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BOX 39-42 |
Correspondence, 1922-1987
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This series includes personal and professional correspondence, both typescript and
autograph, between Suesse and others. A substantial amount of letters to her
mother, Nina Quarrier, document her personal and professional life in New York
City as well as her trip abroad to study with Nadia Boulanger. A small number of
letters to and from her first husband Courtney Burr, second husband Charles Edwin
Delinks, step-father Robert Chase Stevens, uncle Arthur Quarrier, and grandmother
Sallie L. Hogan further document her family life.
The series also includes ample correspondence from her manager, Miriam Stern, that
documents the business aspect of Suesse's music career. Other letters provide a
snapshot of her vast network of prominent figures in the music, literary, and arts
scenes, including Tallulah Bankhead, George Bartieneff, Nadia Boulanger, Vera
Brodsky, Sammy Cahn, Samuel Chotzinoff, Virginia Faulkner, Michael Feinstein,
Leonard Feist, Frederick Fennell, Arthur Fiedler, William Gaxton, Ira Gershwin,
Oscar Hammerstein, Hildegard, Coral Potter, Ethel Bartlett Robertson, Jack
Robbins, Carlos Salzedo, Oscar Serlin, Hans Spialek, Kay Swift, and Emanuel
Vardi. |
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Arranged alphabetically by last name. |
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BOX-FOLDER 39/5 |
Allen, Steve, undated
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BOX-FOLDER 39/6 |
Bankhead, Talullah, 1968-1970?
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BOX-FOLDER 39/7 |
Bartenieff, George, 1984
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BOX-FOLDER 39/8 |
Boles, Lester, 1987
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BOX-FOLDER 39/9 |
Boulanger, Nadia, 1947-1950
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BOX-FOLDER 39/10 |
Brennen, Jim, undated
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BOX-FOLDER 39/11 |
Brodsky, Vera,
undated
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BOX-FOLDER 39/12 |
Burr, Courtney, 1984-1985
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BOX-FOLDER 39/13 |
Cahn, Sammy, 1987
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BOX-FOLDER 39/14 |
Chernow, Marlene, 1975
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BOX-FOLDER 39/15 |
Chotzinoff, Samuel, 1946
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BOX-FOLDER 39/16 |
Cohen, Aaron I., 1977
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BOX-FOLDER 39/17 |
Copelin, David, 1985
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BOX-FOLDER 40/23 |
Delinks, Charles Edwin,
undated
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BOX-FOLDER 39/18 |
Douglass, Olive May?, 1978-1979
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BOX-FOLDER 39/19 |
Engel, Carl, 1942
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BOX-FOLDER 39/20 |
Faulkner, Virginia, 1947, 1974-1975, and undated
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BOX-FOLDER 39/21 |
Feinstein, Michael, 1986-1987
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BOX-FOLDER 39/22 |
Feist, Leonard, 1942
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BOX-FOLDER 39/23 |
Fennell, Frederick, 1955-1957
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BOX-FOLDER 39/24 |
Fiedler, Arthur, 1975
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BOX-FOLDER 39/25 |
Flournoy, Mrs. L. S., 1926
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BOX-FOLDER 39/26 |
Gabrielle, Blanche, 1956
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BOX-FOLDER 39/27 |
Gaxton, William,
undated
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BOX-FOLDER 39/28 |
Gershwin, Ira, 1974
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BOX-FOLDER 39/29 |
Glover, David Carr, 1986
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BOX-FOLDER 39/30 |
Goossens, Eugene, 1943
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BOX-FOLDER 39/31 |
Green, Bill, 1986
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BOX-FOLDER 39/32 |
Greene, Luther,
undated
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BOX-FOLDER 39/33 |
Hammerstein, Oscar, 1945
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BOX-FOLDER 39/34 |
Harter, Hugh, 1952-1955, 1980-1987
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BOX-FOLDER 39/35 |
Hassan, Alex, 1986
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BOX-FOLDER 40/1 |
Hildegard, 1978
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BOX-FOLDER 40/2 |
Hogan, Sallie L., 1926-1927
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BOX-FOLDER 40/3 |
Holeman, Frank, 1956
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BOX-FOLDER 40/4 |
Jacobi, Herbert, 1947
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BOX-FOLDER 40/5 |
Kiley, Mr., 1986
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BOX-FOLDER 40/6 |
King, Clinton, 1943
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BOX-FOLDER 40/7 |
Kroeger, Ernest R., 1926
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BOX-FOLDER 40/8 |
Lax, Roger, 1987
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BOX-FOLDER 40/9 |
Logan, Joshua, 1940, 1951, 1986
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BOX-FOLDER 40/10 |
Lyman, Cora, 1926
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BOX-FOLDER 40/11 |
Malkovich, Mark, 1975
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BOX-FOLDER 40/12-19 |
Mintun, Peter, 1972-1987 and undated
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BOX-FOLDER 40/20 |
Perry, Richard, 1986
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BOX-FOLDER 40/21 |
Potter, Coral S., 1975
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BOX-FOLDER 40/22 |
Quarrier, Arthur, 1926, 1938, 1957
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BOX-FOLDER 40/24 to 41/11 |
Quarrier, Nina, 1929-1964 and undated
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BOX-FOLDER 41/12-13 |
Quarrier, Nina and Robert Chave
Stevens, 1947-1949,
1956-1957
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BOX-FOLDER 41/14 |
Robertson, Ethel Bartlett, 1943 and undated
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BOX-FOLDER 41/15 |
Robbins, Jack J., 1941, 1953-1956, and undated
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BOX-FOLDER 41/16 |
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano and
Eleanor, undated
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BOX-FOLDER 41/17 |
Rower, Ann, undated
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BOX-FOLDER 41/18 |
Rule, James S., 1961
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BOX-FOLDER 41/19 |
Safford, Edwin, 1975
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BOX-FOLDER 41/20 |
Salzedo, Carlos, 1941
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BOX-FOLDER 41/21 |
Schonseld, Moses, 1975
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BOX-FOLDER 41/22 |
Schwarz, Ellen,
undated
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BOX-FOLDER 41/23 |
Serlin, Oscar, 1945
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BOX-FOLDER 41/24 |
Spialek, Hans, 1980
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BOX-FOLDER 41/25-27 |
St. George, Philip, 1971-1981
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BOX-FOLDER 41/28 |
Staff, Virgil, 1984
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BOX-FOLDER 41/29-34 |
Stern, Miriam, 1974-1982, 1987
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BOX-FOLDER 41/35 |
Swift, Kay, 1986
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BOX-FOLDER 42/1 |
Vardi, Emanuel, 1975
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BOX-FOLDER 42/2 |
Waters, Frank, 1932
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BOX-FOLDER 42/3 |
Weiss, George David, 1984
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BOX-FOLDER 42/4 |
Whitlock, Clyde E., 1936
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BOX-FOLDER 42/5 |
Whorf, Michael, 1975
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BOX-FOLDER 42/6 |
Woodsore, Mrs.,
undated
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BOX-FOLDER 42/7-12 |
Unidentified, 1922, 1940-1950, 1957, 1965,
1972-1974, 1980-1986, and undated
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BOX 21, 28, 42-44 |
Biographical Materials, 1978-1999
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This series contains a variety of materials related to Suesse's career, including
awards, memberships, legal documents, and transcriptions from radio show
appearances. A possible memoir, "Nobody Gets Top Billing," provides anecdotes
regarding colleagues Suesse worked with, though it is incomplete. Other items
provide insight into Suesse's personal life. The juvenilia demonstrate that from
an early age Suesse was creative in other artistic mediums beside music. Suesse
also danced, wrote poetry, created paintings and drawings, and designed costumes
and dresses. Report cards, travel papers, personal and religious documents,
scrapbooks, a recipe book, and family historical information all reveal further
details about her life. There are also materials compiled by donor Peter Mintun,
including correspondence with others regarding Suesse, research materials
assembled about her, and details regarding a special dinner party Mintun planned
in her honor in 1979. |
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Arranged alphabetically by subject. |
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BOX-FOLDER 42/13 |
Account of Dana Suesse's last
days, 1987 October
11-16
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By Philip St. George |
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BOX-FOLDER 42/14-15 |
Address books,
undated
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BOX-FOLDER 21/9 |
Artwork, Pencil drawings, 1925
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BOX-FOLDER 21/10, 28/10 |
Artwork. Paintings,
undated
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BOX-FOLDER 42/16 |
Awards. Missouri Federation of
Music Clubs, 1923-1925
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BOX-FOLDER 42/17 |
Birth and death records, 1909-1987
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BOX-FOLDER 42/18 |
Dancing, 1927-1929
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BOX-FOLDER 42/19 |
France, 1947-1950
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BOX-FOLDER 42/20 |
Genealogy information and family
history, undated
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BOX-FOLDER 42/21 |
Gertrude Concannon School of Music
brochure, 1919-1920
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Juvenilia |
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BOX-FOLDER 42/22 |
Book of inspirational quotes,
1923
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BOX-FOLDER 42/23 |
First organ recital notes,
1921
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BOX-FOLDER 42/24 |
Nadine's Book of Faces, 1923-1924
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BOX-FOLDER 42/25 |
Smart Clothes, 1920-1926
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Fashion designs; research materials |
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BOX-FOLDER 42/26 |
Larry Spier. Carnegie Hall dinner
party, 1932
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Legal documents |
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BOX-FOLDER 42/27 |
ASCAP Board Review, protest of
Billy Rose, 1960
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BOX-FOLDER 42/28 |
Harms contracts, 1933-1935, 1960
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BOX-FOLDER 42/29 |
Will, 1986-1987
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BOX-FOLDER 43/1 |
Life chronology, 1878-1987
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Note: Much of this information is taken from
Suesse's datebooks, but this is not an exact transcription |
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BOX-FOLDER 43/2 |
Marriage certificate/ceremony,
1971
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Mintun, Peter |
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Correspondence; compiled research material |
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BOX-FOLDER 43/3 |
Carnegie Hall Concert, 1974
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BOX-FOLDER 43/4-5 |
Correspondence, 1973-1999, 2011, and
undated
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BOX-FOLDER 43/6 |
Dinner Party at Bohemian Club,
1979
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BOX-FOLDER 43/7 |
Miscellaneous,
undated
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BOX-FOLDER 43/8-9 |
Philip St. George materials,
1972-1995
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BOX-FOLDER 43/10 |
Songmakers of the Nation (film), 1973-1974
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BOX-FOLDER 43/11 |
Sweet Surrender (film), 1973-1998
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BOX-FOLDER 43/12 |
Yours For a Song: The Women of Tin Pan Alley
(PBS television program), 1999
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BOX-FOLDER 43/13 |
Miscellaneous, 1934, 1943-1944, 1975, and
undated
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BOX-FOLDER 43/14 to 44/1 |
Nobody Gets Top Billing,
undated
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Possible memoir (incomplete) |
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Includes: Anecdotes about colleagues listed in
alphabetical order |
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BOX-FOLDER 44/2 |
Obituaries, 1988
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BOX-FOLDER 44/3 |
Poetry, 1916-1935, 1966, 1971
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BOX-FOLDER 44/4 |
Poetry. "Non-Suesse poems,"
undated
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BOX-FOLDER 21/11 |
Professional memberships, 1933-1981
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BOX-FOLDER 44/5 |
Promotional brochure, 1925
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BOX-FOLDER 44/6 |
Radio program transcriptions,
1934-1939
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BOX-FOLDER 44/7 |
Recipe book, undated
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BOX-FOLDER 21/12; 44/8 |
Religious documents, 1911, 1957-1958, 1967
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BOX-FOLDER 44/9 |
School report card, 1925-1926
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