Margie B. Boswell Collection

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Biographical Note

Margie Belle Boswell was born in 1875 in Pueblo, Colorado to A. G. and Mary Isabel Huffmaster. The family moved to Texas, where Margie became a teacher in Fort Worth public schools until her marriage to W. E. Boswell in 1897. They had eleven children, two of whom founded the Boswell Dairies company in Fort Worth in 1924.

Margie B. Boswell wrote and taught poetry, contributed poems to literary journals, and published many books of poetry. She was active in local, state, and national poetry organizations, and held various offices in these organizations. Margie B. Boswell died in 1963 and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery in Fort Worth.

 

Scope and Contents

The Margie B. Boswell Collection contains materials related mostly to Mrs. Boswell’s interest and work in the field of poetry, as well as some materials related to the Boswell family and Boswell Dairies.

Materials in this collection consist of the following:

  • Correspondence from 1896 through 1960
  • Unpublished manuscripts written by Margie B. Boswell and other authors
  • Newspaper and magazine clippings related to Margie B. Boswell’s poetry, the Boswell family, W. E. Boswell High School, and other topics
  • Three scrapbooks with newspaper clippings related to the Boswell family and Boswell Dairies

Journals

  • Ajay Graphic, 1953
  • The American Bard, 1951 – 1954, 1959
  • The American Courier, 1954 - 1955
  • American Weave, 1955
  • The Archer, 1955
  • The Avalonian, 1952
  • Bayou Blossoms, 1955
  • Blue Moon, 1955
  • Boys Herald, 1955
  • Candor, 1955 - 1960
  • The Cemetery Rabbit, 1955
  • The Chipmunk, 1946
  • Chromatones, 1950 - 1954
  • The Cornucopia, 1955, 1959
  • Different, 1950 - 1955
  • Evening Lamp Poets, 1955
  • Hippocrene, 1952
  • Jacinth, Jet and Jade, 1949
  • The Junior Journalist, 1955
  • Kaleidograph, 1955
  • Lyrical Iowa, 1952
  • The Magnet, 1955
  • The Mailer, 1955
  • Midland Poetry Review, 1955
  • Midwest Chaparral, 1952 – 1954, 1959
  • The Moccasin, 1947
  • The Muse, 1958
  • The National Amateur, 1955
  • The National Poetry Magazine, 1947
  • The New York Pen Woman, 1952 - 1954

Books

  • Alphabet of Beauty and Other Poems by Harriet Ramsey Simon, 1955
  • And So Through the Years by Della Crowder Miller, 1950
  • At Christmas by Edgar A. Guest, undated
  • Books and Heart by George Seibel, 1951
  • Christmas Poems by Dorothy Stott Shaw, 1973
  • City Moods and Stance by Mary Anne Pryor, undated
  • The Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Household Edition, 1902
  • The Complete Works of William Shakespeare edited by W. J. Craig, 1924
  • The Day Before Judgment by Lilith Lorraine, 1944
  • An Easter Trilogy by Edward Henry Eckel, undated
  • Evangeline by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1896
  • Faggots of Faith by Grace Votaw, 1949
  • Far Journey by Adelaide Weston, 1950
  • Harvest Bells No. 2: Collection of Religious Songs for Sabbath Schools by W. E. Penn, undated
  • Heavenly Nomad by Pearl Crombie, 1953
  • The Hooky Well by Mary Anspach Simon, 1952
  • How Mama Did it With Paper, Trust, and Love by Thyra Ferre Bjoru, 1960
  • Interlude: Selected Poems by Clara Catherine Prince, 1953
  • Memory is Bold by Patience Howell Pollard, 1949
  • The Mockingbird and Other Poems by Margie B. Boswell, 1926
  • My Dream by Clara B. Dice Roe, 1953
  • New Testament: King James Version, undated
  • Night Alone by Van Chandler, 1947
  • Odes from Osprey by Elizabeth S. Osgood, 1952
  • Odes from Osprey by Elizabeth S. Osgood, 1953
 
  • One Tiny Candle, 1954
  • Pasque Petals, 1948
  • The Pen Woman, 1955
  • The Poesy Book, 1954 - 1955
  • The Poetic Outlook, 1946
  • The Poetry Public Letter, 1955
  • The Poet’s Reed, 1951
  • The Polystich, 1955
  • The Prairie Poet, 1959
  • Prairie Wings, 1945 - 1947
  • Quicksilver Yearbook, 1949
  • Reflections, undated
  • Reflections and Refractions, 1955
  • San Francisco Evening Lamp, 1954
  • Scimitar and Song, 1950 - 1954
  • Section Eight, 1954 - 1955
  • Shi’r, 1960
  • Song and Story: The Best in American Poetry, 1944
  • Southern Californian, 1947
  • Southwester: Official Organ of the American Poetry Association, Inc., 1938
  • Stanza: The National Poetry Magazine, 1947 - 1948Sunshine, 1950
  • The United Amateur, 1954
  • Westward: Paulatim Crescam International Magazine of Verse, 1939
  • Where the Memory Lingers, 1945
  • Wildfire, 1954 - 1955
  • Wisconsin Poetry Magazine, 1954 - 1955
  • Writers Forum, 1954
 
 
  • The Patter of Poems by Clara Laster, 1948
  • The Pocket History of American Painting by James Thomas Flexner, 1962
  • Poems for Children by Eugene Field, 1904
  • The Poetical Works of Owen Meredith, 1884
  • Poets of America: 1958 - Anthology of American Verse edited by George Scheftel, 1958
  • Printers Ink on a Shoestring by T. G. Mauritzen, 1950
  • Private Smith at Home by Manfred Carter, 1945
  • Random Rhymes by Crusselle B. Jackson, 1955
  • Red Heels by Lexie Dean Robertson, 1928
  • Saying Grace and Other Poems by Maud Chandler Modlin, 1927
  • Selected Poems and Little Poems by Margie B. Boswell, 1962
  • The Shepherd by Julien C. Hyer, 1955
  • The Shoes of Happiness and Other Poems by Edwin Markham, 1934
  • Sky Rides by Gatha Wood Taylor, 1939
  • Someone I Love by Iva Baker Wilson, 1950
  • Starward by Margie B. Boswell, 1956
  • Tempo Rubato compiled by Etta Josephean Murfey, 1942
  • Terse Verse by Eula Buchannan Christian, 1943
  • This Shall Endure: Avalon Anthology edited by Lilith Lorraine, 1955
  • The Thurber Carnival by James Thurber, 1945
  • The Tragedy of Othello, New Hudson Shakespeare Edition, 1926
  • United States: From the Landing of Columbus to the Signing of the Peace Protocol with Spain by Julian Hawthorne, 1898
  • White Dawn Salutes Tomorrow by Martha Anne Turner, 1943
  • Who's Who of American Women, 1st Edition, 1958-1959
  • Wine of Wonder by Lilith Lorraine, 1952
  • The World of Never by Francesco Bivona, 1953