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Project Files, 1936-1985 (continued)
The Wedding Dress, 1984 and undated (continued)
Synopsis; notes
BOX-FOLDER 39/3 Young Man with a Harp, 1939-1940, 1955, and undated
Clippings; programs; photograph of Guy Frazier Harrison; biography of Casper Reardon
BOX-FOLDER 39/4 Unidentified, 1978 and undated
Synopses and notes for three productions; partial script for one production
BOX 39-42 Correspondence, 1922-1987
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.
Arranged alphabetically by last name.
BOX-FOLDER 39/5 Allen, Steve, undated
BOX-FOLDER 39/6 Bankhead, Talullah, 1968-1970?
BOX-FOLDER 39/7 Bartenieff, George, 1984
BOX-FOLDER 39/8 Boles, Lester, 1987
BOX-FOLDER 39/9 Boulanger, Nadia, 1947-1950
BOX-FOLDER 39/10 Brennen, Jim, undated
BOX-FOLDER 39/11 Brodsky, Vera, undated
BOX-FOLDER 39/12 Burr, Courtney, 1984-1985
BOX-FOLDER 39/13 Cahn, Sammy, 1987
BOX-FOLDER 39/14 Chernow, Marlene, 1975
BOX-FOLDER 39/15 Chotzinoff, Samuel, 1946
BOX-FOLDER 39/16 Cohen, Aaron I., 1977
BOX-FOLDER 39/17 Copelin, David, 1985
BOX-FOLDER 40/23 Delinks, Charles Edwin, undated
BOX-FOLDER 39/18 Douglass, Olive May?, 1978-1979
BOX-FOLDER 39/19 Engel, Carl, 1942
BOX-FOLDER 39/20 Faulkner, Virginia, 1947, 1974-1975, and undated
BOX-FOLDER 39/21 Feinstein, Michael, 1986-1987
BOX-FOLDER 39/22 Feist, Leonard, 1942
BOX-FOLDER 39/23 Fennell, Frederick, 1955-1957
BOX-FOLDER 39/24 Fiedler, Arthur, 1975
BOX-FOLDER 39/25 Flournoy, Mrs. L. S., 1926
BOX-FOLDER 39/26 Gabrielle, Blanche, 1956
BOX-FOLDER 39/27 Gaxton, William, undated
BOX-FOLDER 39/28 Gershwin, Ira, 1974
BOX-FOLDER 39/29 Glover, David Carr, 1986
BOX-FOLDER 39/30 Goossens, Eugene, 1943
BOX-FOLDER 39/31 Green, Bill, 1986
BOX-FOLDER 39/32 Greene, Luther, undated
BOX-FOLDER 39/33 Hammerstein, Oscar, 1945
BOX-FOLDER 39/34 Harter, Hugh, 1952-1955, 1980-1987
BOX-FOLDER 39/35 Hassan, Alex, 1986
BOX-FOLDER 40/1 Hildegard, 1978
BOX-FOLDER 40/2 Hogan, Sallie L., 1926-1927
BOX-FOLDER 40/3 Holeman, Frank, 1956
BOX-FOLDER 40/4 Jacobi, Herbert, 1947
BOX-FOLDER 40/5 Kiley, Mr., 1986
BOX-FOLDER 40/6 King, Clinton, 1943
BOX-FOLDER 40/7 Kroeger, Ernest R., 1926
BOX-FOLDER 40/8 Lax, Roger, 1987
BOX-FOLDER 40/9 Logan, Joshua, 1940, 1951, 1986
BOX-FOLDER 40/10 Lyman, Cora, 1926
BOX-FOLDER 40/11 Malkovich, Mark, 1975
BOX-FOLDER 40/12-19 Mintun, Peter, 1972-1987 and undated
BOX-FOLDER 40/20 Perry, Richard, 1986
BOX-FOLDER 40/21 Potter, Coral S., 1975
BOX-FOLDER 40/22 Quarrier, Arthur, 1926, 1938, 1957
BOX-FOLDER 40/24 to 41/11 Quarrier, Nina, 1929-1964 and undated
BOX-FOLDER 41/12-13 Quarrier, Nina and Robert Chave Stevens, 1947-1949, 1956-1957
BOX-FOLDER 41/14 Robertson, Ethel Bartlett, 1943 and undated
BOX-FOLDER 41/15 Robbins, Jack J., 1941, 1953-1956, and undated
BOX-FOLDER 41/16 Roosevelt, Franklin Delano and Eleanor, undated
BOX-FOLDER 41/17 Rower, Ann, undated
BOX-FOLDER 41/18 Rule, James S., 1961
BOX-FOLDER 41/19 Safford, Edwin, 1975
BOX-FOLDER 41/20 Salzedo, Carlos, 1941
BOX-FOLDER 41/21 Schonseld, Moses, 1975
BOX-FOLDER 41/22 Schwarz, Ellen, undated
BOX-FOLDER 41/23 Serlin, Oscar, 1945
BOX-FOLDER 41/24 Spialek, Hans, 1980
BOX-FOLDER 41/25-27 St. George, Philip, 1971-1981
BOX-FOLDER 41/28 Staff, Virgil, 1984
BOX-FOLDER 41/29-34 Stern, Miriam, 1974-1982, 1987
BOX-FOLDER 41/35 Swift, Kay, 1986
BOX-FOLDER 42/1 Vardi, Emanuel, 1975
BOX-FOLDER 42/2 Waters, Frank, 1932
BOX-FOLDER 42/3 Weiss, George David, 1984
BOX-FOLDER 42/4 Whitlock, Clyde E., 1936
BOX-FOLDER 42/5 Whorf, Michael, 1975
BOX-FOLDER 42/6 Woodsore, Mrs., undated
BOX-FOLDER 42/7-12 Unidentified, 1922, 1940-1950, 1957, 1965, 1972-1974, 1980-1986, and undated
BOX 21, 28, 42-44 Biographical Materials, 1978-1999
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.
Arranged alphabetically by subject.
BOX-FOLDER 42/13 Account of Dana Suesse's last days, 1987 October 11-16
By Philip St. George
BOX-FOLDER 42/14-15 Address books, undated
BOX-FOLDER 21/9 Artwork, Pencil drawings, 1925
BOX-FOLDER 21/10, 28/10 Artwork. Paintings, undated
BOX-FOLDER 42/16 Awards. Missouri Federation of Music Clubs, 1923-1925
BOX-FOLDER 42/17 Birth and death records, 1909-1987
BOX-FOLDER 42/18 Dancing, 1927-1929
BOX-FOLDER 42/19 France, 1947-1950
BOX-FOLDER 42/20 Genealogy information and family history, undated
BOX-FOLDER 42/21 Gertrude Concannon School of Music brochure, 1919-1920
Juvenilia
BOX-FOLDER 42/22 Book of inspirational quotes, 1923
BOX-FOLDER 42/23 First organ recital notes, 1921
BOX-FOLDER 42/24 Nadine's Book of Faces, 1923-1924
BOX-FOLDER 42/25 Smart Clothes, 1920-1926
Fashion designs; research materials
BOX-FOLDER 42/26 Larry Spier. Carnegie Hall dinner party, 1932
Legal documents
BOX-FOLDER 42/27 ASCAP Board Review, protest of Billy Rose, 1960
BOX-FOLDER 42/28 Harms contracts, 1933-1935, 1960
BOX-FOLDER 42/29 Will, 1986-1987
BOX-FOLDER 43/1 Life chronology, 1878-1987
Note: Much of this information is taken from Suesse's datebooks, but this is not an exact transcription
BOX-FOLDER 43/2 Marriage certificate/ceremony, 1971
Mintun, Peter
Correspondence; compiled research material
BOX-FOLDER 43/3 Carnegie Hall Concert, 1974
BOX-FOLDER 43/4-5 Correspondence, 1973-1999, 2011, and undated
BOX-FOLDER 43/6 Dinner Party at Bohemian Club, 1979
BOX-FOLDER 43/7 Miscellaneous, undated
BOX-FOLDER 43/8-9 Philip St. George materials, 1972-1995
BOX-FOLDER 43/10 Songmakers of the Nation (film), 1973-1974
BOX-FOLDER 43/11 Sweet Surrender (film), 1973-1998
BOX-FOLDER 43/12 Yours For a Song: The Women of Tin Pan Alley (PBS television program), 1999
BOX-FOLDER 43/13 Miscellaneous, 1934, 1943-1944, 1975, and undated
BOX-FOLDER 43/14 to 44/1 Nobody Gets Top Billing, undated
Possible memoir (incomplete)
Includes: Anecdotes about colleagues listed in alphabetical order
BOX-FOLDER 44/2 Obituaries, 1988
BOX-FOLDER 44/3 Poetry, 1916-1935, 1966, 1971
BOX-FOLDER 44/4 Poetry. "Non-Suesse poems," undated
BOX-FOLDER 21/11 Professional memberships, 1933-1981
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