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BOX 3-4, 38 Writings, 1876-1956 and undated (bulk 1946-1956)
Writings consist of manuscripts, typescripts and one printed book written by members of both the Damrosch and Mannes families.
Arranged alphabetically by author, then by title.
Damrosch, Leopold
BOX-FOLDER 3/14 Twilight of the gods, 1876 September 3
BOX-FOLDER 3/15 The Wagner festival, 1876 August 23
BOX-FOLDER 3/16 Wagner's musical drama, 1876 August 26
Mannes, Clara Damrosch
BOX-FOLDER 3/17 Annual Meeting of the Federation for Child Study [speech], 1915 November 3
BOX-FOLDER 3/18 History of Venice, 1885-1886
BOX-FOLDER 3/19 Ideal musical food for the young, 1914 May 16
BOX-FOLDER 3/20 The pauperizing of the music student, undated
Mannes, David
BOX-FOLDER 3/21 Untitled speech, undated
Mannes, Leopold
BOX-FOLDER 38/1 City life in the eighteenth century, 1916
BOX-FOLDER 38/2 Is photography a fine art?, 1917
BOX-FOLDER 38/3 The new world, 1909
BOX-FOLDER 38/4 Notes on various compositions, undated
BOX-FOLDER 38/5 Octet, Felix Mendelssohn, Opus 20, undated
BOX-FOLDER 38/6 Plans and specifications for a model theatre, circa 1909
BOX-FOLDER 38/7 Rockefeller Institute lecture and correspondence, 1959
BOX-FOLDER 38/8 Wedding anniversary poems, 1945-1960
Mannes, Leopold?
BOX-FOLDER 3/22 Does science lead us to a true Christianity?, undated
Mannes, Marya
BOX-FOLDER 3/23 Bad men, undated
BOX-FOLDER 3/24 Barcelona story, undated
Alternate title: The other side
BOX-FOLDER 3/25 The best of Marya Mannes, 1986
Book
BOX-FOLDER 3/26 The Boltons plan a party, undated
Script
BOX-FOLDER 3/27 Children in trouble, 1955 September 22
BOX-FOLDER 3/28 Coming of age: Report on the Hodson Center, 1954 December 16
BOX-FOLDER 3/29 The day off, undated
BOX-FOLDER 3/30 The domesticated male, [?] Jun. 23
BOX-FOLDER 3/31 Free enterprise, undated
BOX-FOLDER 3/32 Happy new year: or, the worst winter of all, 1946 January
BOX-FOLDER 3/33 Health bar, undated
BOX-FOLDER 3/34 A high standard of giving, undated
BOX-FOLDER 3/35 Juvenilia, 1912-1920 and undated
BOX-FOLDER 3/36 Leopold Damrosch Mannes, 1964 August 15
Funeral speech
BOX-FOLDER 3/37 Letter from Italy, 1946 July
BOX-FOLDER 3/38 Letter from Lisbon, [?] June 25
BOX-FOLDER 3/39 Letter from "Prosa" (Italy), 1948 March
BOX-FOLDER 3/40 A mirror for his love, 1949 May
Alternate title: Please look at me
BOX-FOLDER 3/41 Miscellaneous, undated
BOX-FOLDER 4/1 'Nessfeness' at Harvard, 1956 May 31
BOX-FOLDER 4/2 One hundred and four make one: The Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Part I, Part II (incomplete), undated
BOX-FOLDER 4/3 The P is silent as in 'Yalta', undated
BOX-FOLDER 4/4 The people vs. McCarthy, 1954 April 27
BOX-FOLDER 4/14 Poems: A-F, 1950-1952 and undated
Contents
  • Address book
  • And after Christmas
  • Asian bloc
  • Appease porridge hot
  • Attention U.S. Senate
  • Ballad of gallant ladies (Formerly of Mexico and Egypt)
  • Ballad of John L. (Prompted by his latest gesture to the ILA)
  • Balls and chains
  • Black market
  • Breaking the sound barrier
  • Bus to Harlem
  • Cable from Paris, 1950
  • Cable to Vogue, 1950
  • Cairo-practice see Egyptian crisis
  • Carol for our times
  • Christmas list
  • Christmas, 1952
  • (Clinton, Little Rock, etc.) "The Association for the Advancement of White People"
  • Conquest
  • Contradictums
  • Crooner
  • Cry see Wynken, Blynken, and GOP
  • Dean Dulles
  • Eastland on the judiciary
  • Egyptian crisis
  • 806 mules off to assist NATO
  • Embarrassing moment
  • Emergency
  • End of summer
  • Epitaph
  • Evasion
  • Everest
  • Farewell to Harry
  • Fiddledeedee
  • Filling the vacuum
  • First year away
  • Foreign-policy waltz
  • 'Fullbright fears for student plan'
BOX-FOLDER 4/15 Poems: G-O, undated
Contents
  • The G.O.P. goes South
  • Geneva
  • The ghost fleet
  • The greatest tricks on earth
  • Government agency
  • Guilt
  • Happily
  • Help wanted
  • Highest standard of living yet
  • How nice for mice
  • Identification
  • (The ides of March) '54 or recession
  • If Churchill resigns
  • I'm as liberal as anyone, but—
  • Isolation
  • Japanese fisherman dies
  • Language guide to the liberated
  • The leader
  • Legend [excerpts]
  • Light verse
  • Lincoln to Shivers to Byrnes
  • Lines to an Italian soldier
  • Lines to a Puritan (Truro, Mass)
  • Love in war
  • Masters of Manhattan
  • A matter of health
  • Mediterranean
  • Message to Boris Pasternak
  • Miracle
  • Mirror, mirror, on the wall
  • Negative ("... and they forced the townsmen to bury the victims...")
  • The new class (Hoffa, Faubus, etc.)
  • New country
  • "Nigger-Lovers"
  • Nix, son see The leader
  • No place to kneel
  • Note to writers
  • Nursery rhyme see Appease porridge hot
  • Ode to barbiturates also Ode to barbiturate
  • Odium on an escalator
  • Old proverb
  • On discarding prepared speeches
  • (Oppenheimer) The waiting ones
  • Our position is clear
BOX-FOLDER 4/16 Poems: P-Z, 1940, 1952, and undated
Contents
  • Party man
  • Peace-march
  • Peasants
  • People's republic vs. Public opinion
  • Perfumed note see Identification
  • Perfumes of Arabia
  • Plane shot down
  • Postmaster versus Poet
  • Relaxing world tension
  • Reproach
  • The return (Elections in Italy)
  • Savonarola on Fifth Avenue
  • The senator and 'Bob'
  • Shell shock
  • Silly verse
  • The singular advantages of having no responsibility
  • Six Russian newsmen brave stronghold of capitalism
  • South African lullaby
  • Ship sunk
  • Sonnet
  • Stimulant
  • Stock market
  • 'Stocks spurt after the elections'
  • Strings
  • Tail gunner
  • They were expedient
  • The thrill killers
  • To Americans, 1940 see Emergency
  • To Nelson and Ellen
  • To FDR and HST - 1952
  • TV report to the nation
  • The unconsulted
  • The untouched
  • Untitled
  • Waste of energy
  • Westerns are more fun
  • Whiffenpoof song (new look): Top U.S. officials discuss security
  • White (House) Christmas
  • Wynken, Blynken and GOP (With apologies to Eugene Field)
BOX-FOLDER 4/5 "Poor Richard Club" speech, undated
BOX-FOLDER 4/6 Reviews and criticism, 1952-1956 and undated
BOX-FOLDER 4/7 Riggs: Where psychiatrists learn, 1954 November 4
BOX-FOLDER 4/8 Romulus and Remus, undated
BOX-FOLDER 4/9 The stepmother, 1951 October
BOX-FOLDER 4/10 This is America: Divorce edition II, 1946 March 18
BOX-FOLDER 4/11 Togetherness, undated
BOX-FOLDER 4/12 Unidentified, undated
BOX-FOLDER 4/13 What's wrong with the comics?, 1948 March 2
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BOX 8-10, 35, 38-40 Music
Music consists of original manuscripts by Leopold Damrosch, manuscripts of compositions arranged or transcribed by Leopold Damrosch, original manuscripts by Edmund Singer, several early works by Leopold Mannes, and copyist's manuscripts of other compositions.
Arranged alphabetically by composer, then by title.
Arcadelt, Jacob
BOX-FOLDER 8/1 Ave Maria
Transcriber's holograph score; [1] p.
Transcribed by Leopold Damrosch
Berlioz, Hector
BOX-FOLDER 8/2 La captive, op. 12
Transcriber's holograph score; [2] p.
Transcribed by Leopold Damrosch
Damrosch, Leopold
BOX-FOLDER 8/3 Cherry ripe
Holograph vocal parts
BOX-FOLDER 8/4 Children's songs
Holograph piano-vocal scores
Contents:
  • Baby Bo; [1] p. see also Cradle song
  • The boy and the foot; [2] p. see also Night and day
  • Cradle song
    Copy 1; [2] p.
    Copy 2; [2] p.
    On inside: Baby Bo; [2] p.
  • Ding, dong!; [2] p. see also In the wood
  • An Easter carol; [1] p.
    On verso: Jessie; [1] p.
  • Handel see Little squirrels
  • In the wood; [2] p.
    On p. 2-3: Ding, dong!; [2] p.
    On p. 4: Punkydoodle and Tollapin; [1] p.
  • Jamie's on the stormy sea; [5] p.
  • Jessie
    see An Easter carol
    see Sabbath morn
  • Joy, hope, love; [1] p.
    On verso: Unidentified sketch; [1] p.
    see also Little squirrels
  • The kitchen clock
    Copy 1; [1] p.
    Copy 2; [2] p.
    On p. 1: Music by Bob Thrush
  • Listen, listen see Little squirrels
  • Little squirrels; [4] p.
    Also on p. 3-4: Handel
    On p. 5: Punkydoodle and Tollapin; [1] p.
    Also on p. 5: Listen, listen (Joy, hope, love)
  • A million little diamonds see The trio
  • Night and day
    Copy 1; [1] p.
    Copy 2; [1] p.
    On verso: [The boy and the boot]; [1] p.
  • Punkydoodle and lollapin; [2] p.
    see also In the wood
    see also Little squirrels
  • Rain, hail, snow
    Copy 1: [2] p.
    Copy 2: [2] p.
  • Sabbath morn; [2] p.
    On p. 2: Jessie; [1] p.
  • Sewing; [1] p.
  • There's a ship; [4] p.
  • The trio
    Copy 1; [3] p.
    On p. 4: A million little diamonds; [1] p.
    Copy 2; [4] p.
  • A valentine; [2] p.
  • The wren and the hen
    Copy 1; [3] p.
    Copy 2; [2] p.
BOX-FOLDER 8/5 Concert-Allegro für die Violine
Copyist's ms. piano score; 26 p.
BOX-FOLDER 8/6 Concertstück im Charakter einer Serenade, op 9.
Copyist's ms. full score; [92] p.; 26 p., [9] p., 17 p., 38 p.
Laid in: holograph full score of second movement; 7 p.
BOX-FOLDER 8/7 Zweites concert für Violine
Holograph piano score; [36] p.
Uniform title: Concerto, violin, F# minor
BOX-FOLDER 8/8 Zweites concert für Violine
Holograph piano score; [28] p.
Differs from previous manuscript (Box/Folder 10/6)
Uniform title: Concerto, violin, F# minor
BOX-FOLDER 8/9 Zweites violinconcert (G-dur) mit Orchester
Copyist's ms. violin part; [23] p.
Uniform title: Concerto, violin, G major
BOX-FOLDER 8/10 Faust 1879
Holograph piano sketch; [3] p.
On p. 1: Juni 1879
BOX-FOLDER 8/11 Der fremden Kinder heiliger Christ
Holograph piano-vocal score; [8] p.
BOX-FOLDER 8/12 Frisch gesungen!
Holograph full score; [2] p.
Holograph parts; [12] p.
Laid in: cover [2] p.
BOX-FOLDER 8/13 Frühlingsahnung
Holograph vocal score; [2] p.
BOX-FOLDER 8/14 Hymenäen I-II
Holograph piano score; [10] p.
BOX-FOLDER 8/15 König Harald Harfagar
Copyist's ms. piano-vocal score; [10] p.
BOX-FOLDER 8/16 Maireigen : Lied für eine Singstimme
Copyist's ms. piano-vocal score; [3] p.
BOX-FOLDER 8/17 Mazurka für Violine mit begleiten der Pianoforte
Holograph piano score; [2] p. [version 1]
BOX-FOLDER 8/18 Mazurka für Violine mit begleiten der Pianoforte
Holograph piano score; [2] p. [version 2]
BOX-FOLDER 8/19 Musik für "Jungfrau von Orleans" von Schiller
Holograph full score; [200] p.
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