Morton Arboretum : Collection : Collection of May Theilgaard Watts materials [1.1557]

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Collection of May Theilgaard Watts materials

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Repository Name: Sterling Morton Library, The Morton Arboretum
Repository Location: 4100 Illinois Route 53, Lisle, IL 60532

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Watts, May Theilgaard
Watts, Raymond

Collection Contents

Miscellaneous Sketches

Awards, Honors, Dedications

May Watts Society

May Watts Society - Founding

May Watts Society - Charter, Letters to Members & Friends

May Watts Society - Correspondence

May Watts Society - Annual Report

May Watts Society - Publicity

May Watts Society - Park District

May Watts Society - Elissa Lear etc. 1990

May T. Watts Reading Garden

May T. Watts Reading Garden at The Morton Arboretum Sterling Morton Library

Various Awards, Honors, Dedications

Who's Who in America

General & misc.

May Watts Elementary School

American Horticultural Society 1971

Association of Interpretive Naturalists 1973

Margaret Douglas Medal

Geographic Society of Chicago

Hutchinson Medal

The House of Representatives

Illinois Prairie Path

Naperville Park District 1973

Arthur Hoyt Scott Medal

Illinois Wildflower Preservation Society

Oikos Conference 1976 Morton Arboretum

Mary Moulton: Language of Flowers

Nomination for the DuPage Heritage Gallery 1989

Naperville Park District, May Watts House

Proposal for May Watts Portrait

Clippings undated

Clippings 1961 & 1963

Raymond Watts - 1966

Clippings 18. Nov. 1943

Clippings Fall 1958

Clippings 1966 - 1969

Clippings 27. Nov. 1947

Clippings 1976 & later

Lauter: "MTW: She Walks in Beauty" 1963

Wenner: "Mrs. Watts" 1967

Etter: "Secret World of May Watts"

Etter: "Reading May Watts"

Doty: Proposal for Watts House 1972

In Memory May Theilgaard Watts 1893-1975

Chronology & Notes

Watts: Doty notes

Guide to Women's History Sources

The Hem of His Garment / /Watts (by her sister)

May Watts/ Langenheim

Doty: "May Theilgaard Watts" Oikos 1976

Doty: "Face the Wind" 1983

Dedic. Of May Watts School 1989

May Watts Family, Carol Doty Notes and Correspondence

Publications About May Watts

"Reading May Watts," Presentation by Carol Doty

May Watts, Anne Keller Research

May Watts - Beth Bengtson and Lyn Myers Research

May Watts and Illinois Prairie Path - LouEllen Murray Research

Watts retirement 1961 Zurcher

1975 Memorial Reception: Mementos

MTW Memorial - Cards

Misc. Correspondence

Rejection letters from publishers

New York Speech & Trip [1948]

Garden Club of America at Morton Arb 1957

Children's Letters to MTW

Correspondence w/ Mrs. Francis King & letter from Gertrude Jekyll to Mrs. King

Rachel Stevenson correspondence

Watts family correspondence

Jens Jensen corresp.

Watts - Turner letters

Naperville Home

Garden of 227 Jefferson, Nap.

May T. Watts: Photographs

The Illinois Prairie Path 1063, 1964-71 (1993 items 4);Articles - Newspapers ; Newletter 1976, '78, '88

Illinois Prairie Path 1965 - 1993 - not complete; 1965 Bulletin from Committee 4/20/65 Members 1st Walk - 1969

IPP - Guides - Helen Turner - 2 books;Guides 6 folders/map; sticker;DuPage Country Board of Supervisors - 2/16/71; IPP Endorsers'; 3 letters from J. Mooring - Dupage Heritage Gall[ery]; IPP Trail Map-1990

Copy received from Laura McVey - sister 1989 - Let's Dave a Place to Walk from Empire" 1968. Copy - 1 newspaper Aricle - 1988 - IPP offers something for everyone.

A Page from Landscape Architecture; Open Lands Projects Aug 1964; Open Lands Projects Newsletter 1965; Illinois Bell News Article p. 13 1969; Com Edison Article; A Guide to 200 Sites Horizon signs; Fitness for Living 1968 p. 74; Environs 1971 p. 19

Aurora 'N Elgin - 1965; map of Aurora 'N Elgin Route 3rd Rail Train

History of Prairie Path; Jean Mooring 1981; Helen Turner (Early Days, 1963-65); Sam + Liz Holmes 1979

Illinois Prairie Path 50th Anniversary

Teaching Material

Worksheets - Sets of 25

Misc. Subjects + maps

Children - Lower Grades

Trees - Evergreen

Trees - General

Work Sheets - List

Nature Schools - Elsewhere

Nature Workshop Programs 1953 - 1961 Correspondence/ Workshop and Ads

A Poem by Mary Moulton Nature Workshop June 1959

Poems - 1947 - 4 copies

Poets - Class 1960

Poetry class 1962

Poetry class - No Date

Nature Literature (Rare Books) what Year ? May's notes

? Class Jan/Feb/Mar. 1953 Mon. eve.

? Class Jan/Feb 1954 Mon. eve?

Arb Classes - 1. Operating the Small Farm - Oct-Nov 1945; Winter 1946 2. Courses in Gardening & Nat Sci - Spring 1946 3. Fall Courses - 1945 - in Nat Sci: Chicago region - sketching etc.

Ancestors in My Garden - note

Boy Scout Merit Badge & Girl Scout (1946)

Book Discussion Group - Books & Members

These Changing Gardens

Conservation Class

Correlation, Integration, & Desecration of an Apple

Flower Family Lecture

How Man Has Changed the Earth

Abraham Lincoln

Lunching & Learning 1974

Prairie Lectures & Class

Reading the Garden

Sketch Class Members N.D.

Misc. notes - Lecture Notes & Materials

Class notes - misc.

Clippings, Poems, & Cartoons saved by M.T.W.

Lecture Notes- 3x5 Cards -5 sets-1 set of Names-[Writers?] assigned to students Spring of 1954, 1 set of class notes - 1 carrot etc., 1 set of class notes - also phrases/poems, 1 set of notes for class/lecture, 1 set of notes "Great Gardeners"

Certificates - Arb classes

MTW & Advanced Group

Spring Habitats: Rocks, Fall Flower Lecture - Mrs. Watts

Advanced Class - 1946

Misc - A Poem "Our Teacher" by Mary C. Russell, a sketch - of a certificate, Note Cards - class 1956

Advanced Class - Fall 1956

May Watts Schweitzer Reprints

Advanced Class ; Cora Abrahamson

Animals, Other (not birds)

Trees - Individual

Garden Glories May 1938

The School of the Dunes - 1938 IND, The School of Nature Studies 1941- ILL

May T. Watts Nature School Advertising blocks 4 engraved stamps

Poems Written by Members of Literature Class 1957-58 +?

Poetry Class 1959

Nature Literature Class 1957

Arboretum History - Attched note says Recheck folder-contents 1/25/13 Rita

The Great Gardeners

Class: Knowing Grasses

Plant Associations

Plants with Stories

The Teaching of Science in the Elem. School

Misc - Notes in Little Note Books

Students Notes - Advanced Class /Observation 1952?

?Mrs. Blyth's Art Class Notes "Ecology For Travellers"? Spring 1961

Sketching Gardeners - 1953-1973

Worksheets and Course Materials

Learning Materials

University of Chicago

Student Papers 1916-1917

Botany papers - U of C

Notes from Botany 15B - Dr. Coulter Evolution of the Flowering Plant Oct 7, 1916 to Jan 11, 1917

Notes on Forest Ecology D. Cowles, also Ecology 35, 2/16/17, 5/25/17

Notes Forest Ecology Dr. Cowles, also Ecology 35, 2/16/17, 5/25/17

Photos of Henry Chandler Cowles from May T Watts Collection

Book 2 - Notes - Botany 15B - Dr. Coulter Evolution of the flowering Plants Jan 18, 1917 - Mar 22, 1917; Reverse Book Dairy Cattle - Dr. Harding Jan 18, 1917, Pruning Fruit Trees also loose paper Mar. 8 1917

Henry C. Cowles 1920 & 1935

Photos of Henry Chandler Cowles from May T Watts Collection

Writings and Publications

Reading the landscape of Europe

Early Drafts & Notes

Britain - Early Drafts RTL-E

Germany - Drafts on Black Forest + Rhine Journey

RTL- Europe - Early Notes on France

Unused Notes for RtLE, maps

RTL- E- France - Flowers, Limestone, Tools

Timetable of Early Events- RTL-E- not used?

Correspondence Re: RTL-E

Norway - Early Drafts - RTL-E

Denmark - Early Drafts - RTL-E

Early Drafts of Chapters on France & England

Reading the Landscape of Europe - notes & drawings, herbarium sheet - Alpine Willow

Mss. For Reading the Rooflines of Europe- (Prologue)

Italy - Early Drafts - RTL-E

Letters, Reviews, Celebrations

Letters, Reviews, Celebrations - Reading the Landscape of Europe

RL Europe - Publicity & Comments, Publishers letters

Scrapbook - Reviews, Telegram - 9/29/71

The Fabulous Food Finder - notebook

Reading the landscape of America

Early Drafts & Notes

Galley Proofs for "Revised" - RTL 1975

Chapter 4 - History Book with a Quaking Cover - Reading the Landscape - Bogs Pollen

Islands - Watching the Islands Go By

Chapter 11- Tree Rings in a Country Schoolyard - "Readin; Ritin' & Recess"

Reading the Landscape - First Printing 1957 (removed from acidic cardbord wrappers 4-17-2001) (MTS)

Chapter Units of Reading the Landscape -1957

Prairie Info. General Some for Chapter 2 - Prairie Plowing Match

Chap. 21 Read the Landscape of America 1957 - The Stylish House

Letters, Reviews, Celebrations

Reviews - Reading the Landscape - 1957

Letters re: Publishing "Reading the Landscape" - 1957

Letters from Readers "Reading the Landscape"- 1957

Correspondence re: Reprint of Reading the Landscape of America

On Improving the Property poem

Who Set Fire to Our Woods? (poem)

Arrangements (poem) - 6 copies

Songs, Recreational (by others)

But - Finger play

This is the Way Finger play

Watts poems - collected by Isabel Wasson

Poems, Misc., by Watts

Pamphlets, Guides, Maps

Ravinia her charms and destiny

Trees in a Landscape - MTW - (1940)

Arboretum note cards/ People - Watts, May T

Bird Personalities

Correspondence - Whitman Publishing Col 1937-1939

Six Worth Knowing -Typed 12 different

Six Worth Knowing - became My Nature Book - working copies

Children's Nature Books - Nature Publications 6 Booklets, 2 booklets worked partly

A Proposal for a Strip of Reality - 2 copies

Reading the Landscape/ Reading the Forest in Spring

Adventures in Nature Education

Along the Nature Trail

Animals for Hames, Pork Chops and Bacon (Lisle Lily)

Botany Beside a Christmas Tree ( Illustrated)

Botany from a Hammock (Pleasant Lake)

Model Farm ( Lisle Farms?)

Owl Pellets Galore

Saturday Club/Nature Club

Traveler: Stop & Read (ms) (The "Tree Book" ca.1938 intended for Whitman Publ. who backed ms) seems to be Screen reader support enabled.

Under the Roost of the Long-eared Owls

Tree Finder 1939 Printer EST, B.L. Kleinschmidt- Pub., 1Art-Leaves

Naming the Trees From Their Leaves - Drafts & Corrections

Master Tree Finder 1973 - Correspondence

Flower Finder 1955 -

Master Flower Finder 1986 ed.

Tree Finder - Pacific NW (loose plant leaves - discarded) Post card

Desert Tree Finder 1974

Winter Tree Finder

Evergreen Trail

Something to Look for Along the Trail Work Sheet - 1

A Morton Arboretum Trail

Thornhill Trail

Forest Nature Trail

Arboretum map 1943 This date is correct C Doty 6/93

Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information (Various Dates)

The Morton Arboretum 3 - Quarterly Vol. 3 No 1 1967

Book Plate - Etched Denmark?

Botany Through an Opera Glass (illustrated)

The Successful Plant

Tree Notes Follow the Trail

Naming the Trees From Their Leaves

Tree Finder -1939- Proofs , gallery sheets, symbols-Photo-Proofs

Nature Study Guild ca. early 1950s?

Trail Guide - Booklets - Forest Nature Trail

Trail Guide - Booklets - Evergreen Nature Trail - 8 copies [1 copy removed to Art Collection]

California Tree Finder by Tom Watts

Publications and Teaching Materials on Hawthorns

Christmas Cards

1-Etching Plates- Christmas Cards-1

Christmas Cards- MTW 31 (5/3/91 AN)

Christmas Cards- MTW 1 Full Set (18)

Copies of Cards - 7

Bibliography of Published Works

Reading the Landscape Book Covers

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