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Literary Autograph letters, Manuscripts, Books, etc.

from the estates of Joyce and Aline Kilmer and their Descendants

These items (with the exception of Item #4, which was sold) have been donated to the Manuscript Collection at Georgetown University.
They are presented here for research purposes
Books by and about Joyce and Aline Kilmer may be purchased through Rising Dove Bookstore

Lot #1 Kilmer, Aline: 25 Items
  • Series of fourteen typed letters, mostly 4to, between Aline Kilmer (unsigned carbon copies) and George Shuster, editor of The Commonweal, written between November 1928 and May 1930. This friendly and literate correspondence comprises requests by Shuster for Kilmer to review various works of poetry for Commonweal, and includes a copy of her review of Robert Frost's West Running Brook. She also sends a letter in which she mentions several of her husband's contemporaries and the degree to which they were associated plus a list of her revisions for her husband's entry in the Dictionary of American Biography in which she clears up several misconceptions and errors.
  • Series of four TLsS from various publishers asking permission to reprint certain Kilmer poems, with her responses (unsigned carbon copies); plus two ALsS concerning Aline giving a talk at Columbia Univ, which she accepts; and an ALS, 8vo 6pp, Nov 30, 1939 to Mrs. Kilmer from a New York friend visiting Washington DC, who mentions Kenton (the Kilmer's son).
Lot #2 Kilmer, Aline: JOSEPH AUSLANDER
  • TLS Joseph Auslander to Mrs. Kilmer 4to 1p, 12 August 1939, thanking her for her contribution of letters and manuscripts to the Library of Congress, and mentioning that he's happy to have Kenton Kilmer working with him.
  • From the Kilmer's personal library: Auslander, Joseph. The Unconquerables: Salutes to the Undying Spirit of the Nazi-Occupied Countries NY: Simon and Schuster, 1943. Includes poems published in The Washington Post, of which Kenton Kilmer was the Poetry Editor. About good: some staining on endpapers, slight foxing. Inscribed by author "for Kenton and Frances [Kilmer] and the children and Mother Frieseke [Frances' mother]: with love Joe Auslander Christmas 1943." Auslander's poem, "A Christmas Wish," printed on a church bulletin cover, is inserted (folded).
  • Booklet of poetry by H. S. MacKintosh, Selections from Sleight of Pen, 1940, signed and inscribed to Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Auslander.
Lot #3 Kilmer, Joyce: AUTOGRAPH NOTES, UNSIGNED
Twelve different reviews of Kilmer's book Summer of Love each clipped and mounted to 8vo sheet. Each with underlining/crossed out sections by Kilmer, and also in his hand on each sheet the publication in which each review appeared. (A sample is shown in the "Autographs, Books, and Collectibles" image at the bottom of this page.)
Lot #4 Kilmer, Joyce: PERSONAL EFFECTS
Various papers carried by Joyce Kilmer during World War I, and returned to his wife after his death.
  • A SOLDIER'S PRAYER, a 16mo sized leaflet of prayers on yellow paper.
  • BUSINESS CARD of Lt. Coakley, chaplain.
  • FIRST CLASS CONDUCT CARD permitting off-duty visits to area villages.
  • RAINBOW OBSERVATION POST; a ms safe-conduct(?) to permit a trip to Baccarat on June 4 and 5, 1918.
  • ENVELOPE bearing a Treasury Department Bureau of War Risk Insurance return address.
  • A POEM, corrected typescript on an 8vo sized piece of folded paper, The Face of Christ by the Rev. C. L. O'Donnell.
  • 8x10 waist-length portrait of Annie Kilburn Kilmer, his mother, signed and inscribed in the lower margin: "To Joyce from Mother 15th April 1918." Folded in quarters (heavy wear along folds) and tiny hole in center; verso reinforced with archival tape.
Lot #5 Kilmer, Joyce: SIGNED BOOK
From the Kilmer's personal library: Kipling, Rudyard. The Five Nations, NY: Doubleday, Page, 1903. 8vo cloth; moderately worn and slightly soiled, end-papers faintly foxed, half-title starting. 1st Amer. Ed. Signed "Joyce Kilmer" on ffep.
Lot #6 Kilmer, Joyce: INSCRIBED BOOK
From the Kilmer's personal library: Noguchi, Yone. The Pilgrimage, 2 vols. Kamakura & Yokohama: The Valley Press & Kelley and Walsh, 1909. 8vo. Wraps, bound in the Japanese manner; very good, in cloth case with clasps (spine faded, some soiling). Very good. Reverse of frontis color woodblock faintly foxed, upon which Kilmer has inscribed with characteristic cryptic initials to his wife, "Aline Kilmer, Juty 3, nineteen hundred and ten. C. M."
Lot #7 Kilmer, Joyce: INSCRIBED BOOK
From the Kilmer's personal library: The Poetical Works of Oscar Wilde... Portland, ME: Thomas Mosher, 1908. 8vo. Boards; slightly soiled, spine faded and partially detached, fly leaves lightly browned. Inscribed by Kilmer to his wife on fly leaf with characteristic cryptic initials, "Aline Kilmer, July the Twenty Fourth Nineteen Hundred and Ten. M.M.F.H." One of seven hundred fifty copies on Van Gelder hand-made paper. Introduction outlines the case for this edition being the definitive one.
Lot #8 Kilmer, Joyce: INSCRIBED BOOK
From the Kilmer's personal library: The Complete Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Bos and NY: Houghton Mifflin, (1900). 8vo cloth; slightly shaken and worn. Inscribed by Kilmer to his future wife, "Aline Murray. Dec. 25, 1906."
Lot #9 Kilmer, Joyce: INSCRIBED BOOK
From the Kilmer's personal library: Johnson, Lionel. Poems. Lon: Elkin Mathews & Bos: Copeland & Day, 1895. 8vo. Boards; spine darkened and partially missing, end papers slightly browned. Inscribed on ffep by Kilmer with characteristic cryptic initials to his wife "Aline Kilmer, May the Twenty Eighth, Nineteen Hundered and Eleven. J.S.O.J.D'A." One of 750 for England and America, printed at the Chiswick press. Kraus 18.
Lot #10 Markham, Edwin:
ALS 4to, 2pp, on board a steamer bound for Staten Island from Boston, Feb. 16, 1917, to Aline Kilmer, describing a speaking engagement in Boston on "The Social Vision of Jesus" where he says "Two thirds of the audience were Jews, and yet I knew that the whole multitude accepted the message and were with me as the waves are with the wind." He also responds to Kilmer's request for a copy of his ballad The Road to the Gallows-Tree and asks for her opinion of it. Few paperclip stains on page one, large water stain on last page shows briefly on the typed face of page one but entire letter readable.

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