Pre-project correspondence,

Image 1 of Pre-project correspondence, Sept 21 [Austin?]Dear Charlie: Before I forget it: I did not copy all of the Lomax Dusenbury records, which will explain why you do not have a complete set. I got diverted...

Contributor: Cowell, Sidney Robertson
Date: 1937-01-01

Image 2 of Pre-project correspondence, it would be easy to remember that numbers up to 20 contained the sets of general demonstration records. They seem to work out in groups of 4. I hope to have time...

Contributor: Cowell, Sidney Robertson
Date: 1937-01-01

Image 3 of Pre-project correspondence, December 28, 1937 Mrs. Sidney Robertsonc/o Hidden Villa RanchLos Altos, CaliforniaDear Mrs. Robertson: If your statement about the collecting of folk-songs had been shorter, you would have heard from me sooner. As...

Contributor: Cowell, Sidney Robertson
Date: 1937-01-01

Image 4 of Pre-project correspondence, 49 Fourth St., San Francisco, Calif. Thank you, very much!Please forgive this scrambled letter -- a real one soon. Warmest regards to your mother and yourself. To Marjorie Edgar collector in Minnesota...

Contributor: Cowell, Sidney Robertson
Date: 1937-01-01

Image 5 of Pre-project correspondence, 2 This must have been addressed to [???] I would particularly like to work out some way in which my little project can be of use to you, because such service extended...

Contributor: Cowell, Sidney Robertson
Date: 1937-01-01

Image 6 of Pre-project correspondence, 2850 - 19th AvenueSan Francisco, Calif.February 12, 1937 Dr. George HerzogDepartment of AnthropologyColumbia UniversityNew York, N..Dear Dr. Herzog: You will probably have forgotten the brief interview we had a year ago, at...

Contributor: Cowell, Sidney Robertson
Date: 1937-01-01

Image 7 of Pre-project correspondence, 2 The expense of blanks would of course have to be met by the organization requesting copies, but I really think we can work the thing out, in a small way. Somewhere...

Contributor: Cowell, Sidney Robertson
Date: 1937-01-01

Image 8 of Pre-project correspondence, 2 We can therefore go ahead, now, as soon as co-sponsors can be found willing to contribute a total of $400, to be distributed over a period of six months. This is...

Contributor: Cowell, Sidney Robertson
Date: 1937-01-01

Image 9 of Pre-project correspondence, 2850 - 19th Avenue, S.F.February 13th, 1938 Dear Charlie: First: Dr. Adrelia Henry Rinehart, President of Mills College, has just gone to [France?] and will be returning through the east in a...

Contributor: Cowell, Sidney Robertson
Date: 1937-01-01

Image 10 of Pre-project correspondence, 2 the making of copies for/ any public agencies that will supply blanks {Begin deleted text}[?] [?]{End deleted text} in a small way. Charles Lummis' collection of wax disks of the Spanish-California...

Contributor: Cowell, Sidney Robertson
Date: 1937-01-01

Image 11 of Pre-project correspondence, 3 I think I had better extricate the things I would like your help on from the preceding pages, along with a number of questions that occur to me: First, would you...

Contributor: Cowell, Sidney Robertson
Date: 1937-01-01

Image 12 of Pre-project correspondence, 4 would be returned to the KL collection in the AAFS and that they would only be used out here for dubs; and that, if you want to specify to that effct,...

Contributor: Cowell, Sidney Robertson
Date: 1937-01-01

Image 13 of Pre-project correspondence, AA F.-S 2850 - 19th AvenueSan Francisco, CaliforniaFebruary 14, 1938 Alan Lomax, Esq.Assistant CuratorArchives of American Folk SongLibrary of CongressWashington, D.C.Dear Alan: I have been working recently to focus the interest of...

Contributor: Cowell, Sidney Robertson
Date: 1937-01-01

Image 14 of Pre-project correspondence, 2 I would particularly like to work out some way is which my little project can be of use to you, because such service extended to other Federal agencies is one of...

Contributor: Cowell, Sidney Robertson
Date: 1937-01-01

Image 15 of Pre-project correspondence, A.A.F.S. February 18, 1938 Mrs. Sidney Robertson {Begin deleted text}2850{End deleted text} 19th AvenueSan Francisco, CaliforniaDear Mrs. Robertson: I have read your letter with much interest and I feel that your project...

Contributor: Cowell, Sidney Robertson
Date: 1937-01-01

Image 16 of Pre-project correspondence, 2 Mrs. Sidney RobertsonFebruary 18, 1938closeness to the Archive and your desires to cooperate with us. Thanks for your interesting letter.With my best wishes for the success of your project, I amSincerely...

Contributor: Cowell, Sidney Robertson
Date: 1937-01-01

Image 17 of Pre-project correspondence, 2441 I St NWWashington DC[February 19, 1938] Dear Sidney Thanks so much for your very interesting letters I shall, of course, back you up to the limit. I am working at this...

Contributor: Cowell, Sidney Robertson
Date: 1937-01-01

Image 18 of Pre-project correspondence, 2850 - 19th AvenueSan Francisco, CaliforniaFebruary 21, 1938 Dr. Albert ElkusDepartment of MusicUniversity of CaliforniaBerkeley, CaliforniaDear Dr. Elkus: I have been discussing the possibility of setting up a folksong collecting project (in...

Contributor: Cowell, Sidney Robertson
Date: 1937-01-01

Image 19 of Pre-project correspondence, 2 I enclose a copy of Dr. Sharp's letter to me, confirming our original conversation. If the University is willing to provide guidance and the expense of office supplies and publication, will...

Contributor: Cowell, Sidney Robertson
Date: 1937-01-01

Image 20 of Pre-project correspondence, 3 of the acetate, they are on the whole quite satisfactory. Their playing life is, however, somewhat limited, so that I feel field originals, when made on aluminum, should be used only...

Contributor: Cowell, Sidney Robertson
Date: 1937-01-01

Image 21 of Pre-project correspondence, Gerald Strang Managing EditorJohn J. Becker Associate EditorWallingford Riegger Associate EditorDene Denny Secretary - TreasurerNEW MUSIC EDITIONPost Office Box 2888Hollywood StationLos Angeles CaliforniaFebruary 21, 1938 Dear Sidney: I enclose a copy of...

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Date: 1937-01-01

Image 22 of Pre-project correspondence, 2850 - 19th AvenueSan Francisco, CaliforniaFebruary 21, 1938 Dear Adrian: A thousand thanks for your letters and various intercessions on my behalf. The Packards, too, have been swell --- gave a pleasant...

Contributor: Cowell, Sidney Robertson
Date: 1937-01-01

Image 23 of Pre-project correspondence, that we'll be doing well if we got back as far as 1849 with any assuarance! But it's fun to work out, like a game of chess. And there is such extraordinary...

Contributor: Cowell, Sidney Robertson
Date: 1937-01-01

Image 24 of Pre-project correspondence, There are two or three other things I'd like to ask FSA for! and if you can let me know the possibilities I'd appreciate it. 1) My own little recording machine isn't...

Contributor: Cowell, Sidney Robertson
Date: 1937-01-01

Image 25 of Pre-project correspondence, 4 Charlie asked me for this, saying he needed release dates on the records. This aggravated me all over again because he knows perfectly well that it is not a question of...

Contributor: Cowell, Sidney Robertson
Date: 1937-01-01

Image 26 of Pre-project correspondence, is because I can't quite visualize the breaking-up, [hving?] been away from Washington for very nearly a year, during which the more acute shrinking went on ---- But you know,{Begin deleted text}[?]{End...

Contributor: Cowell, Sidney Robertson
Date: 1937-01-01

Image 27 of Pre-project correspondence, 2850 - 19th AvenueSan Francisco, CaliforniaFebruary 28, 1938 The Society of California Pioneers456 McAllister StreetSan Francisco, CaliforniaAttention Mrs: Van SicklenDear Mrs. Van Sicklen; Since the day when I interrupted your labors, hanging...

Contributor: Cowell, Sidney Robertson
Date: 1937-01-01

Image 28 of Pre-project correspondence,

Contributor: Cowell, Sidney Robertson
Date: 1937-01-01

Image 29 of Pre-project correspondence, 2 workers. Albert Elkus, head of the Music Department of the University of California, has said he will sponsor the project, and has agreed that whatever publications result from it (in the...

Contributor: Cowell, Sidney Robertson
Date: 1937-01-01

Image 30 of Pre-project correspondence, 2850 - 19th AvenueSan Francisco, CaliforniaMarch 4, 1938 Leonard Austin, Esq.c/o Mrs. Phelps220 Thirty-second AvenueSan Francisco, CaliforniaDear Mr. Austin: Henry Cowell urged me to get in touch with you when I first...

Contributor: Cowell, Sidney Robertson
Date: 1937-01-01

Image 31 of Pre-project correspondence, 2850 - 19th AvenueSan Francisco, CaliforniaMarch 5, 1938 Dr. Harold Spivacke, Acting ChiefMusic DivisionLibrary of CongressWashington, D.C.Dear Dr. Spivacke: My original intention was to write you when I wrote Alan Lomax a...

Contributor: Cowell, Sidney Robertson
Date: 1937-01-01

Image 32 of Pre-project correspondence,

Contributor: Cowell, Sidney Robertson
Date: 1937-01-01

Image 33 of Pre-project correspondence, 2 wondered how the Music Division would like an index of songs, taken from the tables of contents of published volums of American folk songs? By working from the notes of such...