14   ORIGINAL RESPONSE

1. Cook notes. MCL.

2. Interview with Peter J. Stanlis.

3. Frost to John W. Haines, August 28, 1928. DCL.

4. Letters of Frost and Manthey-Zorn, edited by Sheehy, 378.

5. John W. Haines, “Home Places. II. England,” in Thornton’s Recognition of Robert Frost, 96.

6. Mertins, 177.

7. Wilbur Snow, “The Robert Frost I Knew,” Texas Quarterly (Fall 1968), 21.

8. Frost to Theodore Morrison, October 11, 1928. DCL.

9. SL, 351.

10. Frost to John Haines, October 11, 1928. DLC.

11. Frost to John Haines, November 2, 1928. DCL.

12. Interview with Lesley Lee Francis, June 29, 1997.

13. Untermeyer, 192.

14. Thompson, The Years of Triumph, 366.

15. Wade Van Dore, Robert Frost and Wade Van Dore: The Life of the Hired Man, revised and edited by Thomas H. Wetmore (Dayton, OH: Wright State University Press, 1986), 4.

16. I am grateful to Robert Hill for pointing out to me the ambiguity of this line.

17. Randall Jarrell, Poetry and the Age (New York: Knopf, 1953), 49–50.

18. J. J. Lankes to Edee Bartlett Lankes, July 13, 1929. DCL (copy); original in the private collection of Mr. Junius B. Lankes.

19. Ibid.

20. SL, 649.

21. Letter to Jay Parini, February 19, 1998.

22. Quoted in Thomas Mann, Freud, Goethe, Wagner (New York: Knopf, 1937), 53.

23. Unsigned review of West-Running Brook, “Robert Frost’s Poems and the Outlook on Life,” Springfield Union-Republican (December 30, 1928), 7E.

24. Granville Hicks, “The World of Robert Frost,” New Republic (December 3, 1930), 77–78.

25. Genevieve Taggard, “Robert Frost, Poet,” New York Herald Tribune Books (November 30, 1930), 9.