Arthur and Rhoda Symons Correspondence and Manuscripts, 1884-1973

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Series I: Arthur and Rhoda Bowser Symons Correspondence, 1884-1944



Box 5 Arthur Symons letters to Rhoda Bowser, 1898-1900 July



Box 6 Arthur Symons letters to Rhoda Bowser Symons, 1900 August-1908



Box 7 Arthur Symons letters to Rhoda Bowser Symons, 1909 January-June



Box 8 Arthur Symons letters to Rhoda Bowser Symons, 1909 July-December



Box 9 Arthur Symons letters to Rhoda Bowser Symons, 1910-1911



Box 10 Arthur Symons letters to Rhoda Bowser Symons, 1912



Box 11 Arthur Symons letters to Rhoda Bowser Symons, 1913 January-August



Box 12 Arthur Symons letters to Rhoda Bowser Symons, 1913 September-circa 1914



Box 13 Arthur Symons letters to Rhoda Bowser Symons, 1914



Box 14 Arthur Symons letters to Rhoda Bowser Symons, 1915-1924



Box 15 Arthur Symons letters to Rhoda Bowser Symons, 1925-1935



Box 16 Rhoda Bowser letters to Arthur Symons, 1898-1900 June



Box 17 Rhoda Bowser Symons letters to Arthur Symons, 1900 July-1902



Box 18 Rhoda Bowser Symons letters to Arthur Symons, 1909-1912



Box 19 Rhoda Bowser Symons letters to Arthur Symons, 1913 January-May



Box 20 Rhoda Bowser Symons letters to Arthur Symons, 1913 June-December



Box 21 Rhoda Bowser Symons letters to Arthur Symons, 1914-1922



Box 22 Rhoda Bowser Symons letters to Arthur Symons, 1923-1925



Box 23 Rhoda Bowser Symons letters to Arthur Symons, 1926-1928



Box 24 Rhoda Bowser Symons letters to Arthur Symons, 1929-1936



Box 25 Rhoda Bowser Symons letters to Arthur Symons, undated



Box 1 Folder 1 Agresti, Olivia Rossetti letter to Arthur Symons, 1903 October 30


Box 1 Folder 2 through 10 Alma-Tadema, Laurence letters to Rhoda Bowser Symons, 1901 June 20-1924 December 18


Box 1 Folder 11 Anderssen, Hendrik C. letter to Rhoda Bowser Symons, 1909 August 8


Box 1 Folder 12 Balfour, Arthur James letter to Rhoda Bowser Symons, 1908 October 21


Box 1 Folder 13 Balfour, Charlotte Warre Cornish letter to Rhoda Bowser Symons, 1909 January 1


Box 1 Folder 14 Barney, Natalie Clifford (written) telephone message to Arthur Symons, 1925 May 26


Box 1 Folder 15 through 22 Bowser, Isabel letters to Rhoda Bowser Symons, 1908 October 4-1918 August 6


Box 1 Folder 23 Bowser, Isabella letter to Rhoda Bowser, 1894 May 30


Box 1 Folder 24 through 34 Bowser, John Edward letters to Rhoda Bowser, 1893 April 14-1900 November 14


Box 1 Folder 35 Brindley, F. letter to Rhoda Bowser Symons, 1914 January 23


Box 1 Folder 36 Brooks, Colin letter to Arthur Symons, 1927 October 3


Box 1 Folder 37 through 41 Brooks, Edmund DeWitt letters to Rhoda Bowser Symons, 1908 December 31-1909 June 24


Box 1 Folder 42 and 43 Bullen, Arthur Henry letters to Rhoda Bowser Symons, 1909 March 8-March 12


Box 1 Folder 44 Byard, Theodore letter to Arthur Symons, 1924 February 11


Box 1 Folder 45 through 48 Campbell, Beatrice Stella Tanner letters to Rhoda Bowser Symons, 1908 October 13-1909 July 7


Box 1 Folder 49 Colquhoun, Ethel M. Cookson letter to Rhoda Bowser Symons, 1909 June 28


Box 1 Folder 50 through 54 Condor, Stella Belford letters to Rhoda Bowser Symons, 1909 June 23-1909 August 8


Box 1 Folder 55 Craig, Edward Gordon letter to Arthur Symons, undated


Box 1 Folder 56 Craig, Edward Gordon letter to Rhoda Bowser Symons, 1928 September 7


Box 1 Folder 57 Craigie, Pearl Mary Teresa letter to Arthur Symons, 1900 March 26


Box 1 Folder 58 Daniels, Mabel Wheeler letter to Arthur Symons, 1909 July 18


Box 1 Folder 59 Davis, Mary postcard to Rhoda Bowser Symons, 1909 July 22


Box 1 Folder 60 Davray, Henry letter to Arthur Symons, 1935 January 14

With clipping and envelope


Box 1 Folder 61 Debenham, Cecily Kenrick postcard to Rhoda Bowser Symons, 1930 June 24


Box 1 Folder 62 Déjazet, Pauline-Virginie letter, undated


Box 1 Folder 63 Devi, Mira letter to Rhoda Bowser Symons, 1934 March


Box 1 Folder 64 Dodkins, J. letter to Rhoda Bowser Symons, 1909 April 16


Box 1 Folder 65 through 67 Duse, Eleonora letters and telegram to Arthur Symons, 1908 October 30, undated


Box 1 Folder 68 through 85 de Elizondo, José María letters to Arthur Symons, 1918 October 15-1922 September 24


Box 1 Folder 86 through 88 Ellis, Havelock letters to Rhoda Bowser Symons, 1909 May 14-1914 January 2


Box 1 Folder 89 Ellis, Havelock letter to Arthur Symons, 1914 January 2


Box 1 Folder 91 Forbes-Robertson, Johnston letter to Rhoda Bowser Symons, undated


Box 1 Folder 92 Goetze, Annie letter to Arthur Symons, 1940 April 11


Box 1 Folder 93 Golding, Louis letter to Rhoda Bowser Symons, 1926 January 10


Box 1 Folder 94 and 95 Gompertz, Richard letters to Rhoda Bowser, 1897 June 14, July 8


Box 1 Folder 96 and 97 Gonne, Iseult letters to Arthur Symons, 1918 September 5, undated


Box 1 Folder 98 through 117 Gordine, Dora letters to Arthur Symons, 1937 February 17-1942 October 26


Box 1 Folder 118 Gosse, Ellen Epps letter to Rhoda Bowser Symons, 1909 July 31


Box 1 Folder 119 Gosse, Edmund William letter to Arthur Symons, 1900 March 7


Box 1 Folder 120 through 122 Gosse, Edmund William letters to Rhoda Bowser Symons, 1908 October 21-1910 April 9


Box 1 Folder 123 Gough, Sylvia letter to Rhoda Bowser Symons, 1918 February 1


Box 1 Folder 124 Grenfell, A. letter to Rhoda Bowser Symons, 1909 August 10


Box 1 Folder 125 Griffin, A. Watson letter to Rhoda Bowser Symons, 1908 October 18


Box 1 Folder 126 through 128 Hare, Richard Gilbert letters to Arthur Symons, 1937 August 11-1939 March 14


Box 1 Folder 129 Haynes, Edmund Sidney Pollock letter to Rhoda Bowser Symons, 1909 July 16


Box 1 Folder 130 through 132 Heinemann, William letters to Arthur Symons, 1912 October 21 and 28, 1913 August 22


Box 1 Folder 133 Heinemann, William letter to Rhoda Bowser Symons, 1914 October 17


Box 1 Folder 134 Hodge, Harold letter to Rhoda Bowser Symons, 1909 June 2


Box 1 Folder 135 Hordern, Mary Angela Mond Pearson postcard to Rhoda Bowser Symons, 1919 December 19


Box 1 Folder 136 Hordern, Mary Angela Mond Pearson letter to Arthur Symons, 1939 January 13


Box 1 Folder 137 Huneker, James Gibbons card to Rhoda Bowser Symons, 1909 June 9


Box 1 Folder 138 Huneker, Josephine letter to Arthur Symons, 1924 March 18


Box 1 Folder 139 Hyslop, Theo Bulkeley letter to Rhoda Bowser Symons, 1914 January 21


Box 1 Folder 140 through 155 John, Augustus Edwin letters to Arthur Symons, 1908-1910, undated


Box 1 Folder 156 John, Augustus Edwin letter to Rhoda Bowser Symons, 1909 December 22



Box 2 Folder 1 through 18 John, Augustus Edwin letters to Arthur Symons, 1910 March 27-1927 May 5


Box 2 Folder 19 and 20 Keynes, Lydia Lopokova letters to Arthur Symons, 1918 October


Box 2 Folder 21 Kyllman, Otto letter to Rhoda Bowser Symons, 1909 August 11


Box 2 Folder 22 Kyllman, Otto letter to Arthur Symons, 1928 April 18


Box 2 Folder 23 through 26 La Tour, Mathilde Ruinard de Brimond letters to Rhoda Bowser Symons, 1908 October 8-1909 July 24


Box 2 Folder 27 Ledger, Walter Edwin letter to Arthur Symons, 1914 January 3


Box 2 Folder 44 von Lützow, Anna postcard to Arthur Symons, 1899 October 9


Box 2 Folder 45 von Lützow, Anna letter to Rhoda Bowser Symons, 1908 November 21


Box 2 Folder 46 and 47 von Lützow, Franz Heinrich Hieronymus Valentin postcards to Arthur Symons, 1898 July 17, 1914 April 15


Box 2 Folder 48 von Lützow, Franz Heinrich Hieronymus Valentin letter to Rhoda Bowser Symons, 1909 June 12


Box 2 Folder 49 through 51 Marlowe, Julia letters to Rhoda Bowser Symons, 1909 September 7-1913 July 19


Box 2 Folder 52 Mathias, Ina letter to Rhoda Bowser Symons, 1909 May 13


Box 2 Folder 53 through 58 Melchett, Violet Florence Mabel Goetze Mond letters to Rhoda Bowser Symons, 1908 October 16-1913 October 14


Box 2 Folder 59 through 62 Mond, Frida Löwenthal letters to Rhoda Bowser Symons, 1909 August 11-1918 October 29


Box 2 Folder 64 through 69 Naidu, Sarojini Chattopadhyay letters to Arthur Symons, 1896 July 15-1914 October 20

Published inThe Calcutta Review,September 1969, pp. 137-146.


Box 2 Folder 70 Noguchi, Yone letter to Arthur Symons, 1916 May 7


Box 2 Folder 71 through 76 O'Dogherty, Faith Bowser telegram and postcards to Rhoda Bowser Symons, 1915 May 7-1921 November 5


Box 2 Folder 77 O'Dogherty, Faith Bowser postcard to Arthur Symons, 1920 November 4


Box 2 Folder 78 through 81 O'Dogherty, Francis Blake letters to Faith Bowser O'Dogherty, 1935 July 9-November 12


Box 2 Folder 82 O'Neill, Rose letter to Rhoda Bowser Symons, undated


Box 2 Folder 83 and 84 Pinero, Arthur Wing letters to Rhoda Bowser Symons, 1917 January 4, June 30


Box 2 Folder 85 Plank, George Wolfe letter to Rhoda Bowser Symons, 1909 June 10


Box 2 Folder 86 and 87 Primoli, Giuseppe postcards to Arthur Symons, undated


Box 2 Folder 88 Prothero, Mary Frances Butcher letter to Rhoda Bowser Symons, 1909 April 13


Box 2 Folder 89 and 90 Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas letters to Arthur Symons, 1912 October 12, December 10


Box 2 Folder 91 Rendall, Vernon Horace letter to Arthur Symons, 1915 January 19


Box 2 Folder 92 Rhys, Edith letter to Rhoda Bowser Symons, 1909 July 31


Box 2 Folder 93 through 95 Rietti, Vittorio letters to Arthur Symons, 1938 April 20, May 26, November 6


Box 2 Folder 96 through 101 Robertson, William Graham letters to Rhoda Bowser Symons, 1913 March 5-November 11, 1929 December 28


Box 2 Folder 102 Robertson, William Graham letter to Arthur Symons, 1929 December 28


Box 2 Folder 103 and 104 Rodin, Auguste letters to Rhoda Bowser Symons, 1909 June 19, 1914 May 8


Box 2 Folder 105 Rodin, Auguste letter to Arthur Symons, 1909 July 12


Box 2 Folder 106 Russell, Jame Samuel Risien letter to Charles Watkins, 1908 October 22

Discusses Arthur Symons' condition.


Box 2 Folder 107 through 109 Russell, Jame Samuel Risien letter to Rhoda Bowser Symons, 1908 November 3-1909 June 19

Discuss Arthur Symons' condition and treatment.


Box 2 Folder 110 Rutherford, Hope Featherston Christmas card to Arthur Symons, 1941 December

Wartime photostatic mail.


Box 2 Folder 111 Sampson, John letter to Rhoda Bowser Syons, 1908 October 15


Box 2 Folder 112 Sillars, Jesse N. letter to Arthur Symons, 1944 April 20


Box 2 Folder 113 through 117 Simons, Hulda letters to Rhoda Bowser Symons, 1909 April 1-1910 April 13


Box 2 Folder 118 through 120 Summers, Montague letters to Rhoda Bowser Symons, 1925 July 26, September 5; 1929 December 28


Box 2 Folder 121 Sutherland, Millicent Fanny St. Clair-Erskine letter to Rhoda Bowser Symons, 1908 June 15


Box 2 Folder 122 Sutro, Alfred etter to Rhoda Bowser Symons, 1913 April 10


Box 2 Folder 123 Swete, E. Lyall letter to Rhoda Bowser Symons, 1915 December 29


Box 2 Folder 124 Symons, Anna Martyn letter to Rhoda Bowser Symons, 1909 June 20


Box 2 Folder 125 Tchnolanova, Milla letter to Arthur Symons, 1931 November 15


Box 2 Folder 126 Symons, Arthur letter to James Sullivan Starkey, 1908 March 8

Addressed to "Seumas O'Sullivan," Starkey's pseudonym.



Box 3 Folder 1 Symons, Arthur letter requesting information concerning Thomas Hood, 1908 May 8

No recipient specified.


Box 3 Folder 2 Symons, Arthur letter to an editor, 1908 October 10


Box 3 Folder 3 through 6 Symons, Arthur letters to Robert Atkinson, 1908 August 10, 1916 September 10, undated


Box 3 Folder 7 Symons, Arthur note to Mrs. Bagg, undated


Box 3 Folder 8 Symons, Arthur letter to Arthur H. Bullen, 1909


Box 3 Folder 9 Symons, Arthur letter to W. Morris Colles, 1906 October 6


Box 3 Folder 10 Symons, Arthur letter to Stella Conder, 1902 June 19


Box 3 Folder 11 Symons, Arthur letter to Ferdnand Gregorius, 1909 March 29


Box 3 Folder 12 Symons, Arthur letter to Edward Hutton, 1909


Box 3 Folder 13 Symons, Arthur note to Selwyn Image, 1909


Box 3 Folder 14 Symons, Arthur letter to Augustus John, 1910 February

The poems "Do you remember, Julia, how one day," "One night while the stars were shaken in the sky," and "Apparitions: XI, Delicious Passion" were originally enclosed. See Box 26, folders 8, 19, and 69.


Box 3 Folder 15 through 17 Symons, Arthur letters to Vincent O'Sullivan, 1907 April 26, undated


Box 3 Folder 18 Symons, Arthur letter to Albert Isaac Myers, 1925 May 12


Box 3 Folder 19 Symons, Arthur letter to Lennox Robinson, 1930 September 18


Box 3 Folder 20 through 23 Symons, Arthur letters to William Christian Symons, 1884 November 25-26-1889 July 1

Poem written on reverse of 1884 letter.


Box 3 Folder 24 and 25 Symons, Mark Lancelot letter and postcard to Rhoda Bowser Symons, 1922 December 22, undated


Box 3 Folder 26 Symons, Rhoda Bowser note to Agnes Tobin, 1909 July

Note to Tobin written in margin of poem by Arthur Symons, "The Land of Peace," copied by Rhoda Bowser Symons.


Box 3 Folder 27 through 55 Symons, Rhoda Bowser letters to Faith Bowser O'Dogherty, 1919 October 9-1936 October 30


Box 3 Folder 56 Symons, Rhoda Bowser letter to Isabel Bowser, 1919 October 9


Box 3 Folder 57 Symons, William Christian letter to Rhoda Bowser Symons, 1909 May 29


Box 3 Folder 58 through 62 Terry, Ellen letters to Rhoda Bowser Symons, 1907 July 4-circa 1917


Box 3 Folder 63 through 123 Thompson, Henry Francis Herbert letters to Rhoda Bowser Symons, 1908 February 2-1924 December 4, undated


Box 3 Folder 124 Thorowgood, Agnes Watts letter to Rhoda Bowser Symons, 1908 December 6



Box 4 Folder 1 through 53 Tobin, Agnes letters to Rhoda Bowser Symons, 1907 September 5-1910 March 27


Box 4 Folder 54 through 56 Tobin, Agnes postcards to Arthur Symons, 1909 November 24, 1911 April 14, June 14


Box 4 Folder 57 Trench, Herbert letter to Edith Sophy Balfour Lyttelton, 1909 June 24

About Arthur Symons' Cornish tragedy in verse.


Box 4 Folder 58 Viereck, George Sylvester letter to Arthur Symons, 1914 May 22


Box 4 Folder 59 Watkins, Charles letter to Rhoda Bowser Symons, 1908 October 22


Box 4 Folder 60 Watkins, Nona Bowser postcard to Arthur Symons, 1910 November 2


Box 4 Folder 61 through 76 Watkins, Nona Bowser postcards to Rhoda Bowser Symons, 1910 October 30-1924 March 6


Box 4 Folder 77 Watts, Philip letter to Rhoda Bowser Symons, 1908 November 5


Box 4 Folder 80 Winstedt, E. O. letter to Arthur Symons, 1924 March 10


Box 4 Folder 81 Yano, K. postcard to Rhoda Bowser Symons, 1928 January 30


Box 4 Folder 82 Edmée, H. letters and postcards to Arthur and Rhoda Bowser Symons, 1924-1931


Box 4 Folder 83 Postcards from various family members and friends, circa 1920s


Box 4 Folder 84 Arthur Symons publishing correspondence, circa 1920s


Box 4 Folder 85 Arthur and Rhoda Bowser Symons personal correspondence, circa 1910s


Box 4 Folder 86 Envelope containing three clippings and a photograph, undated


Box 4 Folder 87 Reprints of transcriptions of Arthur Symons' letters to George A. Macmillan and J. Dykes Campbell in the British Library, by Shinichi Miyazawa, circa 1980s

Series II: Manuscripts, 1896-1927



Box 26 Folder 1 Clippings, circa 1920s


Box 26 Folder 2 "Good-Night, Babette," by Austin Dobson, in Arthur Symons' hand, undated


Box 26 Folder 3 Typescript of "The Nameless One," a poem by James Mangan, by Arthur Symons, undated


Box 26 Folder 4 "The Ages," poem by Arthur Symons, circa 1909

Inscribed "A to R"


Box 26 Folder 5 "Alas, Madam, have ye of me some care," by Algernon Charles Swinburne, in Arthur Symons' hand, undated


Box 26 Folder 6 "Ali Baba to Rhoda Baba," poem by Arthur Symons, 1909 November 9


Box 26 Folder 7 Aloysius Bertrand Gaspard de la Nuit, "Again Spring," poem translation by Arthur Symons, 1909 August 23


Box 26 Folder 8 "Apparitions: XI Delicious Passion," poem by Arthur Symons, circa 1910

Originally enclosed with letter to Augustus John, 1910 February. Separated prior to July 2018. See Box 3, Folder 14.


Box 26 Folder 9 "An Autumn song," poem by Arthur Symons, 1912 August 28


Box 26 Folder 10 "A Ballad of Troy," poem by Arthur Symons, circa 1909


Box 26 Folder 11 "Beauty enthroned," poem by Arthur Symons, 1910 April 19

Inscribed "To R."


Box 26 Folder 12 "Beauty's sleep," poem by Arthur Symons, 1910 June 10


Box 26 Folder 13 "The black cat," poem by Arthur Symons, 1909 June 13


Box 26 Folder 14 "A broken dream," poem by Arthur Symons, circa 1909


Box 26 Folder 15 "A carnival of birds," poem by Arthur Symons, 1911 March 22


Box 26 Folder 16 "Casanova. Le Charivari," translation by Arthur Symons, undated


Box 26 Folder 17 "Chenier: Les saisons et les heures," and "Les chanteurs," poems by Arthur Symons, 1909 August 23


Box 26 Folder 18 "Delilah to Samson," poem by Arthur Symons, 1909 June 24


Box 26 Folder 19 "Do you remember, Julia, how one day," poem by Arthur Symons, circa 1910

Originally enclosed with letter to Augustus John, 1910 February. Separated prior to July 2018. See Box 3, Folder 14.


Box 26 Folder 20 "The Draught-Players," poem by Arthur Symons, circa 1909


Box 26 Folder 21 "The eastern shore: a vision," poem by Arthur Symons, 1909 October 29


Box 26 Folder 22 "Eros in the moon," poem by Arthur Symons, circa 1909

Copied in the hand of Rhoda Bowser Symons.


Box 26 Folder 23 "Far from here," poem by Arthur Symons, 1914 June 25

With envelope addressed to Rhoda Bowser Symons.


Box 26 Folder 24 "Fête galante," poem by Arthur Symons, undated

With envelope addressed to Rhoda Bowser Symons.


Box 26 Folder 25 "Flagon Bell," draft of a poem by Arthur Symons, 1912 July 5


Box 26 Folder 26 "For Her," poem by Arthur Symons, 1909 December 5

With envelope.


Box 26 Folder 27 "From Ronsard," poem by Arthur Symons, 1913 June 23


Box 26 Folder 28 "From the Idolatrous Madonna," poem by Arthur Symons, circa 1909


Box 26 Folder 29 From Les fleurs du mal of Charles Baudelaire, "Beauty," poem translated by Arthur Symons, circa 1909


Box 26 Folder 30 "The Giant Rocks: Cornwall," poem by Arthur Symons, circa 1909


Box 26 Folder 31 "Haschisch," poem by Arthur Symons, circa 1909


Box 26 Folder 32 "Her cheeks are as white as curds," poem by Arthur Symons, 1909 June 18


Box 26 Folder 33 "Her face," poem by Arthur Symons, 1910 March 28

With envelope addressed to Rhoda Bowser Symons.


Box 26 Folder 34 "I see a serpent seated on a throne," poem by Arthur Symons, 1910 June 25


Box 26 Folder 35 "I would love to see you wandering," poem by Arthur Symons, 1912 March

With many changes.


Box 26 Folder 36 "Icosameron," quotations from Casanova's "Dedication to Count Walstein," manuscript by Arthur Symons, undated


Box 26 Folder 37 "Infamy," poem by Arthur Symons, circa 1909


Box 26 Folder 38 Introduction [to the poetry of William Blake], draft essay with revisions by Arthur Symons, undated


Box 26 Folder 39 "Introduction to Oliver Twist," essay typescript by Arthur Symons, 1926

With letter enclosing essay and contract with Charles James Sawyer to publish essay.


Box 26 Folder 40 Introduction [to the poetry of William Blake], essay carbon copy with revisions by Arthur Symons, undated


Box 26 Folder 41 "Jean Lorrain: Corps de Ballet: Salome," poem by Arthur Symons, 1912 August 18


Box 26 Folder 42 "The jewels," poem by Arthur Symons, 1914 February 15


Box 26 Folder 43 "A Justification of the Genius of Gustave Flaubert," essay by Arthur Symons, circa 1921 December

With numerous revisions, deletions, and additions.


Box 26 Folder 44 "The Last Return," poem by Arthur Symons, circa 1909

Inscribed "For Rhoda from Arthur"


Box 26 Folder 45 "Leopardi: Dialogue of a vendor of almanacs and of a stranger," by Arthur Symons, 1914 April 1


Box 26 Folder 46 "A limerick finished," poem by Arthur Symons, 1909 August

Poem about Lady Gregory.


Box 26 Folder 47 List of letters sent to Arthur Symons by well-known persons, in his hand, undated


Box 26 Folder 48 "Little Api…," poem by Arthur Symons, 1909

With a copy in the hand of Rhoda Bowser Symons.


Box 26 Folder 49 "The little cow-girl," poem by Arthur Symons, 1909 June


Box 26 Folder 50 "A Little Song," poem by Arthur Symons, circa 1909


Box 26 Folder 51 Aloysius Bertrand Gaspard de la Nuit, "The Cell," prose poem translation by Arthur Symons, circa 1909


Box 26 Folder 52 "Love's breviary," poem by Arthur Symons, circa 1909


Box 26 Folder 53 "A mad song in a serpent wood," poem by Arthur Symons, 1911 July 16

With an envelope addressed to Rhoda Bowser Symons.


Box 26 Folder 54 "Madrigal," poem by Arthur Symons, 1913 September 18


Box 26 Folder 55 "Matika," poem by Arthur Symons, undated


Box 26 Folder 56 "Minuet and paradise," poem by Arthur Symons, circa 1909


Box 26 Folder 57 "A mood in June," poem by Arthur Symons, 1910 June 13


Box 26 Folder 58 "The mourning of women after the death of Adonis," poem by Arthur Symons, undated


Box 26 Folder 59 "Mundi Victims," poem section by Arthur Symons, 1896 February 4-10

First published inThe Savoyno. 8, December 1896, pp. 13-27; and printed in book form inAmoris Victima,London: Leonard Smithers, 1897.


Box 26 Folder 60 "My love there is in you and me…" poem by Arthur Symons, 1909 May 6


Box 26 Folder 61 "Night in May," poem by Arthur Symons, 1910 May 19

Inscribed "For Doë"


Box 26 Folder 62 "Night in Venice," poem by Arthur Symons, circa 1909

Inscribed "For Rhoda"


Box 26 Folder 63 "Nocturn," poem by Arthur Symons, 1909

Inscribed "For Rhoda"


Box 26 Folder 64 Note on Dr. William Maginn (1793-1842), by Arthur Symons, undated

Biographical note and Maginn's poem "The woman of the three cows"


Box 26 Folder 65 "A Novel in Chapters," sketch for a novel about Muriel Broadbent, lover of Herbert Horne, by Arthur Symons, early 1890s

Published in an article by Alan P. Johnson, "Arthur Symons' 'Novel à la Goncourt," inJournal of Modern Literaturevol. 9, 1981/82.


Box 26 Folder 66 "Old French songs" and "The White Rose-Tree," two poems by Arthur Symons, 1909 August


Box 26 Folder 67 Three paragraphs on Christopher Marlowe, by Arthur Symons, 1909 August 6


Box 26 Folder 68 "On the heath," poem by Arthur Symons, circa 1909


Box 26 Folder 69 "One night the stars were shaken in the sky," poem by Arthur Symons, circa 1910

Originally enclosed with letter to Augustus John, 1910 February. Separated prior to July 2018. See Box 3, Folder 14.


Box 26 Folder 70 "One song," poem by Arthur Symons, circa 1909


Box 26 Folder 71 "Pallid Love," poem by Arthur Symons, circa 1909

Inscribed "For Rhoda-Baba"


Box 26 Folder 72 "Pan and the Maenad," poem by Arthur Symons, circa 1909

Inscribed "To Rhoda"


Box 26 Folder 73 "Pierrot," poem by Arthur Symons, circa 1909


Box 26 Folder 74 The problem of Giorgione, by Arthur Symons, circa 1903

"Documents and bibliography" for Arthur Symons' unfinished book on Il Giorgione (circa 1477-1511).


Box 26 Folder 75 Quatrains by Arthur Symons, circa 1909


Box 26 Folder 76 "Query?," poem by Arthur Symons, circa 1909


Box 26 Folder 77 "A Refrain," poem by Arthur Symons, circa 1909


Box 26 Folder 78 "The rose of God," draft of a poem by Arthur Symons, 1909 December 8


Box 26 Folder 79 "The roses," poem by Arthur Symons, circa 1909


Box 26 Folder 80 "St. Patrick's hymn before Tara (from the Irish)," by Arthur Symons, undated


Box 26 Folder 81 Scenario for a mime, by Arthur Symons, undated


Box 26 Folder 82 "The serpent," poem by Arthur Symons, 1913 October 17

With envelope addressed to Rhoda Bowser Symons.


Box 26 Folder 83 "Setebos," poem by Arthur Symons, 1927 October 18

Poem about his cat, with many corrections in his hand.


Box 26 Folder 84 "The She-Devil," limerick by Arthur Symons, circa 1909


Box 26 Folder 85 "The shepherd," poem by Arthur Symons, 1909 November 16


Box 26 Folder 86 "The smooth-lipped serpent," poem by Arthur Symons, 1913 November

On a postcard addressed to Rhoda Bowser Symons.


Box 26 Folder 87 "Some addressed to George Mathew," poem by Arthur Symons, 1909


Box 26 Folder 88 "Song; for Cesar Borgia," poem by Arthur Symons, 1917 October 12


Box 26 Folder 89 "A song for love," poem by Arthur Symons, circa 1909


Box 26 Folder 90 "A song for old music," draft of poem by Arthur Symons, 1909 October 29


Box 26 Folder 91 "A Song for Two" and "Rondeau to Rhoda," poems by Arthur Symons, circa 1909


Box 26 Folder 92 "Song of birth 2," poem by Arthur Symons, 1914


Box 26 Folder 93 "Song of love," poem by Arthur Symons, 1909 November 20

Inscribed "For Rhoda-Baba from Ali-Baba"


Box 26 Folder 94 "Song of my gypsy," poem by Arthur Symons, 1909


Box 26 Folder 95 "A song of nakedness," poem by Arthur Symons, circa 1909

With an envelope addressed to Rhoda Bowser Symons.


Box 26 Folder 96 "Song of old dances," poem by Arthur Symons, circa 1909


Box 26 Folder 97 "Song of Slain Love," poem by Arthur Symons, 1909


Box 26 Folder 98 "A song of Spain," poem by Arthur Symons, circa 1909


Box 26 Folder 99 "A song of the fairy," poem by Arthur Symons, 1909 December 23

Inscribed "For and to Rhoda"


Box 26 Folder 100 "Song of the ruined roses," poem by Arthur Symons, circa 1909


Box 26 Folder 101 "A song without a name," poem by Arthur Symons, circa 1909


Box 26 Folder 102 "The Spanish knight," poem by Arthur Symons, 1913 December 1


Box 26 Folder 103 Studies in prose and verse (extract on George Borrow), by Arthur Symons, undated

Written on the fly-leaf of his copy of Borrow'sThe Romany Rye,(London: John Murray, 1872) with Symons' notes on pp. 144, 150, 197, 215, 220, 230, and 236.


Box 26 Folder 104 "Swinburne," a sequence of sonnets on the death of Robert Browning, by Arthur Symons, undated


Box 26 Folder 105 "There is a serpent in my veins…," poem by Arthur Symons, 1909 September 21


Box 26 Folder 106 "To a silver tea-cup (L… T…) by Lord R____.," poem by Arthur Symons, undated


Box 26 Folder 107 "Triple Roundel," poem by Arthur Symons, circa 1909

Inscribed "For Rhoda"


Box 26 Folder 108 through 111 "Two ballets: I: The Gods in Exile: A Ballet," by Arthur Symons, undated


Box 26 Folder 112 "Two ballets: II: Chand d'habits," by Arthur Symons, undated


Box 26 Folder 113 "The two fairies," poem by Arthur Symons, 1909 May 7


Box 26 Folder 114 "Two Impressions of the Russian Ballet," essay draft with revisions by Arthur Symons, undated


Box 26 Folder 115 "Two Love-Songs," poems by Arthur Symons, circa 1909


Box 26 Folder 116 "The Two Pats," limerick by Arthur Symons, circa 1909

About Beatrice Stella Tanner Campbell (1865-1940).


Box 26 Folder 117 "Violet delights," poem by Arthur Symons, 1921 December 30


Box 26 Folder 118 "Wantons," poem by Arthur Symons, circa 1909


Box 26 Folder 119 "The watch," poem by Arthur Symons, circa 1909


Box 26 Folder 120 "A welcome: for Rhoda," poem by Arthur Symons, 1909 September 8

With envelope


Box 26 Folder 121 "When I am at leisure…" poem by Arthur Symons, 1909 July 5

Signed "M. D." with an envelope addressed to Rhoda Bowser Symons.


Box 26 Folder 122 "When I lay awake…" poem by Arthur Symons, 1909

With a copy in the hand of Rhoda Bowser Symons.


Box 26 Folder 123 "The World's Desire," poem by Arthur Symons, circa 1909


Box 26 Folder 124 "A Wonderful Day: To Augustus John," poem by Arthur Symons, circa 1909


Box 26 Folder 125 "Yes, may ecstatic me," poem-letter by Arthur Symons to Rhoda Bowser Symons, 1909 September 13

With envelope.


Box 26 Folder 126 "?," poem by Arthur Symons, 1909 November 20

Inscribed "A to R"


Box 26 Folder 127 Clippings and ephemera belonging to Rhoda Bowser Symons, undated

9 items.


Box 26 Folder 128 "The Four Arts," poem by Louis Napoleon Parker, 1914

Series III: Lucy Bowser Featherston correspondence, 1946-1973



Box 1 Folder 90 Featherston, Lucy Bowser letter and postcard to Rhoda Bowser Symons, 1901 January 29, 1909 July 23



Box 2 Folder 28 Lhombreaud, Catherine letter to Lucy Bowser Featherston, 1952 August 28


Box 2 Folder 29 through 43 Lloyd Evans, Gareth letters to Lucy Bowser Featherston, 1946 November 19-1952 September 5


Box 2 Folder 63 Munro, John Murchison letter to Lucy Bowser Featherston, undated



Box 4 Folder 78 and 79 Wilcox, James M. letters to Hope Featherston Rutherford, 1973 May 17, 25