Letters received, 1880 April 19-1903 May 12.

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Letters received, 1880 April 19-1903 May 12.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/655778802

Includes letters or notes from Julia Ward Howe (a 4-line poem), Amy Beach (thanks for attending the concert, w/ clipped review), B.J. Lang (affectionate note), George Whitefield Chadwick ("I hope to see many pretty compositions from your pen..."), Thomas Bailey Aldrich (giving permission to set his prose to music), G.W. Chadwick (with score for a tune heard at the Chinese Theatre on Harrison Avenue), Francis Marion Crawford (thanks for her interest in setting his prose), Edward Everett Hale ("the song has waited for ten years for its music..."), Arthur Nikisch (inviting her to the rehearsal), and Abbott Handerson Thayer (invitation to lunch).

10 items in folder ; 26 cm.

Boston Athenaeum

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