Mellichamp, Nell V. Nell V. Mellichamp papers, 1868-1981.
Title:
Nell V. Mellichamp papers, 1868-1981.
Consisting of correspondence, manuscript and published music, recital programs, newspaper articles, and miscellaneous related items documenting Mellichamp's career as a piano teacher in Columbia and music teacher at Heathwood Hall Episcopal School as well as her involvement with such civic organizations as the U.S.O., Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Altrusa Club, and Mozart Music Club. Also including Mellichamp's manuscript and published verse; 86 recital programs, 1917-1981, from Mellichamp Studio, Columbia; programs from other Columbia area cultural events, including those sponsored by Columbia College; undated music manuscripts of Columbian M. Berry Seay; articles and miscellaneous items re Mrs. Crosby Adams, Mellichamp's teacher and noted piano pedagogy instructor. Collection includes 74 photographs of Mellichamp's family, friends, and students, and including photograph, Feb. 1929, of Nell Mellichamp and her "Music Students Band of Mercy," a children's organization promoting the humane treatment of animals. Also includes courtship letters, 23 May 1868 - 23 July 1869, between Mellichamp's parents, Saint Lo Horace Mellichamp and Amelia McMillan; and correspondence of Mrs. Crosby Adams, James F. Byrnes, Kirkman George Finlay, Robert W. Gibbes, Carol Glen, Ernest F. Hollings, Marian [Mrs. Edward] MacDowell, Fitz Hugh McMaster, Carew Rice, James Henry Rice, Jr., Virginia [Mrs. Donald] Russell, William W. Scranton, Charles E. Thomas, and Lurleen B. [Mrs. George] Wallace. Bound volumes, 1886-1966, include piano pedagogy notebooks, poetry notebooks, scrapbook, and journals, including 2 volumes, 1921-1947 and 1926-1927, private journal with references to grief and depression over death of Mellichamp's sister, Amelia Eliza Mellichamp; scrapbook, 1937-1939, South Carolina Federation of Music Clubs, Junior Division; scrapbook, 1938-1939, re Bishop Kirkman George Finlay; and 3 scrapbooks, 1939-1962, 1943, and 1965-1966, Mozart Music Club, Columbia.
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761 items and 35 v.
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