MSS7115Millay, Edna St. Vincent, papersEdna St. Vincent Millay papers MSS 7115Ellen Welch Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

2026-04-16

Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections LibraryP.O. Box 400110University of VirginiaCharlottesville, Virginia 22904-4110URL:

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This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2026-04-17 11:01:33 +0000.Description is written in: English, Latin script.Describing Archives: A Content Standard Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library Edna St. Vincent Millay papers MSS 7115 Archival Resource Key /repositories/3/resources/1899 1500 items 16 document boxes (Barrett) The bulk of the collection contains manuscripts; correspondence from Millay's relatives, classmates and friends; photographs; miscellaneous printed items including sheet music, broadsides, playbills and clipppings; and other material related to the publication of "The Letters of Edna St. Vincent Millay" by Allan Ross Macdougall. 1897-1955 English Manuscripts (documents) Manuscript draft copy "A Few Figs From Thistles, Poems and Sonnets" (Addition ViU-2017-0157)Archival Resource Key/repositories/3/archival_objects/2936360.03 Cubic FeetLetter size folder (may have to go in legal folder because the existing box is legal)Draft copy in paper binding1921Front cover is crumblingEnglish1Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open for research.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

This collection was a purchase from Swan's Fine Books to the Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia Library on September 2017.

Preferred Citation

MSS 7115, Edna St. Vincent Millay draft copy of "A Few Figs From Thistles, Poems and Sonnets" Addition (ViU-2017-0157), Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.

Scope and Contents

Proof copy of Edna St. Vincent Millay, "A Few Figs from Thistles". Typescript in cover of Edna St. Vincent Millay, A Few Figs from Thistles, Poems and Sonnets (New York: Frank Shay, 1921). 25 pp. Rare example of a pre-publication item from Frank Shay, a little-known publisher in Greenwich Village, New York who published small-run books, a magazine, and a newspaper from Frank Shay's Bookshop, 4 Christopher Street.

Conditions Governing Use

Fragile. Handle with care.

Manuscripts (documents)