Percy Wallace MacKaye Collection 1897-1948

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Location of collection:
University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
University of Virginia
P.O. Box 400110
160 McCormick Rd
Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4110
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POC: Brenda Gunn
Phone: (434) 924-1037
Phone: (434) 243-1776
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Collection is open to reseaarch.

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See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.

Preferred citation:

Percy Wallace MacKaye Collection, Accession 7431-a, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library

Summary

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Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Percy Wallace MacKaye Collection, Accession 7431-a, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library

Background

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[Asks Gilder to write something for The Centuryon MacKaye's play Shappho and Phaonstarring Julia Marloweand E. H. Sothern; mentions color sketches of the actors made by Barry Faulkner; MacKaye mentions that he is working on another play, "Jeanne d'Arc", scheduled for October; mentions that Sappho and Phaonis scheduled to open December 10, 1906 in Chicago, and that MacMillanwill publish the play; mentions William Vaughn Moody. ]

[Letter discusses a lunch appointment with Eaton, drama critic for The [New York] Morning Sun. ]

[Discusses the stage and the technical aspects of the marionette performance of Pageant and Masque of St. Louisgiven in May. States that accounts of the production can be found in July or August World's Workby Prof. George Pierce Baker, in the August Review of Reviewsby Arthur Farwell, and the Sept. Current Literature. Estimates that 1/2 million people saw the performances.]

[The note was enclosed with an autographed photo (the photo is not in this collection). Says the plays he likes best are: A Garland to Sylvia, This Fine Pretty World, and The Scarecrow. ]

[Offers sympathy to Holt on a great loss.]

[Discusses the proof of a book by Ernest Harold Baynesand requests extra copies for Baynes' widow and friends.]

[Encloses a book by Dartmouth Presswhich contains Eaton's greeting at MacKaye's 50th birthday celebration. At the invitation of Hamilton Holthe is spending a few weeks at Rollins Collegeto meet with students interested in poetry.]

[Thanks Ranck for the birthday greeting and wishes his new play success. Mentions that he is lecturing in Florida. Written on a picture post card with a scene of a highway through orange groves near Winter Park, Florida. ]

[Sends Eaton a copy of Wakefieldfor review in a New Yorknewspaper. Extends an invitation to Eaton to attend the Washington, D. C.premiere on Feb. 21 to which the President, Cabinet, Supreme Court, Ambassadors, and Congress have been invited.]

[Mentions meeting Untermeyer at a National Institute of Arts and Lettersmeeting; MacKaye sends him four books by MacKaye that were published in Europe: The Far Familiar; In Another Land; Poesia Religio; My Lady Dear, Arise; discusses publication in pre-World War II and inter-World War II Europe. ]

[Discusses an article MacKaye has agreed to write about Santa Claus.]

[Note: Correspondent is identified as (William) Maxwellbecause he was editor of The New Yorker, and Reader's Guide to Periodical Literaturelists several articles by Percy Wallace MacKayepublished in The New Yorker. However, an article about Santa is not listed.]

Acquisition information:
Deposit [17 December 1963] 24 March 1965
Processing information:

Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities

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Physical description:
12 items