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Series I: Kay's Diaries, 1949-1991
Series II: Music by Kay, 1939-1991
Series IV: Biographical Materials, 1940s-1995
Series VI: Professional Subject Files, 1941-1997
Series X: Barbara Kay Files, circa 1955-1991

Ulysses Kay papers, 1894-2017, bulk 1938-1995

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Series V: Correspondence, 1941-1995

This series consists of both professional and personal correspondence.

Subseries V.1: General Correspondence, 1953-1995

This subseries consists of several files of miscellaneous correspondence that have been kept in Kay's original file groupings.


Box 84 Folder 14 to 16 1953-1993 (3 Folders), 1953-1993


Box 85 Folder 1 to 5 1964-1968, 1987-1995, Undated (5 Folders), 1964-1968, 1987-1995, Undated

Subseries V.2 Family Correspondence, circa 1944-1994

This subseries includes correspondence from Kay's mother, siblings, wife, and daughters. There is one file of Kay's outgoing correspondence filed at the end of the subseries.

Box 85 Folder 6 General Family Correspondence, 1961-1970, 1990, 1961-1970, 1990

(Primarily from Kay's wife and daughters)

Box 85 Folder 7 Pictures, circa, 1944-1973

(Includes photographs)

Box 85 Folder 8 Jackson, Camille, 1964-1965, 1993, 1964-1965, 1993

Box 85 Folder 9 Kay, Barbara, 1961 July

(Two pieces of correspondence written by Barbara from prison in Mississippi, where she had participated in the Mississippi Freedom Rides. One of these includes a covering letter from a family friend)


Box 86 Folder 1 Kay, Elizabeth, 1959-1970

(Includes two condolence letters in relation to her death in 1970.

Box 86 Folder 2 Kay, Hillary, 1978

Box 86 Folder 3 Kay, Melinda, 1975-1979, 1992, 1975-1979, 1992

Box 86 Folder 4 Kay, Virginia ("Jenny"), 1963, 1978-1979, 1994, 1963, 1978-1979, 1994

Box 86 Folder 5 Skinner, Lillian, 1965

Watkins, Bill

Box 86 Folder 6 General, 1970-1971

Box 86 Folder 7 On Elizabeth Kay Trust, 1979-1991

Box 86 Folder 8 Kay, Ulysses--Outgoing Correspondence, 1965 January

(One letter to Camille Jackson and one to Bill Watkins)

Subseries V.3: Personal Correspondence, 1953-1980, 1991-1994

This subseries consists of general personal correspondence, as well as correspondence from poet Theodore (Ted) Melnechuk and composer George Rochberg.

Box 86 Folder 9 to 11 General Personal Correspondence, 1958-1961, 1991-1992, undated (3 Folders), 1958-1961, 1991-1992, undated

Box 86 Folder 12 Christmas Cards, 1972

Melnechuk, Theodore

Box 86 Folder 13 General, 1994


Box 103 Poem "To Ulysses Kay" with Photograph by Leo Smit taken near the American Academy in Rome,, 1980 January

(Originally framed and signed for presentation to Kay)


Box 86 Folder 14 Poetry, 1959, 1964-1965, 1959, 1964-1965

Box 86 Folder 15 Rochberg, George, 1953-1966

Subseries V.4: Professional Correspondence, 1941-1994

The majority of Kay's professional correspondence was kept in the subject files which are filed in Series VI. This subseries consists of more general professional correspondence.

General Professional Correspondence

Box 86 Folder 16 to 17 A-Z, 1941-1964, 1977, 1941-1964, 1977

(Originally an alphabetized accordion file. The file includes biographical and resume data that was sent out professionally.)


Box 87 Folder 1 to 13 General Correspondence, 1948-1994, undated (13 Folders), 1948-1994, undated

Box 87 Folder 14 Autograph Requests, 1971-1981

Box 87 Folder 15 Choral People, 1961-1980

Conductors


Box 88 Folder 1 Band, 1971-1979

Box 88 Folder 2 Current, 1970-1984

Box 88 Folder 3 Old, 1954-1971

Box 88 Folder 4 Promotion, 1966-1982

Box 88 Folder 5 Conductors and Managers, 1971-1974

Box 88 Folder 6 Critics' Questions, 1969-1979

Box 88 Folder 7 Doctoral Candidates and Others, 1967-1978, 1988, 1967-1978, 1988

Box 88 Folder 8 Drichta, Clarenace, 1986-1988

Box 88 Folder 9 to 10 Edwin Fleischer Music Collection, Free Library of Philadelphia, 1941-1976 (2 Folders), 1941-1976

Box 88 Folder 11 Performers--Other, 1970-1983

Box 88 Folder 12 Printer in Italy, Correspondence from, 1952

Box 88 Folder 13 Producers, 1947-1948, 1963-1968, 1947-1948, 1963-1968

Box 88 Folder 14 to 15 Recommendations, 1969-1989 (2 Folders), 1969-1989

Box 88 Folder 16 University Correspondence, 1971-1989

(Correspondence with persons at other universities)

Box 88 Folder 17 Kay, Ulysses--Outgoing Correspondence, 1974-1991, undated, 1974-1991, undated


Box 117 Folder 7 Letter about the baldric of the American Academy in Rome, undated

Typewritten, unattributed.