and Tower
 
 

Short Essay on Architecture
 
 

Short Short Story
 
 

Sight Seeing
 
 

Silhouette
 
 

The Singer
 
 

Smoke
 
 

Social Problem
 
 

Solace
 
 

Soliloquy on Fame
 
 

Solution “If words were…”
 
 

Solution “Oh, I’ll be a wise one…”
 
 

Solution “What a boone…”
 
 

Somnolence
 
 

Soul
 
 

Speaking of the World
 
 

Spinster
 
 

Spinster’s Declamation
 
 

Stakes
 
 

Standard
 
 

Stars on a Night Remembered
 
 

Stars too Remote
 
 

A Story
 
 

Strange Children
 
 

Study
 
 

Success Code
 
 

Sufficient
 
 

Suggestion
 
 

Suggestions Regarding Footprints
 
 

Summation
 
 

Superior
 
 

Surface
 
 

Surfeited
 
 

Surprise
 
 

Sustenance
 
 
8
Taboo
 
 

Tale of a Short Season
 
 

Tant Mieux
 
 

Tavern
 
 

Technique
 
 

Three Balls
 
 

Time the Appocathary
 
 

To a New Hero
 
 

To a Pedagogue
 
 

To Eulogies on Death
 
 

Told in Autumn
 
 

Trail’s End
 
 

Transient
 
 

Travesty
 
 

The Tree
 
 

Tribute “Oh, You’ll wear…”
 
 

Tribute “In this is stands…”
 
 

Tryst
 
 

Tyche
 
 
9
Inescapable
 
 

Until Then
 
 

Vacancy
 
 

Vanquished
 
 

Vigilance
 
 

Vindication
 
 

Vintage “Filter Silence…”
 
 

Vintage “Never Drink…”
 
 

Vulnerable
 
 

Way of a Woman
 
 

Weapon
 
 

Well Meaning
 
 

What Price Renown
 
 

Why
 
 

Willows
 
 

Winter Pastoral
 
 

Without Discernment
 
 

Woman in Black
 
 

Woman
 
 

Word Figments
 
 

A Word to the Wise
 
 

The Written Word
 

 

Short Stories

 
Container(s)
Description
 
box
1
folder
10

Bivouac
 
 
11
Bright Curtain
 
 
12
By Stars and White Heather
 
 
13
By Way of Substitute
 
 
14
Once on a Night
 
 
15
Riddle Me This
 
 
16
Untitled
 

 

Manuscripts on Idaho History

 
Container(s)
Description
 
box
2
folder
1

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