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Frederick R. Koch collection, 1640-1983

Title: Frederick R. Koch collection, 1640-1983.

The Frederick R. Koch Collection consists of musical, literary, and historical materials collected by Frederick R. Koch, principally through purchases at public auctions, 1979-1986. Including individual items, concentrations of related materials, and several extensive archives, the collection is a broad and deep resource for study of the lives and works of a range of composers, authors, and other historical figures. Most materials are music manuscripts, literary manuscripts, drawings, and correspondence of European, English, and American composers, authors, and artists. Also present are historical manuscripts, photographs, albums, and other papers. While the contents of the collection span the seventeenth to twentieth centuries, most date from the nineteenth to early twentieth centuries, with particular strengths in French, Italian, German, and British music, French literature, and British art.

ArchivalResource: 64.12 linear feet (362 boxes) + 4 broadside folders.

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Frederick R. Koch collection, 1640-1983

Title: Frederick R. Koch collection, 1640-1983.

The Frederick R. Koch Collection consists of musical, literary, and historical materials collected by Frederick R. Koch, principally through purchases at public auctions, 1979-1986. Including individual items, concentrations of related materials, and several extensive archives, the collection is a broad and deep resource for study of the lives and works of a range of composers, authors, and other historical figures. Most materials are music manuscripts, literary manuscripts, drawings, and correspondence of European, English, and American composers, authors, and artists. Also present are historical manuscripts, photographs, albums, and other papers. While the contents of the collection span the seventeenth to twentieth centuries, most date from the nineteenth to early twentieth centuries, with particular strengths in French, Italian, German, and British music, French literature, and British art.

ArchivalResource: 64.12 linear feet (362 boxes) + 4 broadside folders.

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.frkoch View

Koch, Frederick R. (Frederick Robinson). Frederick R. Koch collection of Jean Cocteau, 1913-1969.

Title: Frederick R. Koch collection of Jean Cocteau, 1913-1969.

Collection consists of correspondence, manuscripts, drawings, photographs, and other material by or relating to Jean Cocteau. Correspondence consists of single and small groups of letters from Cocteau to Catherine d'Erlanger, Florence Gould, Daniel Halévy, Valentine Hugo, and others, as well as third party letters from Jean Desbordes to d'Erlanger and from Raymond Radiguet to an unidentified recipient. There are holograph drafts of several Cocteau manuscripts, including "La reprise de Parade," and holograph and typescript drafts of poems by Radiguet and Gertrude Stein, as well as a draft of an essay on Cocteau by Maurice Sachs. In addition to correspondence and manuscripts, there are twenty-two original drawings by Cocteau for the illustrated edition of Le grand écart (Paris: Stock, 1926), in a volume bound by Lucie Weill, and photographic prints of Cocteau, Jean Marais, and other actors from several of Cocteau's films. Other materials include Cocteau's last will and testament dating from 1939.

ArchivalResource: 3.21 linear feet (4 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702180305 View