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MacColl/Seeger, 1846-2009 (bulk 1930-1995) (continued)
BOX 185-193 Correspondence, 1959-1994
The Correspondence subseries documents the entire range of Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger's activities: performing, composing, business management, and relationships with friends and family. The correspondence concerns MacColl/Seeger tour arrangements in Australia, Canada, Europe, and the United States; Singers Club schedules; visits from American friends and family; operation of Blackthorne Records, creation and distribution of the New City Songster and song rights and their management. MacColl and Seeger's involvement in social issues such as the anti-nuclear movement and women's rights is also apparent through invitations to perform or speak at various political events.

Significant correspondents include: all of Peggy Seeger's siblings, their spouses, and several of her nieces and nephews; Ruth Crawford Seeger biographers Matilda Gaume, David Nicholls, and Judith Tuck; musicologists and friends Sidney Robertson Cowell, Gershon Legman, Alan Lomax, and Ralph Rinzler; performers Billy Bragg, Hazel Dickens, Alice Gerrard, Ruthie Gorton, Christy Moore, Faith Petric, Sally Rogers, and Paddy Tunney.

Most of the correspondence consists of letters sent to EM/PS with very limited responses by either or both of them. The exception is the period 1983 to 1987 when dictation was used to respond to mail. During this period incoming mail was assigned a handwritten number and that number was placed on outgoing mail. However, even during this period the ratio of responses to incoming mail is small.

Materials consist of clippings, correspondence, invoices, poetry, reports, and song lyrics and notated music.
Arranged into two file units: General Correspondence and Condolence Letters and Cards. Each is arranged chronologically.
BOX 185-192 General Correspondence, 1959-1994

Materials consist of clippings, correspondence, invoices, poetry, reports, and song lyrics and notated music.
Arranged chronologically. Note that European dating style (dd/mm/yyyy) is used for much of the correspondence.
BOX-FOLDER 185/1 1959-1966 and undated
Correspondents include: Gershon Legman, Bert Lloyd, Alan Lomax, and Earl Robinson
BOX-FOLDER 185/2 1967
Correspondents include: Penny Seeger Cohen and Libba Cotten
BOX-FOLDER 185/3 1968
Correspondents include: Gershon Legman
Includes: Vietnamese translation of MacColl's Ho Chi Minh song
BOX-FOLDER 185/4 1969
Correspondents include: Alan Lomax
BOX-FOLDER 185/5 1970
Correspondents include: Barbara Dane and Gershon Legman
Includes: "Black Panther Chant" as transcribed by Pete Seeger
BOX-FOLDER 185/6 1971
Correspondents include: Barbara Dane, George Dunn, Mike Seeger, Pete Seeger, Irwin Silber, Paddy Tunney, and Sam Wanamaker
BOX-FOLDER 185/7 1972
Correspondents include: Edith Fowke, Mike Seeger, Toshi Seeger, and Irwin Silber
BOX-FOLDER 185/8 1973
Correspondents include: Joe Heaney, Elsie Seeger, Mike Seeger, Irwin Silber, and Hally Wood
BOX-FOLDER 185/9 1974
Correspondents include: Barbara Dane, Gershon Legman, Alan Lomax, and Malvina Reynolds
BOX-FOLDER 185/10 1975
Correspondents include: Barbara Dane, Matilda Gaume, Alice Gerrard, Gershon Legman, Kate and Ralph Rinzler, Mike Seeger, and Pete Seeger
BOX-FOLDER 186/1 1976
Correspondents include: Barbara Dane, Sidney Robertson Cowell, Philip Donnellan, Neill MacColl, Mario Maffi, John Seeger, and Mike Seeger
BOX-FOLDER 186/2 1977 January-June
Correspondents include: Eric Bogle and Matilda Gaume
BOX-FOLDER 186/3 1977 July-December and undated
Correspondents include: Matilda Gaume, Howard Goorney, Ruthie Gorton, Clint Jencks, Gershon Legman, Alan Lomax, Charles Parker, Mike Seeger, and Pete Seeger
BOX-FOLDER 186/4 1978 January-June
Correspondents include: Matilda Gaume, Howard Goorney, Ruthie Gorton, Joe Heaney, Gershon Legman, Alan Lomax, and Mike Seeger
BOX-FOLDER 186/5 1978 July-December and undated
Correspondents include: Gershon Legman and Tambimutti
BOX-FOLDER 186/6 1979 January-June and undated
Correspondents include: Luiz Heitor Corrêa de Azevedo, John Cohen, Penny Seeger Cohen, Bess Lomax Hawes, Gershon Legman, Mike Seeger, and Pete Seeger
BOX-FOLDER 186/7 1979 July-December
Correspondents include: Eric Bogle, Sidney Robertson Cowell, Alf Edwards, Howard Goorney, Alan Lomax, Kirsty MacColl, Mario Maffi, Mike Seeger, and Paddy Tunney
BOX-FOLDER 186/8 1980 January-June
Correspondents include: Penny Seeger Cohen, Sally Rogers, Barbara Seeger, Charles Seeger, III, and Naomi Seeger
BOX-FOLDER 187/1 1980 July-December
Correspondents include: Barbara Seeger and Mike Seeger
BOX-FOLDER 187/2 1981 January-June
Correspondents include: Philip Donnellan, Alice Gerrard, Howard Goorney, Charles Seeger, III, Naomi Seeger, and Paddy Tunney
BOX-FOLDER 187/3 1981 July-December and undated
Correspondents include: Philip Donnellan, Barbara Seeger, Mike Seeger, Pete Seeger, and Tambimutti
BOX-FOLDER 187/4 1982 January-June
Correspondents include: Hazel Dickens, Edith Fowke, Matilda Gaume, Johanna Halbeisen, Jeremy Seeger, Mike Seeger, Naomi Seeger, and Penny Seeger
BOX-FOLDER 187/5 1982 July-December and undated
Correspondents include: Sally Rogers and Pete Seeger
BOX-FOLDER 187/6 1983 January-March
Correspondents include: Philip Donnellan, Alice Gerrard, Howard Goorney, Polly Gott, Johanna Halbeisen, Christy Moore, and Tony Seeger
Includes: Mark Greenberg, "Peggy Seeger - The Art of Folk Accompaniment" and Peggy Seeger review of Folk Songs of the Catskills (typescript)
BOX-FOLDER 187/7 1983 April-June
Correspondents include: Jeremy Seeger, Mike Seeger, and Pete Seeger
Includes: Typescript of Pete Seeger's report on Nicaragua's Second Annual Festival of New Songs of Latin America
BOX-FOLDER 187/8 1983 July-December and undated
Correspondents include: Alf Edwards, Johanna Halbeisen, Gershon Legman, David Nicholls, Jeremy Seeger, Naomi Seeger, and Pete Seeger
BOX-FOLDER 188/1 1984 January-June
Correspondents include: Sidney Robertson Cowell, Johanna Halbesien, Mike Seeger, Pete Seeger, Denise Venturi, and Stewart Young
BOX-FOLDER 188/2 1984 July-December
Correspondents include: Penny Seeger Cohen, Frank Elliott, Johanna Halbeisen, Faith Petric, Mike Seeger, and Judith Tick
Includes: Notated music for Phil House, "What If the Russians Didn't Come?"
BOX-FOLDER 188/3 1984 undated
Includes: Notated music and lyrics for Betsy Rose, "Manitoba 1981"
BOX-FOLDER 188/4 1985 January-March
Correspondents include: Sidney Robertson Cowell, Alan Lomax, and Stewart Young
BOX-FOLDER 188/5 1985 April- June
Correspondents include: Johanna Halbeisen, Mike Seeger, Pete Seeger, Irwin Silber, and Judith Tick
BOX-FOLDER 188/6 1985 July-December
Correspondents include: Sidney Robertson Cowell, Philip Donnellan, Matilda Gaume, Faith Petric, Mike Seeger, and Judith Tick
BOX-FOLDER 188/7 1985 and undated
Correspondents include: Luiz Heitor Corrêa de Azevedo, John Cohen, Penny Seeger Cohen, Bess Lomax Hawes, Gershon Legman, Mike Seeger, and Pete Seeger
BOX-FOLDER 189/1 1986 January-March
Correspondents include: Philip Donnellan, Johanna Halbesien, Hamish Henderson, and Mike Seeger
Includes: Typescript of Trevor Fisher, "Radio and the Popular Voice"
BOX-FOLDER 189/2 1986 April-June
Correspondents include: Sidney Robertson Cowell, Johanna Halbeisen, Hamish Henderson, Naomi Seeger Hvolbek, Mike Seeger, and Pete Seeger
BOX-FOLDER 189/3 1986 July-December
Correspondents include: Matilda Gaume, Johanna Halbeisen, and Pete Seeger
BOX-FOLDER 189/4 1986 and undated
BOX-FOLDER 189/5 1987 January-March
Correspondents include: Sidney Robertson Cowell, Elsa Corbluth, Matilda Gaume, Alan Lomax, and Charles Seeger, III
Includes: Eilidh Boadella, I won't paint any tears
BOX-FOLDER 189/6 1987 April-June
Correspondents include: Elsa Corbluth, Sidney Robertson Cowell, and Barbara Dane
Includes: Lead sheet for Frank Purcell "Title Deeds"
BOX-FOLDER 189/7 1987 July-October
Correspondents include: Johanna Halbeisen and Mike Seeger
Includes: Libba Cotten obituary
BOX-FOLDER 190/1 1987 November-December and undated
Correspondents include: Elsa Corbluth, Gershon Legman, Alan Lomax, Christy Moore, and Mike Seeger
BOX-FOLDER 190/2 1988 January-March
Correspondents include: Barbara Dane, Johanna Halbeisen, Elvira Hauschild, and Pete Seeger
Includes: Brian Stone, "Song Writing and Music: Master Classes for Documentary and Community Plays with Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger" and Goldsmith College, "Minds of Our Own: Second Research Report on the Outreach Education Project"
BOX-FOLDER 190/3 1988 April-June
Correspondents include: Philip Donnellan, Hamish Henderson, and Sally Rogers
BOX-FOLDER 190/4 1988 July-December
Correspondents include: Elvira Hauschild, Mike Seeger, and Pete Seeger
Includes: Words and music for Jerry Spring, "The Rambler Farewell"
BOX-FOLDER 190/5 1988 undated
BOX-FOLDER 190/6 1989 January-March
Correspondents include: Elsa Corbluth, Sidney Robertson Cowell, Johanna Halbeisen, Elvira Hauschild, and Mike Seeger
Includes: Words for Hunter and Paley, "Ballad of Lewes Gaol"
BOX-FOLDER 190/7 1989 April-June
Correspondents include: Sidney Robertson Cowell, Johanna Halbeisen, Jeremy Seeger, and Mike Seeger
Includes: Charles D. Laird, "Huntington Disease: Proposed Mechanism of Mutation, Inheritance, and Expression"
BOX-FOLDER 190/8 1989 July-December
Correspondents include: Billy Bragg, Sonya Cohen, Edith Fowke, Johanna Halbeisen, Elvira Hauschild, Hamish Henderson, Mike Seeger, and Pete Seeger
Includes: Billy Bragg's manuscript lyrics for "A New Internationale"
BOX-FOLDER 191/1 1989 undated
BOX-FOLDER 191/2 1990 January-June
Correspondents include: Billy Bragg, Elsa Corbluth, Barbara Dane, Johanna Halbeisen, Elvira Hauschild, Sandra Kerr, Inez Seeger, Mike Seeger, Pete Seeger, and Irwin Silber
BOX-FOLDER 191/3 1990 July-December and undated
Correspondents include: Penny Seeger Cohen, Elsa Corbluth, Johanna Halbeisen, Charles Seeger, III, Jeremy Seeger, Kate Seeger, Mike Seeger, Pete Seeger, Toshi Seeger, and Eva Wachsmann
BOX-FOLDER 191/4 1991 January-June
Correspondents include: Penny Seeger Cohen, Elsa Corbluth, Elvira Hauschild, Hamish Henderson, Faith Petric, Mike Seeger, and Paddy Tunney
Includes: Keith McKenry, "A Tale of Two Cities" and "Talking Kuwait Blues and other poems," and Paddy Tunney, "Where the Songs Do Thunder," chapter 2
BOX-FOLDER 191/5 1991 July-December and undated
Correspondents include: Johanna Halbeisen, John Seeger, Jeremy Seeger, Mike Seeger, and Pete Seeger
BOX-FOLDER 191/6 1992 January-September
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