Douglas Moore papers, 1883-2018, bulk 1907-1969

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Series II: Arranged Correspondence, 1904-1971, undated

This series contains correspondence that was arranged in folders, but not cataloged at the item-level (cataloged correspondence is in Series I).

There is material relating to the curriculum and administration of Columbia's Music Department, which Moore chaired from 1940-1962, in this series and in Series III. Correspondence related to Moore's membership in the Century Club, the MacDowell Association, and the National Institute of Arts and Letters, and correspondence concerning his editorship of the Prentice Hall Music Series is also included in this series.


Subseries II.1. Compositions, 1932-1969, undated

This subseries contains correspondence related to Moore's compositions.



Box 11 Adam was my Grandfather



Box 77 Folder 2 Babbitt, 1932, undated



Box 65 Folder 1 The Ballad of Baby Doe, 1954



Box 77 Folder 3 The Ballad of Baby Doe, 1953-1960


Box 77 Folder 4 The Ballad of Baby Doe, 1953-1966


Box 77 Folder 5 The Ballad of Baby Doe, 1969



Box 11 The Ballad of Baby Doe --Central City


Box 11 The Ballad of Baby Doe --General Correspondence


Box 11 The Ballad of Baby Doe --M.S. and I.S. Iscaas, Lucy Kroll, Michael Myerberg et. al. 1-3


Box 11 Ballade Of William Sycamore



Box 12 Carry Nation



Box 77 Folder 6 Carry Nation, 1962-1968, undated



Box 12 Clarinet Quintet



Box 77 Folder 7 Clarinet Quintet, 1948



Box 13 Correspondence Referring To More Than One Work



Box 16 Cotillion


Box 16 Dedication


Box 16 Destroyer Life



Box 77 Folder 8 Destroyer Life, undated


Box 77 Folder 9 The Devil and Daniel Webster, 1938-1959, undated


Box 77 Folder 10 The Devil and Daniel Webster, 1939-1942, undated



Box 75 Folder 38 The Devil and Daniel Webster, 1942-1960

Agreement, correspondence, clippings.



Box 77 Folder 11 The Devil and Daniel Webster, undated



Box 16 The Devil and Daniel Webster


Box 16 Down East Suite



Box 77 Folder 12 The Emperor's New Clothes, 1948



Box 16 Farm Journal



Box 77 Folder 13 Gallantry, 1958-1962



Box 16 Gallantry and the Boor

See Also: Box 31


Box 16 General Information About Works


Box 16 Giants in the Earth



Box 77 Folder 14 Giants in the Earth, 1949


Box 77 Folder 15 Giants in the Earth, 1951


Box 77 Folder 16 Giants in the Earth, 1953, undated



Box 16 Giants in the Earth--Libretto

Ditto Sheets


Box 16 Good Night Poor Harvard



Box 77 Folder 17 The Greenfield Christmas Tree, 1961


Box 77 Folder 18 The Headless Horseman, 1936-1937, undated


Box 77 Folder 19 The Headless Horseman, 1938



Box 16 The Headless Horseman



Box 77 Folder 20 Jesse James, 1929


Box 77 Folder 21 Listening to Music, 1937



Box 17 Mary's Prayer


Box 17 Memoriam


Box 17 Mysterious Cat, 2 folders


Box 17 Old Song



Box 77 Folder 1 Operas--All Operas, 1969



Box 17 Overture on an American Tune



Box 77 Folder 22 Pageant of P.T. Barnum, 1926


Box 77 Folder 23 Pageant of P.T. Barnum, 1930-1938, undated



Box 18 Pageant of P.T. Barum



Box 77 Folder 24 Passacaglia for Organ, 1943


Box 77 Folder 25 Piano Suite, 1952


Box 77 Folder 26 Power and the Land, 1940



Box 18 Prayer for the United Nations


Box 18 Puss in Boots



Box 19 Quartet 1933


Box 19 Quintet for Winds



Box 77 Folder 27 Rose Tattoo, 1963


Box 77 Folder 28 Simon Legree, 1937


Box 77 Folder 29 String Quartet, 1936


Box 77 Folder 30 String Quartet, 1940



Box 19 Suite for Piano



Box 77 Folder 31 Suite from Shakespearean Music, 1943


Box 77 Folder 32 Symphony in A, 1946-1948


Box 77 Folder 33 Symphony in A, 1956



Box 19 Symphony in A Major



Box 77 Folder 34 Symphony in A Major, 1948



Box 19 Vai-Choo-Loo


Box 19 Village Music


Box 19 White Wings



Box 77 Folder 35 White Wings, 1936-1959


Box 77 Folder 36 White Wings, 1943



Box 75 Folder 39 The Wings of the Dove, 1961



Box 77 Folder 37 The Wings of the Dove, 1961



Box 19 The Wings of the Dove


Box 19 Wonderful Violin


Subseries II.2. Family Correspondence, 1904-1969, undated

This subseries contains correspondence with various relatives and family members, with the exception of Moore's mother, Myra D. Moore. Correspondence with Myra D. Moore can be found in Series I and Subseries II.3.

Condolences written to Emily Moore after Moore's death in 1969 are also filed in this subseries.



Box 10 Moore Family Correspondence, 1904-1948



Box 78 Folder 1 Christmas Greetings, 1914, undated


Box 78 Folder 2 Froelich, Howard, 1934, undated


Box 78 Folder 3 Kelleher, 1944


Box 78 Folder 4 Kelleher, Bradford, 1940


Box 78 Folder 5 Kelleher Moore, Mary, 1934-1964, undated


Box 78 Folder 6 Lohmann, Carl and Helen, 1925


Box 78 Folder 7 Moore, Arthur S., 1912-1914


Box 78 Folder 8 Moore, Eliot D., 1913


Box 78 Folder 9 Moore, Emily, 1918-1961, undated


Box 78 Folder 10 Moore, Emily, undated


Box 78 Folder 11 Moore, Emily--Letters of Condolence to, 1969


Box 78 Folder 12 Moore, Sarah, 1942-1959, undated


Box 78 Folder 13 Moore, Stuart H., 1913-1914


Subseries II.3. Individuals with Cataloged Correspondence in Series I, 1914-1968, undated

This subseries contains additional correspondence for individuals named in Series I. Correspondence in this subseries is arranged in folders, but not cataloged at the item level as it is in Series I.


Box 78 Folder 14 Benet, William Rose, 1928


Box 78 Folder 15 Copland, Aaron, 1962


Box 78 Folder 16 Eisenhower, Dwight David, 1949


Box 78 Folder 17 MacLeish, Archibald, 1961, undated


Box 78 Folder 18 MacLeish, Archibald, 1935-1963, undated


Box 78 Folder 19 MacLeish, Archibald, 1963-1966


Box 78 Folder 20 MacLeish, Archibald, undated


Box 78 Folder 21 Mason, Daniel Gregory, 1932-1945


Box 78 Folder 22 Mason, Daniel Gregory, 1951


Box 78 Folder 23 Menuhin, Yehudi, 1967


Box 78 Folder 24 Meyerowitz, Jan Marguerite, 1961



Box 79 Folder 1 Moore, Myra D., 1914-1917, undated


Box 79 Folder 2 Moore, Myra D., 1918-1919, undated


Box 79 Folder 3 Moore, Myra D., undated



Box 65 Folder 2 Moore, Myra, 1930



Box 18 Partch, Harry Oedipus



Box 79 Folder 4 Roolzinski, Artur, 1947


Box 79 Folder 5 Schuman, William, 1961-1963


Box 79 Folder 6 Schuman, William, 1941-1946, undated


Box 79 Folder 7 Sessions, Roger, 1946


Box 79 Folder 8 Weisgall, Hugo, 1961-1962


Subseries II.4. Organizations, 1914-1971, undated

This subseries contains correspondence with various organizations outside of Columbia University, including Cleveland Museum of Art, MacDowell Association, National Institute of Arts and Letters, and Yale University.



Box 11 American Academy in Rome, 1949-1960



Box 79 Folder 9 American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1951-1952



Box 11 American Academy of Arts and Letters--Minutes



Box 79 Folder 10 American Composers Alliance, 1938


Box 79 Folder 11 American Guild of Authors and Composers, 1965


Box 79 Folder 12 American Music Center, 1962


Box 79 Folder 13 American Opera Society of Chicago, 1944



Box 11 American Society of Composers and Publishers (A.S.C.A.P.)



Box 79 Folder 14 Boosey and Hawkes, 1970



Box 12 Century Association



Box 79 Folder 15 Cleveland Museum of Art, 1921


Box 79 Folder 16 Cleveland Museum of Art--John Severance, 1925


Box 79 Folder 17 Cleveland Museum of Art--F.A. Whiting, 1925



Box 12 Composers Survey--Prepared by American Music Center



Box 79 Folder 18 Con-Edison, 1936-1940


Box 79 Folder 19 Ditson Fund, 1965


Box 79 Folder 20 Guggenheim Fellowship, 1934


Box 79 Folder 21 Library of Congress, 1970-1971



Box 17 MacDowell Association, 1926-1928, 1947-1959, 4 folders



Box 79 Folder 22 MacDowell Foundation, 1898, 1929, (2 a.l.s.)


Box 79 Folder 23 MacDowell Association, 1938-1948, undated


Box 79 Folder 24 Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1925



Box 80 Folder 1 National Citizens for Humphrey Committee, 1968



Box 17 National Institute of Arts and Letters, 1948-1960, 4 folders



Box 75 Folder 40 National Institute of Arts and Letters, 1948



Box 80 Folder 2 National Institute of Arts and Letters, 1940-1956, undated


Box 80 Folder 3 National Institute of Arts and Letters, 1942-1954


Box 80 Folder 4 National Institute of Arts and Letters, 1947-1966, undated


Box 80 Folder 5 National Institute of Arts and Letters--Richard Rogers, 1955


Box 80 Folder 6 National Institute of Arts and Letters--G. Wescott, 1961


Box 80 Folder 7 National Institute of Arts and Letters--John A. Williams, 1962


Box 80 Folder 8 National Youth Administration, 1940


Box 80 Folder 9 New York Municipal Art Committee of One Hundred, 1934



Box 65 Folder 3 New York Philharmonic, 1934



Box 19 Society for Music in the Liberal Arts College



Box 80 Folder 10 University of Kansas, 1965-1966


Box 80 Folder 12 Yale University, 1933-1940


Box 80 Folder 13 Yale University, 1940



Box 19 Yale University--Alumni Council, 1948-1954



Box 80 Folder 14 Yale University--Carl A. Lohmann, 1926


Box 80 Folder 15 Yale University--Howard L. Phillips, 1926


Box 80 Folder 11 Yale University--Wolf's Head, 1914, undated


Subseries II.5. Columbia University, 1942-1962, undated

This subseries contains correspondence relating to Columbia University.


Box 80 Folder 16 Columbia University, 1942-1952


Box 80 Folder 17 Columbia University, 1951-1962


Box 80 Folder 18 Columbia University, undated



Box 12 Columbia University--Extension


Box 12 Columbia University--Humanities


Box 12 Columbia University--Music Department Budget, 2 folders


Box 12 Columbia University--Music Department Curriculum


Box 12 Columbia University--Music Department Reports



Box 80 Folder 19 Columbia University--New Arts Program, 1944-1954


Box 80 Folder 20 Columbia University--New Arts Program, 1955-1962, undated


Box 80 Folder 21 Institute for University Studies, 1962


Subseries II.6. Other Correspondence, 1915-1966, undated

This subseries contains general correspondence files, chronological subject files, unidentified correspondence, and correspondence with other individuals and subject matter outside of that filed in Series I and Series II: Subseries 1-5.



Box 81 Folder 1 General Correspondence, 1915-1960, undated



Box 13 Correspondence, 1928-1936, 1941-1950



Box 14 Correspondence, 1951-1953, 1956-1957



Box 15 Correspondence, 1958-1963



Box 81 Folder 2 Acheson, Dean, 1945


Box 81 Folder 3 Bacon, Leonard, 1953


Box 81 Folder 4 Barzun, Jacques, 1945-1951


Box 81 Folder 5 Benet, Laura, 1969


Box 81 Folder 6 Berezowsky, Nicolai, 1942-1947


Box 81 Folder 7 Berlin, Irving, 1962


Box 81 Folder 8 Bloch, Ernst, 1942


Box 81 Folder 9 Bloch, Ernst, undated


Box 81 Folder 10 Burke, Kenneth, 1951


Box 81 Folder 11 Cadman, Charles Wakefield, 1946


Box 81 Folder 12 Colum, Padraic, 1937-1957, undated


Box 81 Folder 13 Congratulations for Retirement, 1962


Box 81 Folder 14 Congratulations for Seventieth Birthday, 1963



Box 16 Documents, 1955-1959



Box 81 Folder 15 Eberhart, Richard, 1960


Box 81 Folder 16 Ericourt, Daniel and Gordon Tevis, 1937


Box 81 Folder 17 Fackenthal, Frank, undated


Box 81 Folder 18 Fellowes, Edmund, 1951


Box 81 Folder 19 Fenton, Charles, 1954


Box 81 Folder 20 Fisher, Lola, undated


Box 81 Folder 21 "From Madrigal to Modern Music,", 1942


Box 81 Folder 22 Future Projects, 1959


Box 81 Folder 23 Giddings, James, 1938


Box 81 Folder 24 Gilman, Lawrence, 1934, undated


Box 81 Folder 25 Green, Paul, 1940



Box 65 Folder 6 Grenell, Horace--Gulliver, undated

Outline of Gulliver, with short cover letter from Grenell. Grenell was the founder of Young People's Records and Children's Record Guild Series.



Box 81 Folder 26 Harlan, John, undated


Box 81 Folder 27 Harper, Paul, 1944


Box 81 Folder 28 Herzog, John, 1955


Box 81 Folder 29 Hindemith, Paul, 1944-1945


Box 81 Folder 30 Invoice for Recording Services, 1966


Box 81 Folder 31 Joseph, Jack, 1942


Box 81 Folder 32 Joseph, Jack, 1942-1943, undated


Box 81 Folder 33 Kennedy, John F., 1961


Box 81 Folder 34 Krenek, Ernst, 1938-1940


Box 81 Folder 35 Latouche, John, undated


Box 81 Folder 36 Lawrence, Robert, 1935



Box 16 Lectures and California Trip, 1950 January



Box 81 Folder 37 Leinsdorf, Erich, 1943


Box 81 Folder 38 "Listening to Music,", 1932


Box 81 Folder 39 Mason, Daniel Gregory, 1944


Box 81 Folder 40 Mason, Leroy, 1923-1936


Box 81 Folder 41 McGarrahan, J.F., 1936


Box 81 Folder 42 McGraw, Harold, 1960



Box 17 McGraw Hill



Box 81 Folder 43 McKenzie, Duncan, 1934


Box 81 Folder 44 Menotti, Gian Carlo, 1947-1950


Box 81 Folder 45 Millhaud, Darius, undated


Box 81 Folder 46 Millis, Walter, undated


Box 81 Folder 47 Parker, Horatio, 1916-1917


Box 81 Folder 48 Payne, W.W., 1952


Box 81 Folder 49 Phelps, William Lyon, 1943



Box 18 Prentice Hall Correspondence--A-Z


Box 18 Printed Materials



Box 17 Printed Materials--Miscellaneous Printed Material



Box 18 Programs and Advertisements



Box 81 Folder 50 Pulitzer Prize, 1951


Box 81 Folder 51 Pulitzer Prize, 1951



Box 19 References and Recommendations, 1948-1950



Box 81 Folder 52 Saroyan, William, 1942


Box 81 Folder 53 Sitwell, Edith, 1949


Box 81 Folder 54 Speicher, Eugene, 1950


Box 81 Folder 55 Stephenson, Charles S., 1914


Box 81 Folder 56 Stoessel, Albert, 1943


Box 81 Folder 57 Stokowski, Leopold, 1942


Box 81 Folder 58 Stokowski, Leopold, 1954


Box 81 Folder 59 Stravinsky, Igor, undated


Box 81 Folder 60 Stuart, Jesse, 1953


Box 81 Folder 61 Thompson, Randall, 1934


Box 81 Folder 62 Thompson, Randall, 1936-1945



Box 82 Folder 1 Tinker, C.B., 1950


Box 82 Folder 2 Truman, Margaret, undated


Box 82 Folder 3 Underwood, Elisabeth Kendall (Mrs. Pierson), 1969


Box 82 Folder 4 Van Hoesen, Herbert, undated


Box 82 Folder 5 Weiss, Louis S., 1949


Box 82 Folder 6 White House, 1961


Box 82 Folder 7 Whiting, Arthur, 1931


Box 82 Folder 8 Wilder, Thornton, 1946


Box 82 Folder 9 Wilder, Thornton, 1946-1948, undated


Box 82 Folder 10 Yale Unversity, 1914


Box 82 Folder 11 Yale Unviersity--Yale Club, 1914


Box 82 Folder 12 Yale University--Yale Musical Club, 1914


Box 82 Folder 13 Unknown Author, 1921


Box 82 Folder 14 Unidentified, 1942-1944, undated


Box 82 Folder 15 Unidentified, 1966, undated