Box: 58 Fold: 51 Newsclippings: Dance Box: 58 Fold: 52 Newsclippings: Egypt Box: 58 Fold: 53 Newsclippings: Literature & Literary Topics Box: 58 Fold: 54 Newsclippings: Writers Box: 58 Fold: 55 Newsclippings: Music & Musicians Box: 58 Fold: 56 Newsclippings: Poets Box: 58 Fold: 57 Newsclippings: Poetry Box: 58 Fold: 58 Newsclippings: Poetry by Various Authors Box: 58 Fold: 59 Newsclippings: Theater Box: 58 Fold: 60 Newsclippings: World War Two Box: 58 Fold: 61 Printed Items: Statements re World War Two Box: 58 Fold: 62 Newsclippings: Miscellaneous Topics Box: 58 Fold: 63 Printed Item: College Verse Box: 58 Fold: 64 Printed Item: The Hollins Critic Box: 58 Fold: 65 Printed Item: Bulletin of the Women's University Club Box: 58 Fold: 66 Printed Item: Rocky Mountain Herald Box: 58 Fold: 67 Printed Item: "Records of the Columbia Historical Society" (bookcover) Box: 58 Fold: 68 Printed Item: H.W. Wilson Company Sample Biographies Box: 58 Fold: 69 Printed Item: Literary Events Notices Box: 58 Fold: 70 Printed Item: Literary Competitions Box: 58 Fold: 71 Printed Item: Literary Publications (Notices) Box: 58 Fold: 72 Printed Item: Performance Programs Box: 59 Fold: 1 Will Marion Cook - Three Negro Songs
Box: 59 Fold: 2 Aaron Copland - "Queenie's Song" (from "The Second Hurricane")
Accompanied in Katherine Biddle's papers by a copy of the Addenda to the League of American Writers Manuscript Sale, March 1938; and a printed description of the Copland manuscript (item 101).
Box: 59 Fold: 3 Robert Nathaniel Dett - "In the Bottoms" Box: 59 Fold: 4 Esther B. Frost - "The Road to Abergavenny" Box: 59 Fold: 5 Mary Howe - "Look! On This Horizon" Box: 59 Fold: 6 Mary Howe: "Williamsburg Sunday" Box: 59 Fold: 7 Mary Howe: "Williamsburg Sunday" Box: 59 Fold: 8 Elmo Russ - "Night Song" Box: 59 Fold: 9 Sydney King Russell - "Harbor Night" Box: 59 Fold: 10 Sydney King Russell - "Spring Sabbath Morning" Box: 59 Fold: 11 William Grant Still - "And They Lynched Him from a Tree" Box: 59 Fold: 12 William Grant Still - "Wasn't That a Mighty Day" Box: 59 Fold: 13 William Grant Still - Untitled Music Manuscript
1960 & undated
DESCRIPTION: Clippings of newspaper/journal articles re dance. Includes article by Agnes de Mille, "To a Young Dancer," (from The Atlantic Monthly).
Undated
DESCRIPTION: Clipping of journal article re Egypt.
1938-62
DESCRIPTION: Clippings of newspaper/journal articles re literature and miscellaneous literary topics.
c.1955-66
DESCRIPTION: Clippings of newspaper/journal articles re writers, including Rumer Godden, Dag Hammarskjold, Mary McCarthy, Thomas Mann, Katherine Anne Porter, Marcel Proust, Jacques Riviere, Edith Sitwell, Lytton Strachey & Virginia Woolf, Henry David Thoreau, Edmund Wilson.
1949-72
DESCRIPTION: Clippings of journal/newspaper articles re music and musicians, including Nadia Boulanger and Maria Callas.
c.1930-68
DESCRIPTION: Clippings of journal/newspaper articles re various poets including Charles Baudelaire, Paul Claudel, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Padraic Colum, Cecil Day Lewis, Gene Derwood, Denis Devlin, Lawrence Durrell, Leon-Paul Fargue, Brewster Ghiselin (article by Kathleen Raine), Langston Hughes (article entitled "Laughter in Madrid), Ted Hughes, John Keats, Octavio Paz, Theodore Roethke, Rainer Maria Rilke, Christina Rossetti, Stephen Spender, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Wallace Stevens, William Butler Yeats.
c.1927-62
DESCRIPTION: Clippings of journal/newspaper articles re poetry.
c.1950-69
DESCRIPTION: Clippings of published poetry by various authors.
1929-46
DESCRIPTION: Clippings of journal/newspaper articles re theater, including the play about Oliver Wendell Holmes, "The Magnificent Yankee," by Emmet Lavery (1946).
1946
DESCRIPTION: Clippings of journal/newspaper articles re World War Two.
1943-45
DESCRIPTION: Copies of statements relating to World War Two by Archibald MacLeish (12/25/1943) and by Mark Van Doren (1945).
c.1929-1965
DESCRIPTION: Clippings of journal/newspaper articles re various topics.
Issue for January 1937
DESCRIPTION: Issue of "College Verse," edited by Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr. (January 1937). Published by the College Poetry Society of America. Includes article by Ann Winslow.
July 1969
DESCRIPTION: Issue of the "Hollins Critic" (July 1969), published by Hollins College, Virginia.
April 1937
DESCRIPTION: 2 copies of the Bulletin of the Women's University Club (Philadelphia branch of the American Association of University Women) for April 1937.
1957-70
DESCRIPTION: 3 issues of the Rocky Mountain Herald: December 28, 1957; July 29, 1967; and July 25, 1970.
1966-68
DESCRIPTION: Dustjacket for "Records of the Columbia Historical Society of Washington, D.C., 1966-68," edited by Francis Coleman Rosenberger.
Copyright 1942, 1955
DESCRIPTION: Samples of published biographical sketches from H.W. Wilson Company, reprinted from "Twentieth Century Authors." Includes Katherine Anne Porter, Angus Wilson, Arturo Barea, and James Jones (with photographic images of each).
1956-67
DESCRIPTION: Printed notices for literary events including lectures, readings, festivals.
c.1939-66
DESCRIPTION: Printed notices for literary competitions, primarily poetry.
c.1956-65
DESCRIPTION: Publication notices for books and literary journals.
c.1937-67
DESCRIPTION: Printed performance programs, playbills, notices, etc., for concerts, plays, and other recitals. Includes the Fisherman's Players of Cape Cod (playbill for "The Son of Man," by Richard Waters, no date); Myra Hess, pianist (playbill for recital, no date); Angna Enters (2 playbills for performances of "Episodes" and "Compositions in Dance Form," 1929 & undated); Hedli Anderson and Louis MacNeice (program for a recital of English song and verse); Sergei Rachmaninoff (program for piano recital, no date); Washington Choral Arts Society (program for "The Prodigal Son" by Claude Debussy and "King David" by Arthur Honegger, 3/14/1944); Chicago Civic Opera House (playbill for "To Follow the Phoenix" by William Branch 8/17/1960); Olney Theatre (playbill for "The Skin of Our Teeth" by Thornton Wilder"); program for school production of "Noye's Fludde," music by Benjamin Britten, 1967; and program for concert at the Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., 1/22/1967.
Copyright 1912
DESCRIPTION: Sheet music for "Three Negro Songs" by Will Marion Cook, published by C. Schirmer, Inc. (New York, 1912). Includes "Swing Along!" (one copy); "Exhortation" (words by Alex Rogers, two copies); and "Rain Song" (words by Alex Rogers, two copies).
c.1936
DESCRIPTION: Autograph music manuscript signed by Aaron Copland of "Queenie's Song" from the play-opera for high school, "The Second Hurricane" (1936; New York, April 21, 1937), 4 sheets.
Copyright 1913
DESCRIPTION: Printed music score for "In the Bottoms" by Robert Nathaniel Dett (Chicago: Clayton F. Summy Co., 1913). Inscribed and signed by the composer on the front cover: "To Miss Natalie Curtis, Compliments and best wishes, R. Nathaniel Dett, Hampton, March 24, 1915."
Undated
DESCRIPTION: Autograph music manuscript by Esther B. Frost for a poem by Katherine Biddle entitled, "The Road to Abergavenny." 5 pages/3 sheets.
Undated
DESCRIPTION: Autograph music manuscript by Mary Howe for a poem by Katherine Biddle, entitled, "Look! On This Horizon." 6 pages/4 sheets.
Undated
DESCRIPTION: Autograph music manuscript by Mary Howe for a poem by Katherine Biddle, entitled, "Williamsburg Sunday," (alternative title: "Spring Sabbath Song"). 4 pages/2 sheets.
Copyright 1955
DESCRIPTION: Sheet music (2 copies) for a score by Mary Howe set to a poem by Katherine Biddle, entitled, "Williamsburg Sunday" (New York: Carl Fischer, Inc., 1955).
Undated
DESCRIPTION: Autograph music manuscript by Elmo Russ for a poem by Katherine Biddle, entitled, "Night Song." 5 pages/3 sheets enclosed in cardboard cover. Signed by Elmo Russ.
Copyright 1945
DESCRIPTION: Sheet music by Sydney King Russell for a poem by Katherine Biddle, entitled, "Harbor Night" (New York: Carl Fischer Inc., 1945). 2 copies.
Copyright 1946
DESCRIPTION: Sheet music by Sydney King Russell for a poem by Katherine Biddle, entitled, "Spring Sabbath Morning" (New York: Galaxy Music Corporation, 1946). 3 copies.
Copyright 1941
DESCRIPTION: Music score by William Grant Still for Katherine Biddle's ballad poem, "And They Lynched Him from a Tree," (New York: J. Fischer & Bro., 1941). 6 copies.
Undated
DESCRIPTION: 2 mimeographed copies of music manuscript entitled, "Wasn't That a Mighty Day" by William Grant Still (?). First copy 4 pages/2 sheets. Second copy missing page 2; 3 pages/2 sheets.
Undated
DESCRIPTION: Autograph music manuscript signed by William Grant Still. Untitled, undated. 2 pages/1 sheet.
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