Administrative Information
Provenance
Gift, Mrs. Stanley Hart, 1968.
Accruals
No further accruals are expected.
Processing History
George Antheil’s correspondence with Mary Louise Curtis Bok and Stanley Hart was processed in 1992 by Claudia Widgery as a single collection, called the George Antheil Collection, which also included the composer’s music manuscripts received by the Library of Congress between 1964 and 1975. These original and photo-reproduced manuscripts, donated principally by Böske Antheil, were cataloged in ML 96.A723 and ML 96.5.A62, respectively. In 1968, Mrs. Stanley Hart donated approximately 140 letters between her husband and Antheil. These were followed by Mrs. Cary William Bok’s 1975 gift of approximately 500 letters and other items related to Antheil’s relationship with her patron mother-in-law. A finding aid for the George Antheil Collection was publicly available until 2009.
The Music Division has since reprocessed these materials to more accurately reflect their original provenances. The George Antheil Collection no longer exists. The cataloged manuscripts have been returned to the general collections under their original ML call numbers. A handful of cataloged letters previously associated with the Bok correspondence, but unrelated, can be found in ML 95.A726. The remaining batches of Bok and Hart correspondence have been processed as two distinct collections, entitled the George Antheil Correspondence with Mary Louise Curtis Bok and this one, the George Antheil Correspondence to Stanley Hart.
In 2006 to 2007, the Music Division purchased additional Antheil materials, which have been processed as the George and Böske Antheil Papers . References to the ML 96.A723 scores received between 1964 and 1975 are present in the George and Böske Antheil Papers finding aid in order to convey their shared provenance and to provide researchers with a more comprehensive list of Antheil music manuscripts available at the Library of Congress.
The finding aid for the George Antheil Correspondence to Stanley Hart was revised by Meghan Sommers and coded for EAD by Christopher Hartten in 2010.
Other Repositories
Additional materials can be found in the UCLA Performing Arts Special Collections and the New York Public Library.
Related Material
The Music Division holds numerous special collections that contain Antheil correspondence, including the: George and Böske Antheil Papers ; George Antheil Correspondence with Mary Louise Curtis Bok ; Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Collection; Irving Schwerké Collection; Nicolas Slonimsky Collection ; Percy Aldridge Grainger Collection; Serge Koussevitzky Archive ; Leonard Bernstein Collection ; Aaron Copland Collection ; and the Modern Music Archives . A small quantity of cataloged letters are available in ML 95.A726.
Preferred Citation
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [item, date, container number], George Antheil Correspondence to Stanley Hart, Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.