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    From Series 6: Literary and Music Correspondence/Subject Files, 1900-1952, undated

    Series 6: Literary and Music Correspondence/Subject Files, 1900-1952, undated (Box 3; 0.6 linear feet)

    This series contains correspondence and other material documenting Mary Fanton Roberts' friendships with authors, poets, critics, publishers, singers, musicians, and colleagues. Found are letters, invitations, calling cards, programs, artwork, photographs, and news clippings. Topics of discussion include social invitations, poems and articles in the Craftsman or Touchstone Magazine, travel accounts, and general news. Correspondence of note is with poets Bliss Carman and Sir Charles G. D. Roberts, journalist Jacob Riis, theater patron Mrs. "Teuila" Salisbury Field, singers Yvette Guilbert and Marguerite Namara, author Kate Douglas Wiggin, author and "Rough Rider" Edwin Emerson, writer and entrepreneur Paris Singer, writers Ernest and Grace Seton, and author and good friend Lloyd Osbourne, stepson of Robert Louis Stevenson. Also found are photographs of authors Theodore Dreiser, Edwin Emerson, and Bliss Carman, handwritten poems by Theodore Goodridge Roberts, and a lithograph portrait of author John Masefield.

    Reel Frames (digitized from microfilm)
    D164 515 Atherton, Gertrude, 1912, undated
    D164 516-531 Bambino, 1909-1921
    D164 532-534 Bispham, David, 1909-1912
    D164 535-536 Brooks, Van Wyck, 1910
    D164 537-541 Burgess, Gelett, 1904, 1920, undated
    D164 542-554 Burnett, Frances Hodgson, 1905-1908, undated
    D164 555 Bynner, Witter, undated
    D164 556-662 Carman, Bliss, 1902-1933 (2 folders)
    D164 663-672 Cobb, Irvin S., 1916, 1928, 1944, undated
    D164 673-685 Comfort, Will Levington, 1914-1915
    D164 686-690 Damrosch, Walter, 1950, undated
    D164 691 Dawson, Coningsby, 1914
    D164 692-693 Desti, Mary, 1925
    D164 694-715 Dreiser, Theodore, 1934, 1940, undated
    D164 716-718 Eastman, Max & Eliena, 1944-1945
    D164 719-720 Ellis, Havelock, 1914
    D164 721-761 Emerson, Edwin, 1902-1948, undated
    D164 762-864 Field, Mrs. Edward Salisbury (Teuila), 1903-1949
    D164 865-867 Gale, Zona, 1921
    D164 868-871 Galsworthy, John, 1919
    D164 872-880 Garland, Hamlin, 1915-1922, undated
    D164 881-895 Guilbert, Yvette, 1916-1919, 1938
    D164 896-904 Hoffenstein, Samuel & Edith, 1929-1932, 1947
    D164 905-914 Hurst, Fannie, 1926-1937
    D164 915 Kilmer, Joyce, 1915
    D164 916 Khayat, Khalil, undated

    Reel Frames (digitized from microfilm)
    D162 1350-1354 Literary Digest, 1922, 1925, 1940, undated

    Reel Frames (digitized from microfilm)
    D164 917-918 McClure, S. S., 1915, 1949
    D164 919-945 Mannes, Mrs. David (Clara), circa 1935-1949, undated
    D164 946-947 Masefield, John, 1912, 1918
    D164 948-952 Maxim, Hudson, 1903-1908
    D164 953-966 Metropolitan Opera Association, 1916, 1933, 1943
    D164 967-977 Namara, Marguerite, 1940-1944, undated
    D164 978-1046 Pinchot, Gifford, 1908-1916
    D164 1047-1063 Osbourne, Lloyd & Ethel, 1902-1947, undated

    Reel Frames (digitized from microfilm)
    D163 63-76 Oskison, Hildegarde Hawthorne, 1906-1929, 1952, undated

    Reel Frames (digitized from microfilm)
    D164 1064-1068 Riggs, Mrs. George C. (Kate Dougles Wiggin), 1912, undated
    D164 1069-1071 Riis, Jacob, 1914
    D164 1072-1136 Roberts, Sir Charles G. D., 1900-1943

    Reel Frames (digitized from microfilm)
    D161 928-962 Roberts, Theodore Goodridge, 1926-1939, undated

    Reel Frames (digitized from microfilm)
    D164 1137-1158 Seton, Ernest Thompson & Grace, 1902-1936, undated
    D164 1159-1162 Sinclair, May, 1924, 1946
    D164 1163-1222 Singer, Paris, 1916-1946, undated
    D164 1223-1244 Stevenson, Mrs. Robert Louis, 1903-1951, undated
    D164 1245 Stokowski, Leopold, 1916
    D164 1246-1261 Strong, Austin & Mary, 1918-1952
    D164 1262-1263 Teasdale, Sara, 1914
    D164 201-229 Towne, Charles Hanson, 1909-1944, undated
    D164 1264 Vorse, Mary Heaton, 1910
    D164 1265-1272 West, Rebecca, 1923-1927, undated
    D164 1273-1275 Widdemer, Margaret, 1913, 1938
    D164 1276-1277 Wilcox, Ella Wheeler, 1909
    D164 1278-1280 Wilkinson, Marguerite, 1928, undated
    D164 1281-1284 Young, Stark, 1944
    D164 1285-1296 Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1901-1951

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