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Charles Latham
15 April 1994
VOLUME OF COLLECTION: 1 folder
COLLECTION DATES: 1921-1929
PROVENANCE: Louis and Rudolf Haerle, Indianapolis IN, 1960
RESTRICTIONS: None
REPRODUCTION RIGHTS: Permission to reproduce or publish material in this collection must be obtained in writing from the Indiana Historical Society
ALTERNATE FORMATS: None
OTHER FINDING AIDS: None
RELATED HOLDINGS: M 107, Hildegarde Flanner Papers; Books by Flanner in Print Collections:
This Morning (1921)
That Endeth Never (1921)
A Tree in Bloom (1924)
Time's Profile (1929)
In Galilee (1932)
If There Is Time (1942)
ACCESSION NUMBER: 63.0030
Elisabeth Haerle (born ca 1910) was the daughter of Indianapolis merchant George C. Haerle and of Norma Hollweg Haerle. Louis and Rudolf Haerle were her brothers.
Hildegarde Flanner (1899-1927) was born in Indianapolis, the daughter of undertaker Frank B. Flanner and of Mary Ellen Hockett Buchanan. An older sister (born 1892) was Janet Flanner, who for many years, as "Genet," wrote "Letters from Paris" for New Yorker magazine.
Hildegarde Flanner attended Tudor Hall School and Shortridge High School in Indianapolis, then went to the University of California. She very early showed a poetic bent, and had a book of poems published while she was still in college. Her poems continued to be published, both as books and in various magazines. She also wrote some plays, an article about the poetry of Robinson Jeffers and Edna St. Vincent Millay, and a series of articles about California which were published in 1941 as a book, The Vanishing Country. In 1941 New Directions paid a tribute to her as Poet of the Month. She married an architect, Frederick Monhoff. They lived in Altadena until 1961, when they moved to Calistoga.
This collection, filling one folder, contains correspondence, a book review, a snapshot, and copies of poems, from the period 1921-1929. These items were removed from two books by Hildegarde Flanner in Print Collections, That Endeth Never (1921-- PS 3511 .L28 T5 1926) and A Tree in Bloom (1924-- PS 3511 .L28 T7 1924).
The two letters in the collection deal with the publication of That Endeth Never. One is from Porter Garnett at the Laboratory Press in Pittsburgh, which published the book; the other is from Flanner to Miss Haerle about special copies of the book. Other items include a 1925 review by William Rose Benet of A Tree in Bloom, one printed poem and two typed poems, and a snapshot of Flanner (stored in Visual Collections).
MAIN ENTRY: Haerle, Elisabeth, ca. 1910-
SUBJECT ENTRIES: Haerle, Elisabeth, ca. 1910-
Flanner, Hildegarde, 1899-
Flanner, Hildegarde, 1899- --Photographs
That endeth never; a gift, Christmas 1921
A tree in bloom and other verses
Authors, American
Poets, American
Poetry
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