The reference books were donated to the foundation by admirers of Robinson Jeffers – Charles Ditsler, Richard Hayman, Donald Clark, Dame Judith Anderson, James Grimes, William Keys and others. The reference library catalogue project in progress will merge three separate databases into one searchable file. The reference library contains copies of books written by and about Robinson Jeffers. The catalogue attached includes the entire family library holdings, with or without annotations. The second edition of The Last Word includes descriptions of additional books from the family library containing inscriptions and annotations not found in 1998. The Last Word only documents those books with inscriptions and annotations.
The family library catalogue will be published electronically as a companion document to the revised edition of The Last Word. The Tor House books are divided into three main collections: the Jeffers family library, housed mostly on the shelves in the cottage, the foundation reference library kept in the bookshelves downstairs in the east wing, and auxiliary shelves upstairs in the east wing next to the foundation office. Most of the shelves in the east wing library, the Tor house reference library, were also inventoried. In 2015-2016 Lynn Stralem, Maureen Girard and Kathleen Sonntag completed a physical inventory of the books in the west wing. In 1998, in her book The Last Word, Maureen Girard recorded the notes in the books (mostly by Una Robin made very few). In 1996 Jean O’Brien catalogued the books remaining in the family cottage. However, the family library only represents a small part of the family’s reading living frugally, the family depended on libraries for much of their reading. There are over one thousand books on the shelves at Tor House. The books include Una’s many books on Ireland, textbooks, and many other items. The attached list is the books from the Jeffers family library currently displayed in Tor House. Cataloging The Tor House Foundation Library
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