Writings, undated

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The Religious Writings concern Robert Burns Mayes's book The Tecnobaptist (published 1857) and related topics including his essays on aeiparthenia, anti-Romanism, and church music.

Mathematical Writings relate to Robert Burns Mayes's 1878-1880 study of the ancient Greek geometric problem of trisecting an angle (a mathematical impossibility) and include correspondence with Professor J. W. Nicholson as well as Mayes's essay "The Mathematical Pariah".

Poetry consists of writings by Robert Burns Mayes III and Fanny Harris Mayes. In All Generations, subtitled "Poems of the Past, the Passing, and the Coming," is a 458-page typescript collection of poems on religious and historical themes. Many of the poems relate to the Civil War and to Mayes, Stuart, and Dimitry family history and there are some long passages of biographical narrative. It is dedicated to "my eight soldier-uncles [...] who have ended the march, and are resting on the bivouac." It seems that this work was intended for publication as it was edited and annotated at some point after the author's death in 1922. Brief excerpts from works by other poets are interspersed.

"Ivy Locke" is a 36-page poem written circa 1895 by Fanny Harris Mayes at age 18.

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