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    <title>Marian MacDowell papers, 1876-1969 (bulk 1908-1938)</title>
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    <namePart>MacDowell, Marian</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1857-1956</namePart>
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  <abstract>Correspondence, writings, clippings and other printed material, memorabilia, and other papers relating primarily to MacDowell's activities with the MacDowell Colony, the artists' community in Peterborough, N.H., established to honor her husband.  Includes Edward MacDowell's letters  to his wife, musical scores, and other personal and family papers (1890-1904); records of the Edward MacDowell Association, Inc., a New York-based foundation that financed and administered the colony; and papers of Nina Maud Richardson, including her correspondence with Marian MacDowell and with Van Wyck Brooks, O. Louis Guglielmi, Hermann Hagedorn, and Jean Starr Untermeyer.  Marian MacDowell's correspondents include Aaron Copland, Theodore Dreiser, Daniel Chester French, Hamlin Garland, DuBose Heyward, Archibald MacLeish, Nina Maud Richardson, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Roger Sessions, Upton Sinclair, and Thornton Wilder.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Edward and Marian MacDowell collection located in Library of Congress Music Division.</note>
  <note>Philanthropist, musician, and cofounder of the MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, N.H.  Born Marian Griswold Nevins; married composer Edward MacDowell (1861-1908) in 1884.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
  <note xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms998022">Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms998022</note>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Brooks, Van Wyck</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1886-1963</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Copland, Aaron</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1900-1990</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Dreiser, Theodore</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1871-1945</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>French, Daniel Chester</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1850-1931</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Garland, Hamlin</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1860-1940</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Guglielmi, O. Louis (Osvaldo Louis)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1906-1956</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Hagedorn, Hermann</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1882-1964</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Heyward, DuBose</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1885-1940</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>MacLeish, Archibald</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1892-1982</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Robinson, Edwin Arlington</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1869-1935</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Saint-Gaudens, Augustus</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1848-1907</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Sinclair, Upton</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1878-1968</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Untermeyer, Jean Starr</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1886-1970</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Wilder, Thornton</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1897-1975</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>MacDowell Colony (Peterborough, N.H.)</namePart>
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    <topic>Artist colonies</topic>
    <geographic>New Hampshire</geographic>
    <geographic>Peterborough</geographic>
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    <occupation>Musicians</occupation>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Philanthropists</occupation>
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      <namePart>MacDowell, Edward,</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1860-1908</namePart>
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      <title>Nina Maud Richardson papers</title>
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      <namePart>Richardson, Nina Maud.</namePart>
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      <namePart>Edward MacDowell Association.</namePart>
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