found: The poetry of Mary Weston Fordham, 1995:Database of African-American poetry, 1760-1900 : bibliography (Mary Weston Fordham; b. 1862?)
found: OCLC, 12/22/95(hdg.: Fordham, Mary Weston)
found: LC in RLIN, 12/22/95(hdg.: Fordham, Mary Weston)
found: Afro-American poetry and drama, 1760-1975, 1979:p. 64 (Mary Weston Fordham; b. 1862?)
found: Sherman, J. Invisible poets, 1974:p. 240-241 (Mary Weston Fordham; b. 1862?)
found: African American National Biography, accessed January 20, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Fordham, Mary Weston; poet, educator; born January 1844 in Charleston, South Carolina, United States; hired by the American Missionary Association (AMA), and won note in the Charleston AMA schools as a skilled teacher; among the black elite of Charleston; published well received collection of poetry, Magnolia Leaves, seemingly the only book-length work (1897); gained critical acclaim for artistic expression of the Washingtonian strand of thought and of the understudied lives of the southern African American elite at the end of the nineteenth century; died 04 July 1905 in Charleston, South Carolina, United States)