Leslie
Frost signed Christmas poem by her father Robert Frost.
Robert Frost Christmas poem: “Closed For Good.” Signed
by his daughter Leslie. Printed on the first leaf: “This new poem brings
Holiday Greetings from Robert Frost, December 1948.” & in manuscript ink “and Lesley.” (Colophon: Printed at the
Spiral Press, New York). (16) pages, illustrated (wood engravings by Thomas W.
Nason). Stapled. 5-1/4 inches. Gray-green printed wrappers, title on cover.
- - - Lesley
Frost Ballantine (1899-1983). Daughter of American poet Robert Frost. “In
the 1930s Lesley Frost taught at Rockford College in Illinois and at the
King-Smith Studio for Girls in Washington, D.C. From 1945 to 1947 she was
cultural officer and director of the United States Information Library in
Madrid (“Casa Americana”), operated by the Office of War Information. The
Library later became the American Library in Madrid with Frost in charge. She
was the first woman sent to Latin America by the State Department to lecture on
American literature (1948). In 1967 she founded La Escuela de la Tahona, a
summer language school, in La Granja, near Madrid, where she had a home. In 1952 she married Dr. Joseph W.
Ballantine, head of the State Department’s Far Eastern Division under
Secretary of State Cordell Hull. Ballantine died in 1973.”
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