Administrative Information
Acquisition Information
Roger L. Stevens donated the initial 99 boxes of materials located in his Kennedy Center office between 1994 and 1996. Christine G. Stevens made two donations of additional materials in 1998 and 2002. Christabel Stevens Gough donated the remainder of the material held by the family in 2003 and 2004.
In 2021, Laura Wynn, on behalf of Animal Welfare Institute, donated one letter and 96 of the Stevenses personal photographs that were found in the AWI files.
Accruals
No further accruals are expected.
Processing History
Walter Zvonchenko and William Nelson arranged and rehoused parts of the collection in preparation for the 2002 Library of Congress exhibition "Roger Stevens Presents."
Mónica Hurd, Morgen Stevens-Garmon, Anita Weber, and Melissa Young began work on the collection in March 2020, completed processing in April 2022, and coded the finding aid.
Transfers
Ten audiocassettes, eleven VHS tapes, one u-matic tape, and one compact disc from the Roger L. Stevens Papers have been transferred to the Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division where they are identified as the Roger L. Stevens Collection (MAVIS collection no. 17586). Twenty items including postage stamps, art work, postcards, and travel ephemera were transferred to the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division in 2024. Two books were transferred to the Library of Congress Rare Books and Special Collections Division in 2024.
Inventories of these materials are available in the Music Division's collection file.
Other Repositories
North Carolina State University holds the Animal Welfare Institute Records, 1930-2003 which document the organization’s history from its founding in 1951 by Christine G. Stevens. Roger L. Stevens served as the initial treasurer for AWI and Christine Stevens remained active with the organization until her death. The Animal Rights Network Oral History Collection, 1999-2002 at the same repository includes several 1999 interviews with Christine Stevens.
Related Material
The Production Files series of the Robert Whitehead Papers contains documentation regarding the many plays he and Stevens produced together.
The Leonard Bernstein Collection contains extensive documentation of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and Mass. There is also correspondence from both Roger L. Stevens and Christine G. Stevens, photographs with Roger L. Stevens, a celebratory toast written by Bernstein in honor of Stevens's 75th birthday, and a number of business papers relating to the Dowling-Whitehead-Stevens Corporation.
The Peter Hunt Papers contain materials related to the production of 1776.
The Aaron Copland Collection contains a small quantity of correspondence with Roger L. Stevens and professional papers relating to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, as do the August Heckscher Papers.
The following collections contain correspondence with Roger L. Stevens: Art Buchwald Papers; Ralph Ellison Papers; Erick Hawkins and Lucia Dlugoszewski Papers; Lucy Kroll Papers; Agnes Elizabeth Ernst Meyer Papers; and the Howard Teichmann Papers.
The following collections contain material related to Stevens's stage productions: Peggy Clark Papers; Henry Denker Papers; Garson Kanin Papers; Joshua Logan Papers; and the Oliver Smith Papers.
Preferred Citation
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [item, date, container], Roger L. Stevens Papers, Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.