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Abell, Charles T.,. Charles T. Abell collection of southern Civil War songs and ballads, ca. 1861-1925 (inclusive), ca. 1861-1865 (bulk)

Title: Charles T. Abell collection of southern Civil War songs and ballads, ca. 1861-1925 (inclusive), ca. 1861-1865 (bulk)

Printed songs and ballads (no musical notation), mounted on pages of a bound scrapbook. With autograph letters, signed, to professors Franz Rickaby of Claremont, Calif. and to George L. Kittredge of Harvard, as well as manuscript notes by Kittredge.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (.1 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84670167 View

Branch, Anna Hempstead, 1875-1937,. Miscellaneous material laid in Lindsay family books [manuscript], 1875-

Title: Miscellaneous material laid in Lindsay family books [manuscript], 1875-

The collection contains miscellaneous items laid in books in the libraries of the Lindsay family including Vachel Lindsay, his mother and father Vachel Thomas and Catherine Frazee Lindsay, and his wife, Elizabeth Conner Lindsay. Items directly connected with Vachel Lindsay include a draft letter and notes mentioning English poets signed by Lindsay; brief notes including two pages discussing Milton and Sidney Lanier; a printed copy of "What is beauty in word and rhythm?"; a manuscript of the poem "The lost battle"; two letters from Witter Bynner to Lindsay complimenting his work, 1910; a complimentary letter from Anna Hempstead Branch, 1912; letters from Glenn Hughes and William Ellery Leonard requesting liteary contributions; a letter from John Hall Wheelock on his ideas and beliefs, 1914; and a thank you from Charles A. Lindbergh. Also two programs, 1920, from "A farewell recital of his poems"; an order form for the Cornhill Booklet; proofsheets for poetry by James Underhill Lupton, some annotated by Lindsay; "an afterword" referring to Franz Rickaby; and assorted bookmarks, cards and financial papers. The collection also contains a fragment of a letter from Tyrus Hillway of "The Explicator" to Elizabeth Lindsay, 1946 December 18, enquiring about Lindsay's epitheths for horns; and a typescript of an article "A poet and his audience" by Elizabeth C. Lindsay. Printed material includes a religious pamphlet "Truths for the People" by Cunningham Geikee [sic]; a bookmark with a number if epigrams on "harmony"; a memoranda by Cicero J. Lindly concerning an amendment to create a Lakes to the Gulf Deep Waterway; "Afterword" to Franz Lee Rickaby's "Set of sonnets"; a printed description (for tourists?) of the Marquis of Huntly's mansion in (Edingburgh?); a clipping on the town of Hiram, Ohio, that mentions Lindsay; a newspaper cartoon map "Where new war looms between Turks and Allies"; and assorted advertisements. Also a pamphlet "Constitution and by-laws of the Woman's Society of the First Presbyterian Church Springfield, Illinois," 1920; a notice for an Inter-denominational day of prayer at which Catherine F. Lindsay spoke, n.d.; a newsclipping on the church Missionary Social Union mentioning her; a brochure "Methods of Cooperation" regarding the Christian Woman's Board of Missions; an invitation and admission ticket to the service of consecration for Episcopal Bishop Walter Henry Gray, 1940; and a poem "Songs of the long ago" by Cora L. Field, printed on a card (bookmark?) and surrounded by a decorative border. The collection also contains a clipping of a cartoon by "Abbey" titled "Mementos in the East Room"; an engraved reproduction of four sketches of the human eye, labelled "Mrs. Hormes No. 3"; an original ink wash of a dragon flying in a whirlwind, titled and signed in Chinese with a red painter's stamp; a fragment of a printed design [by Lindsay?]; an engraving of John Adams annotated by Vachel Lindsay; aphotograph of Harriet Monroe; and cross stitched bookmarks.

ArchivalResource: 50+ items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647921315 View

Kittredge, George Lyman, 1860-1941,. Papers on American songs and ballads, 1925 and undated.

Title: Papers on American songs and ballads, 1925 and undated.

An eclectic group of ballad-related papers, collected by Kittredge for use in his ballad and folklore studies. Includes compilations of American ballad and song texts by Arthur Palmer Hudson, George Pullen Jackson, and Franz Rickaby, and includes ballads from the geographical areas of Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Wisconsin, and others. Materials include both texts of songs, manuscript music, and some photographs. Also includes an historical document by Frederick W.C. Lieder concerning the involvement of his family in the publishing of Henry De Marsan's new comic and sentimental singer's journal. New York, N.Y., and some unidentified papers, indexes, and lists concerning ballads and printed broadsides.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.5 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/85190287 View

Rickaby, Franz, d. 1925. Papers, 1919-1947.

Title: Papers, 1919-1947.

Papers of a poet and collector of American folk songs. Two volumes contain Rickaby's journal of a ballad-collecting trip he made in the summer of 1919 from Charlevoix, Michigan, to Grand Forks, North Dakota, through northern Wisconsin and Minnesota. Among the biographical materials accompanying the journal are Vachel Lindsay's recollections of his friendship with Rickaby since their high school days in Springfield, Illinois, and a letter written by Lindsay in 1929.

ArchivalResource: 0.2 c.f. (1 archives box) and.1 reel of microfilm (35mm)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122458392 View

Rickaby, Franz, 1889-1925. Papers : concerning ballads about the Battle of Lake Erie : manuscript, 1911-1924.

Title: Papers : concerning ballads about the Battle of Lake Erie : manuscript, 1911-1924.

Concerns Battle of Lake Erie ballads, especially Charles Miner's The Ballad of James Bird; contains biographical information about Miner and Bird.

ArchivalResource: ca. 50 leaves ; 29 cm. or smaller.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/612842881 View