Research Catalog

Title

Thoughts of idle hours / by Myra Viola Wilds, blind verse writer ; illustrations by Lorenzo Harris, artist, Philadelphia, Pa.

Author

Wilds, Myra Viola

Publication

• Nashville, Tenn. : National Baptist Publishing Board, 1915.
• ©1915.

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Details

Additional Authors

National Baptist Publishing Board, publisher.

Description

81, [1] pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations, portrait; 16 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Genre/Form

• Authors' autographs (Provenance)
• Inscriptions (Provenance)

Note

• With a half-title.
• "(Copyright) by Myra Viola Wilds 1915."--verso of title page.

Provenance (note)

• inscribed: in ink on frontispiece portrait "Myra Viola Wilds." Inscribed: in ink on title page [under the author statement] "#2045 Bainbridge Street Phila. Pa." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Contents

Title -- Dedication -- Preface -- Sunshine -- A Thanksgiving prayer -- The early morning -- Dewdrops -- My thoughts -- To Hon. Edward James Cattell -- Little yellow baby -- A sonnet -- A lullaby -- Elsie -- The little German band -- The best family -- The babe that's dark as night -- Nature -- Superstitious Sam on the war -- The hoop skirt -- A racoon chase -- Basket meeting day -- The organ master -- Bessie -- A yoke of oppression -- Jack and I -- The ladies' sewing bee -- Thoughts -- When you feel a little blue -- The chorus -- Ezikiel's [sic] first degree -- He didn't stop to think -- The girl who does not care -- Our exposition -- The old-time religion -- Deacon Jones -- A foolish man -- Spring -- Looking back -- Down in the country -- The wandering sheep -- A man of the heart -- As you go from home today -- He is risen -- To J.J. Pearce -- New style tunes -- Uncle Joshua's birthday dinner -- Pity -- As I pass by the way -- Toiling -- War in Europe -- O! Mighty sea -- Thoughts of man -- The beautiful world -- Climbing up -- Stop and think -- Waiting in the shadow.

Call Number

Sc 811-W (Wilds, M. Thoughts of idle hours)

OCLC

• 6978356
• NYPGR6978356-B

Author

Wilds, Myra Viola, author.

Title

Thoughts of idle hours / by Myra Viola Wilds, blind verse writer ; illustrations by Lorenzo Harris, artist, Philadelphia, Pa.

Publisher

Nashville, Tenn. : National Baptist Publishing Board, 1915.

Copyright Date

©1915.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Provenance

Copy in Sc 811-W (accession no. B545616) inscribed: in ink on frontispiece portrait "Myra Viola Wilds." Inscribed: in ink on title page [under the author statement] "#2045 Bainbridge Street Phila. Pa." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

Connect to:

Full text available via HathiTrust (Library of Congress copy)

Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

National Baptist Publishing Board, publisher.

Wilds, Myra Viola, inscriber.

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

Research Call Number

Sc 811-W (Wilds, M. Thoughts of idle hours)