Administrative Information
Provenance
Bequest, Louise Talma, 1996. Additional materials were received from Louis Martin in 1997.
Accruals
No further accruals are expected.
Processing History
The Louise Talma Papers were processed by Lina Terjesen, Kelly Cornett, Emily Levine, and Christopher Hartten from 2011-2013. Christopher Hartten coded the finding aid for EAD format in 2013 and revised it in 2016 to incorporate thirteen boxes of materials previously stored offsite.
Transfers
Sound recordings from the Louise Talma Papers have been transferred to the Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division where they are identified as part of the Louise Talma Collection (MAVIS collection no. 12561). An inventory of this material is available in the Music Division's collection file.
Related Material
Talma's holograph score for Cantata: All the Days of My Life, commissioned by the Serge Koussevitzky Music Foundation in the Library of Congress, is cataloged under ML 30.3c.T345 no. 1. For more information, see catalog record: http://lccn.loc.gov/84756595. The Edward and Marian MacDowell Collection and the Charles Seeger papers in the Music Division's Seeger Collection contain correspondence to and from Talma.
Preferred Citation
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [item, date, container number], Louise Talma Papers, Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.