Books, pamphlets,letters, and vocal collections in the Christopher A. Reynolds Collection of Women’s Song, as of22 Dec. 2015
The items listed below are grouped into the following categories:
Books, pamphlets, and periodicals
Hand-copied and autograph manuscripts
Letters
Ephemera
Photographs
Vocal and instrumental works and vocal collections devoted to individual composers
Vocal collections, general
Recordings
Books, pamphlets, and periodicals:
Carrie Jacobs Bond, Little Stories in Verse, as Unpretentious as the Wild Road (Chicago: The Bond Shop, 1905).
Carrie Jacobs Bond, “Loyal”. Photograph and poem, “Compliments of The Melody Master Program.”
Carrie Jacobs Bond, “The Path o’ Life” (Chicago: Carrie Jacobs Bond, 1909). Poem with illustrations. Small booklet.
Carrie Jacobs Bond, A Perfect Day and Other Poems from the Songs of Carrie Jacobs Bond (Jolliet, Illinois: The P. F. Volland Company, 1926).
[Carrie Jacobs Bond], Complete Catalog of Compositions by Carrie Jacobs Bond ([Hollywood: Bond & Son, ca. 1935]).
Carrie Jacobs Bond, Old Man (Chicago, Illinois: The Bond Shop, 1905-06). Poetry and photographs.
Carrie Jacobs Bond’s Songs: Thematic Catalogue (Detroit, Mich.: Grinell Bros., [ca. 1915]). A promotional brochure with the first pages of fifteen of her best-known songs.
Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, “Da Capo: A paper read before the Mothers’ Club, Cambridge, Mass., March 13, 1951,” (Washington [D. C.], 1952).
Mabel W. Daniels, An American Girl in Munich: Impressions of a Music Student (Boston: Little, Brown, & Co., 1905).
Clara Edwards, “Songs by Clara Edwards,” undated brochure of some of her songs. Signed “Good luck to Eva from Clara.”
The Etude. Presser’s Musical Magazine, 36/11 (November, 1918), “Woman’s Number”.
The Etude Music Magazine, 47/11 (November, 1929), “Woman in Music” Number. Cover portrait of Mrs. H. H. A. Beach.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ford, The Story of Mary’s Little Lamb (reprint [ca. 1980?] of Sudbury, MA: Longfellow’s Wayside Inn, 1928).
Bessie Bartlett Frankel, History of the California Federation of Music Clubs (ca. 1930).
Eleanor Everest Freer, Recollections and Reflections of an American Composer (Chicago, IL: E. E. Freer, 1929). Eleanor Freer signed this copy “To Louise Cooper Spindle, September 10 – 1934”. A few marginal annotations by the author including titles of her latest works on the last page.
Maria Grever, Album de Oro de la Cancion, Publicacion Quincenal, Tomo IV, Num. 45 ([Mexico], 1952).
Printed texts of her songs. Brief biography.
Ruth K. Hall, A Place of Her Own: The Story of Elizabeth Garrett (Santa Fe, New Mexico: Sunstone Press, 1983).
Augusta Holmès, cover image and story in Le Journal illustré 26 (22 Sept. 1889). Newspaper.
Augusta Holmès, La Montagne-noir. Drame lyrique en quatre actes et cinq tableaux (Paris: Ph. Maquet, 1895). Text only.
Clare Kummer, Her Master’s Voice. A Comedy in Three Acts (New York and London: Samuel French, 1934).
Clare Kummer, Rollo’s Wild Oat. A Comedy in Three Acts (New York and London: Samuel French, 1922).
Laurel Winners: Portraits and Silhouettes of Modern Composers (Cincinnati, OH: John Church Co., 1900). Includes essays and portrait photos of thirty composers, including five women: Liza Lehmann Bedford, Guy d’Hardelot, Margaret Ruthven Lang, Hope Temple, and Maude Valerie White.
Liza Lehmann, page from the South African journal, Black and White (January 23, 1897), p. 107. Article and interview about her, with photo.
Katherine Allan Lively (New York: G. Schirmer, [ca. 1939]). Promotional pamphlet. Signed and annotated by Katherine Allan Lively.
Constance Elizabeth Maud, An English Girl in Paris (London: Collin’s Clear Type Press, [1902]).
Nolie Mumphry, “Estelle Philleo: Setting the West to Music, 1881-1936,” (Denver, Colorado, 1955).
Pacific Coast Musician, vol. 18, no. 37. Special edition. 12 September 1929. Photos of many women active in music, including Elinor Remick Warren. Stories of interest and a list of all music clubs in California, with contact information.
Poldowski. Pamphlet entitled “Poldowski” in series Miniature Essays. Published by J. & W. Chester, Ltd., 1924.
Musical Record & Review, no. 501 (Oct. 1, 1903), Woman’s Number. Prize Essays (Boston, MA: Oliver Ditson Co., 1903).
Elizabeth Philp, How to Sing an English Ballad. Including Sixty Songs, Written by Eminent Poets, 2nd ed. (London: Tinsley Brothers, [ca. 1870]).
Florence Ryerson and Colin Clements, Oh! Susanna. A Comedy with Music, musical score and lyrics by Ann Ronell, based on the songs of Stephen Foster (New York, NY, and Hollywood, CA: Samuel French, 1948). Libretto and lyrics.
Hand-copied and autograph manuscripts:
Frances Allitsen, four measures of music copied and signed by the composer, the first four measures of her 1898 song, “Like as the hart desireth the waterbrooks.”
Charlotte Cheney Bosserman, “Twenty-Third Psalm” (1931).
Laura Chatterton’s Music Books, hand copied by Ernest Alfred Sadler in the early 1890s. 2 volumes. Inscribed: The whole of this book was scored by Ernest Alfred Sadler & given to his first wife (during their engagement). Laura Sadler died in 1895.
Roena V. Hinkle, “Three Songs.” Undated.
Julia Ludlow Rockwell, Eight measures of a 3v (SSA) song, “The moist warm zephyrs of the spring”. A page from 4 May 1902, copied onto a page in a calendar book.
Alma Stanley, “The Nigthingale.”A possible autograph MS of an unpublished song, with erasures and corrections. Poem by Aristophanes, dedicated to Edythe Marion. Alma Stanley never published this song.
Elinor Remick Warren, “The Heart of a Rose.” Autograph. The song was published by Harold Flammer, Inc., in 1922.
Elinor Remick Warren, “I Have Seen Dawn.” Autograph. The song was published by the Boston Music Co., in 1924.
Elinor Remick Warren, “Little Slippers in the Rain.” Autograph. The song was published by Carl Fischer, Inc., in 1921.
Elinor Remick Warren, “The Touch of Spring.” Autograph. The song was published by Enoch & Sons, in 1922.
Elinor Remick Warren, “We Two.” Manuscript copied by Amy Worth. The song was published by R. L. Huntzinger, Inc., in 1922.
Amy Worth, “Little Lamb.” Autograph. The song was published by G. Schirmer, Inc., in 1925.
Letters:
Frances Allitsen. Letter to Madame [Guy] d’Hardelot declining an invitation
18 Alma Square, N. W. [London].
Amy Beach, four letters by Mrs. H. H. A. Beach to James Francis Cooke, written between 1922 and 1928.
Carrie Jacobs Bond. Note to Charles [or Chris] Noynes [or Haynes?] dated May 28, 1929. She describes how bereft she is after the death of her son. “I am broken hearted and life holds nothing for me.” On personal note card signed from her house at Grossmont.
Carrie Jacobs Bond. Letter in stamped envelope to Mr. Lionel A. Aucoin declining his request for a music manuscript, offering him instead a signed copy of “I Love You Truly,” if he writes back to request it. Dated May 27, 1939. Personal stationery: Carrie Jacobs Bond / Nestorest.
Anne R[onell] Cowan to Gerald Burg, 15 Sept. 1979. Letterhead from “Harvard Club, 27 West 44th Street” [NYC]
Lester has not been feeling well and overburdened with the pressure to finish our new TV-film contracts … I look forward to being back in our Hollywood home and Temple, perhaps next month with God’s help.
Eleanor Everest Freer (Mrs. Archibald Freer) to Miss Varney, 20 August 1913
[Declining to set poems that she sent her] I have carried out my wish (and ideal) in setting between 130 and 140 English and American standard and classic lyrics to music, in songs and part songs. I believe this is the largest literature of its kind written up to the present.
Virginia Gabriel, letter to Miss Burrard, 1864.
Guy d’Hardelot. Note to Mr. [Derek] Oldham, inviting him to tea. Dated “Wednesday.” Address stamped into paper: 50, Wellington Road / St. John’s Wood, N. W. [London].
Helen Hood. Eight letters in stamped envelopes to “Miss Helen Hood” from 1893 and early 1894. The letters are from
Alice Gray Lathrop, dated 25 February 1893, praising her songs, naming “Slumber” and the “Cornish Lullaby.”
Edith Harkness, dated 13 December 1893, thanking her for “the music” and “the little book of songs,” and praising the song “Disappointment.”
Miriam B. Pearce, dated “Monday,” but envelope cancelled on 19 Dec. 1893, thanking her for “the songs” and praising “Sleighing” and “The Dandelion.”
Jennie Hood Bosson, dated 23 December 1893, thanking her for the music. Envelope has “from Jennie Hood Bosson” written in the same ink and hand as the 1949 inscriptions.
Mary Kinsley Rogers [Mrs. Winthrop Rogers], dated 26 December 1893, thanking her for the songs and the violin pieces also on behalf of Winthrop.
Ida May Chadwick [Mrs. George Chadwick], dated 27 December 1893, thanking her and planning a visit with her son Theodore. The back of the envelope has “Ida May Chadwick, Feb. 1949.”
Jennie B. Hatch, dated 27 December 1893, thanking for the gift of Hood’s “Song Etchings.” The back of the envelope has written “Jennie Hatch, Feb. 1949.”
Caroline Washburn Rockwood, of the Utica School of Music, dated 19 January 1894, praising her songs “Expectation,” “The Dandelion,” and “Disappointment,” and requesting a photograph for an article in the Musical Courier.
Liza Lehmann. Letter to “Dear Sir” apologizing for her inability to judge a singing competition. Written from 28 Abercorn Pl. N.W. [London].
Clara Angela Macirone, 126 Adelaide Road, Hampstead N. W.
To F. G. J. Warne Esq., Frolbury [Manor], in Dorking, Oct. 21, [18]58
My Dear Sir, I am pleased that you like my little partsong (Old Daddy Longlegs) … and give permission for you to arrange it for a male choir only I should wish to see it before it is sung … I commend the little thing to your kindest [use?] and that of your Amphion Quartett
Caro Roma. Letter to Mr. Sanders apologizing for lack of a photo, but vowing to return the next year with “my own Grand Opera co.” Dated “Tuesday Eve.” On hotel stationery from The Stratford / Eight and Pine Streets / Saint Louis.
Hope Temple to Mr. [Albert Gerard] Thies, from 41 Bloomfield Rd., Maida Hill, London
She writes that she will send him some songs “those which I think will suit you” to New York. Thies was a tenor active in New York and Brooklyn who had sung in London in summer 1895. Thus this letter may be from fall 1895 or 1896.
Kate Vannah, to Mr. Burbank [= Luther Burbank?] a hand copied version of her poem, “Heart’s Own”, signed March 11th, 1894, at her home in Gardiner, ME.
Elinor Remick Warren, typed, signed letter to Mr. [Charles (Chuck)] Feldman, dated 19 September 1966. “In talking with our mutual friend Anita Priest the other day, she told me she is very much enjoying her position as organist with your choir at the [Wilshire Boulevard] Temple [in Los Angeles], and of working under your direction.” The letter requests a performance of her choral work “Abram in Egypt.”
Elinor Remick Warren. Correspondence between ERW and Walton Music Corporation between 1 Feb. 1982 and 3 January 1983, regarding her unsuccessful attempt to have three choral compositions published by them: “A Joyful Song of Life,” “Fountain of Life,” and “Valley Mist.” There are four letters from ERW, two from Dennis Martin, one from Geoffrey Lorenz, and one from Norman Luboff.
Maude Valerie White. Letter to Miss Terry. Dated 19 Aug. 1879. Address stamped into paper: “Thorncliff / Bonchurch / Isle of White.”
Ephemera:
Antonia Brico, Carnegie Hall program, promotional fliers, and an ex libris.
Liza Lehmann, small card from Will’s Cigarettes with image of her.
Liza Lehmann, Calling card with address, signed “Very truly yours, Liza Lehmann.”
Mana Zucca, autographed postcard, a photograph of herself. Dated 1957.
Photographs:
Carrie Jacobs Bond. A photo from Wide World Photos: “Celebrated song composer home after trip to Philippines.” Dated “5/6/24”.
Carrie Jacobs Bond. A photo from a news service, “N. E. A.”, dated 22 April 1926: “SF to Cleveland; MY acme; 2 prints chi acme April 19.” “This photo was taken on the steamer ‘City of Los Angeles’ as the composer and Mrs. George Campbell of Denver, embarked for the Hawaiian islands.”
Carrie Jacobs Bond. A photo of her in middle age, signed “Sincerely, Carrie Jacobs Bond, 1937”.
Hope Temple, photograph of her removed from a magazine, pg. 611.
Vocal and instrumental works and vocal collections devoted to individual composers:
Carrie B. Adams, Easter Praise. Lorenz’s Choir Cantatas, no. 16 (Dayton, OH: The Lorenz Publishing Co., 1908).
Carrie B. Adams, Old Cabin Home Minstrels. A Minstrel Entertainment in Three Acts (Dayton, OH: Lorenz Publishing Co., 1921).
Carrie B. Adams, The Resurrection Story. An Easter Cantata (Dayton, OH: Lorenz Publishing Co., 1923).
Mrs. Crosby Adams, Dolls Miniature Suite, Op. 23 (Chicago: Clayton F. Summy Co., 1910).
Emma L. Ashford, The Life of a Leaf. A Cantata for Women’s Voices (Dayton, OH: Lorenz Publishing Co., 1905).
Emma L. Ashford, The Prince of Peace. An S.A.B. Christmas Choir Cantata (Dayton, OH: Lorenz Publishing Co., 1940).
Emma L. Ashford, Smiles. A Collection of Humorous Encore Songs (Dayton, OH: Lorenz Publishing Co., 1912).
Dorothy Atkinson, A Gift of the Desert. Song Cycle (London: James & Co., 1920).
Florence Aylward, Florence Aylward Album. The Portrait Series (London: Chappell & Co., Ltd., ca. 1908).
Katharine C. Baker, Miss Muffet Lost & Found. A Mother Goose Play (Chicago, IL: Clayton F. Summy Co., 1915).
Katharine Barry, Six Popular Songs (Cincinnati, OH: John Church Co., 1910), The John Church Co’s Popular Song Folios by Modern Composers, no. 7. Without cover.
Mrs. H. H. A. Beach, Peter Pan. Cycle of Songs for Three Part Women’s Voices (Philadelphia, PA: Theodore Presser Co., 1923).
Mrs. H. H. A. Beach, The Sea Fairies. Words by Alfred Lord Tennyson. A Cantata for Women’s Voices, op. 59 (Boston: Arthur P. Schmidt Co., 1904).
Carrie Jacobs Bond, Brainard’s Edition of Eleven Songs (New York. NY, and Chicago, IL: Brainard’s Sons Company, 1911).
Carrie Jacobs Bond, ed., Old Melodies of the South, transcribed by Mary Gillen and Oliver Chalifoux (Chicago, IL: Carrie Jacobs Bond & Son, 1918.
Carrie Jacobs Bond, Seven Songs as Unpretentious as the Wild Rose (Chicago: Carrie Jacobs Bond & Son, 1901).
Carrie Jacobs Bond, Songs Everybody Sings [30 Songs] (Boston, MA: Carrie Jacobs Bond & Son, ca. 1928).
May H. Brahe, From Near and Far. Four Songs (London: Enoch & Sons, 1919).
May H. Brahe, Love and Life. Five Little Songs (London: Keith Prowse & Co. Ltd., n.d.).
May H. Brahe, Song Pictures. Five Songs (London: Enoch & Sons, 1916).
Dora Bright, Six Songs from the Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling (London, UK: Elkin & Co. Ltd., 1903).
Jenny Lou Carson, Jenny Lou Carson: Western Songs, Cowboy Songs, Home Songs, Mountain Songs (Chicago: M. M. Cole Publishing Co., 1943).
Cecile Chaminade, Contralto Album of Five Songs (London: Enoch & Sons, ca. 1922).
Cecile Chaminade, [Six Songs. Second Album] (London: Williams, 1899). Without title page or cover.
Elizabeth Coolidge, After-Supper Songs [20 Children’s Songs] (Chicago and New York: Herbert S. Stone and Company, 1899).
Ethel Crowninshield, Mother Goose Songs for Little Ones (Springfield, MA: Milton Bradley Company, 1932).
Ruth E. Day, Awake! ‘Tis May. Juvenile Operetta in Three Acts (Cincinnati, OH: Willis Music Co., 1933).
Vaughn De Leath, Sing-Along. Album of Musical Readings and Children’s Songs of the Vaughn De Leath Junior Melody Circle (New York, NY: Edward B. Marks, ca. 1932).
Teresa Del Riego, Teresa del Riego Album. The Portrait Series (London: Chappell & Co., Ltd., ca. 1908).
Teresa Del Riego, Three Stuart Songs, words by Radclyffe Hall (London: J. Curwen & Sons, Ltd., 1955).
Jessie Deppen, Four Songs (Cleveland, OH: Sam Fox Publishing Co., 1915)
Charlotte H. Sainton-Dolby,The Story of the Faithfull Soul. Cantata (London: Hutchings & Romer, ca. 1880)
Lulu Jones Downing, Three Songs: ‘A Day and Its Dreams’ (Chicago, IL: Music Art Shop, 1909).
Duncan Sisters. 132 pages (numbered by hand) bound collection of individual song sheets composed or performed by Rosetta and Vivian Duncan that were once owned by Tommy Ferris. Most of the songs were composed by the Duncan Sisters in the 1920s, but those composed by others all have publicity photographs of the Duncan Sisters on the covers. Songs have stamps from music stores in Evanston, IL, Mattoon, IL, and Aurora, IL. Tommy Ferris (1906-86), night club pianist, claimed to have “introduced the piano bar to Chicago.” This was a small part of his collection of some 25,000 songs.
Theodora Dutton, Mother Goose Duets. Four Hand Piano Pieces on Familiar Melodies (Philadelphia, PA: Theodore Presser Co., 1912).
Mary B. Ehrmann and Carolyn S. Bailey, Songs of Happiness (Springfield, MA: Milton Bradley Co., 1912).
Mabel Browning Fairlie, Little Bo-peep and Six Other Rhymes (London: A. Weekes, 1928).
Amy Woodforde Finden, Aziza (London: Boosey & Co., 1909).
Amy Woodforde Finden, Four Indian Love Lyrics from “The Garden of Kama by Laurence Hope (New York and London: Boosey & Co., 1903). Low voice.
Amy Woodfore-Finden, Four Indian Love Lyrics Arranged for the Pianoforte by the Composer (London: Boosey & Co., 1903).
Amy Woodforde Finden, Four Indian Love Lyrics from “The Garden of Kama by Laurence Hope (New York and London: Boosey & Co., renewed ed., 1930). High voice.
Amy Woodforde Finden, A Lover in Damascus. A Set of Six Songs (London: Boosey & Co., 1904.
Amy Woodforde Finden, Stars of the Desert. Four More Indian Love Lyrics by Laurence Hope (New York and London: Boosey & Co., 1911). Medium voice.
Amy Woodforde Finden, Three Songs (London: Leonard & Co., 1898).
Dorothy Forster, Songs from the Fireside, words by Edward Lockton (London, UK: Cary & Co., 1922).
Fay Foster, Blue Beard. An Operetta in One Act and Two Scenes, libretto by Alice Monroe Foster (Boston, MA: C. C. Birchard & Co., 1924).
Leila France, California Wild Flower Songs. A Collection of Fifteen Songs for Children (San Francisco, CA: Elite Music Co., 1920).
Mary Dillingham Frear, The Cocoa Palm and Other Songs for Children (San Francisco, CA: H. S. Crocker, 1898).
Maude Fulton, Water Front Sketches: Seven Musicolors, ed. Carl A. Preyer (San Francisco, CA: Weston S. Wilson, 1921).
Virginia Gabriel, Souvenir of Song (Philadelphia, PA: W. F. Shaw, 1893). Signed by Nora Priestley, 7. 6. 1910. Signed by Annie Croxton, Llancadle, 1897).
Jessie L. Gaynor, An Album of Seven Songs (Chicago: Clayton F. Summy, 1893).
Jessie L. Gaynor, Songs and Scissors (Chicago, IL: Clayton F. Summy Co., 1902).
Jessie L. Gaynor, Songs to Little Folks (Chicago: Clayton F. Summy, 1895).
Jessie Gaynor and Dorothy Gaynor Blake, Gaynor’s Songs for Little Children (Cincinnati, OH: Willis Music Company, 1916).