Finding Aid to the Frances Brandon Neighbours Papers

JONES MEMORIAL LIBRARY
2311 MEMORIAL AVENUE
LYNCHBURG, VA 24501
(434) 846-0501
FRANCES BRANDON NEIGHBOURS (1905–1985) PAPERS
BOX 1

BOX 2

1-1
1-2
1-3
1-4
1-5a
1-5b
1-5c
1-6
1-7

Biographical notes & news clippings
Haiku samples
Poets Tape Exchange miscellany
"I Took A Thousand Steps" by FBN and Ansel M. Smith
{Samples of publications which include
the writings of Frances Neighbours}
Not By My Light [also mss] by FBN
from an envelope labeled "Unfinished work"

2-1a Poetry samples I [by FBN]
2-1b Poetry samples II [by FBN]
2-1c Poetry samples III [by FBN]
2-2 Prose samples
2-3 Photographs [taken by Mr. Crouse?]
2-4 Contents of scrapbook of poems, correspondence, and news clippings

[BOX 3] Scrapbook
[BOX 4] Scrapbook
FRANCES BRANDON NEIGHBOURS (1905-1985)
Frances Brandon Neighbours was born in 1905, in Lynchburg, Virginia. She was the
daughter of Robert and Emma Wood Neighbours. Ms. Neighbours married Horace
Stewart Taylor in 1947. Mr. Taylor died in 1957. In 1959, Mrs. Taylor was married to
Leroy Robert Crouse.
Ms. Neighbours was active in the poetry societies of Virginia, Arizona, and
Pennsylvania; a member of the American Poetry League and Editor of the Haiku Section
[1976-1977]. Her poems were published in a variety of publications, most
often using her maiden name.
Frances Neighbours Crouse died on 25 February 1985, and was buried in the Fort Hill
Memorial Park, Lynchburg, VA.
[The News (Lynchburg, VA) 26 February 1985, B-2.]

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