With autograph poem by Frost, handwritten in ink, signed by Frost and inscribed "For Marion Randall," on the front flyleaf between the free endpaper and the frontispiece. The poem, "Tree at My Window," neatly written in blue ink, 16 lines in four stanzas, and which appears in the book on p.318, was inspired by a memory Frost had on his Derry farm, where a big tree would scrape against the window of his house in summer. It begins "Tree at my window, window tree,' / My sash is lowered when night comes on,/ But let there never be curtain drawn/ Between you and me." In analyzing the poem and its significance, biographer Jay Parini, author of "Robert Frost: A Life," notes that "Frost's interest in the world of Emersonian correspondences becomes the central subject of this poem. The implicit question posed by the poet concerns the relation of inner and outer worlds..." Frost has made two slight changes to the poem as printed in the book, changing a semicolon to a comma at the end of line 2, and eliminating the comma in line 16. Robert Frost won the 1931 Pulitzer Prize for Collected Poems, one of four times he was so-honored. Marion Marsh Randall, to whom the autograph poem is inscribed (and who has signed her name in pencil, with her South Hadley, Massachusetts, address on the front free endpaper), was a librarian at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, her alma mater, from 1931 to 1949, rising to head cataloguer and acting librarian. She was there during the period that Frost was teaching at Amherst College, in the adjoining town, and one can imagine Frost meeting Marion Randall at some local literary event, or perhaps even while perusing the stacks at the Mount Holyoke College Library. At any rate, the presence of a full, 16-line poem in Frost's hand in one of his most famous books is quite rare - on those rare occasions he did inscribe books with poetry, they were generally quite short. At the end of this book, on the rear flyleaves, free endpaper, and four leaves inserted after the endpaper, there is a seven-page, ink manuscript index of the first lines of the poems, neatly printed. Though the handwriting cannot be positively identified as that of Marion Randall, it is certainly a librarian-like thing to do. Provenance: Acquired directly from Marion Randall by William Porter Manley, stepfather of the consignor, who inherited the book from Manley. Also, signed by the frontispiece photographer on the frontispiece below image and above Frost facsimile autograph. Doris Ulmann (1882-1934), an American photographer, famous for her portraits and images taken in the Appalachian Mountains.