Percy MacKaye letters and related materials, 1895-1956.

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Percy MacKaye letters and related materials, 1895-1956.

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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.

.24 cubic feet.

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Coates, Walter John, 1880-1941

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MacKaye, Marion, -1939

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Ege, Arvia MacKaye

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Shipman, Louis Evan, 1869-1933

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Louis Evan Shipman was a playwright and author. He attended Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, Columbia University and Harvard University. From the guide to the Louis Evan Shipman papers, ca. 1859-1933., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Playwright, novelist and editor of Life (1922-1924), Louis Evan Shipman's most sucessful play was probably D'ARCY OF THE GUARDS (1901). Other titles include THE CRISIS, THE CROSSING, ON PAROLE, THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUT...

Bauer, Robert V.

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MacKaye, Percy, 1875-1956

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Percy MacKaye was a poet and dramatist. From the description of Note, n.d. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007259 American poet and dramatist. From the description of Papers, 1909-1912. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 36097093 Author Percy MacKaye was born into a theatrical family in New York City. He graduated from Harvard in 1897, and travelled through Europe for a time before taking a teaching job at the Craigie School in N...