17   DEPTHS BELOW DEPTHS

1. Frost notebooks, 1935. DCL.

2. Frost to Carol Frost, April 15, 1938. UVL.

3. SL, 470.

4. Interview with Hyde Cox.

5. Thompson, The Years of Triumph, 507.

6. Untermeyer, 308.

7. SL, 471.

8. Thompson, The Years of Triumph, 511.

9. Donald G. Sheehy, “(Re)Figuring Love: Robert Frost in Crisis, 1938–1942,” New England Quarterly (June 1990), 179–231.

10. Interview with Lesley Lee Francis, April 6, 1997.

11. Interview with Louise Reichert.

12. Letter to Jay Parini, February 18, 1998.

13. Thompson and Winnick, Robert Frost: The Later Years, 13.

14. Notes of Charles Foster, DCL.

15. Wallace Stegner, The Uneasy Chair: A Biography of Bernard De Voto (New York: Doubleday, 1974), 206.

16. Thompson and Winnick, The Later Years, 10.

17. Interview with Wallace Stegner, July 5, 1980.

18. Pritchard, 233.

19. Interview with Allen Ginsberg, April 5, 1997.

20. Merrill Moore to Grenville Clark, July 21, 1938. DCL.

21. Foster notes, DCL.

22. Cramer, 124.

23. Poirier, xiv–xv.

24. Lathem, Interviews with Robert Frost, 119.

25. Frost notebook, undated. DCL.

26. Interview with Robert Francis, June 20, 1978.

27. Frost notebook, 1935. DCL.

28. Quoted in Robert Frost: A Descriptive Catalogue of Books and Manuscripts in the Clifton Waller Barrett Library, University of Virginia, compiled by Joan St. C. Crane (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia), 250.

29. Pritchard, 237.

30. T. J. Wilson to Robert Frost, January 28, 1939. Holt archives, Princeton University Library.

31. Family Letters of Robert and Elinor Frost, edited by Arnold Grade (Albany: State University of New York, 1972), 207. Hereafter Family Letters.

32. Ibid., 209.

33. Thompson and Winnick, The Later Years, 42.

34. Frost to James B. Conant, no date. DCL.

35. Interview with Louise Reichert.

36. Interview with Joseph K. Smith, August 16, 1995.

37. In an unpublished letter of December 13, 1939, which is in the Louis Untermeyer Papers at the Library of Congress, Frost likened his condition to that which the French called acedie—a state of existential anxiety.

38. SL, 487.

39. Cox interview.

40. Thompson and Winnick, The Later Years, 61.

41. Frost took the deed of property from J. Joseph Williams and Mary M. Williams in October 1940, according to Deed Book 2099, p. 471, in the Public Records Office of Dade County, Florida.

42. Family Letters, 218.

43. SL, 491.

44. Frost notebooks, 1939–41. DCL.