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Bolles bibliography and availability

A full bibliography of Frank Bolles’s published works would include hundreds of writings, including his editorials, articles, poetry, and book reviews, in at least nine newspapers and seven periodicals. Bolles’s two best-known books are Land of the Lingering Snow (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1891) and At the North of Bearcamp Water (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1893). In addition to these books, his widow Elizabeth Quincy Bolles published two of his books posthumously: She collected his final articles, as well as most of his principle natural history articles from The Auk and elsewhere, in a third book, From Blomidon to Smoky and Other Papers (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1894). And she also published a small volume of his poetry about the birds of the Tamworth area: Chocorua’s Tenants (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1895). He published frequently on Harvard matters and left a trail of published and unpublished writing wherever he went. One late and unfinished manuscript (edited by Lily Bolles) remains unpublished.

Current availability of Bolles's writings

1. I was pleased to see that Bolles's book North of Bearcamp Water returned inexpensively to print in 2003 (after an absence of eighty-six years). Published by Elibrion Classics (unabridged facsimile of 1917 H-M edition, including photos). <www.elibrion.com>

2. One of Bolles’s tales, “Following a Lost Trail” from At the North of Bearcamp Water was recently reprinted in the excellent anthology, White Mountain Reader, edited by Mike Dickerman (Littleton NH: Bondcliff Books, 2000). Other than the availability of print-on-demand reprints of his 1888 edition of important English statutes, Bolles’s books are regrettably long out of print. Second-hand copies are, however, available from your favorite shop or from the web, e.g., abebooks.com, alibris.com, or addall.com/used

Some of Frank Bolles’s articles are available on the web as images, or on this site as downloadable text files.

Nine of Bolles’s articles that first appeared in The Atlantic Monthly are available in readable-downloadable TIFF/GIF format on the web. Also, OCR text files can be made of individual pages. These can be found at Cornell University’s Making of America Project Journal Collection at <http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/moa/>. These nine articles (all of which later appeared in his books) and their URLs are the following: (For convenience, I am making an OCR text file for each of these articles.)

(1.) The Equinoctial on the Ipswich Dunes, by Frank Bolles,

Atlantic Monthly. Volume 68, Issue 408: pp. 522-526 (October 1891).

URL for this journal article: <http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/moa-cgi?notisid=ABK2934-0068-75>.

For convenience, I have made a TEXT file of this article, and it can be downloaded - if you right-click on the link below (Macintosh users, hold down the control button as you mouse-click), and choose "Save Link As" (Netscape Navigator) or "Save Target As" or "Download Link to Disk" (Microsoft Internet Explorer)--> download here.

(2.) Alone on Chocorua at Night, by Frank Bolles,

Atlantic Monthly. Volume 70, Issue 422: pp. 758-765 (December 1892).

URL for this journal article: <http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/moa-cgi?notisid=ABK2934-0070-105>

(3.) In a Wintry Wilderness, by Frank Bolles,

Atlantic Monthly. Volume 71, Issue 423: pp. 92-99 (January 1893).

URL for this journal article: <http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/moa-cgi?notisid=ABK2934-0071-12>

(4.) Individuality in Birds, by Frank Bolles,

Atlantic Monthly. Volume 71, Issue 427: pp. 619-625 (May 1893).

URL for this journal article: <http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/moa-cgi?notisid=ABK2934-0071-87>

(5.) Birds at Yule-Tide, by Frank Bolles,

Atlantic Monthly. Volume 72, Issue 434: pp. 757-760 (December 1893).

URL for this journal article: <http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/moa-cgi?notisid=ABK2934-0072-123>