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Collection of May Theilgaard Watts materials
Collection, 2016/1
Repository
Repository Name:
Sterling Morton Library, The Morton Arboretum
Repository Location:
4100 Illinois Route 53, Lisle, IL 60532
Creator
Watts, May Theilgaard
Watts, Raymond
Collection Contents
Artwork
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
Biographical
Clippings undated
Clippings 1947
Clippings 1956
Clippings 1959
Clippings 1961 & 1963
Clippings 1965
Raymond Watts - 1966
Clippings 1938
Clippings 18. Nov. 1943
Clippings 1954
Clippings 1957
Clippings Fall 1958
Clippings 1966 - 1969
Clippings 27. Nov. 1947
Clippings 1970
Clippings 1971
Clippings 1972
Clippings 1974
Clippings 1975
Clippings 1976 & later
Watts "Resume"
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
Tom Watts
Guide to Women's History Sources
McVey - Watts
The Hem of His Garment / /Watts (by her sister)
May Watts/ Langenheim
Sherburne 1972
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
Correspondence
Watts retirement 1961 Zurcher
1975 Memorial Reception: Mementos
MTW Memorial - Cards
Misc.
Misc. Correspondence
Text Books
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
Prairie Path
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
Reading Lists
Birds
Children - Lower Grades
Ecology
Flowers
Games
Geology
Keys
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
Botany Class
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 1948
Poems Written by Members of Literature Class 1957-58 +?
Poetry Class 1959
Nature Literature Class 1957
Lectures given
Lecture List
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
Printed Copies
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
Poems
On Improving the Property poem
Who Set Fire to Our Woods? (poem)
Arrangements (poem) - 6 copies
Vision (poem)
Songs, Recreational (by others)
But - Finger play
Pansy story
This is the Way Finger play
Watts poems - collected by Isabel Wasson
Songs by Watts
Poems, Misc., by Watts
Essays
Pamphlets, Guides, Maps
Ravinia Books
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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