Descriptive Summary
Smith, Harry Bache,
1860-1936
Harry Bache Smith Papers
1773-1935
Manuscript Collection MS-03882
15 document cases, four oversize folders (7 linear ft.)
Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin
The papers document the writing career and
collecting interests of this American composer, critic, and collector. They
consist of correspondence, autographs, manuscripts of his own work and that of
others, notes and drafts, scrapbooks and clippings, receipts, and music
scores.
English
Biographical Sketch
Harry Bache Smith was born in Buffalo, NY, on December 28, 1860, to
Elizabeth Bach and Josiah Bailey Smith. The Smith family moved to Chicago in
the 1860s where Harry began writing and collecting rare books, manuscripts, and
autographs. After starting as a reporter for the
Chicago Daily News, Smith later became a
music critic for that paper. He also worked for the
Chicago Tribune as a drama critic. By 1874,
Smith had begun writing musical plays and operettas. His first operetta,
Rosita, or
Cupid and Cupidity, was produced by the Fay
Templeton Opera Company.
Amaryllis, his second production, was a
musical comedy and became popular with amateur dramatic clubs. As a result of
this exposure, Smith was engaged to write a series of burlesques for the
Chicago Opera House.
In 1887, Smith and Reginald DeKoven collaborated on
Begum, a comic operetta that received enough
support for the collaboration to continue and to produce one of the most
popular American operas,
Robin Hood, which played almost continuously
for twenty years.
The Wizard of the Nile was created for the
comedian Frank Daniels in 1895, with Victor Herbert writing the score. Besides
Herbert and DeKoven, Smith collaborated with Irving Berlin, Ivan Caryl, Leo
Fall, Gustave Kerker, Jerome Kern, Franz Lehar, Sigmund Romberg, John Philip
Sousa, and Oscar Strauss. The author of some 300 librettos and over 6000
lyrics, Smith was respected in the theater world for his creative and humorous
style of writing. Broadway saw 123 of his shows, which also played in other
cities such as Chicago and Philadelphia. Smith was the earliest American
lyricist to be honored with a published collection of his lyrics.
Smith wrote articles on literature and music for
Scribner's,
The Century,
Harper's,
Atlantic Monthly,
American Mercury, and other magazines. He
was also known by collectors of rare books, manuscripts, and autographs.
Published in 1914,
A Sentimental Library (available in the HRC
book collection) is a catalogue of books, manuscripts, drawings, and
presentation copies collected and described by Smith.
Smith married Lena Reed in October 1887, and had one son, Sydney R.
Smith. In November 1906, Harry Smith married actress Irene Bentley. During the
late 1920s and early 1930s, Smith summarized, critiqued, and evaluated plays
and stories that Warner Brothers was considering for theatrical productions or
motion pictures. Harry Bache Smith died on January 1, 1936.
Scope and Contents
The material in the Harry Bache Smith papers pertains primarily to his
writing career and collecting interests as illustrated by correspondence,
autographs, manuscripts of his own work and that of others, notes and drafts,
scrapbooks and clippings, receipts, and music scores. The majority of the
material concerns Smith's book and manuscript collecting interests, however,
only a few of the manuscripts and autographs described in
A Sentimental Library are included in this
collection. Materials range in date from 1773 to 1935 with the bulk dating from
1890-1930. The collection is arranged in four series: Correspondence, Works by
Smith, Collecting Activities, and Miscellaneous.
Series I: Correspondence, 1775-1931 (2 boxes) contains information about
Smith's theater career and collecting activities. Several of his collaborators,
actors, actresses, and publishers discussed changes or additions to his works
and the production of his writing in their correspondence with Smith.
Correspondents include Victor Herbert, Reginald DeKovan, Irving Berlin, Ivan
Caryl, David Belasco, Jerome Kern, John Philip Sousa, as well as many others.
Also included in the correspondence series are the autographs and third party
letters collected by Smith from people such as Joanna Baillie, Dion Boucicault,
George Coleman, Robert William Elliston, David Garrick, Charles John Kean, and
Mitchell Kennerley.
Series II: Works by Smith, 1902-1934 (3 boxes) pertains specifically to
his writing for the theater. Over fifty manuscripts of his plays and librettos
are in this series, spanning in date from 1902-1934, although most of the
manuscripts are undated. None of his major theatrical hits are present in the
collection, but typescripts for
The Office Boy (1903), [Ziegfield]
Follies of 1912,
Angel Face (1919),
The Highwayman,
Babette, and
Dolly Dollar are a few of the titles present
in this series.
Writings relating to Smith's interest in collecting are in Series III:
Collecting Activities, 1823-1935 (9 boxes). More than twenty of his articles
relating to his collecting interests are in this series. Smith created seven
scrapbooks consisting of newspaper clippings, articles, descriptions from book
dealer's catalogs, and his notes about authors such as Charles Dickens, Percy
Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, William Makepeace Thackeray, Lord Byron, and
others. The information in these scrapbooks supplements the drafts and notes
for his book,
A Sentimental Library. Other documents in
this series include receipts for books and manuscripts purchased by Smith from
1894-1935, and works by others that Smith collected, including original music
scores by Victor Herbert, Riccardo Drigo, and Jerome Kern.
Items not connected with Smith's theater career or collecting activities
are in Series IV: Miscellaneous, 1913-1931 (1 box), which includes over 67
plays and stories evaluated by Smith for Warner Brothers. Personal information
is limited to his writing and collecting. There is no correspondence between
Smith and family members, nor is there information regarding his personal
relationships with either of his wives, or his son.
Several published collaborations between Smith and Reginald DeKoven,
Richard Wagner, and Victor Herbert are part of the book collection at the HRC.
Smith's autobiography,
First Nights and First Editions, as well as
A Sentimental Library are also part of the
HRC book collection. Other materials about Smith can be found in the
Biographical files of the Theater Arts collection of the HRC.
Series Descriptions
Series I: Correspondence, 1773-1931
Smith interfiled his personal correspondence with the autographs and
third party letters he collected, and filed them into categories such as
American actors, British authoresses, or under a few select individual names.
The letters are filed in the same order Smith had arranged them. Some
individuals are in more than one category. An alphabetical index to the
correspondence series is provided at the end of the inventory to help locate
letters by individual writers. The index identifies letters written to Smith,
writers and recipients of third party correspondence, and names that are
represented by signatures only. Individuals whose names were not legible are
not listed in the index.
Series II: Works, 1902-1931, undated
Writings from Smith's theater career are filed alphabetically in
this series. Charles Dickens, about whom Smith wrote several stories and
articles, is represented in both Series II and III. The fictional stories
written by Smith about Dickens are in this series, while biographical articles
written about Dickens as an author to collect are in Series III. In addition to
the title of each work, the folder list contains information written by Smith
on the title pages, such as comedy,act I and III,scenario, etc.
Series III: Collecting Activities, 1823-1935, undated
This series is divided into five subseries: Works by Smith, Notes
and Articles, Purchases and Receipts, Scrapbooks, and Works by Others. Works by
Smith (1922-1929) in this series are about individuals that he was interested
in collecting or have biographical information about an individual. Also
included in this subseries are several articles Smith wrote about book and
manuscript collecting. He published a catalogue of his own collection,
A Sentimental Library, and the notes and
drafts for this publication comprise the bulk of the material in the Notes and
Articles subseries (1823-1934).
Purchases and Receipts date from 1894-1935 (bulk 1925-1934). These
materials are arranged chronologically. There are receipts for books and
manuscripts purchased as well as offers made to Smith for his writings.
Correspondence relating to the selling and purchasing of books and manuscripts
are also in this subseries. Details about particular books, such as their
binding, are also found in this correspondence.
There are seven scrapbooks of materials about specific authors in
this series. Lord Byron, Charles Dickens, William Shakespeare, and William
Makepeace Thackeray are represented by four individual scrapbooks, while
Charles Lamb, Hazlitt, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Robert
Browning, the Bronte family, and Swinburne share the remaining three. These
scrapbooks include clippings about the authors as well as bibliographic
information regarding their works. The order of the material within each
scrapbook has been maintained, though all were disbound and the covers were
removed for preservation purposes. Some of the clippings were too brittle to
remain in the collection and were replaced with photocopies.
The Works by Others subseries is arranged alphabetically by author.
Schwartz and Molnar, Roberto Bracco, James F. Cook, and Lawrence Houseman are
some of the authors present in this subseries. Music scores by Riccardo Drigo,
Victor Herbert, and Jerome D. Kern are also included in this subseries.
Materials by unknown authors and untitled works are filed at the end of this
subseries.
Series IV: Miscellaneous, 1913-1931, undated
This series contains over 67 plays and stories that Smith reviewed,
summarized, critiqued, and evaluated for Warner Brothers. His notes about the
story or play are also present for most of the titles.
La Petite Illustration, no. 13, 1913,
and a watercolor painting are also filed here.
Acquisition
Purchase, June 1968
Access
Open for research
Processed by
Deborah Shelby, 1992
Processing Note: The materials in the correspondence series are arranged in the same
order in which Smith maintained them. The front covers of the original folders
on which Smith had listed the names of individual correspondents have been
retained within each folder. The other series are arranged in alphabetical
order by title of the work, name of the author, or subject.
Index Terms
Correspondents
Ade, George,
1866-1944.
Baillie, Joanna,
1762-1851.
Belasco, David,
1853-1931.
Berlin, Irving, 1888- .
Boucicault, Dion,
1820-1890.
Caryl, Ivan.
Cohan, Geroge M. (George
Michael), 1878-1942.
Coleman, George Dromgold,
1795-1884.
Damrosch, Walter,
1862-1950.
DeKoven, Reginald,
1859-1920.
Dunne, Finley Peter,
1867-1936.
Elliston, R. W. (Robert
William), 1774-1831.
Flagg, James Montgomery,
1877-1960.
Garrick, David,
1717-1779.
Green, Anna Katharine,
1846-1935.
Guizot, M. (François),
1787-1874.
Held, Anna,
1877?-1918.
Herbert, Victor,
1859-1924.
Kean, Charles John,
1811?-1868.
Kennerley, Mitchell,
1878-1950.
Kern, Jerome,
1885-1945.
Russell, Lillian,
1861-1922.
Sardou, Victorien,
1831-1908.
Sousa, John Philip,
1854-1932.
Subjects
Byron, George Gordon Byron,
Baron, 1788-1824.
Dickens, Charles,
1812-1870.
Keats, John,
1795-1821.
Shakespeare, William
1564-1616.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe,
1792-1822.
Thackeray, William
Makepeace, 1811-1863.
Authors, American--20th
century.
Autographs--Collectors and
collecting.
Bibliography--Rare
books.
Book
collectors--Correspondence, reminiscenes, etc.
Books--Collectors and
collecting.
Dramatists, American--20th
century.
Dramatists--Correspondence,
reminiscenes, etc.
English
literature--Bibliography--First editions.
Manuscripts--Collectors and
collecting.
Operetta--United States--20th
century.
Theater--Anecdotes, facetiae,
satire, etc.
Document types
Scrapbooks.
Scores.
Harry Bache Smith Papers--Folder List
Series I: Correspondence,
1773-1931
1
1
American Actors,
1882-1931, undated
1
2
American Actresses,
1897-1931, undated
1
3
American Actresses,
1896-1930, undated
1
4
American Actresses,
1878-1899, undated
1
5
American Artists,
1895-1921, undated
1
6
American Authoresses,
1927, undated
1
7
American Authors,
1893-1931, undated
1
8
American Comedians,
1891-1932, undated
1
9
American Composers,
1904-1932, undated
1
10
American Dramatists,
[188-]-1931, undated
1
11
American Journalists,
1891-1931, undated
1
12
American Opera Singers,
1862-1932, undated
1
13
Baillie, Joanna,
nd
1
15
Bibliographers and Collectors,
1895-1931, undated
1
16
Boucicault, Dion,
1867-1883
1
17
DeKoven, Reginald,
1918, undated
1
18
De Navarro, Mary Anderson,
nd
1
19
Elliston, Robert William,
1810-1826
1
20
English Authoresses,
1803-1858, undated
1
21
English Authors,
1849-1888, undated
1
22
English Dramatists,
1815, 1824
1
23
English Poets,
1833-1877, undated
1
24
French Actors,
1813-1890, undated
1
25
French Writers and Statesmen,
1824-1871
1
26
Garrick, David,
1773
1
27
Held, Anna,
1908-1917, undated
1
28
Herbert, Victor,
1896-1920, undated
1
29
Howitt, William and Mary,
1845, 1850, undated
1
30
Jefferson, Joseph,
1891, undated
1
31
Kean, Charles,
1839, undated
2
1
Kern, Jerome,
nd
2
2
Kingsley, Henry,
nd
2
3
Melba, Nellis,
nd
2
4
Millward, Jesse,
nd
2
5
Miscellaneous,
1923, 1927
2
6
Musicians,
1889-1916, undated
2
7
Ramee, Marie Louis de la Ouida,nd
2
8
Raymond, John T.,
1882-1884
2
9
Roberts, Madge,
1894
2
10
Russell, Lillian,
1894-1912, undated
2
11
Sardou, Victorien,
1831, undated
2
12
Sousa, John Philip,
1891-1931, undated
2
13
Tempest, Marie,
nd
2
14
Wilson, Francis,
1891-1931
Series II: Works,
1902-1931, undated
2
15
Adventures of a Bell Boy,
nd
2
16
The Air King,
nd
2
17
Alias Pittsburg Sadie,
nd
(3 copies)
2
18
Alice in Wonderland,
nd
2
19
Alienation, a legal episode in 1
act,
nd
2
20
The Ambassador, scenario,
nd
2
21
Angel Face, a synopsis of,
nd
(2 copies)
2
22
Arms and the Girl, a musical play in
3 Acts,
nd
2
23
Artists and Models, prologue,
nd
(2 copies)
2
24
Artists Must Love, synopsis of a
story for a screen play,
nd
(2 copies)
2
25
Aztec, an opera,
nd
2
26
Babette, a picture play with music,
nd
2
27
Bachelor From Conviction,
nd
2
28
Beau Brocade,
nd
2
29
Beggars on Horseback, scenario,
nd
2
30
The Belle of the West, a musical
comedy,
1905
2
31
Bianca, synopsis of an opera,
nd
2
32
The Billionaire, acts I & II,
nd
3
1
A Chained Eagle, an operatic picture
play,
1922
3
2
Chinese Radio Sketch,
nd
3
3
Colonel Chabert, acts, II & III,
nd
3
4
Dance Waiter, scenario,
nd
3
5
Dolly Dollars, a musical photoplay,
nd
3
6
Find the Girl,
nd
3
7
Follies of 1912, parts I, II, &
III,
nd
3
8
The Forbidden Dance, an opera in 2
acts,
nd
3
9
A Friendly Call, a farce in 1 act,
nd
3
10
The Funny Mooners, a radio
continuity & 2 parts,
nd
3
11
The Gay Gordons,
nd
3
12
Gypsy Blood,
nd
3
13
The Happiest Man, acts I, II, &
III,
1926
3
14
Harry and Harriet, the Record of a Wedding
Trip, a radio continuity,
nd
3
15
Held for Ransom,
nd
3
16
The Highwayman, a musical picture
play,
nd
4
1
The Hold Up,
nd
4
2
The Honeymooners, synopsis,
nd
4
3
The House in the Mist, by Katherine
Green & H.B. Smith,
nd
4
4
The Idol's Eye, a photoplay with
music,
nd
4
5
The Impresairio, scenario of,
nd
4
6
Just Another Blonde, & synopsis
of a picture comedy,
nd, (4 copies) see also flat file
4
7
Kiss the Bride, a comedy in 3 acts,
nd
4
8
Little Dorrit, synopsis,
nd
4
9
Little Napolian,
nd
4
10
The Mesmerist,
1901
4
11
Musical Comedy and Operetta,
nd
4
12
The Office Boy, (
Wanted, a Hero), synopsis,
nd
4
13
The Other Leg,
nd
4
14
The Princess Runs Away, act I &
II,
nd
4
15
The Prisoner of Zenda, acts I, II,
& III,
nd
4
16
The Road to the Spotlight,
nd
4
17
Rogues & Vagabonds,
1929
4
18
The Runaway,
1929
4
19
Seen but not Heard,
nd
4
20
The Serenade, a musical photoplay,
nd
4
21
The Sex Repeal A. D.
1950, nd
5
1
Sherlock Holmes Solves the Mystery of Edwin
Drood,
Munsey's Magazine,
Dec. 1924
5
2
The Silver Star, a musical comedy in
3 acts,
1909
5
3
Spanish Love, acts I & II,
nd
5
4
The Star Witness,
1934
5
5
Stephen Foster, a story for an
operetta,
nd
5
6
The Story of the Follies,
nd
5
7
Sweetheart Time,
nd
5
8
Sylvia Steps Out,
nd
5
9
Tales of Hoffman, prologue &
acts I, II, & III,
nd
5
10
Three Little Maids, lyrics of,
nd
5
11
The White Fox, acts I, II, &
III,
1928
5
12
The Wild Rose, Act I & II,
1902
Series III: Collecting Activities,
1823-1935, undated
Works by Harry Bache Smith,
1922-1929
6
1
Abraham Lincoln's Stories,
nd
6
2
Autographs and Engravings Illustrating the Life of
Napoleon Bonaparte,
nd
6
3
Book Collecting in Little Old New York,
nd
6
4
Books and Autograph letters of
Shelley,
Scribner's Magazine,
July 1922
6
5
Catalogue of One Hundred Rare Books and Autographs,
nd
6
6
Charles Lamb's Album,
Scribner's Magazine,
Oct. 1923
6
7
Charles Dickens as a Reformer,
nd
6
8
Clission and Eugenie, a love story
by Napoleon Bonaparte, edited by H.B. Smith,
nd
6
9
Comedians All,
nd
6
10
Dante Gabriel Rossetti,
Century,
Dec. 1928
6
11
Dickens as Don Quixote,
Scribner's Magazine,
Apr. 1929
6
12
Dickens Falls in and out of Love,
nd
6
13
Dickens in Stageland,
nd
6
14
The French Revolution, Autographs,
Portraits, etc. collected and described by H.B. Smith
6
15
How Charles Dickens Wrote His
Books,
Harper's Magazine,
Dec. 1924 &
Strand Magazine,
Feb. 1925
6
16
The Jerome Kern Library,
nd
6
17
Manuscript: Books and Autographs collected and described
by Harry B. Smith,
nd, folder 1 of 3
7
1-2
Manuscript: Books and Autographs collected and described
by Harry B. Smith,
nd,
7
3-5
Manuscript: Catalogue of Books, part 1
7
7
Manuscript: Catalogue of Books, part 2, folder 1
of
8
1-2
Manuscript: Catalogue of Books, part 2
8
3-6
Manuscript: Catalogue of Books of Harry B.
Smith
9
1
Me and Napoleon,
nd
9
2
My Six Wives: Extracts from the Diary of Henry the
Eighth,
nd
9
3
Presentation Copies and Association
Books,
Publisher's Weekly,
Oct. 28, 1922
Notes and Articles,
1823-1934
9
4-5
Bibliographic notes,
nd
9
6-7
Bibliographic notes on book collecting,
nd
9
8
Clippings of bibliographic information, folder 1 of
2
10
1
Clippings of bibliographic information, folder 2 of
2
10
2
Dickens, Charles,
1823-1934, undated
10
3
Lamb, Charles,
nd
10
4
Miscellaneous,
1922-1932, undated
10
5
Notes and bibliographic information
10
6
Stevenson, Robert Lewis,
nd
Purchases and Receipts,
1894-1935
10
7
1894-1926
10
8
1927-1930
10
9
1931-1935, undated
11
Scrapbooks,
1891-1931
11
1-2
Byron,
1891-1931, undated
11
3-5
Dickens, Charles,
1892-1931, undated
11
6
Shakespeare, William,
1911-1928, undated
12
1-2
Thackeray, William Makepeace,
1901-1932, undated
12
3
Lamb, Hazlitt, Coleridge, and Wordsworth,
1909-1921, undated
12
4-5
Shelley and Keats,
1885-1931, undated
12
6-7
Tennyson, Browning, Bronte, and Swinburne,
1901-1926, undated
13
Works by Others,
1906-1918
13
1
Bakonyi & Martos,
Der Klein Konig, nd
13
2
Bracco, Roberto,
The Sins of the Fathers, nd
13
3
Cooke, James F.,
The Bass Trombone, 1918
13
4
Davis, Paul,
Old Scratch: An American Comedy,
acts I & III
Drigo, Riccardo, music scores--see oversize
box
13
5
Gordon, Heinz,
Luftschlosser, nd
13
6
Hauerbach & Hoschna,
Madame Sherry, 1910
13
7
Hennequin & Verber,
Florette & Patapon, nd
Herbert, Victor, music scores--see oversize
box
13
8
Houseman, Lawrence,
The Vicar of Wakefield, 1906
13
9
Hull, Alexander,
The Flowers of Kama, nd
Kern, Jerome D., music scores--see oversize
box
13
10
Layard, Arthur,
The Magic Word, nd
13
11
Number One,
nd
13
12-13
Parker, Lewis,
Ironside, acts I-IV
14
1-3
Phillips, George Searle,
The Life of Shelley, 1864
14
4
Redding & Hadley,
The Atonement of Pan, 1912
14
5
Roof, Katherine,
The Chevalier Gluck, nd
14
6
Schwartz & Molnar,
Der Ungekronte Konig, nd
14
7
Der Verbotene Kuss,
nd
unidentified authors
14
8
Der Freihling,
nd
14
9
The Heart of Punchinello, acts,
II, III
14
10
This Thing Called Love,
nd
14
11
untitled play in two acts,
nd
14
12-13
untitled,
nd
Series IV: Miscellaneous,
1913-1931, undated
15
1
La Petite Illustration, no. 13,
24 Mai 1913
15
2
Painting--water color, unidentified
15
3-4
Plays and stories read by Smith for Warner Brothers,
1929-1931
Harry Bache Smith Papers--Index of Correspondents and
autographs
This is an alphabetical index to letters written to Smith as well as
autographs he collected. Letters written to Smith are indicated by a name and
date only. Recipients of the third party letters are named in the index when
they could be determined. Otherwise, autographed
letter follows the name of the writer. When there is only a signature
present in the folder, it is identified as an autograph. Individuals whose names were not legible are
not listed in the index.
- Abarbanell, Lina, 1913, undated, note and autograph--1.2, 1.24
- Adams, Edwin, undated, autograph--1.1
- Ade, George, 1902--1.15
- Aimee, Marie, undated, autograph--1.24
- Allen, Viola, undated to Mr. Milstack(?)--1.2
- Baillie, Joanna, undated, to Elizabeth Miligan--1.14
- Barnabee, Henry Clay, 1891--1.8
- Bayes, Nora, 1919-1920--1.3
- Bayly, Thomas Haynes, undated--1.23
- Beaudet, Louise, 1930--1.3
- Belasco, David, 1930, undated--1.10
- Bell, Digby, 1893, undated--1.8, 1.13
- Berlin, Irving, 1931--1.9
- Bernard, Sam, undated--1.8, 1.13
- Bertram, Helen, 1900, undated--1.2, 1.12
- Bispham, David, 1913--1.12
- Blanc, Louis, 1855-1858, autographed letters--1.25
- Blessington, Marguerite Power Countess, undated, autographed
letter--1.20
- Blinn, Hobrook, 1905--1.1
- Boland, Mary, 1929--1.2
- Boucicault, Aubry, 1908 to John Gilbert--1.1
- Boucicault, Dion, 1867 to Stephen Massett Eyle, 1883--1.16
- Bowles, William Lisle, 1833, autographed letter--1.23
- Branscombe, Maude, undated, autograph--1.4
- Brian, Donald, undated--1.1
- Buckland, Frank, 1869, 1872, autographed letters--1.21
- Buckland, John B., 1862, autographed letter--1.12
- Burbank, Alfred P., 1882, autograph--1.1
- Burroughs, Marie, undated, to Mr. Freiberger--1.4
- Byron, Oliver Doud, 1882--1.1
- Campbell, James Dykes, 1892--1.15
- Caryl, Ivan, 1910, 1915--2.6
- Caster, T. B., 1932--1.9
- Cawthorn, Joseph, 1931-1932--1.8
- Cayvan, Georgia, 1878, to Mr. Freiberger--1.4
- Chatfield-Taylor, Hobart C., 1931, undated--1.7
- Clark, Walter Appleton, 1901, drawings--1.5
- Clarke, Hilda, 1897--1.2
- Cohan, George, M., 1906-1922, undated--1.10
- Coleman, George, 1815, autographed letter--1.22
- Collier, William, 1923--1.13
- Connelly, Mare, 1924--1.10
- Cordan, Juliette, undated--1.12
- Crabtree, Lotta M. undated, to Shelley--1.2
- Crellin, Camille, Darville, undated--1.12
- Cushman, Charlotte, 1873, autograph--1.24
- Daley, Arnold, 1904, undated--1.1
- Daly, Arnold, [190-]--1.13
- Dalziel, D., undated, note with autograph--1.15
- Damrosch, Walter, 1904-1931--1.9
- Daniels, Frank, undated--1.8
- D'Arville, Camille, 1897--1.3
- Davies, Marian, 1922--1.3
- Davis, Charles Belmont, 1917--1.7
- De Angelis, Jefferson, 1895-1896--1.8, 1.13
- De Navarro, Mary Anderson, undated--1.18
- DeKoven, Reginald, 1918, undated--1.17
- DeMille, Henry C., 1891--1.10
- Dixey, Henry E. 1911--1.1
- Dunne, Finley Peter, undated--1.7
- Eaton, Walter Prichard, 1931--1.11
- Eckel, John C., 1913-1931--1.11, 1.15
- Edouin, Willie, undated--1.12
- Edwards, Julian, 1874--2.6
- Elliston, Robert William, 1810, 1826 to Charles Ollier--1.19
- Englander, Ludwig, 1896, undated--1.9, 2.6
- Fairholt, Frederic William, 1860, autographed letter--1.21
- Fane, Julian, 1861, autographed letter--1.21
- Felix, Hugo, 1929--1.9
- Fields, Lew, 1909--1.10
- Finck, Henry Theophilus, undated--1.11
- Flagg, James Montgomery, 1917--1.5
- Frohman, Charles, 1915--1.10
- Frohman, Daniel, 1907--1.10
- Furness, Horace Howard, 1931--1.15
- Gambetta, Leon, 1871, autographed letter--1.25
- Garrick, David, 1773, autographed letter--1.26
- Genee, Adeline, undated, note and autograph--1.24
- Gibson, Charles Dana, 1896, autographed letter--1.5
- Gilder, Jeannette Leonard, 1894--1.11
- Glaser, Lulu, 1905-1911, undated--1.2
- Gottschalk, Ferdinand, 1903--1.1
- Grant, Robert, 1893, to Mr. Whitney--1.7
- Green, Anna Katharine, 1927--1.6
- Guizot, Francois Pierre Guillaume, 1824, autographed
letter--1.25
- Gunn, Archie, 1921, undated--1.5
- Hannay, James, 1849, autographed letter--1.21
- Harris, Charles Kassell, 1929--1.9
- Hatton, Frederic, undated--1.10
- Hatton, Joseph, undated--1.11
- Held, Anna, 1908-1917, undated--1.27
- Herbert, Victor, 1896-1920, undated--1.28
- Herz, Ralph, 1917--1.12
- Hoff, Edwin W., 1931--1.12, 1.13
- Holford, Margaret, 1818, to Lockington & Co., and
autographs--1.20
- Hope, Edward, undated--1.10
- Hopper, DeWolff, 1904--1.13
- Hopper, Edna Wallace, undated--1.4
- Howitt, Mary, 1845, 1850, undated, autographed letters--1.29
- Howitt, William, 1845, 1850, undated, autographed letters--1.29
- Hubbell, Raymond, 1931--1.9
- Irwin, May, 1899-1.4
- Jacobi, Victor, 1916, undated--2.6
- Jacobowski, Edward, 1896, to Wilson--2.6
- Janauschek, Fanny, undated, autograph--1.24
- Jarbeau, Vernona, undated--1.3
- Jefferson, Joseph, 1891, undated--1.30
- Jerrold, William Blanchard, undated, autographed letter--1.21
- Jesse, Edward, 1861, autographed letter--1.21
- Johnson, Robert Underwood, 1905--1.7
- Kean, Charles John, 1839, undated, autographed letters--1.31
- Kelcey, Herbert, 189?, to Freiberger--1.1
- Kellogg, Clara Louise, 1882--1.12
- Kemble, E. W., 1900--1.5
- Kennerley, Mitchell, 1931--1.15
- Kern, Jerome, undated--2.1
- Kester, Paul, 1931--1.10, 1.12
- Kingsley, Henry, undated, autographed letters--2.2
- Kirschner, Raphael, [191-], poem--1.5
- Kitchen, Karl K., undated--1.11
- Krehbiel, Henry Edward, 1895--2.6
- Lawrence, George Alfred, undated, autographed letter--1.21
- Livingston, Luther S., 1910-1913--1.15
- Low, Will Hicok, 1899, to editor of
NY Journal--1.5
- Lunders, Gustave, undated--1.9
- MacDonald, W. H., 1900--1.12
- Mackaye, Steele, undated, autograph--1.10
- Mantell, Robert B., 1890--1.1
- Marchesi, P., autograph letter--1.12
- Marsh, Sara A., 1858, autograph letter--1.20
- Marston, Philip Bourke, 1874, autographed letter--1.23
- Mason, Marion Marrola, 1891--1.12
- Masson, Thomas Lansing, 1895--1.11
- Melba, Nellie, undated, to Mrs. DeKoven--2.3
- Millward, Jesse, undated, to Mr. Freiberger--2.4
- Mitchel, Donald Grant, 1893--1.7
- Montogmery, James, 1846, autographed letter--1.23
- Morris, Felix James, 1890 to Freiberger--1.24
- Morrison, Lewis, 188?, undated, to Freiberger &
autograph--1.1
- Mulle, Ida, 1908--1.3
- Mulock, Dinah Maria, 1849, undated, autographs--1.20
- Myers, Annie, 1896--1.3
- Myrtil, Odette, undated--1.3
- Newell, Peter, 1896--1.5
- Nielsen, Alice, 1900, undated--1.12
- Norton, Caroline Elizabeth Sarah, undated, autograph letter--1.20
- O'Hara, Geoffrey, 1931--1.9
- O'Rell, Max, 1891, to editor of
Chicago Tribune--1.11
- Paul, J. Dean, 1862, autographed letter--1.21
- Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart, undated, autograph and photographs--1.6
- Phelps, William Lyon, 1931--1.7
- Pilkington, Mrs. 1877, autograph letter--1.20
- Pitman, C. B., 1888, autographed letter--1.21
- Plunkett, Charles, 1889, to Ed Freiberger--1.1
- Pollock, Channing, 1926-1927--1.7, 1.10
- Potter, Paul, undated--1.10
- Pyle, Howard, 1895, to Mr. Penfield--1.15
- Ramee, Marie Louise de la (Ouida),
undated, autographed letters--2.7
- Rankin, Phyllis, undated--1.3
- Raymond, John T., 1882-1884--2.8
- Reiss, Albert, 1916--1.12
- Remenyi, Ede, 1889, autograph--2.6
- Reynolds, Frederic, 1824, autographed letter--1.22
- Ricci, Bertha, 1896--1.3
- Ritchie, Anne Isabella Thackeray to W. Chapman--1.20
- Roberts, Madge, 1894, to DeKoven--2.9
- Robertson, Guy, 1930--1.13
- Rogers, William Penn Adair, 1896, to Whitney--1.5
- Roscoe, Thomas, 1850, autographed letter--1.21
- Russell, Lillian, 1894-1912, undated, and photograph--2.10
- Russell, Sol Smith, 1888--1.1
- Sanderson, Julia, 1920, undated--1.2
- Sardou, Victorien, 1831, undated--2.11
- Scharwenka, Xavier, 1896--2.6
- Schulta, Carl E., 1902, undated, drawings--1.5, 1.10
- Seabrooke, Thomas Q., 1894-1901, undated--1.8, 1.13
- Sigourney, Lydia Howard Huntley, undated, to Bishop--1.6
- Skinner, Otis, 1894--1.13
- Smith, Charlotte, 1803 to W. Davis--1.20
- Smith, Edgar, undated--1.10
- Sousa, John Philip, 1891-1931, undated--2.12
- Starrett, Vincent, 1928--1.15
- Stoddard, Alice Nielson, undated--1.12
- Stoddard, Lorremer, [188-], to Mr. Freiberger--1.10
- Sylva, Marguerite, 1924--1.12
- Tempest, Marie, undated--2.13
- Templeton, Fay, 1931--1.2
- Thomas, Augustus, 1916, undated--1.10
- Thomas, John Charles, 1932--1.12
- Thomas, Theodore, undated, autograph--2.6
- Thompson, Salson, 1893--1.11
- Timbs, John, undated, autographed letter--1.21
- Tupper, Martin, 1877, autographed letter--1.23
- Turner, R. C., 1861, autographed letter--1.21
- Wallack, Lester, undated, to Gilbert--1.1
- Warburton, Bartholomew Eliot George, undated autographed letter--1.21
- Ward, Genevieve, 1887, to Mr. Freiberger--1.4
- Watts, Alaric Alexander, 1838, autographed letter--1.23
- Welchman, Harry, undated--1.12
- Wenzell, Albert Buck, 1895, to Mr. Penfield--1.5
- Williams, Barney, 1932--1.8
- Williams, Hattie, 1906, to Mr. Hayman--1.3
- Wilson, Francis, 1891-1931--2.14
- Winterich, John T., 1931--1.15
- Wister, Owen, undated, to Mr. Whitney--1.7
- Wood, Peggy, 1916--1.3
- Woodville, R. Caton, 1895--1.5
- Woolf, Walter, undated--1.13
- Wynn, Ed, 1921--1.8
- Yates, Elizabeth, undated--1.24
- Ziegfield, Billie Burke, 1916--1.3