Box: 1 Fold: 1 Kilmer, Joyce to Kilmer, Aline 7/30/1907 Box: 1 Fold: 2 Kilmer, Joyce to Kilmer, Aline 7/31/1907 Box: 1 Fold: 3 Kilmer, Joyce to Kilmer, Aline 8/4/1907 Box: 1 Fold: 4 Kilmer, Joyce to Kilmer, Aline 8/13/1907 Box: 1 Fold: 5 Kilmer, Joyce to Kilmer, Aline 8/13/1907 Box: 1 Fold: 6 Kilmer, Joyce to Kilmer, Aline 12/3/1907 Box: 1 Fold: 7 Kilmer, Joyce to Kilmer, Aline 1/7/1908 Box: 1 Fold: 8 Kilmer, Joyce to Kilmer, Aline 4/7/1908 Box: 1 Fold: 9 Kilmer, Joyce to Kilmer, Aline 4/26/1908 Box: 1 Fold: 10 Kilmer, Joyce to Kilmer, Aline 5/14/1908 Box: 1 Fold: 11 Kilmer, Joyce to Kilmer, Aline 9/2/1914 Box: 1 Fold: 12 Kilmer, Joyce to Kilmer, Aline 10/2/1917 Box: 1 Fold: 13 Kilmer, Joyce to Kilmer, Aline c. 10/28/1917 Box: 1 Fold: 14 Kilmer, Joyce to Kilmer, Aline 11/11/1917 Box: 1 Fold: 15 Kilmer, Joyce to Kilmer, Aline 11/24/1917 Box: 1 Fold: 16 Kilmer, Joyce to Kilmer, Aline 12/9/1917 Box: 1 Fold: 17 Kilmer, Joyce to Kilmer, Aline 12/17/1917 Box: 1 Fold: 18 Kilmer, Joyce to Kilmer, Aline c.12/24/1917 Box: 1 Fold: 19 Kilmer, Joyce to Kilmer, Aline 1/18/1918 Box: 1 Fold: 20 Kilmer, Joyce to Kilmer, Aline 1/21/1918 Box: 1 Fold: 21 Kilmer, Joyce to Kilmer, Aline 1/27/1918 Box: 1 Fold: 22 Kilmer, Joyce to Kilmer, Aline 1/28/1918 Box: 1 Fold: 23 Kilmer, Joyce to Kilmer, Aline 2/5/1918 Box: 1 Fold: 24 Kilmer, Joyce to Kilmer, Aline 2/22/1918 Box: 1 Fold: 25 Kilmer, Joyce to Kilmer, Aline c. 2/22/1918 Box: 1 Fold: 26 Kilmer, Joyce to Kilmer, Aline c. 3/5/1918 Box: 1 Fold: 27 Kilmer, Joyce to Kilmer, Aline 3/12/1918 Box: 1 Fold: 28 Kilmer, Joyce to Kilmer, Aline 3/14/1918 Box: 1 Fold: 29 Kilmer, Joyce to Kilmer, Aline 3/16/1918 Box: 1 Fold: 30 Kilmer, Joyce to Kilmer, Aline 4/1/1918 Box: 1 Fold: 31 Kilmer, Joyce to Kilmer, Aline 4/19/1918 Box: 1 Fold: 32 Kilmer, Joyce to Kilmer, Aline 4/21/1918 Box: 1 Fold: 33 Kilmer, Joyce to Kilmer, Aline c. April 1918 Box: 1 Fold: 34 Kilmer, Joyce to Kilmer, Aline c. 4/23/1918-5/15/1918 Box: 1 Fold: 35 Kilmer, Joyce to Kilmer, Aline 4/27/1918 Box: 1 Fold: 36 Kilmer, Joyce to Kilmer, Aline 4/29/1918 Box: 1 Fold: 37 Kilmer, Joyce to Kilmer, Aline c. April/May 1918 Box: 1 Fold: 38 Kilmer, Joyce to Kilmer, Aline 5/18/1918 Box: 1 Fold: 39 Kilmer, Joyce to Kilmer, Aline 5/24/1918 Box: 1 Fold: 40 Kilmer, Joyce to Kilmer, Aline 5/27/1918 Box: 1 Fold: 41 Kilmer, Joyce to Kilmer, Aline 6/1/1918 Box: 1 Fold: 42 Kilmer, Joyce to Kilmer, Aline 1/8/1918 Box: 1 Fold: 43 Kilmer, Joyce to Kilmer, Aline 6/14/1918 Box: 1 Fold: 44 Kilmer, Joyce to Kilmer, Aline 7/2/1918 Box: 1 Fold: 45 Kilmer, Joyce to Kilmer, Kenton c. 1917 Box: 1 Fold: 46 Kilmer, Joyce to Kilmer, Kenton 11/28/1917 Box: 1 Fold: 47 Kilmer, Joyce to Kilmer, Kenton 1/10/1918 Box: 1 Fold: 48 Kilmer, Joyce to Kilmer, Kenton 7/2/1918 Box: 1 Fold: 49 Kilmer, Joyce to Bjorkman, Edwin A. Box: 1 Fold: 50 Kilmer, Joyce to Daly, James J., S.J. 1/9/1914 Box: 1 Fold: 51 Kilmer, Joyce to Daly, James J., S.J. 1/10/1916
Postmark 7/30/1907
Postmark 7/31/1907
DESCRIPTION: Contains ALS + envelope from JK to AK. Written while attending Columbia University, New York (1905-1908). 1 folio + 1 p.
Postmark 8/4/1907
Postmark 8/13/1907 7 a.m.
DESCRIPTION: Contains ALS + envelope from JK to AK. 3 folios.
Postmark 8/13/1907, 8 p.m.
DESCRIPTION: Contains ALS + envelope from JK to AK.
Postmark 12/3/1907
DESCRIPTION: Contains ALS + envelope from JK to AK.
Postmark 1/7/1908
DESCRIPTION: Contains ALS + envelope from JK to AK. Includes poem entitled, "Selenephile."
Postmark 4/7/1908
DESCRIPTION: Contains ALS + envelope from JK to AK.
Postmark 4/26/1908
DESCRIPTION: Contains ALS + envelope from JK to AK.
Postmark 5/14/1908
DESCRIPTION: Contains ALS + envelope from JK to AK. 2 folios.
Letter date: 9/2/1914
DESCRIPTION: Contains ALS + envelope from JK to AK. Written on ship stationery aboard R.M.S. "Baltic" enroute to London. Refers to writing "Battle of New York." Includes AMs of poem, "A friend of mine named Conyngham..."
Letter date (added?): 10/2/1917
DESCRIPTION: Contains ALS from JK to AK. Refers to TLS from Clara Murray, 9/13/1917 (included). Also refers to Christopher Kilmer, JK's youngest son. Enclosed is a remembrance card for Elizabeth Ann Seton (1774-1821), foundress of the sisters of Charity in America.
Undated: c. 10/28/1917
DESCRIPTION: Contains ACS (postcard) from JK to AK. Undated, but probably dated c. 10/28/1917, see reference to sending a postcard in next letter (Folder 1:14). Written enroute to France, "I am mailing this on the ship. When you receive it you will know I reached my destination safely. J.K."
Letter date: 11/11/1917
DESCRIPTION: Contains ALS from JK to AK. Reference to arrival in France and censorship regulations. Sends greetings to his children, Kenton, Deborah, Michael and Christopher.
Letter date: 11/24/1917
DESCRIPTION: Contains ALS + envelope from JK to AK. Refers to his early days in France. Also refers to Francis Duffy.
Letter date: 12/9/1917
DESCRIPTION: Contains ALS from JK to AK. Refers to his salary and briefly to his work, also to a poem by Rev. Edward F. Garesche, S.J., and to Harriet Monroe.
Letter date: 12/17/1917
DESCRIPTION: Contains ALS from JK to AK. 3 pp. Requests AK to submit his poem, "Militis Meditatio" to America magazine. Eventually, published as "Prayer of a Soldier in France."
Undated: probably Christmas Eve, 12/24/1917
DESCRIPTION: Contains ALS from JK to AK. Undated, but probably written on Christmas Eve, "We may have a midnight mass in the church here tonight." Refers to Francis Duffy, Witter Bynner.
Letter date: 1/18/1918
DESCRIPTION: Contains ALS from JK to AK. Refers to AK's poem recently received, "High Heart": "You happen to be my favorite poet."
Letter date: 1/21/1918
DESCRIPTION: Contains ALS from JK to AK. 3 pp. Refers to James J. Daly, S.J., and to Edward Garesche, S.J. Praises AK's poetry. Reference also to "the novel you and Margaret [Widdemer] are writing," supposedly on the subject of the occult.
Letter date: 1/27/1918
DESCRIPTION: Contains TL from JK to AK. 2 pp. Writes about his feelings for army life. Letter is unfinished.
Letter date: 1/28/1917 (error, probably 1918)
DESCRIPTION: Contains ALS from JK to AK. 4 pp. Dated, probably erroneously, as 1/28/1917. Refers to an enclosed letter by Louise Imogen Guiney (not included). Also refers to AK's joint book-writing effort with Margaret Widdemer.
Letter date: 2/5/1918
DESCRIPTION: Contains ALS from JK to AK. 2 pp. Refers to enclosed letter from Helen Parry Eden (not included). Also refers to his poem "Militis Meditatio." Talks of his inability to write verse.
Letter date: 2/22/1918
DESCRIPTION: Contains 2 ALS from JK to AK, possibly two separate letters sent under same cover. #1 Refers to "one of my little sketches - that called "Breakfast"" (see next folder, 1:25). #2 Refers to the town in which JK is currently posted, and to a review of his poem, "Main Street," by Helen Parry Eden.
Undated: Possible 2/22/1918
DESCRIPTION: Contains ALS from JK to AK. 2pp. Includes TMs of a mixture of prose and poetry collectively entitled, "War Songs." Includes "Water-color," "Breakfast," and "Mirage du Cantonnement."
Letter date (added in pencil): c. 3/5/1918
DESCRIPTION: Contains ALS from JK to AK. 4 pp. Date uncertain; added in pencil: "March 5?" Refers to being hospitalized, "been here for three days with a strained muscle." Writes about his thoughts on AK's poems recently received by him. Advises against AK's becoming too involved in supernatural research for her book collaboration with Margaret Widdemer: "I have worried greatly for fear you have been experimenting with planchette or seances...or some similar abomination...Don't even discuss it with Margaret, who has given it far more attention than is good for her."
Letter date: 3/12/1918
DESCRIPTION: Contains ALS from JK to AK. Reference to JK's anthology of English and American Catholic poetry, "Dreams and Images" (first published by Boni and Liveright, N.Y., 1917). Also refers to AK's poetry, particularly "The Honey-witch." JK vetoes including his own poem, "The Fairy Lovers," "in any anthology - why, it must not be." Comments on Francis Carlin's new book of poetry.
Letter date: 3/14/1918
DESCRIPTION: Contains ALS from JK to AK. 2 folios. Refers to the possible publication of poetry written while in France, censorship restrictions, etc. JK also discourses on "the subject of growing middle-aged - an experience which you are enjoying, I trust. I know I enjoy it."
Postcard date: 3/16/1918
DESCRIPTION: Contains signed postcard from JK to AK.
Letter date: 4/1/1918
DESCRIPTION: Contains ALS from JK to AK. 2 folios. Refers to JK's recent experiences in a dug-out, "...it was a week of wonder - of sights and sounds essential, I think, to my experience. For there are obligations of experience - or experiences of obligation - to be distinguished from what I might call experiences of supererogation or experiences of perfection..." Also refers to his daughter Deborah Kilmer, his son Kenton, and to reading Coventry Patmore.
Letter Date: 4/19/1918
DESCRIPTION: Contains ALS from JK to AK. Refers to Kenton Kilmer, and infant daughter Rose. (She died on September 9, 1917.)
Letter date: 4/21/1918
DESCRIPTION: Contains ALS from JK to AK. 5 pp. JK refers to his "Irish half." Again refers to AK's book collaboration with Margaret Widdemer, warning AK about putting the Kilmer name on a work that may offend the public, "...please be very careful that there is nothing...to offend, in the slightest degree, the special public which buys our work." JK also discourses on the importance of writing about the Catholic faith, "I'd rather write moderately well about it than magnificently well about anything else." Refers to writers such as Thomas Daly, Francis Thompson, Swinburne, and Thackeray. Other references made by JK include his own works, "Literature in the Making," of which he comments, "a harmless enough book but utterly worthless. I can honestly offer "Trees" and "Main Street" to Our Lady." Finally, comments on AK's poem, "Experiences."
Undated: Possibly written between 4/21-4/23/1918
DESCRIPTION: Contains ALS from JK to AK. 2 folios. Undated, but probably written between the letters of 4/21/1918 and 4/23/1918. Refers to JK's relief that AK has decided not to include her name as collaborator on the book with Margaret Widdemer. Also refers to JK's poem, "Rouge Bouquet." Other references are made to Thomas Walsh, Margaret Widdemer, Kenton Kilmer, and AK's poem, "To a Sick Child."
Letter dates: c. 4/23/191-5/15/1918
DESCRIPTION: Contains ALS from JK to AK. Two letters in one. #1 is dated in pencil as having been received on 4/23/1918. #2 is dated 5/15/1918. Refers to the correct name for the wood or area of Rouge Bouquet. Reference to seeing Rev. Charles O'Donnell, C.S.C., and to Rev. Edward R. Garesche's book.
Letter date: 4/27/1918
DESCRIPTION: Contains ALS from JK to AK. 2 folios. Refers to JK's becoming a member of the Regimental Intelligence Section, at his own request. "The Intelligence work is absolutely fascinating - you'll be glad I took it up." Also reference to children in the towns in which JK is posted. Also refers to enclosed letter from Helen Parry Eden (not included).
Letter date: 4/29/1918
DESCRIPTION: Contains ALS from JK to AK. Reference to "The Fairy Lovers" and to AK's poem, "Perversity," "Don't let my poem...be reprinted anywhere. Don't let your poem... appear in any book." Also to JK's poems "Rouge Bouquet" and "Militis Meditatio," as well as to Rev. Charles O'Donnell, C.S.C., who served as chaplain of the 165th Infantry along side Rev. Francis P. Duffy, February 1918 to May 1919.
Undated: possibly written between 4/27-5/18/1918
DESCRIPTION: Contains ALS from JK to AK. 2pp. Undated, but possibly written between the letters of 4/27/1918 (when JK first mentions his transfer from his statistical work for the army to the Regimental Intelligence Section) and of his first letter in May, 5/18/1918. JK refers to his feelings about the transfer, "...if I should be squashed by a shell, wouldn't you hate to have it said that I was nobly holding my post in the office, or bravely manning my typewriter? Now I'm doing work I love - and work you may be proud of."
Letter date: 5/18/1918
DESCRIPTION: Contains ALS from JK to AK. 2 folios. Refers to the positive reception by readers of "Rouge Bouquet."
Letter date: 5/24/1918
DESCRIPTION: Contains ALS from JK to AK. 2 folios. Describes a quiet moment with JK's comrades in the Regimental Intelligence Section.
Letter date: 5/27/1918
DESCRIPTION: Contains ALS from JK to AK. Refers again to the correct name for his poem, "Rouge Bouquet, not Rouge Bosquet."
Letter date: 6/1/1918
DESCRIPTION: Contains ALS from JK to AK. Refers to Francis Duffy, chaplain of the 165th Infantry.
Letter date: 1/8/1918
DESCRIPTION: Contains ALS from JK to AK. Refers to Helen Parry Eden's review of "Main Street" in the Dublin Review.
Letter date: 6/14/1918
DESCRIPTION: Contains ALS from JK to AK. 2 pp. Refers to a death in the family, possibly that of AKK's father, since JK refers to the Kilburn estate.
Letter date: 7/2/1918
DESCRIPTION: Contains ALS from JK to AK.
Postcard undated: c. 1917-1918
DESCRIPTION: Contains postcard from JK to KK. No date: written some time during the period of JK's service in France from 10/1917 to 7/1918. "Take this card to school and get your French teacher to help you translate it."
Letter date: 11/28/1917
DESCRIPTION: Contains ALS from AK to KK: "I hope that by this time you have entirely recovered from your illness."
Letter date: 1/10/1918
DESCRIPTION: Contains ALS from JK to KK: "Your plan for ending the war is very good..."
Letter date: 7/2/1918
DESCRIPTION: Contains ALS from JK to KK: "I was very glad to hear of your confirmation." (Caution: stationery is torn in places.)
Letter date: 1/17/1913
DESCRIPTION: Contains photostat of ALS from JK to poet Edwin A. Bjorkman (1866-1951) on letterhead for the Churchman magazine, New York. 3 pp. Re. Bjorkman's book, "Gleams," JK expresses his interest. [It is possible, according to Kenton Kilmer, that this letter was never sent.]
Letter date: 1/9/1914
DESCRIPTION: Contains xerox copy of ALS from JK to Rev. James J. Daly, S.J. 3 pp. Re. JK's views on his own conversion and on Catholicism: "I believed in the Catholic position...view of ethics and aesthetics, for a long time. But I wanted something not intellectual, some conviction not mental - in fact I wanted Faith." Also refers to Reverend Daly's comments on JK's poem, "To a Young Poet Who Killed Himself."
Letter date: 1/10/1916
DESCRIPTION: Contains TL xerox copy. Brief notice of JK's imminent arrival for a visit at Campion College, Wisconsin.
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