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A Guide to the Percy Wallace MacKaye Collection MacKaye, Percy Wallace. 7431-a

A Guide to the Percy Wallace MacKaye Collection

A Collection in the
Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature
Accession number 7431-a


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Repository
University of Virginia. Library. Special Collections Dept. Alderman Library University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 USA
Collection Number
7431-a
Title
Percy Wallace MacKaye Collection 1897-1948
Extent
12 items
Creator
Location
Language
English

Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

Collection is open to reseaarch.

Use Restrictions

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

Acquisition Information

Deposit [17 December 1963] 24 March 1965

Funding Note

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

Significant Persons Associated With the Collection

  • (William) Maxwell
  • Arthur Farwell
  • Barry Faulkner
  • Carty Ranck
  • Charles D. Scott
  • E. H. Sothern
  • Ernest Harold Baynes
  • George Pierce Baker
  • Hamilton Bowen Holt
  • Hamilton Holt
  • Julia Marlowe
  • Louis Untermeyer
  • Percy Wallace MacKaye
  • Richard Watson Gilder
  • Roy Day
  • Walter Prichard Eaton
  • William Vaughn Moody
  • [William (?)] Maxwell
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Significant Places Associated With the Collection

  • Chicago
  • Europe
  • Florida
  • New York
  • Washington, D. C.
  • Winter Park, Florida
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Item Listing

Manuscript
  • Fair copy of two stanzas from "Moments en Voyage": poem for the Harvard Class of 1897
    n. d.
    AMsS 1 p.
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Letters
  • Percy Wallace MacKaye to Richard Watson Gilder
    1906 June 29
    ALS 2 p.

    [Asks Gilder to write something for The Century on MacKaye's play Shappho and Phaon starring Julia Marlowe and 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 Phaon is scheduled to open December 10, 1906 in Chicago , and that MacMillan will publish the play; mentions William Vaughn Moody . ]

  • Percy Wallace MacKaye to Walter Prichard Eaton
    1908 Jan 10
    TLS w/env 1 p.

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

  • Percy Wallace MacKaye to Mr. Browne
    1914 Oct 24
    ALS 4 p.

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

  • Percy Wallace MacKaye to Charles D. Scott
    1925 Nov 29
    ALS 1 p. [Note written on an envelope]

    [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 . ]

  • Percy Wallace MacKaye to Hamilton Bowen Holt
    1926 Feb 21
    ALS 1 p.

    [Offers sympathy to Holt on a great loss.]

  • Percy Wallace MacKaye to Roy Day (?)
    1928 Aug 10
    ALS 1 p.

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

  • Percy Wallace MacKaye to Walter Prichard Eaton
    1929 Feb 18
    ALS 1 p.

    [Encloses a book by Dartmouth Press which contains Eaton's greeting at MacKaye's 50th birthday celebration. At the invitation of Hamilton Holt he is spending a few weeks at Rollins College to meet with students interested in poetry.]

  • Percy Wallace MacKaye to Carty Ranck
    1931 March 22
    APCS

    [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 . ]

  • Percy Wallace MacKaye to Walter Prichard Eaton
    1932 Feb 15
    ALS w/env 2 p.

    [Sends Eaton a copy of Wakefield for review in a New York newspaper. 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.]

  • Percy Wallace MacKaye to Louis Untermeyer
    1941 Mar 6
    TLS 3 p.

    [Mentions meeting Untermeyer at a National Institute of Arts and Letters meeting; 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 . ]

  • Percy Wallace MacKaye to [William (?)] Maxwell
    n. d.
    ANS 1. p

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

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

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