ISADORA' DUNCAN'S RUSSIAN DAYS by
Irma Duncan and Allan Ross Macdougall.

"Madame Yorska wrote a moving appeal which Isadora's loyal
friend Mary Fanton Roberts published in her magazine in
America. We reprint the following quotation from this
article, which tells of a conversation the famous actress
had with the penurious dancer during the period in 1925
when she was starving in the little studio in the rue des
Sablons:

'I heard she was alone in Paris, and without funds.
She had come there, hoping to get back rent from a tenant,
but hearing he was in trouble himself, she would not sue
him.

'I looked her up. A friend had lent her a small studio.
She looked so perfectly happy, I thought reports must be
exaggerated. As I could not get her to talk about her affairs,
I went at it bluntly.

"Just how much money have you left, Isadora?"

'She laughed, emptied her purse, and said:

"Let's count together....Five francs, thirty centimes."

'I burst into tears.

"This is dreadful. Something must be done immediately.
How can you sit there and read so quietly?"

"I was having a beautiful time, I was reading the
SONG OF SOLOMON. Do you know the beautiful English
version, By Julia Ellsworth Ford ? Yorska, dear,
read it aloud to me."

IRELAND

John Quinn, the American-Irish attorney was
John Yeats's best friend, and sponsored William B.
Yeats's first visit to America. Among the Irish
personalities I have met are Florence Farr, Douglas
Hyde, President of Ireland, (who visited us in Rye,)
A.E., Synge, William Morris, Shaw, Leslie, Padri c Colum,
Lady Gregory, and Lord and Lady Dunsany. Lady Dunsany
was a typical Irish-English character. Lady Gregory
came to the United States many times. I have all her
books.

Julia first met Yeats in New Haven.
John Quinn introduced her. Ellsworth
telephoned her from Yale that Yeats
was going to speak there. "Pack up your
tooth brush and come up!" Julia took
the next train. The next time Yeats
spoke, he spoke at the ~~Three~~ Arts Club
for Julia(she paying for the lecture)
and inviting the audience. Yeats first talk
in New York. Simeon attended. When Yeats
asked at the end of his lecture if any
one had any questions to ask, Simeon
finally, to break a silence, drawled:
"How old is Anne?" Yeats had his photo
taken in New Haven, but forgot where.
Ellsworth found the photographer and
got some copies, and sent one to John
Quinn. Julia has some copies of this
photo.

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Pierre de Lanux

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Elsa Dulac

Isadora Duncan

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Amelia Earhart

John Eglinton

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Robert Frost

John Galsworthy

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Kahlil Gibran

Wilfrid Wilson Gibson

Nina (Mrs. Harold) Gorst

Stephen Graham

Robert Graves

Lady Gregory

Arthur Hacker

Beatrice

Forbes-Robertson Hale

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Frank Harris

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George W. Lawrence

Shane Leslie

Vachel Lindsay

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(Baron Cushendun)

Percy Mackaye

Seumas MacManus

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John Masefield

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Peabody

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George W. Russell. "A.E."

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Dr. Carl F. Wolff

Anna May Wong

Elinor Wylie

Elizabeth Yeats

John Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats

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Eager Heart. By A. M. Buckton. London. 1906.

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* ✓ Passages from a Poem: The New World. (contained in Poetry, April 1915) Two copies.

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* ✓ A Book of Plays. New York. 1922.

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Caravan. New York. 1925.

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The New World. New York. 1922.

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* ✓ A Canticle of Pen and other poems. New York. 1920. (signed by author)

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W. B. In California. Berkeley. 1919.

* Letters from a Distance. By Gilbert Cannan. London. 1923.

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Love's Coming-of-Age. By Edward Carpenter. Chicago.

Towards Democracy. By Edward Carpenter. London. 1892.

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Charles Rann Kennedy, continued:

The Necessary Evil. New York. 1913. (presentation copy)

The Winterfeast. New York. 1908. (presentation copy)

The Terrible Meek. New York. 1912. (two copies both presentation copies)

Songs of a Devotee. By Thomas Keohler. Dublin. 1906.

Q. Horati Flacci - Carminum Librum Quintum. A Rudyardo Kipling et Carolo Graves ... Novo Portu. 1921. (published on the fund established by the Colorado Yale Alumni Association - first publication)

The Symbolical Language of Ancient Art and Mythology. By Richard Payne Knight. New York. 1892.

Hortus Vitae. By Vernon Lee. London. 1904.

Genius Loci. Notes on Places. By Vernon Lee. London. 1899.

Limbo and other essays. By Vernon Lee. London. 1897. (presentation copy from Lewis W. Hatch)

Ariadne in Mantua. By Vernon Lee. Portland. 1912.

 Songs of Oriel. By Shane Leslie. Dublin. 1908. (presentation copy)

The End of a Chapter. By Shane Leslie. London. 1916. (presentation copy from

General William Booth enters into Heaven and other poems by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay. New York. 1913. (presentation copy from Witter Bynner)

The Beloved Vagabond. By William J. Locke. (inscribed by author)

Where Love Is. By William J. Locke. New York. 1908:
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Interlinear to Cabeza de Vaca. By Haniel Long. Sante Fe. 1939.
(signed by author)

Poems. By Haniel Long. New York. 1920. (presentation copy from Howard Cooke)

Walt Whitman and the Springs of Courage. By Haniel Long. Sante Fe. 1938.

Amy Lowell:

Can Grande's Castle. New York. 1918.

Men, Women and Ghosts. New York. 1916.

Poems - The Cyclists - The Foreigner ... (contained in Poetry, April, 1914)

Venus Transiens-Solitaire-Red Slippers. (contained in Poetry, April 1915).

The Landlady of the Whinton Inn tells a Story. (contained in Poetry, January 1918).

Poems from the Chinese. Translated by Florence Ayscough and Amy Lowell. (contained in Poetry, February 1919)

The Mountainy Singer. By Seosamh MacCathmhaoil. Dublin. 1908.
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Ibsen, the man, his art, & his significance. By Haldane MacFall.
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The Battle for the Sunlight. By Arvia MacKaye. New York. 1906.
(presentation copy)

Percy MacKaye:

7 Annals of an Era. Percy MacKaye and the MacKaye Family 1826-1932.
Washington. 1932.

Program of Caliban by the Yellow Sands. Shakespeare Tercentenary
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by the Yellow Sands laid in program)

Caliban by the Yellow Sands. Garden City. 1916. (two copies unbound)

Caliban by the Yellow Sands. Garden City. 1916. (two copies, one
presentation copy with reviews etc. laid in volume)

The Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer ... by Percy MacKaye.
New York. 1904. (presentation copy). Also a 1914 edition.

The Canterbury Pilgrims. New York. (signed by the author)

The Civic Theatre in Relation to the Redemption of Leisure.
New York. 1912. (presentation copy)

Community Drama ... Boston. 1917. (Three copies)

Dogtown Common. New York. (two copies, one a presentation copy)

The Evergreen Tree. New York. 1917. (two copies)

Ode on the Centenary of Abraham Lincoln. New York. 1909.
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In Another Land (Im Andern Land). Poems Inter-translated ... 1937.
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The Immigrants. New York. 1915. (presentation copy)

The Gobbler of God. New York. 1928. (presentation copy)

Fenris, the Wolf. New York. 1905. (presentation copy)

Poems. New York. 1909. (presentation copy)

Poems and Plays. New York. 1916. Volume I. (reviews laid in also
two poems in Remembrance of Marion More MacKaye - Shopping in Heaven,
signed by author, and Wild Rose)

Rip Van Winkle, Folk-opera in three acts. New York. 1919. (two
copies, one signed by author and the other a presentation copy)

The Present Hour. New York. 1914.

The Skippers of Nancy Gloucester. New York. 1924. (two copies,
signed)

Sanctuary. A Bird Masque. New York. 1914. (program for "Sanctuary"
laid in volume)

Saint Louis. A Civic Masque. Garden City. 1914. (presentation
copy, also manuscript letter from author to Mrs. Ford, June 22, 1914,
laid in volume)

Francis H. Bange, Esq.

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The Canterbury Pilgrims. New York. 1908. (presentation copy)

A Substitute for War. New York. 1915.

A Thousand Years Ago. Garden City. 1914.

Yankee Fantasies. New York. 1912. (presentation copy)

Percy MacKaye. A symposium on his Fiftieth Birthday, 1925. Hanover. 1928.

Washington, the man who made us. New York. 1918.

Wakefield. Washington.

Uriel and other poems. Boston. 1912. (two copies, one signed the other a presentation copy)

To-morrow. New York. 1912. (two copies)

Opera-Librettos - Rip Van Winkle. Music by Reginald de Koven. 1919. (presentation copy)

The Pilgrim and the Book. 1920.

Washington Action Dramatique ... New York. 1919. (two copies both signed by author)

The Roll Call. A Masque of the Red Cross. Washington. 1918.

The Kentucky Mountains. (presentation copy)

The Workers in Poetry. (contained in The North American Review, April 1911)

Percy MacKaye. A sketch of his life. 1922.

"Not to Imagine is to Die" by Rex Raab. New York. 1945. (presentation copy from Percy MacKaye)

Nine pamphlets announcing The Coburn Players presenting in the open air The Canterbury Pilgrims.

Epoch. The Life of Steele MacKaye. A Memoir by his son Percy MacKaye. New York. 1927. Two volumes. (review laid in volume as well as the following printed poems: Shopping in Heaven, Poog's Pasture, To Julia Ellsworth Ford, The Goodly Company)

Wings for Hands. By Keith MacKaye. Chapel Hill. 1934.

Emma. A play by Marion Morse MacKaye. Special Memorial edition.

New York. 1941. (presentation copy from Percy MacKaye)

Maurice Maeterlinck:

The Buried Temple. New York. 1902.

The Blue Bird. New York. 1909.

Alladine and Palomides, Interior and the Death of Tintagiles. Three Little Dramas for Marionettes. London. 1949.

Monna Vanna. New York. 1905.

Mary Magdalene. New York. 1910.

Joyzelle. New York. 1907.

Ruysbroeck and the Mystics. London. 1908.

The Princess Maleine and The Intruder. London. 1942.

The Plays of ... New York. 1906.

Wisdom and Destiny. New York. 1906.

Thoughts from Maeterlinck. Chosen and arranged by E.S.S. New York. 1903.

Sister Beatrice and Ardiane & Barbe Bleue. New York. 1901. 1902.

Francis H. Bangs, Esq.

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Maurice Maeterlinck: A biographical study ... London.

Maurice Maeterlinck: ... Avec une Bibliographie par Gerard Harry.
Bruxelles. 1909.

Dramatists of To-day ... Maeterlinck. By Edward E. Hale, Jr.
New York. 1905.

The Man with the Hoe and other poems. By Edwin Markham.
Garden City. 1917.

Gates of Paradise and other poems. By Edwin Markham. Garden City.
1920. (signed by author)

John Masefield:

Berenice. London. 1922.

The Battle of the Somme. London. 1919.

Esther. London. 1922.

Enslaved and other poems. London. 1920.

Easter. London. 1929.

The Dream. Illustrated by Judith Masefield. London. (presentation copy)

The Coming of Christ. London. 1928.

Captain Margaret. New York. 1916.

King Cole. With drawings by Judith Masefield. London. 1921. (signed); 1923.

The Hawbucks. London. 1929.

Good Friday and other poems. New York. 1916. (presentation copy)

Esther and Berenice. New York. 1922.

Gallipoli. London. 1916.

The Everlasting Mercy and the Widow in the Bye Street. New York. 1919.

A Mainsail Haul. London. 1913.

Lollingdon Downs ... London. 1917.

A King's Daughter. London.

The Old Front Line ... London. 1917.

Multitude and Solitude. London.

Midsummer Night ... London. 1928.

Recent Prose. London. 1924.

A Poem and Two Plays. London. 1919.

Sonnets. New York. 1916. (presentation copy)

St. George and the Dragon. London. 1919.

Sard Harker. London. 1924.

Rosas. New York. 1918. (signed copy with author's card pasted in)

Right Royal. London. 1920.

Reynard the Fox ... London. 1919.

Attack. By Edward G. D. Liveing. Introduction by John Masefield.
New York. 1918. (presentation copy from John Masefield)

Philip the King ... New York. 1916.

With the Living Voice. An Address. 1924.

Tristan and Isolt. London. 1927.

The Tragedy of Pompey the Great. New York. 1914. (presentation copy)

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Ardours and Endurances ... By Robert Nichols. New York.

Poems. By Alfred Noyes. New York. 1909. (signed copy)

The Carol of the Fir Tree. By Alfred Noyes. London.

The Enchanted Island and other poems. By Alfred Noyes. New York.
1910. (signed copy)

The Renaissance. By Walter Pater. London. 1922.

Josephine Preston Peabody:

The Wolf pf Gubbio. Boston. 1913.

The Piper. Boston. 1911. 1909.

Harvest Moon. Boston. 1916.

The Singing Leaves. Boston. 1906. (presentation copy)

Marpessa. By Stephen Phillips. London. 1907. (inscribed To Mother
from Lawrence)

Provenca ... by Ezra Pound. Boston. 1910.

Ryder [1847-1917]. By Frederic Newlin Price. New York. 1932.
(presentation copy)

Porzia. By Cale Young Rice. Garden City. 1913. (presentation copy)

Captain Craig. By Edwin Arlington Robinson. Boston. 1903.

An Introduction to Herman Melville's Moby-Dick ... By A. S. W. Rosenbach.
New York. 1924.

Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. By T. Hall Caine.
Boston. 1883.

Dante Rossetti and the pre-Raphaelite Movement. By Esther Wood.
London. 1894.

Edmond Rostand:

L'Aiglon. Adapted into English by Louis N. Parker. New York. 1900.

Chantecier. Translated by Gertrude Hall. New York. 1910.

[George W. Russell] A.E.

Deirdre. A Drama in three Acts by A.E. Dublin. 1907. (signed)

The Mask of Apollo and other stories. Dublin.

The Nuts of Knowledge, Lyrical Poems Old and New. (manuscript signed
poem by A.E. on inside page, also the signature of Elizabeth C. Yeats
on same page)

The National Being ... Dublin. 1920. 1916. (reviews laid in one copy)

The Earth Breath and Other Poems by A.E. New York. 1897.

Be Still Waters, Lyrical Poems Old and New. Dundrum. 1906.
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The Interpreters. London. 1922.

New Songs. A lyric selection made by A.E. Dublin. 1904.

AE's Letters to Minanlabain. New York. 1937.

Homeward: songs by the way by A.E. Portland. 1904.

Religion and Love. (contained in Dana. June 1904.)

AE (George W. Russell) a study of a man and a nation. By Darrell Figgis.
Dublin. 1916.

Francis H. Bangs, Esq.

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Walt Whitman, continued:

Whitman. By Newton Arvin. New York. 1938. (two copies)

Walt Whitman in England. By Harold Blodgett. Ithaca. 1934.

Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman. By William E. Barton. Indianapolis. 1928.

Whitman and Burroughs Comrades. By Clara Barrus. Boston. 1931.

Walt Whitman, Builder for America. By Babette Deutsch. New York. 1941.

Walt. By Elizabeth Corbett. New York. 1928.

Whitman. A Study. By John Burroughs. Boston. 1902. (inscribed To John from Julia)

Walt Whitman. A Study and a Selection. By Gerald Bullett. London. 1924.

Walt Whitman, Constructor para America. Par Babette Deutsch. Mexico. 1942.

Walt Whitman: Poet of Democracy. By Hugh L'Anson Fausset. New Haven. 1942.

Walt Whitman's Workshop. Edited ... by Clifton Joseph Furness. Cambridge. 1928. (presentation note on inside page from Clifton J. Furness) Communal Music among Arabians and Negroes. By Clifton J. Furness. New York, inscribed, laid in volume.

Walt Whitman's Workshop. Edited ... by Clifton Joseph Furness. Cambridge. 1928. (signed copy)

Walt Whitman in Mickle Street. By Elizabeth L. Keller. New York. 1921.
Walt Whitman. By William Clark. London. 1892.

Walt Whitman. By Harrison S. Morris. Cambridge. 1929.

Days with Walt Whitman. By Edward Carpenter. London. 1921.

Whitman. An Interpretation in Narrative. By Emory Holloway. New York. 1926. (presentation copy from Mother to Karen). Photographs of Whitman laid in volume)

The Answer. A Novel from the Life of Walt Whitman. By Grant Overton. New York. 1921.

Walt Whitman. By Bliss Perry. Boston. 1906.

The Essays on Walt Whitman. By Robert Stevenson. 1900.

The Bibliography of Walt Whitman. By Frank Shay. New York. 1920.

The Magnificent Idler. The Story of Walt Whitman. By Cameron Rogers. Garden City. 1926.

Browning and Whitman. By Oscar L. Triggs. London. 1893.

Selections from the Prose and Poetry of Walt Whitman. Boston. 1898.

Visits to Walt Whitman in 1890-1891. By J. Johnson and J. W. Wallace. New York. 1918.

Walt Whitman. A Study. By John Addington Symonds. London. 1893. (note by Mrs. Ford on inside page)

In re Walt Whitman: edited by ... Horace L. Traubel, ... Philadelphia. 1893. (two copies)

Feuilles d'herbe. Traduction ... par Leon Bazalgette. Paris. 1922.

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The Cuala Press, Ireland, continued:

A Picture Book by Frank O'Connor. 1943.

Three Tales by Frank O'Connor. 1941.

Dafydd ap Gwilym. Selected and translated by Nigel Haseltine,
with preface by Frank O'Connor. 1944.

Poems by Thomas Parnell. 1927. (two copies)

A Little Anthology of Modern Irish Verse. Selected by Lennox Robinson. 1928. (two copies)

Pilgrimage in the West. By Mario M. Rossi. 1933.

Deirdre of the Sorrows. By John M. Synge. 1910.

Poems and Translations. By John M. Synge. 1909.

John M. Synge: A few personal recollections, with biographical notes by John Masefield. 1915. (signed by John Masefield)

The Post Office. A play by Rabindranath Tagore. 1914.

Twenty-one poems by Katharine Tynan. 1907. (signed by author)

William B. Yeats:

The Death of Synge and other passages from an old diary. 1928. (two copies)

Discoveries. A volume of essays. 1907. (signed by author)

Responsibilities: Poems and a play. 1914.

A Packet for Ezra Pound. 1929. (two copies) (two copies)

Stories of Michael Robartes and His friends ... and a play in prose. 1931.

Stories of Red Hanrahan. 1904. (signed by author) (two copies)

The Cat and the Moon and Certain Poems. 1924.

Dramatis Personae. 1935.

Last Poems and two plays. 1939.

Michael Robartes and the Dancer. 1920.

Estrangement: being some fifty thoughts from a diary kept by ... 1926.

October Blast. 1927. (two copies) (two copies)

Two Plays for Dancers. 1919.

The King of the Great Clock Tower, ... 1934.

Poetry and Ireland. Essays. 1908. (signed by the author)

Words for Music perhaps and other poems. 1932. (two copies)

Seven Poems and a fragment. 1922. (two copies)

The Cat and the Moon and certain poems. 1924.

The Wild Swans at Coole and other verses. 1917.

Four Years. 1921. (two copies)

The Green Helmet and other poems. 1910.

In the Seven Woods. 1903. (presentation copy)

New Poems. 1938.

Synge and the Ireland of his Time. 1911.

Essays 1931 to 1936. 1937.

Reveries over Childhood and Youth. 1915.

Plates to accompany Reveries over Childhood and Youth. 1915.

A Selection from the Love Poetry of ... 1913. (signed by the author)

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William B. Yeats:

The Bounty of Sweden, and a lecture ... 1925. (two copies)

Pages from a Diary written in nineteen hundred and thirty. 1904.

The Words upon the Window Pane. 1934.

Some Passages from the Letter of AE to W. B. Yeats. 1936.

Some Memories of W. B. Yeats. By John Masefield. 1940.

Some Essays and Passages by John Eglinton, selected by ...
1905. (signed by John Eglinton)

Certain Noble Plays of Japan: from the manuscripts of Ernest Fenollosa, ... introduction by W.B. Yeats. 1916.

Twenty one Poems written by Lionel Johnson and selected by
W. B. Yeats. 1904.

John Butler Yeats:

Further letter of John Butler Yeats, selected by Lennox Robinson.
1920. (two copies)

Early Memories: Some chapters of autobiography. 1923.

Passages from the letters of ... selected by Ezra Pound. 1917.
(two copies)

La La Noo by Jack B. Yeats. 1903.

Further books given to Yale Library by Julia Ellsworth Ford

Acknowledged by James T. Babb, April 27, 1951:

Far Quests. By Cale Young Rice. Garden City. 1912.
(presentation copy from author)

The Beloved Adventure. By John Hall Wheelock. Boston. 1912.
(presentation copy from author.)

The Book of the Little Past. By Josephine Preston Peabody.
Boston. 1908. (presentation copy from author)

Trackless Winds. By John Burton. San Francisco. 1930.
(presentation copy from author)

The Great Illusion. By Norman Angell. New York. 1913.
(presentation copy from author)

Arms and Industry. By Norman Angell. New York. 1914.
(signed by the author)

The Political Conditions of Allied Success. By Norman Angell.
New York. 1918. (presentation copy from author)

The Chinese Lantern. By Laurence Housman. New York. 1908.
(presentation copy from author)

Tell the People. By Pearl S. Buck. New York. 1945.
(presentation copy from author)

Poems 1908-1919. By John Drinkwater. Boston. 1919.
(presentation copy from author)

Modern Studies. By Oliver Elton. London. 1907.
(signed by J.B.Yeats with pencil sketch of author)

Acknowledged May 4, 1951:

One hundred and ninety-three volumes and nine pamphlets
dealing with China, Japan, India, etc.

Acknowledged March 30, 1951:

The Mystery of Hamlet King of Denmark, Or What We Will.

A Tetralogy - with prelude and postlude. By Percy MacKaye.

New York. 1950. Special limited edition. Inscribed copy
by the author.

Acknowledged May 4, 1951:

Acknowledged March 30, 1951:

OGUNQUIT, MAINE

September 24, 1951

James T. Babb, Esq.
Yale University Library
New Haven, Connecticut

Dear Jim:

By parcel post I am sending to the Yale Library(attention of Mr. Wing) the items which are listed on the enclosed sheet. They are additional gifts to the Yale Library from the late Julia Ellsworth Ford, and they should be acknowledged to me on your handsome official stationery with whatever brevity you choose. By this I mean that I do not expect you to go to such descriptive length in acknowledging them as I have gone on the enclosed sheet in sending them to you. I don't know where these gifts will finally locate in your vast emporium, but perhaps they belong with some of the other items given in the past up in Mr. Gallup's American Literature Sector.

I imagine that the *A Canticle of Pan* items may both be different from *A Canticle of Pan* as finally published in book form, and so will illustrate Mr. Bynner's capacities for self-criticism as he polishes his creations for the finality of print.

I am getting Mrs. Ford's "literary and aesthetical and sometimes belligerent remains" ready to deposit in the Yale Library. I have succeeded in reducing them to such dimensions that they will fit tight into one large suitcase. I shall not at this juncture bother you with what they represent, but I expect to bring them into the Library before the first of November, and when I do so I shall indicate to you what they are and shall hope to see Donald Gallup so that he can estimate with me about what space he cares to give in the Gazette to an appreciation of Mrs. Ford and her gift. A dignified and yet very readable and amusing tribute can be paid her, for she was a terrific personality and intermingled fairly intimately with a good many people of renown (and had the money to make her personality effective). As a twentieth century bluestocking she had her niche, and although her gifts to Yale are not of particular importance other such gifts combined with hers might well prove to be. As old Edwin Markham wrote her, "Our city has no friend of the literary folk more constant and conscientious than you are."

Hope you are well and strong.

Yours,

Francis H. Bangs

For the Yale University Library from the late Julia Ellsworth Ford:

The New World. By Witter Bynner. New York. Mitchell Kennerley. 1915. (Presentation copy to Mrs. Ford indicating that she was one of the book's sponsors)

Spectra. A Book of Poetic Experiments. By Anne Knish and Emanuel Morgan. New York. Mitchell Kennerley. 1916. (Presentation copy to Mrs. Ford with poetical inscription by Emanuel Morgan.) (In this poetical hoax Anne Knish was Arthur Davison Ficke and Emanuel Morgan was Witter Bynner.) (Probably should be listed under Bynner.)

A Canticle of Praise. By Witter Bynner. First delivered in the Greek Theatre at the University of California, Berkeley, Sunday, December First and now Imprinted for the Joy of the Making by JOHN HENRY NASH San Francisco Mdecxcviii. (Presentation copy to Mrs. Ford from Witter Bynner, January 12, 1919.)

A Canticle of Pan. By Witter Bynner. (Two typewritten versions, with corrections, with considerable difference between them. One version is inscribed: "Julia's copy--from the Canticleer--Witter Bynner. Miramar, Santa Barbara, January 9, 1919," with a poetical manuscript note attached. The other copy, containing further corrections, is signed by Witter Bynner, with note in his handwriting: "Delivered on June 3, 1919, before the Phi Beta Kappa Society at the University of California.")

Lute and Furrow. By Olive Tilford Dargan. New York. Charles Scribner's Sons. 1922. (Presentation copy to Mrs. Ford, with six lines of poetical inscription to Julia from Olive.)

The Far Familiar. (Fifty New Poems) By Percy Mackaye. Frontispiece by Arthur Rackham. Richards. London. (1938). (Presentation copy to Mrs. Ford, containing poem to her, as "Julia", on page 55, the poem being entitled "Whichever Way". This volume is the first of Mackaye's books to be published first in England before publication in America.)

The Faith of Poetry. An Essay. By Percy Mackaye. Read before the culminating convention of the World Fellowship of Faiths, held during the Century of Progress World's Fair, at Hotel Morrison, Chicago, September 8, 1933. Reprinted from the Winter Issue of The Oxford Criterion February, 1934. (Presentation copy to Mrs. Ford.)

-Francis H. Bangs
September 24, 1951

John Butler Yeats

Old Man Yeats every Monday afternoon sitting
in gold chair "Importance of Conversation".

Brought J.B.Yeats to America and entertained
him at Grand Union Hotel until he went to
Petitpas. Got him forty orders for pencil
sketches.

"I suppose I've got to go home and starve!
Or live on children."

"Letters on Celebrated People I Have Known"
by J.B.Yeats - at Julia's suggestion.

Several days before J.B.Yeats died he telephoned
he could not attend a Monday afternoon at Julia's -
went to another reception uptown, - storm came up -
He left, got on wrong subway, walked through storm,
got pneumonia and died. Julia would have sent him
home carefully.

John Butler Yeats spent one night in Rye. A mosquito
bit him. He would never come again.

ELIZABETH YEATS

Brought Elizabeth Yeats over to America
on steamer, entertained her here and gave her
an exhibition of books, paintings, fans etc.

JOHN·YEATS

I went to London and visited the family. His
daughter, Elizabeth, was one of my best friends. She came
to the United States with me for a time. On a second trip
to Dublin I saw all the plays and many of the Irish men of
Letters.

John Yeats, feeling that he had no further work to
do in Ireland, was invited to come to my house in New York
where he made many portraits of my friends.

"I have exhausted all my sitters for drawings, what
shall I do?" he asked despairingly. "I do not want
to go back to Ireland. There is nothing for me to
do there."

He never went back, and died at a boarding house in New York
called the Petit-Pas.

He was a very witty man. He came every Monday to my
house parties and sat by the fire. He felt that the art of
conversation had died, and resented it with sadness, as he
was best as a conversationalist. He was quickly irritated
if others did not listen to him, and was impatient with any-
one who did not believe as he did. He was a Protestant, and
very conservative. His favorite child was Lilly. He died
of pneumonia in three days in his seventies. He was at my
house the Monday before his death.

Yeats

One afternoon I was on my way to the Shelton Hotel
to meet Elizabeth Yeats, and being captivated by the
way Irishmen say "It is" with an elevation of "is" into
the air, I asked every good looking I rishman on the
way, "Is that the Shelton Hotel?" And each one said
"It is."

The Shelton Hotel is such a contrast to the Carl-
ton in London, where every one spoke in hollow whispers.
These Irishmen laughed boisterously, making the whole room
ring with their merry noise. At the Carlton they say
good night in refined, holy, subdued whispers, but as these
Irishmen left they would say "Good night, Pat. See you
to-morrow" with real heartiness. I must say I felt more
at home in Iréland than in England. Perhaps it's because
the wee bit of the Irish dominates the English in me.

I have a picture of Elizabeth Yeats. Her beautiful
white hair, clear blue eyes, delicate features and gracious
manner always captivated me.

(ended her to me)

YEATS

One afternoon I went with his sister Elizabeth to call on him and his wife, and two lovely little children were brought in for me to see. Yeats was standing by the mantel with his chin in his hand and turned to speak to me. I do not think I was ever so embarrassed in my life. I was a little deaf at that time, and did not understand one word he said especially because of his intonation, his low voice, and the rapidity with which he spoke. After having said "What did you say?" once, I was too embarrassed to say it again, and looking in my bag, I said, "Oh! Mr Yeats, pardon me, I left my handkerchief in the ladies' dressing room." I left the room, and when I came back he had left the mantel and I spent the rest of the time talking to him and his wife. He was magnificent to look at-- tall, handsome, with black hair turning grey, dignified and simple in manner.

WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

In spite of the burden of years, he had not lost
the springs of inspirational expression.

"An aged man is but a paltry thing,
A tattered coat upon a stick, unless
Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing
For every tatter in it s mortal breast."

He was able to clasp the hands of the soul to the last.
His song continued only with a different rhythm.

Whitman and Yeats are the greatest poets in the
English language of the century. Yeats the greatest in
subjective depths, Whitman in cosmic sweep. Yeats
wielded with incomparable mastery the traditional re-
sources of the language. He had an aristocratic sense of
its values. Whitman lacked that but made up for it by
letting the intensity of his sense of the universal
mould the manner of his expression. It took a world theme
to give Whitman felicity of expression, whereas Yeats
reached his supreme skill in the moods through which he
describes subjective humanity

To J. E. F.

Belated for her Birthday

April 1911

Since earth has brought forth a friend,
And a friend has renewed the earth,
What token that I can send -
On this festa of birth -
Will be worthy of friendship's worth?

All kingdoms that are of this world -
Nay, also the kingdom of heaven -
May lie in a flower furled,
When the flower is given
With a thought that is life's own leaven.

So, though I am barred from my friend
By kingdoms of sea and land,
The flower which I will send
(Love will understand)
Is the thought of the touch of a hand.

From PMK

Copy 1 present in manuscript
sent to Mrs. Ford with this
letter dated April 24, 1911.

A Canticle of Praise, by Witter Bynner. First delivered in the Greek Theatre at the University of California, Berkeley, Sunday, December first and now Imprinted for the Joy of the Making by JOHN HENRY NASH San Francisco Mdcxcexvlll. (A presentation copy to Mrs. Ford from Witter Bynner, January 12, 1919.)

A Canticle of Pan. By Witter Bynner. Two typewritten copies with corrections, differing considerably from each other, the one inscribed "Julia's copy—from the Canticleer-Witter Bynner. Miramar, Santa Barbara, January 9, 1919, and including a manuscript note:

"Although she seems impervious,

Let Witter Bynner fulia

And prove by this most simple means

That he Can-ticle Julia."

the other, the typewritten poem, containing further corrections, signed by Witter Bynner, with note in his handwriting: "Delivered on June 3, 1919, before the Phi Beta Kappa Society at the University of California."

The Faith of Poetry. An Essay by Percy MacKaye. Read before the culminating convention of the World Fellowship of Faiths, held during the Century of Progress World's Fair, at Hotel Morrison, Chicago, September 8, 1933. Reprinted from the Winter Issue of The Oxford Criterion February, 1934. (Presentation copy to Julia Ellsworth Ford.)

A Canticle of Praise, by Witter Bynner. First delivered in the Greek Theatre at the University of California, Berkeley, Sunday, December first and now Imprinted for the Joy of the Making by JOHN HENRY NASH San Francisco Mdcxcxvlll. (A presentation copy to Mrs. Ford from Witter Bynner, January 12, 1919.)

The Faith of Poetry. An Essay by Percy Mackaye. Read before the culminating convention of the World Fellowship of Faiths, held during the Century of Progress World's Fair, at Hotel Morrison, Chicago, September 8, 1933. Reprinted from the Winter Issue of The Oxford Criterion February, 1934. (Presentation copy to Julia Ellsworth Ford.)

Inscription on fly-leaf, *Lute and Furrow*, by Olive Tilford
Dargan. New York. Charles Scribner's Sons. 1922;

To Julia
from Olive

Who is Julia? What is she?
That all poets love her?
Heart of vision, mind set free—
In friendship none's above her.
Beauty's happy seer is she.
Poets all must love her.

Inscription on fly-leaf, *The New World*, by Witter Bynner.
New York. Mitchell Kennerley. 1915.

For
Julia Ellsworth Ford,
one of its sponsors,
with the affection of
Witter Bynner

June 19

1915

Inscription on fly-leaf, *Spectra. A Book of Poetic Experiments*. By Anne Knish and Emanuel Morgan. New York. Mitchell Kennerley. 1916.

It was fun to fool you,
Julia—
But it seemed a sort of sin,
So I had to let you in.
Emanuel Morgan

(Emanuel Morgan was Witter Bynner and Anne Knish was Arthur Davison Ficke.)

Inscription on fly-leaf, *Lute and Furrow*, by Olive Tilford
Dargan. New York. Charles Scribner's Sons. 1922:

To Julia
from Olive

Inscription on fly-leaf, *The New World*, by Witter Bynner.
New York. Mitchell Kennerley 1915.

June 19
1915

Inscription on fly-leaf, *Spectra*. A Book of Poetic Experiments. By Anne Knish and Emanuel Morgan. New York. Mitchell Kennerley. 1916.

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To encourage better writing for the young, she established the Julia Ellsworth Ford Foundation in 1934, with an award of $2,000, for the best juvenile book of the year.

Apart from her writings, she has many and varied interests. She has been particularly active in promoting among Americans a better understanding of China, where she lived and for whose ancient culture she has a profound sympathy and admiration. She has also been active in exposing the mediaeval feudalism and barbarity that underlie the modern veneer of Japanese civilization.

In addition to these and other activities, she again took up painting seriously at the age of eighty, and since then has produced a substantial number of canvasses which have been shown in various exhibitions.

A sufferer from hay fever in her youth, she became concerned about ways and means of alleviating such suffering. For more than thirty years she has worked for the eradication of ragweed, which is responsible for 90 per cent. of the suffering of the ten million persons in the United States afflicted with hay fever and asthma. She was cured by the late Admiral Francis Stokes, Surgeon in the United States Navy. Desirous of applying this method to other sufferers, she was given a room in the Vanderbilt Clinic of the New York Medical Center, where a high percentage of cures was effected.

Her Friday Night Literary Dinner Club, which met at her New York City home for eight years, included in its membership Percy MacKaye, Kahlil Gibran, Witter Bynner, Judge Thomas L. Raymond, Howard Cook and Claude Bragdon. One distinguished guest was always invited, among whom were Ellen Terry, John Butler Yeats, Isadora Duncan, Lawrence Hausman, Amy Lowell, Sarojini Naidu, Lord and Lady Dunsany, Mrs. Havelock Ellis, Edith Wynne Mathison and Charles Rann Kennedy.

She is a member of the Cosmopolitan Club of New York, The Poetry Society of America, Women's City Club of New York, MacDowell Club, American

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Woman's Association, Apannis Club, American Yacht Club, Woman's Club of Rye
and the Women Painters of the West.

Her religious affiliation is with the Society of Friends.

Her lifelong passion and daily comrade has been Walt Whitman.

Everything that has been said or written about Whitman is in the library of
her Rye home. One of the strongest influences in her life she claims were
the following lines:

"Go, dear friend, if need be give up all else and commence
today to inure yourself to pluck, reality,
self-esteem, definiteness, elevatedness,
Rest not till you rivet and publish yourself of your own
personality."

Note: In preparation, a biography: "Looking Forward at Eighty-five,"
and a book of five short essays on Aldenaton, Walt Whitman,
Ellen Terry, William Butler Yeats and Isadora Duncan.

JULIA ELLSWORTH FORD

A comment by Percy MacKaye

In the world of modern letters, Julia Ellsworth Ford is an unique personality. Friend and intimate of many among the foremost leaders of her time, in poetry, art and social reform, she has made her informal charm of hospitality the instrument for the furtherance of beauty, joy, health and human justice.

Yankee in her common sense, by an ancient heritage, she is none the less world-minded in her wide catholicity of living interests. Behind the scenes, at home and abroad, her insatiable zest, idealism and gusto of humor have long been a personal influence in creatively fostering significant movements and public events. In all such activities she knows neither boredom nor regimentation. Passionately sincere, militant without fanaticism, incorrigibly downright, she brings to whatever she does or writes the unspoiled vision of childhood focused in the goals of maturity. So Pan and Santa Claus are her attendant spirits, and children discern in her their prototype in mirth, fancy and curiosity.

Her own books for children abound in spiritual insight, and are widely known for their gaiety and dramatic sense, which lends them an arresting quality for all whose hearts are young.

Julia Ellsworth Ford

One of the most interesting and colorful personalities who make their winter home in California. Comes from New York City. In the American "Who's Who" she is modestly listed as an author and mother of 3 children, but behind this simple notation, lies 50 years of incessant activity as novelist, playwright, pamphleter and crusader at large for worthy national and international causes.

Many of England and America's foremost poets have been personal friends: Laurence Housman, AE, the great Irish mystic, Lord Dunsany, John Masefield and W. B. Yeats. Ellen Terry was her close friend since she visited New York.

Julia Ellsworth Ford has written a novel "Consequences" expressing her passionate love of the Chinese and exposing the opium traffic. It was even translated into Chinese. She has written a book called, "Imagina!" a story for children, as well as many plays, the best being in demand for the last twenty-five years. It is one of a series called, "The Snickerty Nick Series." She has made these plays into technicolor films for children, and, in her love for them, established an Annual Prize of Three Thousand Dollars for the best children's story.

Chapter One

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I have been asked often to write my autobiography. Ellen Terry, Isadora Duncan, Percy Mackaye, Ruth St.Denis, and others among my friends, have at times vehemently urged me to do so. When I asked them why, they invariably replied that I have known so many celebrated and interesting people, not casually, but as friends and intimate friends, that I should record my memories of them. Although the reasons they gave proved something of a drop for my concept, I was finally brought to the realization that there would be real importance and usefulness in recording my memories of persons who themselves had been important and useful. I immediately began compiling notes for my autobiography. I shall not, I hope, indulge in "personal emotions" but rather shall build up the pictures left in my memory of friends and what we choose to call characters that I have had the privilege to know throughout my long life, a life on which they have had a strong influence. I am given the opportunity to write my autobiography in a different way from which most autobiographies are written. My autobiography might be called a series of essays put together as a memoir.

Many of the people of whom I make record were brought together by my entertaining at what I called my Friday Night Dinners, and others at my Monday Afternoons. My Friday Night Dinners were held over a period of eight years at my house at 43 West 74th Street in New York City, and occasionally during the summer months at my country home in Rye. There

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were a number of steady members of these Friday Nights
over the years. Most regular in attendance of these was
Kahlil Gibran, the Syrian, who missed out of those eight
years, remarkable as it may seem, but two nights. Witter
Bynner, when in New York, never missed an evening; and
other steady members were Judge Thomas L. Raymond, the
bibliophile and onetime Mayor of Newark, and Percy Mackaye,
the only married man permitted among the regulars. Women
I did not often entertain at these Friday Nights, as I
found that they better fitted into my Monday Afternoons,
rather *kk* more social than intellectual in complexion. My
dear friend John Butler Yeats, a really great conversation-
alist, preferred the Afternoons to the Nights, and enter-
tained the ladies as he sat in a large comfortable chair
before my fire. He used to say: "Conversation is a lost
art. People talk, but they don't converse anymore!" None-
the-less, on special occasions he attended the Nights also.

Though "men" were the staple of my Friday Nights, cer-
tain women friends of mine I considered as "honorary" members
and repeatedly welcomed Ellen Terry, Isadora Duncan, and
Olive Dargan. Other women who were guests at one time or
another were Ruth St.Denis, Amy Lowell, Josephine Preston
Peabody Marks, Mei-Lan-fang, Lady Dunsany, who came with her
husband, Edith Wynne Mathison, who came with Charles Rann Ken-
nedy, and Elinor Wylie, who won the Julia Ellsworth Ford Poetry
Prize, given under the auspices of the Poet Society of America.

My friend Dr. John Huddleston was an original member

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Many of these friends whom I have just mentioned entertained me or were entertained by me at other times than at my Friday Dinners or Monday Afternoons. Others whom I shall mention in these memoirs of mine will be my London friends Arthur Hacker, Arthur Racham, E. D. Morell, Simeon Solomon, Norman Angell, J. J. Waterhouse, Mrs. William Sharp, Alice Meynell, and Gertrude Kingston, who helped me with the production of my play *The Mist* in London. In Dublin I visited Elizabeth Yeats, and she, me in Rye. John Butler Yeats accompanied me at a meeting with George E. Russell, "A.E." in Dublin. Lady Gregory, William Rossetti, George Moore, come to mind as I write, and I shall also have something to say of Margaret Sanger, Barbara Young, Manuel Rivera Regalodo, Anna Barlow, Vachel Lindsay, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Pearl Buck, John Kendrick Bangs, and Richard Mansfield.

When asked whom among all my friends I loved and admired most, I have always thought first of Ellen Terry.

FROM JULIA ELLSWORTH FORD TO THE YALE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY:

Pictures by George Frederick Watts. Introduction and Selections by Julia Ellsworth Ford and Thomas W. Lamont. New York. Fox, Duffield & Company. 1904. Signed on fly-leaf by Julia Ellsworth Ford.

"A.E." A Note of Appreciation. By Julia Ellsworth Ford. New York. Privately Printed. 1906. Signed on fly-leaf by Julia Ellsworth Ford.

King Solomon and The Fair Shulamite. From "The Song of Songs". A Poetic Idyl Arranged in Sequence by Julia Ellsworth Ford. With illustrations after drawings by Simeon Solomon. New York. Frederic Fairchild Sherman. 1908. Signed on title-page by Julia Ellsworth Ford.

Simeon Solomon. An Appreciation. By Julia Ellsworth Ford. New York. Frederic Fairchild Sherman. 1908. Signed on a page preceding title-page by Julia Ellsworth Ford. (Together with this book, which contains twenty-two full-page reproductions of Simeon Solomon's art, are presented to the Yale University Library, two portfolios and a folder containing photographic reproductions of over one hundred and twenty drawings by Simeon Solomon.)

The Mist. A Little Play in Three Acts. By Julia Ellsworth Ford. New York. Privately Printed. 1912.

Imagina. By Julia Ellsworth Ford. With Illustrations by Arthur Rackham and Lauren Ford. New York. Duffield & Company. 1914.

Imagina. By Julia Ellsworth Ford. With Illustrations by Arthur Rackham and Lauren Ford. New York. E.P.Dutton & Company. 1923.

Imagina. By Julia Ellsworth Ford. With Illustrations by V. Ulianoff and Lauren Ford. Sutton House. Los Angeles. San Francisco. New York. 1935.

Snickerty Nick. By Julia Ellsworth Ford. Rhymes by Witter Bynner. Illustrations by Arthur Rackham. New York. Moffat, Yard & Co. 1919. Signed on title-page by Witter Bynner.

Snickerty Nick and The Giant. A Play for Young People in One Act. By Julia Ellsworth Ford. New York. Dramatists Play Service, Inc. (1933) (35 cents).

Snickerty Nick and The Giant. By Julia Ellsworth Ford. Illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Rhymes by Witter Bynner. Music by Charles Arthur VIII
Ridgway. Sutton House. Los Angeles. San Francisco. (1935).

Pan and Santa Claus. By Julia Ellsworth Ford. Illustration by Lauren Ford. Quotations from "A Canticle of Pan" by Witter Bynner. New York. E.P.Dutton & Company. 1923.

Pan and the Spirit of Beauty. By Julia Ellsworth Ford. Illustration by V. Ulianoff. Quotations from "A Canticle of Pan" by Witter Bynner. Sutton House Publishers. San Francisco-Los Angeles. (1933).

FROM JULIA ELLSWORTH FORD TO THE YALE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY (continued):

Consequences. By Julia Ellsworth Ford. Introduction by John Haynes
Holmes. New York. E.P.Dutton & Co. 1929. A Second Printing. 1930.

Consequences. By Julia Ellsworth Ford. Introduction by John Haynes
Holmes. Sutton House. Los Angeles. San Francisco. (A Third Printing.
1935.)

(Consequences. By Julia Ellsworth Ford. Translated into Chinese by
Chia-Teh Huang. Published in Shanghai. 1932.) A Chinese Edition.

PAMPHLETS:

Tai-shan. The Holy Mountain. In Shan-tung. By Julia Ellsworth Ford.
Rye, New York. 1919.

Peace depends on Great Britain. By Julia Ellsworth Ford. The Rye
Chronicle Press. 1921.

The Coming International Opium Conference. By Julia Ellsworth Ford.
Rye Chronicle Press. 1924.

Opium and the British Policy. By Julia Ellsworth Ford. Reprinted
from Unity, March 2, 1925.

The Spirit of Shu-Yuan Chang Inspires China. A Victory of China
would be a Victory for the Whole World. By Julia Ellsworth Ford.
Rye. 1938.

Supplement to "Something to Think About". By Julia Ellsworth Ford.
Los Angeles. 1942.

The Temple of the Universal Spirit. By Julia Ellsworth Ford. 1945.

- Francis H. Bangs
(Agent for the late Mrs. Ford.)

King Solomon and the Fair Shulamite. From "The Song of Songs". A Poetic Idyl Arranged in Sequence by Julia Ellsworth Ford. With Illustrations after drawings by Simeon Solomon. New York. Frederic Fairchild Sherman. 1908. Signed on title-page by Julia Ellsworth Ford.

Simeon Solomon. An Appreciation. By Julia Ellsworth Ford. New York. Frederic Fairchild Sherman. 1908. Signed on a page preceding title-page by Julia Ellsworth Ford. (Together with this book, which contains 22 full-page reproductions of Simeon Solomon's art, are presented to the Yale University Library, two portfolios and a folder containing photographic reproductions of over one hundred and twenty drawings by Simeon Solomon.)

Imagine. By Julia Ellsworth Ford. With Illustrations by Arthur Rackham and Lauren Ford. New York. Duffield & Company. 1914.

Imagine. By Julia Ellsworth Ford. With Illustrations by Arthur Rackham and Lauren Ford. New York. E.P.Dutton & Company. 1923.

Imagine. By Julia Ellsworth Ford. With Illustrations by V. Ulianoff and Lauren Ford. Sutton House. Los Angeles. San Francisco. New York. 1935.

Snickerty Nick and The Giant. A Play for Young People in One Act. By Julia Ellsworth Ford. New York. Dramatists Play Service, Inc. (1933). Price 35 cents.

Snickerty Nick and The Giant. By Julia Ellsworth Ford. Illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Rhymes by Witter Bynner. Music by Charles Arthur Ridgway. Sutton House. Los Angeles. San Francisco. (1935).

Pan and Santa Claus. By Julia Ellsworth Ford. Illustration by Lauran Ford. Quotations from "A Canticle of Pan" by Witter Bynner. New York. E.P.Dutton & Company. 1923.

Pan and the Spirit of Beauty. By Julia Ellsworth Ford. Illustration by V. Ulianoff. Quotations from "A Canticle of Pan" by Witter Bynner. Sutton House Publishers. San Francisco—Los Angeles. (1933).

Consequences. By Julia Ellsworth Ford. Introduction by John Haynes Holmes. New York. E.P.Dutton & Co. 1929. A second printing. 1930.

Consequences. By Julia Ellsworth Ford. Introduction by John Haynes
Holmes. Sutton House. Los Angeles. San Francisco. (Third Printing. 1935)

PAMPHLETS:

Tai-shan. The Holy Mountain in Shantung. By Julia Ellsworth Ford.
Rye, New York. 1919.

Peace Depends on Great Britain. By Julia Ellsworth Ford. The Rye
Chronicle Press. 1921.

The Spirit of Shu-Yuan Chang Inspires China. A Victory for China
would be a Victory for the Whole World. By Julia Ellsworth Ford.
Rye. 1938.

-Francis H. Bangs,
 Times for the late Mrs. Ford

PAMPHLETS BY JULIA ELLSWORTH FORD
(A Descriptive List)

Suggestions for Hay Fever and Rose Cold Sufferers. By Julia Ellsworth Ford. Rye, New York. 1913. Later revised reprints.

(Mrs. Ford did great battle for forty years against ragweed. She issued pamphlets for free distribution to help the afflicted. She was honorary president of the Society for the Prevention of Hay Fever, the meeting for the incorporation of which was held in her home at Rye. She was its principal financial support. She established a clinic for hay fever sufferers in Rye, and through her beneficence the Vanderbilt Clinic in New York City opened a special clinic for treatment of hay fever by diathermy and ultra-violet light.)

Tai-shan. The Holy Mountain. By Shan-tung. By Julia Ellsworth Ford. Rye, New York. 1919.

(Mrs. Ford expresses her indignation over the possible and threatening transfer of German rights and privileges in Shan-tung to Japan.)

Peace depends on Great Britain. By Julia Ellsworth Ford. The Rye Chronicle Press. 1921. Second Edition.

(An attack upon British Imperialism in the Far East and its part responsibility for a like imperialism on the part of Japan, all leading to eventual war.)

(Mrs. Ford urges ceaseless agitation in the American Press to build up strong public opinion to strengthen the cause of those fighting for the abolition of the Opium Traffic, at the impending conference at Geneva.)

(Mrs. Ford puts the blame for the failure of the International Opium Conference to abolish the opium traffic squarely on the British Government and their pawns, the representatives from India.)

(The Neutrality Act is pernicious. It benefits an aggressor. The world knows Japan to be the aggressor, yet war materials are permitted to go to Japan. When a nation is an aggressor, and is denounced as such by the world, it should be treated as such, no matter how the aggressor may try to camouflage. Japan is bringing ruin upon herself, and is her own worst enemy.)

PAMPHLETS BY JULIA ELLSWORTH FORD (continued):

Something to Think About. By Julia Ellsworth Ford. Los Angeles.
1942.

(Mrs. Ford warns against a future peril to California and to the United States if the Japanese of California, presently evacuated for safety reasons, are after the war permitted to return to their land in California.)

(Mrs. Ford gives further proof of Japanese treachery in California. In a scrap-book containing newspaper clippings and letters with reference to "Something to Think About" and the "Supplement", there are interesting letters from John Haynes Holmes, Oswald Garrison Villard, and Pearl Buck, taking exception to Mrs. Ford's contentions.)

(An appreciation by Mrs. Ford of The Temple of the Universal Spirit at Ananda Ashrama, the peaceful retreat founded by Swami Paramananda, of the Ramakrishna Mission, India. This Ashrama is situated in the foothills of the Sierra Madre Range at La Crescenta, California. "What a joy at last to see a temple, not monopolized by any one sect or religion, but dedicated to the universal God-aspiration of all mankind—a place open to all, regardless of race, color, or creed!")

Walt Whitman would have rejoiced to have entered here! His appropriate words to this greatiting to mankind are the portals of this Temple:

> I salute each the in the bitterns
> Of the world.

Suggestions for Hay Fever and Rose Cold Sufferers. 1913. Later revised reprints.(A pamphlet for free distribution. Mrs. Ford did great battle for forty years against ragweed. She was honorary president of the Society for the Prevention of Hay Fever, the meeting for the incorporation of which was held in her home at Rye. She established a clinic for hay fever sufferers in Rye, and also through her beneficence the Vanderbilt Clinic in New York City opened a special clinic for the treatment of hay-fever, utilizing diathermy and ultra-violet light.)

Tai-shan. The Holy Mountain in Shan-tung. By Julia Ellsworth Ford.
Rye, New York. 1919. (Mrs. Ford expresses her indignation over the
transfer of German rights and privileges in Shan-tung to Japan.)

threatened

Peace depends on Great Britain. By Julia Ellsworth Ford. The Rye Chronicle Press. 1921. (A Second Edition.) (An attack upon British Imperialism in the Far East and its part responsibility for a like imperialism on the part of Japan, all leading to eventual war.)

The Coming International Opium Conference. By Julia Ellsworth Ford.
Rye Chronicle Press. 1924. (Mrs. Ford urges ceaseless agitation in
the American Press to build up strong public opinion toward abolishing the Opium Traffic to strengthen the cause of those fighting
for its abolition at the conference at Geneva.)

Opium and the British Policy. By Julia Ellsworth Ford. Reprinted
from Unity, March 2, 1925. (Mrs. Ford puts the blame for the failure of the International Opium Conference to abolish the opium traffic on the British Government.)

The Spirit of Shu-Yuan Chang Inspires China. A Victory for China would be a Victory for the Whole World. By Julia Ellsworth Ford. Rye. 1938. (The Neutrality Act is pernicious in that it benefits an aggressor. The whole world knows that Japan is the aggressor// and hopes to subjugate China, yet war materials are permitted to go to Japan! When a nation is an aggressor, and denounced as such by the world, it should be treated as such, no matter how the aggressor may try to camouflage. ... No one wants a ruined Japan, but she is bringing ruin upon herself and is, therefore, her own worst enemy.)

Something to Think About. By Julia Ellsworth Ford. Los Angeles.
1942. (Mrs. Ford warns against a future peril to California and
the United States if the Japanese, evacuated for safety reasons,
are allowed after the war to return to their land in California.)

Supplement to "Something to Think About". By Julia Ellsworth Ford.
Los Angeles. 1942. (Mrs. Ford gives further proof of Japanese
treachery in California.) (In a scrap book containing newspaper
clippings and letters with reference to "Something to Think About",
there are interesting letters from John Haynes Holmes, Oswald Gar-
rison Villard, and Pearl Buck, taking exception to Mrs. Ford's
contentions.) (Handwritten notes: "With kind permission of the President
& the United States. March 15, 1944")

The Temple of the Universal Spirit. By Julia Ellsworth Ford. 1945.
(An appreciation by Mrs. Ford of The Temple of the Universal Spirit at Ananda Ashrama, the peaceful retreat founded by Swami Paramananda amid the La Crescenta Mountains in Southern California.) ("What a joy at last to see a temple, not monopolized by any one sect or religion, but dedicated to the universal God-aspiration of all mankind—a place open to all, regardless of race, color, or creed!")
("In this sacred spot—for the first time—came to me the quiet acceptance of the fact that my daughter Lauren is a Roman Catholic by choice, though I am a Quaker by conviction. In this holy place, in which God has no label, it seemed at last wholly consistent for Lauren to express the spiritual symbolism of her faith according to her own light, and that I should follow the simpler belief of the Friends according to mine.")

In Thy ensemble, whatever else
withheld, withhold not from us
Belief in plan of Thee enclosed
in Time and Space,
Health, Peace, Salvation Universal.

-Walt Whitman.

Suggestions for Hay Fever and Rose Cold Sufferers. 1913. Later revised reprints (A pamphlet for free distribution. Mrs. Ford did great battle for forty years against ragweed. She was honorary president of the Society for the Prevention of Hay Fever, the meeting for the incorporation of which was held in her home at Rye. She established a clinic for hay fever sufferers in Rye, and also through her beneficence the Vanderbilt Clinic in New York City opened a special clinic for the treatment of hay-fever, utilizing diathermy and ultra-violet light.)

T'ai-shan. The Holy Mountain of Shan-tung. By Julia Ellsworth Ford.
Rye, New York. 1919. (Mrs. Ford expresses her indignation over the
transfer of German rights and privileges in Shan-tung to Japan.)

The Spirit of Shu-Yuan Chang Inspires China. A Victory for China would be a Victory for the Whole World. By Julia Ellsworth Ford. Rye. 1938. (The Neutrality Act is pernicious in that it benefits an aggressor. The whole world knows that Japan is the aggressor!! and hopes to subjugate China, yet war materials are permitted to go to Japan! When a nation is an aggressor, and denounced as such by the world, it should be treated as such, no matter how the aggressor may try to camouflage. ... No one wants a ruined Japan, but she is bringing ruin upon herself and is, therefore, her own worst enemy.)

Supplement to "Something to Think About". By Julia Ellsworth Ford.
Los Angeles. 1942. (Mrs. Ford gives further proof of Japanese
treachery in California.) (In a scrap book containing newspaper
clippings and letters with reference to "Something to Think About",
there are interesting letters from John Haynes Holmes, Oswald Garrison
Villard, and Pearl Buck, taking exception to Mrs. Ford's
contentions.) ("What to do with the Emperor of Japan", a letter
to President Roosevelt of the United States, made 15,1944.)

-Walt Whitman.

THE BATTLE AGAINST RAGWEED

Mrs. Ford for forty years waged war against ragweed, the principal cause of hay fever. She suffered from hay fever herself, and she was resolved to help other sufferers who could not, as she could, afford to take trips to exempt localities. She published a pamphlet, frequently revised, "Suggestions for Hay Fever and Rose Cold Sufferers! This pamphlet she sent free of charge to anyone who asked for it. Annually, before the hay fever season began, she sent to the newspapers a list of "exempt places", most of which she herself had tested out. In her home was organized the Society for the Prevention of Hay Fever, and she was its honorary president and chief financial supporter, to the time of her death.

Mrs. Ford, in one of her pamphlets, remarked that there was a saying: "Try it on the dog!" She declared that she had been that proverbial "dog" for the sake of hay fever sufferers for the past forty years. "I have traveled from New York to California, Honolulu, China, Japan, and spent many years in England, traveling back and forth on steamships, during the hay-fever time to get relief. Many years ago, before hay-fever was taken seriously, a nose specialist, with the best intentions, but with no knowledge of what caused hay-fever, advised my going to Narragansett Pier where, incidentally, miles of ragweed grew in profusion. Shortly after arriving I was carried away on a stretcher."

"As for myself," said Mrs. Ford, "I have tried to do a little hayfever housecleaning, using unemployed men in the neighborhood to cut down the weed. I also offered a reward last year of a nominal sum to a youthful member of my family for every bunch of ragweed plant he would root up. In great glee, he appeared with the back of his Ford car filled with the noxious weed and claimed $20.00, at the same time assuring me he could pull up many more loads. I had also offered two small boys in the neighborhood a certain sum to root up the weed. Thinking this was a universal offer, word spread, small boys gathered for the task and Fords kept driving in loaded with ragweed. After paying out $80.00, I had to put up a sign: NO MORE RAGWEED. ... I thought it a good joke on me, but the male members of my family failed to see the humor in it—and I refrain from repeating their remarks."

Mrs. Ford's campaign to eliminate ragweed, year after year, became a matter of some humor in her own town of Rye, but she persisted in her battle. There were on her own count 350 people in Rye who suffered from the pollen of ragweed, and if they wouldn't do anything about it she was resolved that their indifference should not interfere with her attempt to help, at least, the little children in the community who were sufferers. She was largely instrumental in having the Rye Village Board pass an ordinance making it mandatory for owners to remove weeds from their property to a certain depths from the front line. There were protests against this, and the Rye authorities were not very agile in enforcing the ordinance. Mrs. Ford had several good fights with the Mayor of Rye on this matter, to the amusement of the town.

On one occasion, because of labor shortage, Mrs. Ford's son Hobart, who owned three acres of vacant land at Milton Point, Rye, wrote a letter to the Rye City Council describing the weed ordinance as "perfectly ridiculous". Mrs. Ford wrote an open letter to the *Rye Chronicle* in which she declared herself in accord with Hobart Ford's views. "However, I want to make it clear that it is not against weeds in general that I have been waging my war, but against ragweed in particular for the past forty years or more, the cause of ninety percent of the hayfever scourge. If the ordinance against weeds carries a tax for non-removal by land owners, in the conditions which now exist—shortage of labor—the tax for non-compliance with the law should be withdrawn immediately excepting where ragweed is concerned." Mrs. Ford, nonetheless, in another letter, suggested that if the town could find labor to cut the grass there would be more wisdom in letting the grass grow six feet tall instead of the ragweed. Although at the time of this battle, Mrs. Ford was eighty-four years old, she decided to do something more active about the matter herself. She wrote the following open letter to the *Rye Chronicle* and, of course, to The Mayor and City Officials of Rye:

Dear Mayor and City Officials:

For many years I have been urging you to remove the ragweed from Rye. This year especially you have done nothing, saying you had a shortage of men. I offered to send you a man and pay for his services, but received no response.

For three years I have been asking you to remove the ragweed from a lot on Locust Street. Mr. Seizer got my message this year. The ragweed grew to twelve feet. I consider pulling up ragweed of more importance than cutting the grass along the roadside. However, I cannot stand speaking to you anymore about it, knowing that 350 people in the City suffer from ragweed.

I have little patience with the hayfeverites themselves, who lie down and expect somebody else to do everything. I know of four people who have ragweed in their backyards. Their indifference is appalling. But I am not thinking of the women and men, but of all the little children in Rye I know of who suffer.

From now on you are released from pulling up the ragweed in Milton Point and Rye. I intend to do it myself. But as it is against the law to throw it in the middle of the street, and it is unthinkable that I deposit it in my boudoir, I ask you only one favor—and that is that you will dispose of it after I have left it in your yard.

Mrs. Ford established hayfever clinics in her home town of Rye and at the Vanderbilt Clinic, Presbyterian Hospital, New York City, where diathermy and ultra-violet light were utilized.

(F.H.B.)