Beauvais, Jeanne, Collector. Scores, correspondence and other materials, A Finding Aid. c. 1943 - 1988:

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Beauvais, Jeanne, Collector. Scores, correspondence and other materials, A Finding Aid. c. 1943 - 1988:

The collection includes autographed letters, photographs and theatricalephemera associated with her career. The bulk of the collection consists of print andmanuscript scores by composers Virgil Thomson, Ned Rorem, Leonard Bernstein,Theodore Chanler and others; many of these are personally inscribed.

2 Boxes (1 linear foot), including 24 scores and 17 photographs,

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SNAC Resource ID: 6386017

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