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1	Title: American Musicological Society Records, 1934-1992 Extent: 120 boxes Abstract: This collection comprises the administrative records of the Society, reflecting trends in musicological scholarship and academic training through the course of the twentieth century. Included is correspondence with individuals and institutions related to music research, as well as correspondence among officers of the Society and among committees. Also included are minutes, membership records and directories, records of annual meetings, events and chapters, financial and tax records, and miscellaneous administrative records. Keywords in Context \| Outline View \| Full Text (File size: 172K bytes)
2	Title: Lewis Mumford Papers, ca. 1905-1987. Extent: 197 boxes Abstract: Comprising nineteen series, the Mumford Papers provide extensive documentation of Mumford's professional life over a period of approximately seventy years. Predominant are correspondence and drafts of and notes for Mumford's writings, which include publications of over forty books and pamphlets and approximately one thousand articles and book reviews. Keywords in Context \| Outline View \| Full Text (File size: 181K bytes)
3	Title: American Poetry Review Records, 1971-1998 Keywords in Context \| Outline View \| Full Text (File size: 251K bytes)
4	Title: Cret, Paul Philippe, 1876-1945 Papers, 1865-1976 Keywords in Context \| Outline View \| Full Text (File size: 156K bytes)
5	Title: Lemuel R. Boulware Papers, ca. 1917-1990. Extent: 103 boxes Abstract: Lemuel R. Boulware was a leading figure in industrial relations in America during the 1940's and 1950's. As vice-president of General Electric Company with responsibility for public and employee relations, he developed an approach to labor relations that came to be called "Boulwarism." He was also a noted author and lecturer. His Papers comprise correspondence, speeches, articles, memos, employee relations materials, photographs, clippings, etc. Keywords in Context \| Outline View \| Full Text (File size: 703K bytes)
6	Title: Walt Whitman Collection, 1842-1957 (bulk 1867-1894) Extent: 4 boxes Abstract: Materials include correspondence to, from, and concerning Walt Whitman; financial records; writings by and about Whitman; and memorabilia, such as sketches, photographs, and portraits of Whitman, his family, his friends, and his homes. Keywords in Context \| Outline View \| Full Text (File size: 77K bytes)
7	Title: Ezra Pound Research Collection, 1916-1948. Extent: 4 boxes Abstract: Miscellaneous group of letters and materials concerning Ezra Pound. Keywords in Context \| Outline View \| Full Text (File size: 14K bytes)
8	Title: Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture Records, 1785-1982 Extent: 103 boxes Abstract: Collection is divided into three major series: I. 18th and 19th century records, II. 20th century records, and III. John M. Okie papers. The first comprises correspondence, administrative records, and ephemera; the second, correspondence, committee records, financial records, proceedings, memorabilia, and collected agricultural material; the third consists of the papers of Okie, who served as assistant secretary of the Society from 1922 to 1928: he was responsible for the publication of Memoirs VI, a history of the P.S.P.A. Keywords in Context \| Outline View \| Full Text (File size: 153K bytes)
9	Title: Curtis Publishing Company Records, ca. 1887-1960. Extent: 184 boxes Abstract: The Records fall into three major categories, and a fourth category containing a small amount of historical material: (1) Ladies' Home Journal, ca. 1887-1946: correspondence (principally with editor William V. Alexander), financial records, and a small amount of historical material related to the publication; (2) Division of Commercial Research, Advertising Department, ca. 1911-1960: research reports, speeches, and statistical studies directed by Charles Coolidge Parlin, his associates and successors, such as Henry Sherwood Youker; (3) Serials, ca. 1913-1957: in-house publications of the Curtis Company; and (4) Historical material, scrapbooks, and memorabilia. Keywords in Context \| Outline View \| Full Text (File size: 149K bytes)
10	Title: Edwin Forrest Collection, ca. 1815-1931. Extent: 76 boxes Abstract: The Edwin Forrest Collection provides some documentation of the business career of Edwin Forrest (nineteenth-century American actor, noted for his Shakespearean roles), focusing in the main on the latter part of his career (the 1860s and 1870s). Though some private personal correspondence is housed in the collection, predominant is correspondence concerning various aspects of Forrest's finances; these are arranged by major investments or interests. Keywords in Context \| Outline View \| Full Text (File size: 223K bytes)
11	Title: Gatter, Carl W., compiler, Research Material on Ezra Pound, 1956-1967 Extent: 10 boxes Abstract: This collection contains very little original Pound material, although there are six folders of photocopied correspondence from him to various correspondents, primarily from the period when Pound was institutionalized at St. Elizabeth's Hospital. Correspondents include Pound's wife Dorothy and an early girlfriend Mary Moore. There are 22 folders of correspondence to Gatter relating to the early life of Ezra Pound. The balance of the collection comprises Gatter's research material on the life of Ezra Pound, including some printed material and photographs. Keywords in Context \| Outline View \| Full Text (File size: 33K bytes)
12	Title: Arthur Huff Fauset Papers, 1855-1983. Extent: 412 folders, 5 scrapbooks, and 1 portfolio in 32 boxes Abstract: The bulk of the papers pertains to Fauset's endeavors as a creative writer. Twenty-one boxes contain multiple drafts of unpublished novels, including one which is, in essence, an autobiography. Additional writings include addresses, essays, lectures; published and unpublished short stories; and multiple versions of his University of Pennsylvania dissertation, which was later published by the University Press under the title, Black Gods of the Metropolis. Correspondence derives mostly from the 1960s and 1970s and includes letters from Nellie R. Bright, his co-author on America: Red, White, Black, Yellow. Keywords in Context \| Outline View \| Full Text (File size: 90K bytes)
13	Title: Gilchrist, Family Papers, ca. 1823-1939 Extent: 2 boxes Abstract: A small but interesting collection of letters and the diaries of Grace Gilchrist Frend from 1907 to 1939. Family members include Anne Burrows Gilchrist, wife of Alexander Gilchrist and mother of Percy Carlyle Gilchrist (scientist/engineer), Beatrice Carwardine Gilchrist (physician who committed suicide), Herbert Harlakenden Gilchrist (painter who also committed suicide later in life), and Grace Gilchrist Frend (would-be singer). The family were intimates of Thomas Carlyle and many pre-Raphaelite painters. Anne was a champion of Walt Whitman; Alexander researched the life of William Blake (a posthumous publication compiled by Anne). Keywords in Context \| Outline View \| Full Text (File size: 39K bytes)
14	Title: Thomas Wiltberger Evans Papers, ca. 1850-1913. Extent: 12 boxes Abstract: Evans papers consist primarily of correspondence that he received while in France. Correspondents include European royalty, such as Empress Eugénie, Napoléon III, Empress Victoria, Frederick III, Queen Alexandra, Edward VII, and Isabella II, and/or their aides or secretaries, as well as the poet Stéphane Mallarmé, artists Henri-Louis Dupray (including his sketches) and Édouard Thierry, and Evans' wife Agnes. Other series comprise memorabilia (such as journals, notebooks, last will and testament, sketches, photographs, etc.) and diplomas and certificates awarded Evans. Keywords in Context \| Outline View \| Full Text (File size: 146K bytes)
15	Title: Gág, Wanda, 1893-1946 Papers, 1892-1968 Keywords in Context \| Outline View \| Full Text (File size: 139K bytes)
16	Title: Naumburg, Margaret, b. 1890 Papers, 1912-1974 Keywords in Context \| Outline View \| Full Text (File size: 196K bytes)
17	Title: Ormandy, Eugene, 1899-1985 Papers, 1921-1991 Keywords in Context \| Outline View \| Full Text (File size: 532K bytes)
18	Title: Parker, John Rowe, 1777-1844. Correspondence, 1802-1840 Keywords in Context \| Outline View \| Full Text (File size: 20K bytes)
19	Title: Pennell Family Papers, ca. 1882-1951 Keywords in Context \| Outline View \| Full Text (File size: 99K bytes)
20	Title: W. A. Swanberg Papers, , 1944-1982. Extent: 15 boxes Abstract: Comprises correspondence, research notes, typescripts, galleys, clippings, and photograph files pertaining only to Swanberg's biography of Theodore Dreiser. Keywords in Context \| Outline View \| Full Text (File size: 26K bytes)
21	Title: Robert Montgomery Bird Papers, 1822-1946 (bulk 1822-1854) Extent: 31 boxes Abstract: Comprises personal, business, literary, and family papers. In addition to Bird's own papers, this collection includes papers of his wife Mary E. Bird, his son Frederic Mayer Bird, and his biographer Clement Edgar Foust. The earliest papers (1822) date from Bird's school days at Germantown Academy, and the very latest papers (1946) relate to C. Seymour Thompson's publication of Mary E. Bird's biography of her husband. Correspondents include men and women from Bird's career in medicine; his literary career; his theatrical career (including correspondence with Edwin Forrest, as well as the documentation regarding their legal battle over copyrights and profits); his political career; and his career in publishing and journalism. Keywords in Context \| Outline View \| Full Text (File size: 126K bytes)
22	Title: Henry Charles Lea Papers, ca. 1830-1935 Extent: 203 boxes Abstract: Henry Charles Lea, a historian of medieval Europe, wrote extensively on the institutional and legal history of the Catholic Church. The Papers comprise: General Correspondence; Henry Charles Lea Library Correspondence; Henry Charles Lea Library History, Inventories, and Catalogues; Historical Writings: Books; Historical Writings: Articles and Miscellaneous; Reviews; Political Writings; Newspaper Clippings; Writings: Poetry and Translations; Scientific Work; Juvenilia; Memorabilia and Family Papers; and Oversize. Keywords in Context \| Outline View \| Full Text (File size: 266K bytes)
23	Title: Journal of the American Musicological Society Records, 1946-1995 Extent: 60 boxes Abstract: The Records primarily consist of correspondence with authors, editorial staff, employees of the William Byrd Press, and officers of the American Musicological Society; copies of many issues of the Journal at various stages in the publication process; and business records. The most prominent figures in the collection are the editors of the Journal; musicologists Oliver Strunk, Donald Grout, Lewis Lockwood, James Haar, Martin Picker, Don Randel, Lawrence Bernstein, Nicholas Temperley, Ellen Rosand, and Richard Kramer are also well represented. Keywords in Context \| Outline View \| Full Text (File size: 92K bytes)
24	Title: Edgar Fahs Smith Papers, ca. 1870-1940, ca. 1870-1940 Extent: 110 Boxes Abstract: The Papers comprise Smith's personal and business correspondence, including that with the United States Army Chemical Warfare Service regarding the use of chemical weapons in World War I; notebooks of his chemical research; bound lectures from his teaching; biographical material; personal photographs; pamphlets written by Smith; memorabilia that includes awards and certificates; and clippings. The bulk of the correspondence with Smith runs from 1877 until his death in 1928; correspondence dated after 1928 is addressed to his widow, Margie A. Smith. Keywords in Context \| Outline View \| Full Text (File size: 311K bytes)
25	Title: Musical Fund Society of Philadelphia Records, ca. 1820-1994 Extent: 126 boxes Abstract: Correspondence and business records of the Musical Fund Society of Philadelphia contain minutes of its earliest meetings; the membership, repertoire, and organization of its orchestra and chorus; information regarding financial relief afforded to its professional members and their families; programs and other materials related to the history of Musical Fund Hall (1848-1982); committee files; financial records; photographs of portraits painted by John Clarendon Darley, Thomas Sully, Rembrandt Peale, Charles Willson Peale, and others; and administrative records for the Musical Fund Society Foundation, a separate corporation formed in 1983. Also includes a portion of the Newland/Zeuner Collection comprised primarily of sheet music and scores, but also the account book, dated 1834-1868, of William A. Newland who purchased the music collection of composer Charles Zeuner in 1850. Also includes the will and other materials related to the estate of Gilbert Raynolds Combs (d. 1934), founder of the Combs Broad Street Conservatory of Music in Philadelphia (later Combs College of Music), and a past president of the Musical Fund Society. Keywords in Context \| Outline View \| Full Text (File size: 151K bytes)

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1	Title: American Musicological Society Records, 1934-1992 Extent: 120 boxes Abstract: This collection comprises the administrative records of the Society, reflecting trends in musicological scholarship and academic training through the course of the twentieth century. Included is correspondence with individuals and institutions related to music research, as well as correspondence among officers of the Society and among committees. Also included are minutes, membership records and directories, records of annual meetings, events and chapters, financial and tax records, and miscellaneous administrative records. Keywords in Context \| Outline View \| Full Text (File size: 172K bytes)
2	Title: Lewis Mumford Papers, ca. 1905-1987. Extent: 197 boxes Abstract: Comprising nineteen series, the Mumford Papers provide extensive documentation of Mumford's professional life over a period of approximately seventy years. Predominant are correspondence and drafts of and notes for Mumford's writings, which include publications of over forty books and pamphlets and approximately one thousand articles and book reviews. Keywords in Context \| Outline View \| Full Text (File size: 181K bytes)
3	Title: American Poetry Review Records, 1971-1998 Keywords in Context \| Outline View \| Full Text (File size: 251K bytes)
4	Title: Cret, Paul Philippe, 1876-1945 Papers, 1865-1976 Keywords in Context \| Outline View \| Full Text (File size: 156K bytes)
5	Title: Lemuel R. Boulware Papers, ca. 1917-1990. Extent: 103 boxes Abstract: Lemuel R. Boulware was a leading figure in industrial relations in America during the 1940's and 1950's. As vice-president of General Electric Company with responsibility for public and employee relations, he developed an approach to labor relations that came to be called "Boulwarism." He was also a noted author and lecturer. His Papers comprise correspondence, speeches, articles, memos, employee relations materials, photographs, clippings, etc. Keywords in Context \| Outline View \| Full Text (File size: 703K bytes)
6	Title: Walt Whitman Collection, 1842-1957 (bulk 1867-1894) Extent: 4 boxes Abstract: Materials include correspondence to, from, and concerning Walt Whitman; financial records; writings by and about Whitman; and memorabilia, such as sketches, photographs, and portraits of Whitman, his family, his friends, and his homes. Keywords in Context \| Outline View \| Full Text (File size: 77K bytes)
7	Title: Ezra Pound Research Collection, 1916-1948. Extent: 4 boxes Abstract: Miscellaneous group of letters and materials concerning Ezra Pound. Keywords in Context \| Outline View \| Full Text (File size: 14K bytes)
8	Title: Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture Records, 1785-1982 Extent: 103 boxes Abstract: Collection is divided into three major series: I. 18th and 19th century records, II. 20th century records, and III. John M. Okie papers. The first comprises correspondence, administrative records, and ephemera; the second, correspondence, committee records, financial records, proceedings, memorabilia, and collected agricultural material; the third consists of the papers of Okie, who served as assistant secretary of the Society from 1922 to 1928: he was responsible for the publication of Memoirs VI, a history of the P.S.P.A. Keywords in Context \| Outline View \| Full Text (File size: 153K bytes)
9	Title: Curtis Publishing Company Records, ca. 1887-1960. Extent: 184 boxes Abstract: The Records fall into three major categories, and a fourth category containing a small amount of historical material: (1) Ladies' Home Journal, ca. 1887-1946: correspondence (principally with editor William V. Alexander), financial records, and a small amount of historical material related to the publication; (2) Division of Commercial Research, Advertising Department, ca. 1911-1960: research reports, speeches, and statistical studies directed by Charles Coolidge Parlin, his associates and successors, such as Henry Sherwood Youker; (3) Serials, ca. 1913-1957: in-house publications of the Curtis Company; and (4) Historical material, scrapbooks, and memorabilia. Keywords in Context \| Outline View \| Full Text (File size: 149K bytes)
10	Title: Edwin Forrest Collection, ca. 1815-1931. Extent: 76 boxes Abstract: The Edwin Forrest Collection provides some documentation of the business career of Edwin Forrest (nineteenth-century American actor, noted for his Shakespearean roles), focusing in the main on the latter part of his career (the 1860s and 1870s). Though some private personal correspondence is housed in the collection, predominant is correspondence concerning various aspects of Forrest's finances; these are arranged by major investments or interests. Keywords in Context \| Outline View \| Full Text (File size: 223K bytes)
11	Title: Gatter, Carl W., compiler, Research Material on Ezra Pound, 1956-1967 Extent: 10 boxes Abstract: This collection contains very little original Pound material, although there are six folders of photocopied correspondence from him to various correspondents, primarily from the period when Pound was institutionalized at St. Elizabeth's Hospital. Correspondents include Pound's wife Dorothy and an early girlfriend Mary Moore. There are 22 folders of correspondence to Gatter relating to the early life of Ezra Pound. The balance of the collection comprises Gatter's research material on the life of Ezra Pound, including some printed material and photographs. Keywords in Context \| Outline View \| Full Text (File size: 33K bytes)
12	Title: Arthur Huff Fauset Papers, 1855-1983. Extent: 412 folders, 5 scrapbooks, and 1 portfolio in 32 boxes Abstract: The bulk of the papers pertains to Fauset's endeavors as a creative writer. Twenty-one boxes contain multiple drafts of unpublished novels, including one which is, in essence, an autobiography. Additional writings include addresses, essays, lectures; published and unpublished short stories; and multiple versions of his University of Pennsylvania dissertation, which was later published by the University Press under the title, Black Gods of the Metropolis. Correspondence derives mostly from the 1960s and 1970s and includes letters from Nellie R. Bright, his co-author on America: Red, White, Black, Yellow. Keywords in Context \| Outline View \| Full Text (File size: 90K bytes)
13	Title: Gilchrist, Family Papers, ca. 1823-1939 Extent: 2 boxes Abstract: A small but interesting collection of letters and the diaries of Grace Gilchrist Frend from 1907 to 1939. Family members include Anne Burrows Gilchrist, wife of Alexander Gilchrist and mother of Percy Carlyle Gilchrist (scientist/engineer), Beatrice Carwardine Gilchrist (physician who committed suicide), Herbert Harlakenden Gilchrist (painter who also committed suicide later in life), and Grace Gilchrist Frend (would-be singer). The family were intimates of Thomas Carlyle and many pre-Raphaelite painters. Anne was a champion of Walt Whitman; Alexander researched the life of William Blake (a posthumous publication compiled by Anne). Keywords in Context \| Outline View \| Full Text (File size: 39K bytes)
14	Title: Thomas Wiltberger Evans Papers, ca. 1850-1913. Extent: 12 boxes Abstract: Evans papers consist primarily of correspondence that he received while in France. Correspondents include European royalty, such as Empress Eugénie, Napoléon III, Empress Victoria, Frederick III, Queen Alexandra, Edward VII, and Isabella II, and/or their aides or secretaries, as well as the poet Stéphane Mallarmé, artists Henri-Louis Dupray (including his sketches) and Édouard Thierry, and Evans' wife Agnes. Other series comprise memorabilia (such as journals, notebooks, last will and testament, sketches, photographs, etc.) and diplomas and certificates awarded Evans. Keywords in Context \| Outline View \| Full Text (File size: 146K bytes)
15	Title: Gág, Wanda, 1893-1946 Papers, 1892-1968 Keywords in Context \| Outline View \| Full Text (File size: 139K bytes)
16	Title: Naumburg, Margaret, b. 1890 Papers, 1912-1974 Keywords in Context \| Outline View \| Full Text (File size: 196K bytes)
17	Title: Ormandy, Eugene, 1899-1985 Papers, 1921-1991 Keywords in Context \| Outline View \| Full Text (File size: 532K bytes)
18	Title: Parker, John Rowe, 1777-1844. Correspondence, 1802-1840 Keywords in Context \| Outline View \| Full Text (File size: 20K bytes)
19	Title: Pennell Family Papers, ca. 1882-1951 Keywords in Context \| Outline View \| Full Text (File size: 99K bytes)
20	Title: W. A. Swanberg Papers, , 1944-1982. Extent: 15 boxes Abstract: Comprises correspondence, research notes, typescripts, galleys, clippings, and photograph files pertaining only to Swanberg's biography of Theodore Dreiser. Keywords in Context \| Outline View \| Full Text (File size: 26K bytes)
21	Title: Robert Montgomery Bird Papers, 1822-1946 (bulk 1822-1854) Extent: 31 boxes Abstract: Comprises personal, business, literary, and family papers. In addition to Bird's own papers, this collection includes papers of his wife Mary E. Bird, his son Frederic Mayer Bird, and his biographer Clement Edgar Foust. The earliest papers (1822) date from Bird's school days at Germantown Academy, and the very latest papers (1946) relate to C. Seymour Thompson's publication of Mary E. Bird's biography of her husband. Correspondents include men and women from Bird's career in medicine; his literary career; his theatrical career (including correspondence with Edwin Forrest, as well as the documentation regarding their legal battle over copyrights and profits); his political career; and his career in publishing and journalism. Keywords in Context \| Outline View \| Full Text (File size: 126K bytes)
22	Title: Henry Charles Lea Papers, ca. 1830-1935 Extent: 203 boxes Abstract: Henry Charles Lea, a historian of medieval Europe, wrote extensively on the institutional and legal history of the Catholic Church. The Papers comprise: General Correspondence; Henry Charles Lea Library Correspondence; Henry Charles Lea Library History, Inventories, and Catalogues; Historical Writings: Books; Historical Writings: Articles and Miscellaneous; Reviews; Political Writings; Newspaper Clippings; Writings: Poetry and Translations; Scientific Work; Juvenilia; Memorabilia and Family Papers; and Oversize. Keywords in Context \| Outline View \| Full Text (File size: 266K bytes)
23	Title: Journal of the American Musicological Society Records, 1946-1995 Extent: 60 boxes Abstract: The Records primarily consist of correspondence with authors, editorial staff, employees of the William Byrd Press, and officers of the American Musicological Society; copies of many issues of the Journal at various stages in the publication process; and business records. The most prominent figures in the collection are the editors of the Journal; musicologists Oliver Strunk, Donald Grout, Lewis Lockwood, James Haar, Martin Picker, Don Randel, Lawrence Bernstein, Nicholas Temperley, Ellen Rosand, and Richard Kramer are also well represented. Keywords in Context \| Outline View \| Full Text (File size: 92K bytes)
24	Title: Edgar Fahs Smith Papers, ca. 1870-1940, ca. 1870-1940 Extent: 110 Boxes Abstract: The Papers comprise Smith's personal and business correspondence, including that with the United States Army Chemical Warfare Service regarding the use of chemical weapons in World War I; notebooks of his chemical research; bound lectures from his teaching; biographical material; personal photographs; pamphlets written by Smith; memorabilia that includes awards and certificates; and clippings. The bulk of the correspondence with Smith runs from 1877 until his death in 1928; correspondence dated after 1928 is addressed to his widow, Margie A. Smith. Keywords in Context \| Outline View \| Full Text (File size: 311K bytes)
25	Title: Musical Fund Society of Philadelphia Records, ca. 1820-1994 Extent: 126 boxes Abstract: Correspondence and business records of the Musical Fund Society of Philadelphia contain minutes of its earliest meetings; the membership, repertoire, and organization of its orchestra and chorus; information regarding financial relief afforded to its professional members and their families; programs and other materials related to the history of Musical Fund Hall (1848-1982); committee files; financial records; photographs of portraits painted by John Clarendon Darley, Thomas Sully, Rembrandt Peale, Charles Willson Peale, and others; and administrative records for the Musical Fund Society Foundation, a separate corporation formed in 1983. Also includes a portion of the Newland/Zeuner Collection comprised primarily of sheet music and scores, but also the account book, dated 1834-1868, of William A. Newland who purchased the music collection of composer Charles Zeuner in 1850. Also includes the will and other materials related to the estate of Gilbert Raynolds Combs (d. 1934), founder of the Combs Broad Street Conservatory of Music in Philadelphia (later Combs College of Music), and a past president of the Musical Fund Society. Keywords in Context \| Outline View \| Full Text (File size: 151K bytes)