HAND-MADE BY HIM FOR BREAD LOAF SCHOOL DIRECTOR REGINALD COOK ("DOC") FROST, ROBERT. Autograph Manuscript Signed and Inscribed, "A Preview / for Nita and Doc / from / R.F. / After a good Bread Loaf / 1946," fair copy of 8 poems sewn by him into a pamphlet. 16 pages, 8vo, side-stitched, wrappers. Np, 1946
"To an Ancient" • "Something to Hope For" ["Something for Hope"] • "One Step Backward Taken" • "Why Wait for Science" • "But He Meant It" ["The Broken Drought"] • "The Courage to Be New" • "A Mood Apart" • "Bravado". Some of these poems were published the following year in his Steeple Bush. Reginald Lansing Cook (1903-1984), led the Middlebury College department of American Literature, served as director of the Bread Loaf School of English from 1946 to1964, and wrote Robert Frost: A Living Voice (1974).
