Harrison Smith papers ca. 1951-1961

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Harrison Smith papers ca. 1951-1961

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Correspondence, writings, and research files about Sinclair Lewis.

6.50 linear ft.

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6349730

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Smith, Harrison (Musician)

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Smith, Harrison

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Harrison Smith was a jazz concert promoter and booking agent. Jelly Roll Morton hired Smith as a New York partner in a booking agency whose main office was to be in Los Angeles. Accordingly, they shared an office in New York for a brief period during the late 1920s or early 1930s. The partnership was apparently shortlived but was the basis upon which Smith’s claims of copyright ownership of 20-30 Morton’s compositions were founded. Smith later contested Morton’s will over royalties compositions ...