The Art and Letters of Robert Frost

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During the last academic year (2022-2023), I continued work on the Frost Letters Project. I completed transcriptions of some 230 letters in the date range for what will be volume four of The Letters of Robert Frost (1937-1947). (Volumes 1~3 have already been published by Harvard University Press.) I made two trips to the US to work with my American co-editors (one in August 2022, the second in early March 2023). Working together, we were able to sort out a number of problems to do with dating letters which Frost did not date (and for which no postmarked envelope survives). We also voice-verified transcriptions of several hundred letters. During October, November, and December 2022, I worked with my co-editor here in Japan (Henry Atmore), voice-verifying all of my own transcriptions. Over the course of 2022 I also reviewed all previous, and now outdated, editions of Frost’s letters, to assure that we had obtained fresh copies of manuscripts for every one of them. I also re-read the relevant parts of the most notable biographies of the poet to insure that we had caught all letters quoted therein but not collected in a proper edition of "letters." And where I located such letters, I sought to obtain copies of them in manuscript for fresh transcription.