Scope and Content Note
The Glenn Dillard Gunn Papers consist primarily of correspondence, writings, photographs, and printed scores dating from 1802 to 1961. The Correspondence series contains letters from a variety of musical personalities, such as Ferruccio Busoni, Teresa Carreño, Walter Damrosch, Percy Grainger, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Moriz Rosenthal, and Leopold Stokowski. The Writings series contains numerous articles and reviews written by Gunn over the course of his career, particularly those from his days with the Chicago Herald Examiner. Photographs in the collection largely consist of autograph items inscribed to the Gunns from notable figures such as Claude Debussy, Victor Herbert, John McCormack, Mary Garden, Helen Jepson, and Frederick Stock. Printed scores for solo piano, many annotated by Gunn, form the bulk of the Music series. Included among these are a number of autograph presentation scores, such as Eric Delamarter's Suite from The Black Orchid and Symphony no. 3, and Moriz Rosenthal's Zehn Charakterstücke. Gunn's own manuscripts in the collection consist of several arrangements of J. S. Bach works: English Suite no. 3, for winds, and a transcription of Concerto for Three Pianos. Other items present in the collection are several Scrapbooks and a small series of Miscellany containing personal papers, programs, and other items.