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MARIAN MACDOWELL
A REGISTER OF HER PAPERS
IN THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
Prepared by
Beverly W. Brannan, 1974
Revised by
John R. Monagle
Manuscript Division
Library of Congress
Washington, D.C. 1996
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ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
The papers of Marian Griswold Nevins MacDowell (1857-1956),
wife of composer Edward MacDowell and founder of the MacDowell
Colony in Peterborough, N.H., were purchased by the Library of
Congress in 1972. A small gift was received from Elizabeth
Michael in 1979 and added to the collection in 1984.
The status of copyright in the unpublished writings of
Marian MacDowell is governed by the Copyright Law of the United
States (Title 17, U.S.C.).
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Readers interested in consulting any of the division's
collections are advised to write or telephone the
Manuscript Reading Room at (202) 707-5387 before visiting.
Many processed and nearly all unprocessed collections are
stored off site, and advance notice is needed to retrieve
these items for research use.
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Linear feet of shelf space occupied: 3.8
Approximate number of items: 2,000
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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
1857, Nov. 22 Born, New York, N.Y.
1880-1884 Studied piano under Edward A. MacDowell,
Conservatory, Darmstadt, Germany
1884 Married Edward A. MacDowell (died 1908)
1895 Purchased farm in Peterborough, N.H.
1896-1904 Resided in New York, N.Y., where Edward A.
MacDowell taught music at Columbia University,
New York, N.Y.
1907 Founded, with others, the MacDowell Colony,
Peterborough, N.H.
1908-1947 Executive director, Edward MacDowell Association
1910-1938 Toured the United States and Canada raising funds
to support the colony
1930 Mus. D., University of New Hampshire, Durham, N.H.
1938 Litt. D., New Jersey State College for Women, New
Brunswick, N.J.
1939 Litt. D., Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt.
1940 Received Pettee Medal, University of New
Hampshire, Durham, N.H.
1941 Received Henry Hadley Medal for outstanding
service to music
1952, Aug. 15 Marian MacDowell Day, Peterborough, N.H.
1956, Aug. 23 Died, Los Angeles, Calif.
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SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE
The papers of Marian MacDowell span the period 1876 to 1969
but bulk largest during the years between 1908 and 1938. They
consist of correspondence, writings, greeting cards, memorabilia,
clippings, and printed and near-print material and chiefly relate
to MacDowell's activities with the MacDowell Colony in
Peterborough, New Hampshire. Her correspondence, except for
nearly one hundred letters which she wrote to her close friend
Nina Maud Richardson, consists of letters received. These
include letters of recommendation of one creative artist by
another and letters requesting permission to stay at the colony,
announcing times of arrival and departure, and letters thanking
MacDowell and the MacDowell Association for their support, and
letters of condolence at the time of the death of Edward
MacDowell. Major correspondents include Hamlin Garland, Edwin
Arlington Robinson, and Thornton Wilder. Among the many other
literary and artistic figures represented are Aaron Copland,
Theodore Dreiser, Daniel Chester French, DuBose Heyward,
Archibald MacLeish, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Roger Sessions, and
Upton Sinclair.
Several short articles written by MacDowell about the colony
are included in the Miscellany file, along with clippings about
her. A scrapbook contains greetings and tributes from well-
wishers on the occasion of Marian MacDowell Day, August 15, 1952.
Papers of her husband, the musician Edward MacDowell
(1860-1908), received with these papers consist mainly of
personal and family letters received by him during the period
1890-1904. Included in the miscellany file of this series are
several short pieces about Edward MacDowell and reviews of
performances of his works, photographs, and a copy of his ink
portrait sketch of Franz Liszt, along with some 1924
correspondence of the MacDowell Club of New York relating to the
establishment of a memorial to him.
In addition to manuscripts of Edward MacDowell's
compositions, about 125 letters he wrote to his wife in the
period 1880 to 1903 document his musical activities in
considerable detail. The scores, totaling more than one hundred
pages, include some of the composer's earliest compositions
written when he was seventeen years old and drafts of heretofore
unknown pieces. This material complements the collection of
MacDowell music manuscripts and correspondence in the Library's
Music Division.
A second group of material includes records of the Edward
MacDowell Association, the New York-based foundation which
finances and administers the MacDowell Colony. The records
consist primarily of recommendations of prospective colonists by
established artists in the same field. Newspaper clippings about
the colony are included in the miscellany, as well as poems,
articles, and illustrations by members of the colony.
A third group of papers comprises the Nina Maud Richardson
file, consisting of Richardson's papers, chiefly correspondence.
Correspondence with Marian MacDowell provides glimpses of
MacDowell, especially for the period of the 1930s. Other
correspondents include Van Wyck Brooks, O. Louis Guglielmi,
Hermann Hagedorn, and Jean Starr Untermeyer.
In addition to the Music Division's collection of Edward
MacDowell material, other Library holdings related to Marian
MacDowell include the Rare Book and Special Collections
Division's collection of printed works written by MacDowell
Colony members and the records of the MacDowell Colony and the
papers of Edwin Arlington Robinson in the Manuscript Division.
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DESCRIPTION OF SERIES
Container Nos. Series
1-4 Correspondence, 1889-1956, n.d.
Letters received, greeting cards, and
miscellaneous attachments. Arranged
alphabetically by name of correspondent and
chronologically therein.
4 Miscellany, 1948-1962, n.d.
Memorabilia, newspaper clippings, printed and
near-print material, and writings by MacDowell.
Arranged by type of material.
5 Scrapbook, 1952.
Greetings and tributes to MacDowell on the
occasion of Marian MacDowell Day.
6 Edward MacDowell Papers, 1876-1924, n.d.
Correspondence, 1881-1924, n.d.
Letters received and copies of letters sent,
with enclosures. Arranged alphabetically by name
of correspondent and chronologically therein.
Miscellany, 1876-1924.
Newspaper clippings, photographs,
memorabilia, and correspondence about a memorial
to Edward MacDowell. Arranged by type of
material.
7 Edward MacDowell Association, 1907-1966, n.d.
Correspondence, 1911-1966, n.d.
Letters received with enclosures. Arranged
alphabetically by name of correspondent.
Miscellany, 1907-1966, n.d.
Miscellaneous material including address
lists, autographs, memorabilia, newspaper
clippings, printed matter, and writings.
Arranged by type of material.
8-10 Nina Maud Richardson Papers, 1929-1969, n.d.
8-10 Correspondence, 1929-1969.
Correspondence received by Richardson with
enclosures. Arranged alphabetically by name of
correspondent and chronologically therein.
Miscellany, 1937-1969.
10 Miscellaneous material including addresses,
financial matter, memorabilia, greeting cards,
invitations, newspaper clippings, and printed and
near-print materials. Arranged by type of
material.
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CONTAINER LIST
Container Nos. Contents
CORRESPONDENCE, 1889-1956, n.d.
Box 1 Alexander, John W.
Allen, Henry
Antin, Mary
Arms, John Taylor
Ashton-Jonson, G. C.
aus der Ohe, Adele
Auslander, Joseph
Ballard, Fred
Barnewall, Mr.
Beach, Amy M. (Mrs. H. H. A. Beach)
Beach, Rex
Beede, Ivan
Benet, Stephen Vincent
Benet, William Rose
Benton, Thomas Hart
Birckhead, Hugh
Blum, Jerome
Bohnhorst, Frank R.
Bonner, Eugene
Briggs, Dorothy Bell
Brisbane, Arthur
Brooks, Van Wyck
Brown, Alice
Brush, George deForest
Buck, Dudley
Burkley, Francis
Burnat, A.
Cadman, Charles W.
Canby, Henry Seidel
Canby, Marion
Carmer, Carl
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of
Teaching
Carroll, Gladys Hasty
Carroll, Grace Stewart Potter
Channing-Stetson, Grace E.
Chase, Mary Ellen
Cleugh, Sophia
Clifton, Chalmers
Coburn, Harry A.
Cohen, Julius
Cole, Rosetter G.
Comstock, Harriet T.
Conant, Isabel Fiske
Converse, Frederick S.
Cook, Walter
Copland, Aaron
Cromwell, Mary R.
Dahlstrom, Mrs. Harold H.
Daniel, Lewis
Daniels, Mabel
Diamond, David
Dodd, Mead & Co.
Downes, Olin
Dreiser, Theodore
Edward MacDowell Association
Ehrlich, Leonard
Erskine, John
Ewen, David
Farnham, Matell Howe
Farrar, John
Feigin, Irving N.
Field, Sara Bard
Fillmore, Parker H.
Finck, Henry T.
Fisher, A. E.
Fisher, Edward
Fitzgerald, Robert
Flack, Marjorie
Fletcher, John Gould
Fox, Felix
Box 2 French, Daniel Chester
Frost, Frances
Frothingham, E. W.
Gale, Zona
Ganz, Rudolph
Garland, Hamlin
Gibbs, Hamilton
Gilbert, Henry F.
Gilder, Richard Watson
Gilman, Elizabeth
Gilman, Lawrence
Godfrey, P. F.
Goffe, Greta
Guglielmi, O. Louis
Hagedorn, Hermann
Hanson, Howard
Haubiel, Charles
Haughton, John Alan
Hemmer, Eugene
Heyward, Dorothy
Heyward, DuBose
Hillyer, Robert
Hooper, Helen Rhoda
Hubbard, D. K.
Hughes, Rupert
Humiston, William Henry
Hutcheson, Ernest
Isaacs, Lewis M.
Jacobi, Frederick
James, Edmund J.
Jno. Williams, Inc.
Johnson, Mary
Johnson, Robert Underwood
Jonson, G. C. Ashton _See Container 1_, Ashton-
Jonson, G. C.
Krafft, Gertrud
Kramer, A. Walter
Kreymborg, Alfred
Kroll, Leon
LaFarge, John
Lane, Annie
Lane, John
Lang, Margaret R.
Langs, John Pierce
Larsson, Marjorie Flack _See Container 1_, Flack,
Marjorie
Leonowens, Anna H.
Levey, Henry
Levey, Jeffrey King
Lewis, Emma M.
Locke, Edwin A.
Locke, Katherine
Loeffler, Charles M.
Low, Seth
Lunt, Cornelia G.
MacDowell, Edward, condolences on the death of
MacKaye, Percy
McKean, Hugh
McKim, Charles F.
MacLeish, Archibald
MacMonnies, Frederick
Mana-Zucca
Mansfield, Beatrice
Mansfield, Helen C.
Mason, Daniel Gregory
Mason, William
Marshall, Henry Rutgers
Maxwell, William
Moore, Douglas
Morgan, Mrs. Charles
Morley, Christopher
Morris, Crosby Dansby
Box 3 Musical Courier Co.
Nichols, Maurice H.
Nikisch, Arthur
Nunn, Emily
Olinsky, Ivan G.
O'Sheel, S.
Paef, Bashka
Perkins, Mrs. Dwight H.
Peterkin, Julia
Peterson, Agnes Emelie
Phelps, William Lyon
Pinckney, Josephine
Prestopino, Gregorio
Prince, Benjamin
Randolph, Harold
Read, Gardner
Reynard, Grant
Rider-Kelsey, Corinne
Ridge, Lola
Robinson, Allan
Robinson, Edwin Arlington
Rogers, A. P.
Rogers, Bernard
Safonoff, W.
Saint-Gaudens, Augustus
Schauffler, Robert H.
Schelling, Ernest A.
Scholes, Percy A.
Sessions, Roger
Sharp, Elizabeth A.
Sinclair, Upton
Slesinger, Tess
Sonneck, Oscar G.
Spalding, Albert
Speyer, Leonora
Stedman, Edmund C.
Stetson, Grace E. Channing _See Container 1_,
Channing-Stetson, Grace E.
Still, Amy
Stock, Frederick
Stokowski, Olga Samaroff
Stoney, Samuel Gaillard
Storer, Helen A.
Story, Edwin Bruce
Sundstrom, Ebba
Swope, Herbert Bayard
Taft, Lorado
Tarbell, Ida M.
Thompson, Bernice
Thursby, Emma Cecilia
Torrence, Ridgely, and Olivia Dunbar
Trubach, Ernest
Truman, Harry S.
Turnbull, Agnes Sligh
Turner, Ross
Box 4 van der Stucken, Frank
van Doren, Carl
van Doren, Mark
van Dyke, Henry
Van Veen, Stuyvesant
Vinton, Frederic P.
Voynick, E. L.
Walker, Edith
Ward, Christopher
Watson, Dudley Crafts
Waugh, Alec
Weil, Oscar
Wheelock, John Hall
White, Elizabeth
Whiteside, Mary Brent
Widdemer, Margaret
Wilder, Thornton
Williams, Betsey
Williams, R.
Winsor, Mary May
Wood, Mrs. C. E. S. _See Container 1_, Field,
Sara Bard
Woodberry, George Edward
Wylie, Ruth
Zaturenska, Marya
Unidentified
Zeisler, Fannie Bloomfield
Ziegfeld, Florenz
Zorach, William
MISCELLANY, 1948-1962, n.d.
Memorabilia
Newspaper clippings
Printed and near-print material
Writings
SCRAPBOOK, 1952
Box 5 Marian MacDowell Day, 15 Aug. 1952
EDWARD MACDOWELL PAPERS, 1876-1924, n.d.
Box 6 Correspondence, 1881-1904
aus der Ohe, Adele
Barton, George Edward
Bergen, Frencesco
Bolting, Alice
Bonvin, Ludwig
Brockway, Howard
Burgess, John W.
Carreno, Teresa
Cowen, Frederic H.
deKoven, Reginald
Deland, Margaret
Dickinson, Edward
Garland, Hamlin
Gilbert, Henry F.
Gilder, Richard Watson
Glucklich, J. Chr.
Humiston, William Henry
Johnson, Robert Underwood
Joseffy, Rafael
Kelley, Edgar Stillman
Kerndl, Ella
Klein, B. O.
Krehbiel, H. E.
Kroeger, E. R.
Lang, B. J.
Lewing, Adele
Liquiez, E.
Lisser, Louis
Listemann, Bernhard
Low, Seth
MacMonnies, Frederick
Mason, William
Raff, Doris
Schirmer, Gustave
Schneider, George R.
Schythe, Ludwig
Sherwood, William H.
Simms, Evelyn
Sinclair, Upton
Smith, Wilson G.
Sonneck, Oscar G.
Stedman, Edmund C.
Stern, Margarethe
Stoddard, Mr.
Story, Edwin Bruce
Strong, Templeton
Swift, Samuel
Taft, William Howard
Thayer, Arthur W.
Thomas, Theodore
Van der Stucken, Frank
Wilhemj, August
Winsor, Mary May
World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Ill.
Zerrahn, Carl
Unidentified
Miscellany, 1876-1924
Memorial
Newspaper clippings and printed matter
Photographs and memorabilia
EDWARD MACDOWELL ASSOCIATION, 1907-1966, n.d.
Box 7 Correspondence, 1911-1937
Antin, Mary
Bacon, Ernst
Baker, George Pierce
Bard, Mary Spear
Beede, Ivan
Charlot, Jean
Cowley, Malcolm
Damrosch, Walter
Davis, Elmer
Erskine, John
Fletcher, John Gould
Gannett, Lewis
Holt, Hamilton
Ihrig, Roscoe M.
LaFarge, Oliver
Mantle, Burns
Mearse, Mary
Monroe, Ann Shannon
Perry, Bliss
Read, Gardner
Robinson, Grace R.
Schoen, Max
Walsh, Richard J.
Miscellany, 1907-1966
Address lists
Autographs
Memorabilia
Newspaper clippings
Printed and near-print material
Writings
NINA MAUD RICHARDSON PAPERS, 1929-1969, n.d.
Box 8 Correspondence, 1929-1969
American Society of Composers, Authors, and
Publishers
Antin, Mary
Barth, Hans
Beach, Amy M. (Mrs. H. H. A. Beach)
Blass, Charlotte
Brooks, Van Wyck
Cadman, Charles W.
Carmer, Carl
Childers, Lemuel J.
Cohen, Sol
Daniel, Lewis
Daniels, Mabel
Edward MacDowell Association
Ehrlich, Leonard
Flack, Marjorie
Foss, Lukas
Frost, Frances
Frothingham, E. W.
Ganz, Rudolph
Guglielmi, O. Louis
Hagedorn, Hermann
Hanford, Helen
Haubiel, Charles
Heap, Mary, condolences on the death of
Heyward, Dorothy
Kendall, George M.
Kubik, Gail T.
Levey, Henry
Levey, Jeffrey King
Library of Congress
Lowens, Irving
Box 9 MacDowell, Marian, 1929-1942, n.d.
Box 10 Manton, Robert W.
Marsh, Elizabeth
Mason, Daniel Gregory
Moore, Douglas
Nevins, A. L.
Nevins, H. B.
Newlin, Dika
Norton, Spencer H.
Paeff, Bashka
Peterborough Women's Club, Peterborough, N.H.
Peterson, Agnes Emelie
Reynard, Grant
Shokler, H.
Smith, Chard
Sparhawk-Jones, Elizabeth
Staloff, Edward
Torrence, Ridgely, and Olivia Dunbar
Untermeyer, Jean Starr
Unidentified
Miscellany, 1937-1969
Addresses, financial material, memorabilia
Greeting cards
Invitations
Newspaper clippings
Printed and near-print material
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