The Finding Aid of the Virginia Hamilton Adair Papers 0051

California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. Special Collections and Archives

2006

3801 West Temple Avenue

Pomona, CA 91768

speccollections@cpp.edu

909-869-3775

Title: Virginia Hamilton Adair Papers

Creator: Adair, Virginia Hamilton, 1913-2004

Identifier/Call Number: 0051

Contributing Institution: California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. Special Collections and Archives

Language of Material: English

Physical Description: 30 boxes

Date (inclusive): 1920-2004

Abstract: Virginia Hamilton Adair (1913-2004) was a poet and an educator. Her collection contains poems, book manuscripts, subject files, correspondence, personal papers, original drawings, autobiographical accounts, notes, poem lists, and printed matter pertaining to her poetry and her life.

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Unpublished manuscripts are protected by copyright. Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository and the copyright holder.

Preferred Citation

[Box/folder# or item name], Virginia Hamilton Adair Papers, Collection no. 0051, University Archives, Special Collections and Archives, University Library, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Katherine (Kappa) Adair Waugh donated the materials to California State Polytechnic University, Pomona in several installments between 2004 and 2020.

Biographical / Historical

Mary Virginia Hamilton was born in the Bronx on February 28, 1913 and grew up in Montclair, New Jersey. As a child she was surrounded by poetry. Her father, Robert Browning Hamilton, was a serious amateur poet who would read to her in her crib, from classics such as Pope's translation of Homer's Iliad. Her mother, Katharine Temple Hopson, focused on Mother Goose rhymes. Mary Virginia began writing her own poems when she was six. She graduated from the Kimberley School in 1929, and at the age of 16 she entered Mount Holyoke College. She disliked the name Mary and dropped it as soon as she left home. She graduated with a Bachelor's degree in 1933 at the age of 20, already having twice won the distinguished Glascock Prize for poetry. A year later, she earned a master's degree at Radcliffe, after which she taught for one year at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

As M.V. Hamilton or Virginia Hamilton and (after her marriage) as V.H. Adair or Virginia Hamilton Adair, while still in her 20s and 30s, she submitted poems to leading periodicals including the Saturday Review, The Atlantic, and The New Republic. She had many poems published before and after World War II.

In 1936 she married Douglass Graybill Adair II, who was to become a respected American historian. The Adairs had three children: Robert "Robin" Hamilton, Douglass "D3" Graybill III, and Katharine "Kappa" Sidney. The family lived a number of years in east coast cities, during which time Douglass taught at The College of William and Mary and edited its distinguished William and Mary Quarterly.

In 1955, they moved from Williamsburg to Claremont, California, where Douglass taught at the Claremont Graduate University. In 1957, Virginia began teaching poetry and children's literature classes at the then-California State Polytechnic College in Pomona (Cal Poly Pomona), continuing there until 1980. Throughout the years, she persisted in writing almost daily, mostly to please herself, without the dictates of publishers. Nevertheless, it is notable that she published more poetry before her celebrity and her three books than is usually recognized.

Virginia Hamilton Adair's beloved husband Douglass committed suicide in 1968, without warning or discernible reason. The shock affected her deeply; she would allude to this loss in many of her subsequent writings.

After losing all sight in 1992, she kept writing on an old Olympia typewriter (included in the collection). In 1994 she moved into a single room in the Pilgrim Place retirement community in Claremont, where several helpers assisted her in revising her poems.

In the early 1990s, her friend and fellow Claremont poet, Robert Mezey, urged her to publish a book. With his help Ants on the Melon was published in 1996 under contract with Random House. At that time, she was 83 and totally blind. The book met with acclaim, and made Time magazine's Best Seller list in 1996. Random House published two more books of her collected poems: Beliefs and Blasphemies in 1998 and Living on Fire in 2000.

Adair was the subject of a long article in the January 1, 1996 issue of The New Yorker, by its poetry editor Alice Quinn, who published eight of Adair's poems in subsequent issues. Elizabeth Farnsworth interviewed Adair for PBS' News Hour, and she was interviewed on the Today show in 1997. Garrison Keillor occasionally read her poems on his popular radio program, "The Writer's Almanac."

Adair continued to be asked to do public readings in Claremont during the 1990s. With the aid of poet friends and helpers, she published three books of poems, as well as prose articles for such publications as The New York Times and others. She received honors and awards as well. The Glaucoma Foundation in December of 1996 honored her at its Annual Black and White Ball in New York. She was awarded an honorary doctorate from her alma mater, Mount Holyoke College, in 2003. She was the recipient of Kimberley Montclair Academy's Distinguished Alumni Award in October of 2003. She stopped writing in the year before her death on September 16, 2004.

Scope and Contents

The collection includes poems and drafts of poems; prose works; drawings and other original art by Virginia Hamilton Adair. Also included in the collection are personal papers; clippings; files on publications by Adair; audiovisual recordings of poetry readings; realia; and photographs.

Arrangement

The collection is arranged into seven series: Series 1. Poetry; Series 2. Prose Writings; Series 3. Artworks; Series 4. Personal Papers; Series 5. Publications; Series 6. Recordings; Series 7. Realia; and Series 8. Photographs.

Separated Materials

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Related Materials

California State Polytechnic University, Pomona University Archives Oral History Collection, Collection no. 0023, University Archives, Special Collections and Archives, University Library, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. Douglass Adair Papers, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

Douglass Adair United Farm Workers Collection, Collection no. 0011, Special Collections and Archives, University Library, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. John Allphin Moore Collection on the Douglass Adair Symposia, Collection no. 0044, University Archives, Special Collections and Archives, University Library, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.

Marcyn Del Clements Collection on Virginia Hamilton Adair, Collection no. 0069, Pomona Valley Historical Collection, Special Collections and Archives, University Library, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.

Processing Information

The collection was processed by Special Collections staff in 2006. The collection number was changed from 2006.001 to 0051, the collection title changed from Virginia Hamilton Adair Collection to Virginia Hamilton Adair Papers, and a list of separated materials was added to the finding aid in 2020.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

American poetry -- 20th century

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Series 1: Poetry 1920-2004

Scope and Contents

Box 1: Individual Poems and Adair's lists 1930s - 1970s; poetry notebooks Box 2: Individual Poems and Lists 1980s - 2000s (incl. Adair's lists for poetry readings) Box 3: Poems in File Folders arranged alphabetically by subject, from "Aging" to "Zen" Box 4: Poems Collected into Subject Binders (arranged alphabetically by title) A-E Box 5: Poems Collected into Subject Binders (arranged alphabetically by title) F - N Box 6: Poems Collected into Subject Binders (arranged alphabetically by title) O - Z Box 7: Poems Collected as Proposed Book Manuscripts, Unpublished Box 8: Poems by Monthly Output 1995 - 2001;haiku notebook handwritten during Christmas/NewYear's 1986-1987

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Individual poems, Adair's lists, and poetry notebooks 1930s-1970s

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Individual Poems and Lists (incl. Adair's lists for poetry reading) 1980s- 2000s

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Poems in File Folder Arranged Alphabetically by Subject , From "Aging" to "Zen"

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Poems Collected into Subject Binders (arranged alphabetically by title) A-E

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Poems Collected into Subject Binders (arranged alphabetically by title) F-N

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Poems Collected into Subject Binders (arranged alphabetically by title) O-Z

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Poems Collected as Proposed Book Manuscripts, Unpublished

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Poems by Monthly Output 1995-2001 1986- 1987, 1995- 2001

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Series 2: Prose Writings 1920-2004

Scope and Contents

Box 9: Adair's prose works such as plays, short stories, and essays; non-fiction autobiographies, book reviews, etc. Of special interest is a notebook ["Visions"] prepared for submission along with a letter to Oliver Sacks containing prose descriptions of recurring "visions" or "apparitions" during waking hours. These visions included human figures, buildings, objects, etc. that were like a movie on a screen inside her eyes. Often they would reappear after a hiatus, and she would welcome them as familiar totems. The notebook also contains a poem titled "Blindsight."

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Series 3: Artworks 1920-1921

Scope and Contents

Box 10: drawings, a calendar handwritten and illustrated by Virginia Hamilton Adair, handmade paper dolls in 1920s fashion, two hand-colored block prints created at Williamsburg as small posters with colonial-era admonitions to children for church and table etiquette; a handmade flip-book for children, featuring drawings of animals and people, with poems, cut into four strips to mix-and-match.

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Series 4: Personal Papers 1920-2004

Scope and Contents

The series includes Adair's daily notes, biographical materials, personal and business correspondence, family miscellany, and writings by others, and publications and clippings about others.

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VHA's typed daily notes, including instructions to helpers, random thoughts, ideas for poems and actual poems; autobiographical details, and musings 1994- 2002

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Biographical material such as helpers' logbook pages; calendars showing events, appointments, topics of discussion, etc. re VHA 1996- 2004; lists of addresses; obituary notes, etc.

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