[PW] Re: A.E. Johnson

[Franco, Adrienne]

When you called Syracuse University Library, did you ask them to check
table of contents pages for books by Albert Edward Johnson?  He was not
only poet-in-residence, but was a faculty member in the department of
English there as far back as the 1930s so he was a faculty author.
Below are some of his books which are owned by Syracuse University
Library (called Bird Library). Unfortunately, these records don't
include tables of contents.  Number 8 on the list below just has title
"Poems".  Perhaps that could be requested on interlibrary loan and table
of contents checked -- or perhaps you can interlibrary loan this
publication (maybe others, too?) and ask them to send you photocopy of
contents pages -- the same as you might ask for a photocopy of a journal
article.  If you want, you could see if some other libraries own any of
these books so that the ILL "burden" does not fall on Syracuse alone. 

1  Johnson, Albert Edward.  Bethlehem in Onondaga / by A. E. Johnson.
1935]  SP  
Bird-Spec Coll Call Number: 71-1221 Status: Click on link for more info 
 
2  Johnson, Albert Edward.  Bethlehem in Onondaga / by A. E. Johnson.
1935]  SU  
Bird-5th Floor Call Number: PS3519.O166 B4 Status: Click on link for
more info 
 
3  Johnson, Albert Edward.  Crown and the laurel.  1953.  SU  
Bird-5th Floor Call Number: PS3519.O166 C95 1953 Status: Available 
 
4  Johnson, Albert Edward.  Crown and the laurel / A.E. Johnson.  1953.
SP  
Bird-Spec Coll Call Number: PS3519.O166 C95 1953 Status: Click on link
for more info 
 
5  Johnson, Albert Edward.  Crown and the laurel / by A.E. Johnson.
1953.  SP  
Bird-Spec Coll Call Number: PS3519.O166 C95 1953 c.2 Status: Click on
link for more info 
 
6  Johnson, Albert Edward.  In a summer season,  [c1927]  SP  
Bird-Spec Coll Call Number: 811.5 J65i Status: Click on link for more
info 
 
7  Johnson, Albert Edward.  In a summer season,  [c1927]  SU  
Bird-5th Floor Call Number: PS3519.O166 I6 1927 Status: Available 
 
8  Johnson, Albert Edward.  Poems / by A.E. Johnson.  c1925.  SP  
Bird-Spec Coll Call Number: PS3519.O166 P6 1925 Status: Click on link
for more info 
 
9  Johnson, Albert Edward.  When thou hast shut thy door / by A.E.
Johnson.  1939.  SP  
Bird-Spec Coll Call Number: PS3519.O166 W5 1939 c. 2 Status: Click on
link for more info 
 
10  Johnson, Albert Edward.  When thou hast shut thy door / by A.E.
Johnson.  1939.  SP  
Bird-Spec Coll Call Number: PS3519.O166 W5 1939, c.3 Status: Click on
link for more info 
 
  11  Johnson, Albert Edward.  When thou hast shut thy door / by A.E.
Johnson.  1939.  SP  
Bird-Spec Coll Call Number: PS3519.O166 W5 1939, c.1 Status: Click on
link for more info 
 
Adrienne Franco / Iona College Libraries / New Rochelle, NY  10801

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:project-wombat-bounces at lists.project-wombat.org] On Behalf Of
Deb Bruce
Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 3:09 PM
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Subject: [PW] A.E. Johnson

Hi Womb at ts,
I have a patron looking for a poem she thinks is called "Recovery" by 
Albert Edward Johnson.  He was poet-in-residence at Syracuse University 
in 1948-1949, and I assume that this is something she heard him recite 
then.  She says "I don't known any lines verbatim; I know this: it is a 
sonnet; the first part describes a snow-laden evergreen tree. When a 
small bird lights on the tip of a branch, it rebalances and flings off 
its snow burden. The second part follows logically."  I have checked 
with Syracuse, who also did a quick archive check for me, and Brown 
University, which had some titles that Syracuse didn't have.  Several 
Yahoo! searches didn't turn out anything, either.  Any thoughts on where

to look next?
Thanks,
Deb Bruce
Librarian
Hartwick College
Oneonta, New York
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