I do have a scanner, but in reality, it takes the same amount of time for me to type the poems as it does for me to scan them. Most of her poems are fairly small, so it would not take too long to type out. But if you insist, I can scan them and send them sometime in the near future.

I know Bancroft library has :

1. Nora May French : her poems / <1986>
Uniform Title: Poems.Selections
Author: French, Nora May, 1881-1907
Published: Oakland, Calif. : Star Rover House, 1986.


2. The life and writing of Nora May French. <1963>
Author: Allen, Judith.
Published: [Oakland?, Calif.], 1963.


3. Poems / <1936>
Uniform Title: Poems.Selections
Author: French, Nora May, 1881-1907
Published: San Francisco : Published for its members by the Book Club of California, 1936


4. Poems / <1910>

Author: French, Nora May, 1881-1907.
Published: San Francisco, Calif. : The Strange Co., 1910.




I have copies of the Strange Company's Selected Poems of 1910, but right now I cannot promise anything aside from this. I had to take my littlest cat to the emergency room today. She has fluid around her lungs, and is rather sick, so aside from the cat and thesis work...things have me too exausted to do much more. I will keep typing out the contents you need for the bibliography of CAS however.



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I expect jimrockhill2001 and voleboy to help out with provideing typeing scanning as NightHalo has provided you with texts.

Some of Nora May French's earliest poems were published in the Los Angeles Times or in Charles Lummis's magazine Land of Sunshine (later called Out West), but were never reprinted in the 1910 Poems. A few others, which have never been published at all as far as I know, are in various papers at the Bancroft. I have copies of these and could add them to your collection if people are interested.

Pamela Herr Wrote:
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> I have copies of these
> and could add them to your collection if people
> are interested.

Very.

Send them to me i will be launching a Nora May French website in a few days.

[www.nora-may-french.org]


The site is now up. I would appreciate it if anyone with anything to contribute would get in touch (use sites' contact form) asap so I can get organised with whats coming from where.

B.

Very neat design on the www.nora-may-french.org website, Boyd. Have you heard of Marlow Moss (1890-1958)? Her artwork is kind of similar.

Two Poems by Nora May French [for there seems to be an interest in her work]

Born Aurora, New York 4/26/1881
Died Carmel, California 11/14/1907 (age: 26)

BY MOONLIGHT

Is this the world I knew? Beneath the day
It glowed with golden heat, with vivid hues --
Mountains and sky that merged in melting blues
And hazy air that shimmered far away.

This world is white beneath a silver sky --
White with pale brightness, luminously chill.
The moon reigns queen, but faintly shining still
The dim stars glimmer on the hilltops high.

Here, where long grasses touch across the stream
That threads with babbling laugh its narrow way,
My face turned upward to pale gleams that stray
Through whispering willow boughs . . . I dream
. . . and dream.

THINK NOT, O LILIAS

Think not, O Lilias, that the love of this night will endure in the sun. Hast thou beheld fungi, white, evil, rosy-lined, poisonous, shrivel in the eyes of day?

In this wilderness of strange hearts it is not thine alone that concerns me. Many brave hearts of men are more to me than thine. The hearts of men breathe deeply. As for thy heart, it runs from me, it is quicksilver, it does not concern me greatly.

I am so pleased to have found this forum. I worked on Nora May French's biography and poems extensively during my Master's program. It will be a real pleasure to see her get recognition. I have gone through everything at Bancroft that relates to NMF, includeing Jimmy Hopper boxes/papers and both material from both Sterlings. I have copies of several handwritten, unpublished and I believe unknown, poems by NMF from these sources. I also have extensive correspondence between NMF and Henry Lafler. from both Huntington and Bancroft. I would love to share info and ideas and be of help in getting her name and works back into circulation.

Drop me a line any time, cynray, and we can chat about her work if you'd like. What have you written on her?

*Author of Strange Gardens [www.lulu.com]


*Editor of Calenture: a Journal of Studies in Speculative Verse [calenture.fcpages.com]

*Visit my homepage: [voleboy.freewebpages.org]

Donald Sidney-Fryer has asked for help in contacting the Judith Allen who wrote/compiled "The Life and Writing of Nora May French" as a Masters thesis at Mills College, Oakland, CA. This contact is instrumental to the completion of his Nora May French project, which is otherwise very nearly finished. Any help or leads would be greatly appreciated!
-Ron

When I was in Berkeley, I am rather positive I could have found Judith Allen through some contacts since Mills was just up the hill from us, but now I am on the other side of the country.

I wish I could help. Somebody should have asked me sooner. :(

I had a quick look for her around the internet at one stage with out luck, perhaps you could try:

Contacting Alumnae

I also tried a few searches without any luck before I posted here. The thesis was written some 43 years ago, which of course complicates things. I've passed the phone # to the Mills College Alumnae contacts along to DSF, which is probably the best hope available. Many thanks to Boyd and Alycia for their efforts, and I'll continue to post updates on "The Outer Gate and Other Poems" as things progress.
-Ron

Sorry to bring up an old thread, but I thought it appropriate to post this here. I don't think this has been mentioned on the forum yet, but Kessinger Publishing has recently issued Poems by Nora May French. Oddly, the book is not yet listed on the Kessinger Publishing site.

But it is listed on abebooks and Amazon, and there is a hardcover and paperback issue.

hardcover:
[www.amazon.com]

paperback:
[www.amazon.com]


Edit: I should add that Kessinger books are not, in my experience, very well made or printed books. But thankfully they do re-issue books that no one else ever would.



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Dear friends, I wrote some time ago that Donald Sydney-Fryer had joined me in recording the love poetry of CAS. In the process Don wanted to record some Nora mae French which we in fact did.
The other works are nearly edited and ready for those who may wish to have them - however, we did not wish to go to the trouble of editing French and some other things we were doing for ourselves.
Nevertheless, with the interest in Nora Mae exhibited here, I am willing to make an undedited copy of the CD, with no fancy imprint or brochure - just bare bones - My time, cost of packaging and shipping - $10 -- Although it is not a finished product, it is copyright protected, so Boyd may copy 2 or three to the site as a sampler if he wishes, but Don needs the money (starving artist), so if you would want to hear it, send me the relevant info, and I will get a copy to you if it interests you at all -- even though not clean, it is extraordinarily good. The copies of the CAS works is truly superb - Don, as you know has made his living reciting Ashton and Spenser - I have been in theatre all my life, sang with the Opera all over the country, won various recitation awards, taught voice for almost 45 years, and in general, read poetry pretty well - the Smith CD's will be out around the first of the year.(I hope) - getting them done depends on the free time of a devoted volunteer who has the skill (not me) to do this stuff on the computer - Don is very pleased with the quality of the sound on the French CD - so that's good enough for me. We also did a James Belknap Long, but I would have to ask Don if he wants that available, he really did it just for himself.
Happy Yule, Y'all