Administrative Information
Acquisition Information
Purchased from Constance Huntington Hall in 1954. Additional music manuscripts were gifted by Helen Hopekirk and cataloged in ML96.H81.
Accruals
No further accruals are expected.
Processing History
Music Division staff processed the Helen Hopekirk Collection prior to 1980. Melissa Capozio Jones completed the processing and coded the finding aid in 2021.
Other Repositories
Additional materials on Helen Hopekirk can be found in the University Library Special Collections of the University of Arizona.
Related Material
The A.P. Schmidt Company Archives contains a small quantity of correspondence from Hopekirk, as well as a music manuscript by Hopekirk. Other Music Division collections with pertinent correspondence include the: Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation Collection; Serge Koussevitzky Archive; and the Arnold T. Schwab Collection on Marian Nevins MacDowell. The Helen Hopekirk Papers in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress contains 17 letters from poet Oliver Wendell Holmes to Hopekirk.
Preferred Citation
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [item, date, container or reel or digital ID number], Helen Hopekirk Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.