An Inventory of His Collection at the Harry Ransom Center
Creator:
Aitken, Webster, 1908-1981
Title:
Webster Aitken Collection
Dates:
1899-1985, undated
Extent:
8 document boxes, 1 oversize box (5.03 linear feet)
Abstract:
Includes manuscripts and chiefly correspondence of the American classical pianist
Webster Aitken. Correspondents represented in the collection include Aitken family
members, Paul Cadmus, Aaron Copland, Jim Ede, Kelly Fearing, E. M. Forster, Edward
McKnight Kauffer, Ernst Krenek, Mabel Dodge Luhan, Georgia O'Keeffe, Priaulx Rainier,
Moriz Rosenthal, Artur Schnabel, Virgil Thomson, Sir Hugh Walpole, and others.
Call Number:
Manuscript Collection MS-0048
Language:
English, French, German, Sanskrit
Access:
Open for research
Administrative Information
Processed by:
Joan Sibley and Sara Saastamoinen, 2013
Note:
This finding aid replicates and replaces information previously available only in
a card catalog. Please see the explanatory note at the end of this finding aid for
information regarding the arrangement of the manuscripts as well as the abbreviations
commonly used in descriptions.
