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MacKaye, Percy, 1875-1956. Percy MacKaye papers, 1879-1956.

Title: Percy MacKaye papers, 1879-1956.

The bulk of the collection consists of material pertaining to community drama; correspondence with literary and theatrical figures including Edgar Lee Masters, Edwin Arlington Robinson, George Pierce Baker, Theodore Dreiser, Amy Lowell, Upton Sinclair, Edward Gordon Craig, Louis Untermeyer and Thornton Wilder. Also contains poems; manuscripts of plays; journals and diaries of Marion MacKaye; correspondence between Percy and Marion; Percy's business correspondence including correspondence with publishers; some papers of Steele MacKaye and other MacKayes; and biographical material pertaining in particular to Percy MacKaye.

ArchivalResource: 165 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/612378273 View

Masters, Edgar Lee, 1868-1950. Papers of Edgar Lee Masters [manuscript], 1935-1984.

Title: Papers of Edgar Lee Masters [manuscript], 1935-1984.

Collection contains Alice Davis Tibbetts' typed manuscript record of her friendship with Masters. She includes anecdotes and photographs of Masters and his friends. The collection also contains a block of stamps issued in 1970 in honor of Masters; a typed manuscript of Masters' poem, "Emerson's grave"; a program, 1945, for the celebration of Percy MacKaye's seventieth birthday and seating arrangements for the event; and several printed pamphlets honoring Marion Morse MacKaye.

ArchivalResource: 8 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647812895 View

MacKaye, Percy, 1875-1956. Percy MacKaye letters and related materials, 1895-1956.

Title: Percy MacKaye letters and related materials, 1895-1956.

The collection consists of forty-four items, including: eleven letters from MacKaye to various recipients, 1910-1954, including Louis Evan Shipman, Paul Cook, Constance Leighton, and others, featuring invitations, requests for autographs, news of his daughter, and other news; carbon copy of letter from Walter J. Coates to MacKaye, 5 July 1929, with an invitation to visit and request for a poem to print in his book, Favorite Vermont poems; two letters from MacKaye to Robert V. Bauer, written by Tom Boggs, 1952, arranging a time to meet to answer questions. Also, manuscript draft of The Apollo of the Cowl, in two notebooks, undated, published 1901; handsewn booklet of blank verse play, Witch Hazel's Eyes, for his sister Hazel, 24 Aug. 1895; manuscript poem, To Mama, 12 Sept. 1895; several pages of notes on lined paper; four manuscript notebooks, circa 1896-circa 1901, one of which started as a diary, another as his sister's school notebook; five clippings, including an article on Marion Morse Mackaye's dramatization of Jane Austen's Emma, 18 May 1941; review of The Mystery of Hamlet, from the New York Herald Tribune Book Review, 14. Jan. 1951; photograph of revival performance of MacKaye's play, The Scarecrow, and the poem Autumn evening, from the New York Times 5 July 1953; obituary of MacKaye, circa 1956; review of Discoveries and inventions, undated, book published in 1950. Also, seventeen printed works, 1939-1946, including prose, poetry, and programs, with titles such as The Beautiful face, Remembrings 1895-1945, What is she?, My dear lady, arise!, including two flyers of positive comments, flyer announcing four plays forming a prologue to Shakespeare's Hamlet, poem Harvard '97 to Yale '97 on page from yearbook, two copies of a memoir celebrating MacKaye's 70th birthday, 16 March 1945, one copy signed; program celebrating the golden wedding anniversery of MacKaye and his wife, Marion Morse, Sept. 1948; poem Shopping in Heaven, in remembrance of Marion Morse MacKaye, 1 June 1939. Also, poem by Arvia MacKaye, For M.M.M., 1943, inscribed to Nellie Coates; two programs for performances of the play Emma, based on Jane Austen's novel, by Marion Morse MacKaye, 1941; Holiday greeting card, 1941-1942, printed by Littleton, in remembrance of Marion Morse MacKaye, with excerpt from her journal.

ArchivalResource: .24 cubic feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/61691309 View

Pray, Florence M. Letter, 1943 Jan. 1, Arlington, Mass., to Fanny de Groot, New Canaan, Conn.

Title: Letter, 1943 Jan. 1, Arlington, Mass., to Fanny de Groot, New Canaan, Conn.

Sends reminiscences of Marion Morse MacKaye, and encloses a memorial Christmas leaflet, entitled, Facing infinitude.

ArchivalResource: 1 envelope (3 items) ; 26 x 38 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/237352134 View

Grover, Edwin Osgood, 1870-. Papers of the MacKaye family, ca. 1751-1990.

Title: Papers of the MacKaye family, ca. 1751-1990.

Contains materials documenting the life and career of four generations of the MacKaye family and includes a large amount of personal and professional correspondence as well as original manuscripts and typescripts of plays, prose, masques, pageants, poetry, essays and articles. Of note are manuscript materials for Benton MacKaye's works on geotechnics entitled Geotechnics of North America, and From geography to geotechnics, as well as Percy MacKaye's biography and works on his father Steele MacKaye and the MacKaye family, entitled respectively, Epoch and Annals of an Era. In addition, there are numerous scrapbooks and photographs chronicling the development and creation of Steele and Percy MacKaye's public and private theatrical productions. Steele MacKaye's role as a dramatist, theater manager and inventor is evidenced through original broadsides, posters and documents relating to the Lyceum Theatre School of Acting, Francois Delsarte acting method, and MacKaye's Madison Square Theatre in New York. MacKaye's technical contributions to the theatre are shown through patent documents. A large amount of manuscript material for Percy MacKaye's dramatic works and publications are included as well as personal correspondence, financial records, business correspondence, programs, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, articles, photographs, theatrical stills and scrapbooks. Benton MacKaye's role as a forester and conservationist is recorded through writings, bills, reports and charts of the many projects on natural resource planning he was involved with, such as the creation of the Appalachian Trail and the Tennessee Valley Authority. The collection also includes documentation of Benton's work for the US Government in both the Department of Labor and Forest Service. Many of these activities and interests are shown through newspaper and journal clippings, notes and notebooks as well as legal and financial documents, flyers, pamphlets, bulletins, journals, sketches and ephemeral materials. The collection also includes a significant amount of material, private as well as professional, by Percy's wife Marion Morse MacKaye and his mother Mary Medbery MacKaye, as well as his children, Arvia, Robert Keith and Christy and disparate family members and spouses. Among these materials are drawings, sketches, paintings, writings, and teaching materials.

ArchivalResource: 361 boxes (540 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/237652662 View