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Ruth Crawford Seeger, 1887-2005 (bulk 1912-1954) (continued)
Writings by Ruth Crawford Seeger, 1912-1950 (continued)
Writings by Ruth Crawford Seeger, 1912-1950 (continued)
Diaries, manuscript and typescript stories, school assignments, book drafts, and children's book mock-ups.
Select materials from boxes 14-15 and 90 are also available on microfilm, box 84/20216, reels 2 and 4-6. To promote preservation of the originals, researchers are required to consult the microfilm edition.
Arranged into three sub-subseries: Diaries; Poems, School Assignments, and Stories; and Professional Work.
BOX 87-88 Diaries, 1912-[1930]
Bound volumes and typescript sheets
Arranged chronologically by initial entry date
BOX-FOLDER 87/1 1912 March 5-8; 1914 March 29-July 21
BOX-FOLDER 87/2 1915 January 2-March 15
BOX-FOLDER 87/3 1915 January; 1917 July-December
Note: Entries dated January 1-10 written by Carl Crawford in 1915; Ruth Crawford entries begin with July 3
Note: Recorded in 1915 book; Ruth Crawford entries dated to 1917 by context
BOX-FOLDER 87/4 1917 July 3-1918 March 4
BOX-FOLDER 87/5 1918
BOX-FOLDER 87/6 1919 January 1-May 1
BOX-FOLDER 87/7 1927 July-August [15]
BOX-FOLDER 88/1 1928 October 29-December 9; 1929 July 1-October 6
BOX-FOLDER 88/2 [1930] February 14-August 30
Typescript
BOX 14, 88-89 Poems, School Assignments, and Stories, 1915-1929 and undated
Manuscript school essays, manuscript and typescript poems and short stories, and yearbooks
Arranged alphabetically by writing type
BOX-FOLDER 88/3 Poems, stories and such, 1915-1918 by Ruth Crawford Seeger, undated
Photocopy of booklet
Note: Compiled by Barbara Seeger Singleton
Note: Two copies
BOX-FOLDER 88/4 Poetry, 1927-1929
Typescript
Note: Annotated
BOX-FOLDER 88/5-6 School assignments, 1915 January 11-1916 May 7 and undated
Note: Arranged chronologically by assignment date; undated items arranged by essay title
BOX-FOLDER 88/7 Stories, undated
Holograph and typescript
BOX-FOLDER 88/8 Stories - Chirps of the Wren, undated
Handwritten and illustrated booklet
BOX-FOLDER 88/9-10 Stories - Drafts, 1922 and undated
Holograph
BOX-FOLDER 88/11 Fragments, undated
Holograph
BOX-FOLDER 14/2 Junaluska Scream, 1915 July; 1916 July-August
Stories - Manuscripts
BOX-FOLDER 88/12 "And Nadia finds him," undated
Note: As Ruth Graves Porter
BOX-FOLDER 88/13 Contributions to "Life in these United States," undated
BOX-FOLDER 88/14 "Image," undated
Note: As Ruth Graves
BOX-FOLDER 88/15 "Poor Mister Saint Peter," undated
Note: As Ruth Graves Porter
BOX-FOLDER 88/16 "Twenty-four hundred Pretty Street," undated
BOX-FOLDER 88/17 "Why don't they eat cake?", undated
Yearbook -The Oracle
BOX-FOLDER 14/1 Senior number, 1915
BOX-FOLDER 89/1-3 1916-1918
Note: Incomplete
Note: Issues include photographs of Ruth Crawford
BOX-FOLDER 89/4 1915-1918
Photocopies
Note: Includes list of Ruth Crawford yearbook writings
Note: Photocopies include items from missing issues of The Oracle
BOX 90, 14-16 Professional writing, 1940-1951 and undated
Articles, book drafts, music, and reviews
Arranged into two file units: Articles/Reviews and Books
Articles/Reviews
BOX-FOLDER 90/1 Miscellaneous, 1951
Includes:
  • John N. Work. American Negro songs for mixed voices
  • Why American folk music for our children?
  • Keep the song going!
BOX-FOLDER 90/2 Diary of a corporating woman, [1941]
Typescript
Note: Edited by Charles L. Seeger
Note: Formerly cataloged as ML95 .S42
BOX-FOLDER 90/3 It’s a grand day for the diapers[?], undated
Holograph sketches
BOX-FOLDER 90/4 Mother writes her editor, 1940 August 4
Typescript
Note: Includes version entitled "Dear Miss Prink"
Note: Formerly cataloged as ML95 .S42
Books
BOX-FOLDER 14/3 REEL 2 American Folksongs for Children, undated
Transcriptions and arrangements
Available on microfilm, box 84/20216, reel 2, item 42
BOX-FOLDER 14/4 REEL 2 American Folksongs for Children, undated
Transcriptions and arrangements
Includes: Includes Birds and Fish; Small Things
Available on microfilm, box 84/20216, reel 2, item 43
BOX-FOLDER 14/5 Birds and Fish, undated
Transcriptions and lyrics
BOX-FOLDER 15/1 Birds, etc., undated
Transcriptions and lyrics
BOX-FOLDER 15/2 Bought Me a Cat - layout #1, undated
Construction paper and pencil mock-up
BOX-FOLDER 15/3 Bought Me a Cat - layout #2, undated
Cardboard and paper; hand lettered
BOX-FOLDER 90/5 Christmas Old and New, undated
Drafts
BOX-FOLDER 15/4 REEL 4 Everybody Has a Song - layout #1, undated
Handlettered cardboard and construction paper mock-up with Ozalid score attached by gummed reinforcements
Transcriptions and lyrics
Available on microfilm, box 84/20216, reel 4, item 44
BOX-FOLDER 15/5 REEL 4 Everybody Has a Song - layout #2, undated
Construction paper mock-up with detached hand lettered page headers
Note: Includes transcriptions and lyrics
Available on microfilm, box 84/20216, reel 4, item 44a
BOX-FOLDER 16/1 REEL 5 Mary Had Her Red Dress on All Day Long - layout, undated
Hand lettered cardboard and construction paper mock-up with manuscript music glued to pages and pencil illustrations
Available on microfilm, box 84/20216, reel 5, item 45
BOX-FOLDER 90/6-8 REEL 5 Our Singing Country, undated
Note: Introduction, appendix, and melographs
Available on microfilm, box 84/20216, reel 5, item 47
BOX-FOLDER 90/9-10 REEL 5 Our Singing Country - preface, undated
see also Our Singing Country, Preface, 1995, 1997
Note: Draft identified as the "Beta version" in Seeger, Ruth Crawford and Larry Polansky. The Music of American Folk Song and Other Writings on American Music
Available on microfilm, box 84/20216, reel 5, item 47
BOX-FOLDER 90/11-13 REEL 5 Our Singing Country - preface, undated
see also Our Singing Country, Preface, 1995, 1997
Note: Draft identified as the "Alpha version" in Seeger, Ruth Crawford and Larry Polansky. The Music of American Folk Song and Other Writings on American Music
Available on microfilm, box 84/20216, reel 5, item 47
BOX-FOLDER 16/2 Small Things, undated
Annotated holograph and manuscript transcriptions and lyrics
BOX-FOLDER 90/14 REEL 6 Thunder - draft, undated
Note: Includes music
Available on microfilm, box 84/20216, reel 6, item 49
BOX-FOLDER 90/15 REEL 6 Lists of material transcribed for children's books, 1950 and undated
Available on microfilm, box 84/20216, reel 6, item 50
BOX 16-17, 91-92 Writings About Ruth Crawford Seeger, 1948-2005
Articles and theses arranged alphabetically by author; Book reviews arranged alphabetically by book title.
BOX-FOLDER 92/1 Alarick, Scott. "Ruth Crawford Seeger: Dual roots of a musical legacy," Boston Sunday Globe, 1967 October 10
BOX-FOLDER 92/2 Cardullo, Karen Mandeville. "Ruth Crawford Seeger: Preserver of American folk music," 1980 February 18
Thesis
BOX-FOLDER 92/3 Epstein, Mary Allmon. "Composer as educator through piano accompaniments composed by Ruth Crawford Seeger for American Folk Songs for Children," Kodály Envoy, 2003 Spring
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