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1. Frost to John Haines, September 20, 1922. DCL.

2. “Did Vermont Have No Candidate?” Editorial, New York Times (June 9, 1922), 14.

3. Quoted by Thompson, The Years of Triumph, 211.

4. Interview with Robert Penn Warren.

5. Frost to George F. Whicher, December 1922. ACL.

6. SL, 286.

7. Frost to Haines, September 20, 1922. DCL.

8. Interview with Philip Booth, November 3, 1996.

9. Frost to A. B. White, December 14, 1922. DCL.

10. Reprinted in Lathem, Interviews, 40–42.

11. Untermeyer, 156.

12. For a useful study of Frost and religion, see Dorothy Judd Hall, Robert Frost: Contours of Belief (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 1984).

13. SL, 293.

14. Interview with John Sloan Dickey.

15. Untermeyer, 166.

16. Interview with Thomas Vance.

17. From the journals of Wilfred Davison, transcribed by Reginald L. Cook. MCL.

18. SL, 296.

19. SL, 482.

20. Brodsky, Heaney, and Walcott, 81.

21. James M. Cox, “Robert Frost and the End of the New England Line,” in Frost: Centennial Essays (Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 1974), 556.

22. Untermeyer, 167.

23. Recognition of Robert Frost, ed. Richard Thornton (New York: Holt, 1937), 169–170.

24. SL, 303.

25. In fact, Frost was fifty-one, there being some confusion over his birth date.

26. SL, 310.

27. CPPP, 712. Originally published in the Christian Science Monitor (May 16, 1925).

28. SL, 312.

29. SL, 315.