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Scope and Content Note
The Dorothy Slepian Packer Correspondence spans the years 1945 to 1948. It consists solely of Correspondence between Dorothy Packer and composers and contains several responses to a survey she sent while conducting research for her dissertation. Significant correspondents include Samuel Barber, Robert Russell Bennett, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Deems Taylor, Morton Gould, Darius Milhaud, Wallingford Riegger, William Grant Still, and Virgil Thomson.