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Carrie Jacobs Bond Collection

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The Carrie Jacobs Bond Collection consists of music manuscripts, papers, photographs, and other materials relating to the personal and professional life of American sentimental song composer Carrie Jacobs Bond (1862-1946). Mrs. Bond is known primarily as a composer of popular sentimental songs such as “I Love You Truly” (1901) and “God Remembers When the World Forgets” (1913). However, she was also a prolific writer of poems, prose sketches, children’s books and film scripts as well as a businesswoman running a successful publishing house. The collection is rich in music manuscripts as well as business and personal papers.

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General

Span Dates: 1896-1944
Major Language(s): English
Repository: Music Division, Library of Congress

Physical Collection

Number of Items: 1,050
Number of Containers: 11
Linear Feet: 7
Contents: 37 music manuscripts (18 holographs), poetic and prose sketches, typescripts of children's books and scripts, correspondence, business papers relating to Jacobs-Bond's printing business, photographs, and clippings
Processing History: Processed, 1992
Provenance: Given to the Library by Mrs. Bond’s granddaughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Maiden, over a two year period beginning in 1982.

Access/Copyright

Access Permissions: Permitted, subject to PARR policies and procedures
Copyright Info: Status of literary rights and copyrights is unknown.; http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1.html
Preferred Citation: Carrie Jacobs Bond Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress