Awards/honors: Clark County Geneaological Society Life Membership, 1995

The collection include yearbooks from Mary Barnard’s high school and college, various copies of her prose works, including reprints of her articles, poetry cards, manuscripts of Sappho and The Mythmakers, correspondence with friends, copies of correspondence with publishers and poet friends, articles and clippings of interest, and other materials saved in her library. On November 30th, 2004, a gift of Mary Barnard’s library and some papers was received from Elizabeth Bell, M.A.L.S. ’87, executor of Mary’s estate. This gift included over 800 volumes and periodical issues, many of them associated with Mary or containing her poetry, 159 pieces of correspondence, awards, photographs, and other ephemera. An additional gift was received on June 26, 2005, of 35 books and pamphlets that complete the earlier group of materials, 128 more volumes, correspondence, copies of correspondence with poet friends and publishers, cards, articles and clippings, awards and honors, and copies of unpublished works. This collection is also enriched with Mary’s poetry notebook and other ephemera from the Mildred Cline Papers, and correspondence and several copies of poems from the Arragon Papers.