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  Historical Committee
Hist. Mss. 1-890
Anne Ruth Ediger Baehr, 1916-1998
Poetry and Papers, 1902-1996
12 Boxes (11 Large, 1 Long Gray)
Administrative Information
These papers were deposited into the Archives by Beth
Bullard, a
daughter, from Carlilse, Pennsylvania, in 2002, with assistance by Ann
Hostetler, Associate Professor of English at Goshen College, Goshen,
Indiana.
May 19, 2003 / Inventory of Boxes 1-2, plus file
labels, completed by Cathy Hochstetler.
August 26, 2002 / Preliminary Inventory listing by Dennis Stoesz.
Summer 2002 / Boxes 1-11 boxed up, and Box 1 organized and labeled by
Beth Bullard and Ann Hostetler.
Box 1 (Large)
1/1 Introduction to the Collection (1/1)
Includes accession record; and
publicity poster of Ann
Hostetler, Ph.D., giving presentation on "Mennonites, Indians, Poetry
& Peace: Anna Ruth Ediger Baehr and the Southern Cheyenne", March
26, 2003, C. Henry Smith Peace Lecture, Goshen College, Goshen, Indiana.
Biographical Information and Awards, 1920s-2000
1/2 Photographs, 1920s-1997
1/3 Photographs of Ash Scattering of Anne Baehr, 2000
1/4 Baehr-Jones, Vanessa, "Anna Ruth Baehr," 2 pages, September 23,
1996, "My Great Aunt Anna Ruth...
1/5 Poetry Resume’s and C.V.’s, about 1987
1/6 Clippings, Anne Baehr, 1995-97
1/7 Women’s Day Away, 1998
1/8 Poetry Reading Flyers, 1978-85
1/9 Creative Arts Grant, 1982
Publishing
Information, 1978-98
1/10 Bibliography of Baehr’s publications, 1978-87
1/11 Notebook of submissions to publishers, 1985-89
1/12 Birnham Wood Press – Moonflowers – Publishing and Publicity, 1996
1/13 Submissions, 1990
1/14 Calls for submission, etc., 1998
1/15 "Archives" – Poem published in Mennonite
Life, 1981
1/16 Publishers, 1985
Poetry
Correspondence, 1983-97
1/17 Poetry-related correspondence, 1987-93
1/18 Letters from readers about poems, 1990-97
1/19 American Scholar – Correspondence, 1983-1992
1/20 OLGA – Short stories:
Begins with "Jeezus! Where did he come from?
Dumb kid! …."
O.Drucker: "Where is he? Where is he?
…"
O.Drucker: "Coffee anyone? If there’s any water left
in the kettle? …"
O.Drucker: "How long have you been watching me,
Andy? …"
Begins with "Want to stop off for a cup of coffee? …"
Talks / Essays
/ Journaling, 1940-92
1/21 Memory of Sexual Harassment at Bethel
1/22 Baptism – 1940
1/23 A Comparison of Plato’s Idea of God …."
1/24 Sarah Released – Cheyenne reflections
1/25 Reflections on Relationship with Karl – 8/7/92
1/26 "One Woman’s Spiritual Quest" given at Jewish
Center, 1990
1/27 "Clinic Mother"
1/28 Unsent letter from 1986; Adelphi University Support Group, 1987
1/29 "Young Lady" for Newsday’s "500 words or Less"
Notes for
Poems, 1932, 1976-97
1/30 Dragonfly Clipping (poem resource)
1/31 "These Words Are for you, Louise…" and other early drafts
1/32 Drafts of Early Poems with notes. Includes "Toll," "Minuet"
1/33 Ideas for and fragments of poems and thoughts
1/34 Notes for Poetry Collection on writing
1/35 Fragments for poetry
1/36 Notes on Poets
1/37 "They leave the festival…"
1/38 Poetry – 1972-74
1/39 Walt Whitman Heritage Lecture, 1997
1/40 Old, old poems, 1932, 1976 – 83
1/41 Versions (Collected poems from Joel)
Juvenalia
1/42 Childish Compositions
1/43 "The Curious Box"
Dreams
1/44 Poems grouped together (possibly for a reading
group?)
1/45 "Again" (Pattern)
1/46 "Augustine of Hippo"
1/47 "Betrayal"
1/48 "Brian Goes to the Fair"
1/49 "The Brooch" ("Die Brosche" – German translation)
1/50 "Calendar Leaves"
1/51 "Carriage House Revisited"
1/52 "The Cave"
1/53 "Christina" (Last finished poem)
1/54 "Cinnabar"
1/55 "The Cocktail Party"
1/56 "Do What You Really Want…"
1/57 "Elva"
1/58 "Enemies"
1/59 "Eve"
1/60 Excrement Poem (?)
1/61 "Greenhouse"
1/62 "The House"
1/63 "I understand torture…"
1/64 "I will sleep here…"
1/65 "If I Could Undo Birth"
1/66 "In Moonlight"
1/67 "Light Is the Absence of Darkness"
1/68 "Lunch with Carol"
1/69 "Melanie"
1/70 "The Monster" ("Das Ungeheuer," German translation)
1/71 "Mother and Daughter"
1/72 "Mother at Ninety-Seven"
1/73 "Music Makers"
1/74 "My big brother took his hoe…"
1/75 "New Lamps for Old"
1/76 "Night Thoughts"
1/77 "No, I Won’t Buy a Black Nightgown"
1/78 "No one tells you how you will hurt.."
1/79 "Peter"
1/80 Poem read at scattering of Karl’s ashes (1992 death – ashes
scattered later)
1/81 "A Poet Ages"
1/82 "Possession"
1/83 "The Price"
1/84 "Quarrel"
1/85 "Report"
1/86 "Rita"
1/87 "Sarah"
1/88 "The School Is Gone"
1/89a "Ted"
1/89b "To a Horned Toad"
1/90 "Sculptor’s Rite"
1/91 "Sheep Are Fine Lawnmowers"
1/92 "Song" (The Gallery of Your Mind)
1/93 "Stranger"
1/94 "Venice"
1/95 "Walter"
1/96 "Worm"
Moonflowers at
Dusk
1/97 Moonflowers at Dusk (a collection of
poems by Anna Ruth Ediger Baehr
1/98 "Bride"
1/99 "The Brooch"
1/100 "Carlisle School, 1890"
1/101 "Cemetery"
1/102 "Cleaning the Attic"
1/103 "Chayenne Wake, 1990"
1/104 "Conversation after a Funeral"
1/105 "Descant" (missing) (and early drafts – "My Daughter Playing the
Flute")
1/106 "Dragonflies on Milfoil" (missing)
1/107 "Elsie"
1/108 "Forgiveness"
1/109 "The Goddess of Wild Things"
1/110 "Holding Still"
1/111 "I Am Dancing with My Mennonite Father"
1/112 "I Am Sick of Sand in my Sneakers"
1/113 "Images"
1/114 "Insulin Shock"
1/115 "The King of Sicily"
1/116 "Leah"
1/117 "Leah" (Background information for poem)
1/118 "The Mirror above the Lectern" (and "One Side of the Rose Is
Larger)
1/119 "Ritual"
1/120 "The River"
1/121 "Sculptor"
1/122 "Season" (postcard)
1/123 "Starlings"
1/124 "Storm Cave"
1/125 "Take something like a paragraph…" (and early notes)
1/126 "Thirty thousand Feet Above the Great Lakes"
1/127 "The Unicorn"
1/128 "Vivian"
1/129 "A Walk Around the Block after a Mastectomy"
1/130 "You Took My House Apart"
Cheyenne Poems and Talks
1/131 Bibliographic Notes, Indian Poems (missing)
1/132 SOTA ("Sota" is one poem in a collection, "A Glimpse of
Dragonflies," which reflects the history & culture of Southern
Cheyenne Indians in Oklahoma.)
1/133 "Christmas Eve"
1/134 "Kias" (Bear Shakes Plants)
1/135 "How is it really? What do you hear in the drum, …"
1/136 Notes for Indian Poems, Miscellaneous, and autobiographical talk
1/137 Cheyenne Talks and Lectures
1/138 Cheyenne Vocabulary
1/139 Cometsevah (notes describing Indian culture, etc.)
Poetry Books
1/140a List of Books held by Anna Ruth Eidger Baehr
from her
father’s (J. B. Ediger) and mother’s (Agatha Regier Ediger) library.
Books sent to Bethel College archives, and/or Judy Voth Regehr, 2002
1/140b Arts in Academe, Publisher - University of Wisconsin
Extension Fall-Winter 1975 (does not include any poems by Anna)
1/141 Dream’s Navel, Poems by Edmund Pennant,
inscribed "For Anne Ruth Baehr, Sister in the search, Edmund Pennant,
12-7-79"
1/142 The Wildebeest of Carmine Street, Poems by Edmund
Pennant, inscribed "For Anna Ruth – My friend. Edmund, 5/14/97."
1/143 Journal of Mennonite Studies, 1985 (does
not include any poems by Anna)
1/144 Journal of Mennonite Studies, 1993 (does not include any
poems by Anna)
Box 2 (Large)
2/1 the American Scholar, Summer 1985 (The
Mary Elinore Smith Poetry Prize for poem, "I’m Dancing with My
Mennonite Father," by Anna)
2/2 phoebe, Fall 1980 (Poem included by Anna, "To an
Unforgiving Offspring")
2/3 Mennonite Mirror, March 1991 (letter by Anna in "Your
Word" column)
2/4 Ask the dreamer where night begins" by Patti Tana,
copyright 1986
(Inscribed for "Anne-Ruth")
2/5 process, Afterflash, Portfolio of
Poets, copyright 1979 (does not include any poems by Anna)
2/6 Poems by Anne-Ruth, "Monster," "Guests"
2/7 "Poem" by Anne-Ruth
2/8 Kansas Quarterly, 1987, Poems by Anne-Ruth, "Monster,"
Guests," "Amish Adolescent"
2/9 Samisdat, 1980. Poem by Anne-Ruth, "The Price"
2/10 process, 1978. Poem by Anne-Ruth,
"Untitled," "Cinnabar"
2/11 Long Island Quarterly, Fall 1990. Poems by Anne-Ruth,
"The River," "Cemetery," "The School Is Gone," "Islands Are Enough"
2/12 XANADU, 1984. Poems by Anne-Ruth, "The Brooch,"
"Dragonflies on Milfoil,"
2/13 Four Quarters, 1984. Poem by Anne-Ruth, "Doodle of a
Hermit"
2/14 West Hills Review, a Walt Whitman Journal,
1980. Poem by Anne-Ruth, "I Collect Hard Things"
2/15 Le Beacon Review, 1980-81. Poem by
Anne-Ruth, "To Rebecca, My Grandchild"
2/16 Moonflowers at Dusk, Book of Poems by Anna Ruth, 1996
2/17 eleven, 1987. Poem by Anne-Ruth, "Possession"
2/18 XANADU, 1978. Poem by Anne-Ruth, "Venice"
2/19 buckle" 1982. Poems by Anne-Ruth, "The Breeze at Your Iron
Window," "No, I Won’t Buy a Black Nightgown," "Limit"
2/20 Zephyr, 1984. Poem by Anne-Ruth,
"Birthday"
2/21 Wetlands, Poems by Patti Tana. (Inscribed for "Anne Ruth")
2/22 Live Poets, 1991. Poem by Anne Ruth, "Nexus" (Includes
note to Anne Ruth by Editor Grace Neyssen)
2/23 Wind, 1980. Poem by Ann-Ruth, "Agatha, At Ninety-Seven"
2/24 Spoon River Quarterly, The, 1980. Poem by Anne-Ruth,
"Going to Sleep in My Mother’s House, Alone"
2/25 New Voices, 1983. "Epilogue"
2/26 The Poetry Review, 1985. Poem by Anne-Ruth, "Carlisle
School - 1890".
2/27 The River, Poems by Patti Tana. 1990. (Inscribed to
"Beth") and When the Light Falls Short of the Dream, Poems by
Patti Tana. 1998.
2/28 Dumb Beautiful Ministers, 1996. Poem by Anna Ruth,
"Cemetery"
2/29 XANADU, 1983. (Anne-Ruth, one of Editors). No Poems by
Anne-Ruth.
2/30 SYMPaTHETIC MaGIC, by Michael
Blumenthal. 1980. Autographed.
2/31 riverSedge, 1982. Poems by Anne-Ruth, "Insomnia," and "To
a Horned Toad"
2/32 Ally, 1982. Poems by Anne-Ruth, "Betrayal," and "Agatha,
at Ninety-Three"
2/33 Raining Leaves, 1986. Poems by Anne-Ruth, "Cycle"
Phamplet of Reception & Book Party for Raining
Leaves, May 17, 1986
2/34 The Importances of the Past, a meditation on The authority of
Tradition, by George Allan. Inscribed to "Anne-Ruth"
2/35 Confrontation, 1985. Poem by Anne-Ruth,
"Mother and Daughter"
2/36 Process 6, 1980. Poem by Anne-Ruth, "Rebecca, My First
Grandchild"
2/37 Menno Notes, March/April 1986, Poem by Anne-Ruth, "I Am
Dancing with My Mennonite Father" Menno Notes, January/February
1986. (No poems by Anne-Ruth)
2/38 Laughing Unicorn, 1980. Poem by Anne-Ruth, "Return"
2/39 Process, 1985. (No poems by Anne-Ruth)
2/40 Quickenings, Fall/Winter, 1980. Poem by
Anne-Ruth, "To a Subway Driver"
Quickenings, Fall/Winter,
1981. Poem by Anne-Ruth, "Void"
Quickenings, Spring 1982. Poem
by Anne-Ruth, "Flying Object"
2/41 Acceptance Notes, 1978 – 1982
2/42 Oxford Magazine, Fall/Winter, 1988. Poem by Anne Ruth,
"Summer Dance"
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[Individual file folder listing has not yet been completed for the rest
of the boxes]
Box B (Large)
Books and Computer diskettes (5 1/4") and Cassette
tapes marked "Poetry"
Box C (Large)
Poems and Journals
Box D (Large)
Maps and Working Files and Poem Directory and Books
and Correspondence and Anne’s hair (June 2 [1934?])
Oral History, Folders 1-4 (borrowed by Ann Hostetler,
Oct. 4, 2002)
Folder of Oklahoma and Kansas Maps
Mennonite Life, December 1981
Box E (Large)
Includes older files like:
"Report on the Third Point, by Anne
Baehr, Teachers College, Columbia University, January 1963"
"Early collection of poems by Anne and Karl"
(includes poems by Anne Eidger, 1930-38, and Karl Baehr, 1939-44)
Working Files
Box F (Large)
Assorted records
including:
Family Record book, 1902-1975, by J. B. Ediger, who
was married August 28, 1902.
Video (VHS) Anne-Ruth Baehr, "Inside Out" June 1987
Video (VHS) Beth Bullard, contents of her mother’s house at 218
Brompton Rd., Garden City, New York (Long Island).
Computer diskette (3 1/2"), marked "Anne Ruth’s poems, letters,
documents"
Box G (Large)
Working
papers, seemingly mostly from the 1980’s, but also includes
Letters, 1930-62, 1947-48, 1970-78, 1975-78, etc.
Box H (Large)
Baehr’s teaching materials, especially the plays she wrote, and put
on with her students. Also includes poems written by the students.
Baehr’s Inhalt
Includes correspondence, Baehr’s presentations and
her files on
Native Americans (including some from her father’s collection, Rev. J.
B. Ediger), and files on Mennonite history and family genealogy.
Box I (Large)
Inhalt (Continued)
Box J (Large)
Inhalt (Continued)
Assorted papers
Includes "A Personal Sketch of Karl Baehr" (2
pages), correspondence, 1970’s-90’s, and some working files.
Box K (Long Gray)
Includes "Stitches", by Anne Ruth Ediger (description
of sewing
stitches with actual samples, pasted into a scrapbook, no date),
newspapers on Indians and Oklahoma, and some working files.
February 9, 2004 / Posted on the web by Rebecca Allen
sSeptember 23, 2003 / Updated by Helen Hostetler
File: "HM1-890.doc"
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