This series includes correspondence files for several prominent correspondents (Box 1), as well as the correspondence with Moore's mother, Myra D. Moore (Boxes 2-9). These materials were originally cataloged at the item level; catalog cards for individual persons/items can be found in the card catalog the Rare Book & Manuscript Library, but they are not available online.
Much of the correspondence in Series I is between Moore and his mother, Myra D. Moore. This correspondence, which spanned a 27 year period from the fall of 1906 to late 1933 represents perhaps the most comprehensive record of Moore's life, for it was his habit to write to his mother every Sunday, a ritual to which he was remarkably faithful. The various stages of Moore's life are apparent in his letters: his first experience away from home at the Hotchkiss School in Connecticut, his undergraduate years at Yale, time spent in a Maritime Academy in Maryland, his service in the Navy during the First World War, his tenure as Musical Director of the Cleveland Museum of Art, further travels in Europe, his position in the Music Department of Columbia University (1926-1962). The letters also follow the course of Myra Moore's life, where she lived in Brooklyn, Long Island, and finally Orange County California.
Correspondence added to the collection at Columbia University after 1991 was not cataloged at this level. Additional correspondence for individuals named in Series I can be found in Subseries II.3.
Box 1
Adler, Kurt Herbert To Douglas Moore, San Francisco, 1960 May 2, (1 t.l.s.)
Box 1
Barlow, Wayne
Box 1
Bacon, Ernst
Box 1
Belmont, Eleanor Robson
Box 1
Benet, William Rose
Box 1
Bing, Rudolph
Box 1
Borge, Victor
Box 1
Brooks, Van Wyck
Box 1
Butler, Nicholas Murray
Box 1
Cleland, Thomas Maitland
Box 1
Copland, Aaron
Box 1
Damrosch, Walter
Box 1
Eisenhower, Dwight David
Box 1
Fekete, Zolton
Box 1
Foss, Lukas
Box 1
Glanville-Hicks, Peggy
Box 1
Goossens, Eugene
Box 1
Graham, Martha
Box 1
Hanson, Howard
Box 1
Hartford, Huntington
Box 1
Langstaff, John Meredith
Box 1
MacDowell, Marian Nevins (Mrs. Edward)
Box 1
MacLeish, Archibald
Box 1
Mannes, Leopold
Box 1
Mason, Daniel Gregory
Box 1
Mason, Gregory
Box 1
Menuhin, Yehudi
Box 1
Meyerowitz, Jan
Box 1
Mitropoulos, Dimitri
Box 1
Partch, Harry
Box 1
Rodzinski, Artur
Box 1
Rudel, Julius
Box 1
Schoenberg, Arnold
Box 1
Schuman, William
Box 1
Sessions, Roger Huntington
Box 1
Szigeti, Joseph
Box 1
Weisgall, Hugo
Box 2
Moore, Douglas Stuart To Myra D. Moore, Undated to 1910
Box 3
Moore, Douglas Stuart To Myra D. Moore, 1911-1914
Box 4
Moore, Douglas Stuart To Myra D. Moore, 1915-1919
Box 5
Moore, Douglas Stuart To Myra D. Moore, 1920-1921
Box 6
Moore, Douglas Stuart To Myra D. Moore, 1922-1924
Box 7
Moore, Douglas Stuart To Myra D. Moore, 1925-1927
Box 8
Moore, Douglas Stuart To Myra D. Moore, 1928-1930
Box 9
Moore, Douglas Stuart To Myra D. Moore, 1931-1933