Administrative Information
Provenance
Roy Harris first placed music manuscripts on deposit at the Library of Congress in January 1959. His original gift contained eight manuscripts, including a score for Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra and sketches for Symphony no. 7. These deposits continued off and on for ten years, the last being Symphony no. 12 (Pere Marquette Symphony) in 1969. No additional materials were received until 2005, when copyist Robert French donated several boxes of Harris scores, correspondence, and other papers. In July 2010, daughter Patricia Harris Connelly donated a substantial quantity of Roy Harris' manuscripts to the Library. Included in this gift were a variety of materials formerly in the possession of Harris scholar and biographer Dan Stehman.
Accruals
Further accruals are possible.
Processing History
The Roy Harris Papers were processed by Ryan Ebright, Catherine Hughes, Christopher Reali, Lina Terjesen, and Christopher Hartten in 2010. The finding aid was coded for EAD by Christopher Hartten in September 2010.
Transfers
Sound recordings have been transferred to the Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division where they are identified as part of the Roy Harris Collection (MAVIS collection no. 14220).
Other Repositories
The Roy Harris Collection at California State University, Los Angeles (formerly the Roy Harris Archive), contains music manuscripts, correspondence, and other personal papers of the composer.
Related Material
The majority of individually cataloged manuscript scores and sketches from the Roy Harris Papers are located in ML96.H278. The Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation Collection (ML29c), Aaron Copland Collection (ML31.C7), Harold Spivacke Collection (ML31.S69), and the Serge Koussevitsky Archive (ML31.K66) also contain music manuscripts and/or correspondence by Harris.
Preferred Citation
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [item, date, container number], Roy Harris Papers, Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.