Virgil Thomson papers, 1920-1981

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Series II: Manuscripts and Notes, 1920-1981

This series contains manuscripts, typescripts, notes, and proofs for Thomson's articles and books. It also contains a carbon typescript of Gertrude Stein's Bee Time Vine with autograph manuscript of preface by Virgil Thomson, notes by Thomson passim, and two pages of notes in the hand of Alice B. Toklas.



Box 1 Cataloged article manuscripts



Box 2 American Music Since 1910, 1971



Box 3 American Music Since 1910 (continued), 1971


Box 3 The Art of Judging Music, 1948



Box 4 Music Reviewed: 1940-1954, 1967



Box 5 Music Reviewed: 1940-1954 (continued), 1967


Box 5 Music Right and Left, 1951



Box 6 The Musical Scene, 1945



Box 7 Virgil Thomson, 1966



Box 8 Virgil Thomson (continued), 1966



Box 9 Virgil Thomson (continued), 1966



Box 10 Virgil Thomson (continued), 1966



Box 11 Virgil Thomson (continued), 1966



Box 12 Virgil Thomson (continued), 1966



Box 13 Virgil Thomson (continued), 1966



Box 14 Virgil Thomson (continued), 1966



Box 15 Virgil Thomson (continued), 1966

One folder oversized material



Box 16 A Virgil Thomson Reader, 1981



Box 17 A Virgil Thomson Reader (continued), 1981



Box 15 Bee Time Vine by Gertrude Stein, 1953


Box 15 Thomson's red pencil


Box 15 Illustrations