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BOX 1-27, 571 Correspondence, 1912-1999
This series consists of autograph and typescript letters and telegrams between Ira and George Gershwin and others, both personal and professional. Correspondents include prominent lyricists and songwriters of the time, such as Milton Ager, Harold Arlen, Irving Berlin, Neil Diamond, Howard Dietz, Sylvia Fine, Otto Harbach, Yip Harburg, Jerome Kern, Alan Jay Lerner, and Johnny Mercer. They also exchanged letters with composers Burton Lane, Richard Rodgers, Sigmund Romberg, Stephen Sondheim, Kay Swift, as well as Nadia Boulanger, Aaron Copland, Vernon Duke, Andre Kostelanetz, Ned Rorem, and Kurt Weill. Actors and entertainers in their network included Adele and Fred Astaire, John Bubbles, Ella Fitzgerald, Gene Kelly, Gertrude Lawrence, Lotte Lenya, Groucho Marx, Ethel Merman, Ginger Rogers, and Frank Sinatra. Letters with Louis Aborn, Max Dreyfus, Samuel Goldwyn, Alfred Knopf Jr., Gus Schirmer, Herman Starr, and Florenz Ziegfeld further reveal their involvement within the music, film, and publishing industries. The most extensive correspondence is that with the law office of Ira Gershwin's attorney, Leonard Saxe. This series also includes a sampling of Christmas cards and fan mail.
Arranged alphabetically by correspondent and chronologically therein.
BOX-FOLDER 1/22 "A" miscellaneous, 1932-2008 and undated
BOX-FOLDER 1/1 Aarons, Alex, 1923-1936
BOX-FOLDER 1/2, 571/5 Aborn, Louis, 1958-1977
BOX-FOLDER 1/3 Abramson, Max, 1918-1937
BOX-FOLDER 1/4 Adams, Franklin P., 1952
BOX-FOLDER 1/5 Adler, Jerry, 1961-1966
BOX-FOLDER 1/6 Adler, Larry, 1952-1987
BOX-FOLDER 1/7 Ager, Milton and Cecelia, 1963
BOX-FOLDER 1/8 Alajalov, Constantin, 1932
BOX-FOLDER 1/9 Alexandre, Emanuel, 1937-1971
BOX-FOLDER 1/10 Allan, Elizabeth, 1936
BOX-FOLDER 1/11 Allen, Steve, 1960-1974
BOX-FOLDER 1/12 Alter, Louis, 1960
BOX-FOLDER 1/13 Antheil, George, 1936
BOX-FOLDER 1/14 Arlen, Harold, 1946-1976
BOX-FOLDER 1/15 Armitage, Merle, 1936-1965
BOX-FOLDER 1/16 ASCAP, 1964-1976
BOX-FOLDER 1/17 Astaire, Adele, 1922-1928
BOX-FOLDER 1/18 Astaire, Fred, 1922-1982
BOX-FOLDER 1/19 Atkinson, Brooks, 1964
BOX-FOLDER 1/20 Auer, Leopold, 1930
BOX-FOLDER 1/21 Axelrod, George, 1966
BOX-FOLDER 4/1-3 "B" miscellaneous, 1920-1985 and undated
BOX-FOLDER 2/1 Bacall, Lauren, 1959
BOX-FOLDER 2/2 Balanchine, George, 1964-1969?
BOX-FOLDER 2/3 Ballard, Kaye, 1979
BOX-FOLDER 2/4 Behrman, S.N., 1924-1969
BOX-FOLDER 2/5 Bennett, Robert Russell, 1920-1953
BOX-FOLDER 2/6 Benny, Jack and Mary, undated
BOX-FOLDER 2/7 Bergman, Alan and Marilyn, 1975
BOX-FOLDER 2/8 Berlin, Irving, 1925-1987
BOX-FOLDER 2/9 Bing, Rudolf, 1952
BOX-FOLDER 2/10 Blanc, Ron, 1974-1975
BOX-FOLDER 2/11 Bolton, Guy, 1926-1977
BOX-FOLDER 2/12 Borne, Hal, 1963
BOX-FOLDER 2/13 Botkin, Benjamin, 1915-1973
BOX-FOLDER 2/14-16 Botkin, Henry A. ("Harry"), 1914-1973
BOX-FOLDER 3/1 Boulanger, Nadia, 1928
BOX-FOLDER 3/2 Bowles, Paul, 1962-1973
BOX-FOLDER 3/3 Braggiotti, Gloria, 1936
BOX-FOLDER 3/4-7 Breen, Robert, 1950-1978
BOX-FOLDER 3/8 Bricusse, Leslie, 1968-1978
BOX-FOLDER 3/9 Brooks, Paul (Houghton Mifflin), 1953
BOX-FOLDER 3/10 Brown, Anne, 1978
BOX-FOLDER 3/11 Brown, Barry, 1974-1975
BOX-FOLDER 3/12 Brown, Nacio Herb, 1960
BOX-FOLDER 3/13 Bubbles, John, 1974-1975
BOX-FOLDER 5/1-2 "C" miscellaneous, 1924-1986 and undated
BOX-FOLDER 4/4 Cacavas, John, 1967-1968
BOX-FOLDER 4/5 Caen, Herb, 1969-1987
BOX-FOLDER 4/6 Cadman, Charles Wakefield, 1927-1935
BOX-FOLDER 4/7 Caesar, Irving, 1918?-1971
BOX-FOLDER 4/8 Cahn, Sammy, 1958-1979
BOX-FOLDER 4/9 Capote, Truman, 1959
BOX-FOLDER 25/6 Cards depicting George and Ira Gershwin, 1996 and undated
BOX-FOLDER 4/10 Carpenter, John Alden, 1937
BOX-FOLDER 4/11 Cerf, Bennett, 1928-1936
BOX-FOLDER 4/12 Charnin, Martin, 1973
BOX-FOLDER 4/13 Chasins, Abram, 1927
Christmas
BOX-FOLDER 25/7 to 27/3 Cards, 1940-1990 and undated
BOX-FOLDER 27/4 Gifts, 1977, 1985
Notes that accompanied gifts, such as flowers and baked goods
Includes: List of mailgrams sent by Ira Gershwin
BOX-FOLDER 27/5 Honorable Greetings from Lee and Ira Gershwin, 1958
Hand-drawn cards with caricatures of Ira and Leonore bowing. Ira holds a cigar and the recipient's name was written in the smoke. Includes list of recipients, titled "sent cards with their names in smoke"
BOX-FOLDER 4/14 Cliff, Laddie, 1924
BOX-FOLDER 4/15 Clooney, Rosemary, 1980-1988
BOX-FOLDER 4/16 Colby, Frank, 1948-1950
BOX-FOLDER 4/17 Collier, Constance, 1924?
BOX-FOLDER 4/18 Comden, Betty, 1963-1972
BOX-FOLDER 4/19 Confrey, Zez, 1937
BOX-FOLDER 4/20 Connelly, Marc, 1924-1974
BOX-FOLDER 4/21 Coots, J. Fred, 1971-1973
BOX-FOLDER 4/22 Copland, Aaron, 1943
BOX-FOLDER 4/23 Coward, Noël, 1924
BOX-FOLDER 4/24 Crawford, Cheryl, 1942
BOX-FOLDER 4/25 Crowninshield, Frank, 1927-1933?
BOX-FOLDER 4/26 Cukor, George, 1979
BOX-FOLDER 6/4 "D" miscellaneous, 1926-1983 and undated
BOX-FOLDER 5/3 Dalrymple, Jean, 1961-1965
BOX-FOLDER 5/4 Daly, William, 1936
BOX-FOLDER 5/5 Darby, Ken, 1974-1975
BOX-FOLDER 5/6 Deacon, Richard, 1981
BOX-FOLDER 5/7 De Mille, Agnes, 1929
BOX-FOLDER 5/8 De Sylva, B. G. (Buddy Gard), 1925-1941
BOX-FOLDER 5/9 Diamond, Neil, 1974
BOX-FOLDER 5/10 Dibner, Martin, 1947-1981
BOX-FOLDER 5/11 Dickinson, Angie and Burt Bacharach, 1966-1980 and undated
BOX-FOLDER 5/12 Dietz, Howard, 1932-1974
BOX-FOLDER 1925 Donaldson, Will, 1925
BOX-FOLDER 5/14 Doráti, Antal, 1971
BOX-FOLDER 5/15 Downes, Olin, 1932
BOX-FOLDER 5/16 Dreyfus, Max, 1924-1960 and undated
BOX-FOLDER 5/17 Drutman, Irving, 1945-1975
BOX-FOLDER 6/1 Duke, Vernon, 1924-1962
BOX-FOLDER 6/2 Duncan, Todd, 1935-1978
BOX-FOLDER 6/3 Durham, Frank, 1951-1954
BOX-FOLDER 6/13 "E" miscellaneous, 1926-1976 and undated
BOX-FOLDER 6/5 Eliscu, Edward, 1976
BOX-FOLDER 6/6 Ellis, Mary, undated
BOX-FOLDER 6/7 Elson, Hilbert, undated
BOX-FOLDER 6/8 Engel, Lehman, 1969-1978
BOX-FOLDER 6/9 Evans, Charles, 1929-1932
see also George Gershwin: Letters to Charles Evans
BOX-FOLDER 6/10-12 Ewen, David, 1929-1983
BOX-FOLDER 7/12 "F" miscellaneous, 1912-1976 and undated
BOX-FOLDER 21/13-14 Fan mail, 1959-1987
BOX-FOLDER 7/1 Fennell, Frederick, 1971-1973
BOX-FOLDER 7/2 Ferber, Edna, 1928
BOX-FOLDER 7/3 Ferrer, Jose, 1980
BOX-FOLDER 7/4 Fields, Dorothy, 1953
BOX-FOLDER 7/5 Fine, Sylvia, 1941
BOX-FOLDER 7/6 Fitzgerald, Ella, 1959-1964
BOX-FOLDER 7/7 Fox, William, 1929
BOX-FOLDER 7/8 Freed, Arthur, 1966
BOX-FOLDER 7/9 Freedley, Vinton, 1931-1967
BOX-FOLDER 7/10 Freer, Eleanor Everest, 1937
BOX-FOLDER 7/11 Fuld, James J., 1956-1972
BOX-FOLDER 9/3-4 "G" miscellaneous, 1925-1983
BOX-FOLDER 27/11 Gallagher, Irene, 1942
BOX-FOLDER 7/13 Ganay, Countess Elie de, 1928
BOX-FOLDER 7/14 Garbat, A. L. (Abraham), 1936-1937 and undated
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