Box/folder, Emma Gray Trigg Papers, M 40, Special
Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library,
Virginia Commonwealth University
Acquisition Information
The bulk of the collection is a gift from Mrs. Trigg
(1975-1977). A cassette tape of Mrs. Trigg reading Poetry
(M 15) is the gift of Mrs. Donald Zimmerman.
Processing Information
Collection processed in March 1977. Revised in February
1987, May 1990 and October 1994.
Emma Gray Trigg (1890-1976) was one of the prime movers
behind the arts in Virginia. She was a leader, a promoter, and
an major influence in the state's Fine Arts programs. She was
also and artist in her own right.
Born in Norfolk, she attended Columbia and the University
of Virginia. During the 1930s, she was director of a public
relief program in Virginia that employed more than one hundred
forty out-of-work musicians. During this time, Ms. Trigg was
also a performer, giving several vocal recitals along the East
Coast. In 1937, her first collection of verse, After Eden, was
published receiving some critical attention.
For the duration of World War II she had the job of public
information officer for the Office of Price Administration in
Virginia. It was in this period that Ms. Trigg began to write
a series of short children's plays and several operettas in
collaboration with Elizabeth B. Maury. This eventually led to
the adaptation of Mary Johnston's To Have and To Hold, which
played successfully in Richmond during the 1950s.
In the late 1950s, Ms. Trigg was one of first to call for
the formation of a symphony orchestra in Richmond; and after
its institution, she served on its executive committee until
the time of her death. She was also a past president of the
Poetry Society of Virginia and a board member of the Poe
Museum. Her second collection of poetry, The Paulonia Tree,
was published in 1968.
The Emma Gray (White) Trigg Papers (1920-1971) consist
chiefly of drafts of her plays, "Julep Time," "The Lone
Vixen," "To Have and To Hold" and "Greenbriar," and her book
of poetry, The Spanish Pirates, together with some unpublished
poetry and material about various materials.
Correspondence includes letters from fellow literary
artists Max Eastman, James Branch Cabell, Ellen Glasgow, Harry
M. Meacham, Marjorie K. Rawlings, Louis Untemeyer and Carl Van
Vechten.
Photographs include one of Max Eastman and two of Carl Van
Vechten.
SC and A also posses books from Trigg's library, including
Peter Whiffle: His Life and Works by Van Vechten, which is
inscribed to her.
Julep-Timeoperetta in two
acts, Music by Elizabeth
Box-folder
1.2
Score for
Julep-Timeby E.B.
Maury
Box-folder
1.3
Larkspuran operetta in
two acts, Music by E.B. Maury
1949
Box-folder
1.4
Julep-Timecharacter
analysis for casting purposes
Box-folder
1.5
Julep-Timenearprint
Box-folder
1.6
Julep-Timewith
notes
Box-folder
1.7
Julep-Timeprograms,
advertisements
Box-folder
1.8
Julep-Time Libretto score
Box-folder
1.9
The Greenbriar
1948
Box-folder
1.10
The
Greenbriar-Interlude
Box-folder
1.11
The Greenbriar-Synopsis
(2)
Box-folder
1.12
The Greenbriar-with
notes
Box-folder
1.13
The Greenbriar-revised
version
Box-folder
1.14
The Greenbriar-revision
after Richmond
Box-folder
1.15
Score for
Julep-Time
Box-folder
1.16
Greenbriar-with
revisions
Box-folder
1.17
Greenbriar-clippings and
scrapbook
Box-folder
1a.1
Poems written for John Powell
Box-folder
1a.2
Conservation on Poetryby
Emma Gray Trigg and Florence Dickinson
Stearn
Box-folder
1a.3
The Ballad of Four
Playersand other poetry
Box-folder
1a.4
After Eden
Box-folder
2.1
Greenbriar-miscellaneous
items
Box-folder
2.2
Greenbriar-photographs
Box-folder
2.3
Greenbriar-photos and
advertisements
Box-folder
2.4
Lecture on War Poetry
Box-folder
2.5
"The Van Lew
Story"-first revision
Box-folder
2.6
"The Van Lew Story":
the Lone Vixen
Box-folder
2.7
"The Van Lew
Story"-scenes from Act III
Box-folder
2.8
"The Lone
Vixen"-versions of Dhalgrens raid
scene
Box-folder
2.9
The Lone Vixen
Box-folder
2.10
"The Lone Vixen"-with
corrections
Box-folder
2.11
"The Lone Vixen"-with
criticisms and changes
Box-folder
2.12
"The Lone Vixen"
Box-folder
2.13
The Lone Vixen-Act II scene 2 deleted from
play
Box-folder
2.14
"The Lone
Vixen"-newspaper clippings
Box-folder
2.15
"The Lone
Vixen"-papers
Box-folder
2.16
Drafts of poems, lecturers, and a portion of
"The Lone
Vixen"
notebook
Box-folder
2a.1
Richmond Symphony-papers,
clippings
Box-folder
2a.2
Notebook of poems-EGT
Box-folder
2a.3
Scrapbook
Box-folder
2a.4
Newspaper clippings
Box-folder
2a.5
Poetry
Box-folder
2a.6
"The Rainbow Has an
End"-a one act play
Box-folder
2a.7
"Scraps of Magic"-a
one act play
Box-folder
2a.8
"Scraps of
Magic"-score lyrics
Box-folder
2a.9
"Spring's Around the
Corner"-a one act fairy play for
children
Box-folder
2a.10
"Spring's Around the
Corner"-miscellaneous materials
Box-folder
2a.11
"To Have and to
Hold"-an operetta in two acts
Box-folder
2a.12
"To Have and to
Hold"-miscellaneous materials for the
production
Box-folder
2a.13
Letter from Mrs. Trigg to Hart
School
Box-folder
3.1
Correspondence, regarding research and
publication of
The Spanish Pirates
1956
Box-folder
3.2
Transcriptions of articles for research
regarding
The Spanish
Pirates
Box-folder
3.3
Galley proofs, with corrections,
The Spanish Pirates
1973
Box-folder
3.4
The Spanish Pirates-final
draft and earlier revised pages
Box-folder
3.5
Research materials, regarding
The Spanish Pirates
1973
Box-folder
3.6
To Have and to Hold,
final corrections
1955
Box-folder
3.7
Miscellaneous materials regarding
To Have and to
Hold
Box-folder
3.8
Newspaper clippings regarding
To Have and To
Hold
Box-folder
3.9
Miscellaneous writings by Emma Gray
Trigg
Box-folder
3.10
Reviews by Emma Gray Trigg
Box-folder
3.11
Correspondence
1948-1976
including letter from Mrs. Woodrow Wilson
Box-folder
3.12
Correspondence
1948-1976
including letters to Arthur Norris
Box-folder
3.13
Correspondence of Richmond and Elizabeth
Maury regarding
Greenbriar
Box-folder
3.14
Miscellaneous correspondence and
correspondents
1914-1974
including letter from Hal Pierce
Box-folder
4.1
Critique of Emma Gray Trigg by Clyde Hobbs
Kincheloe
Box-folder
4.2
Clippings regarding Emma Gray
Trigg
Box-folder
4.3
Diary notes of European excursion
Box-folder
4.4
Trigg concerts, programs, reviews,
advertisements
Box-folder
4.5
Correspondence by E.G. Trigg regarding CWA
Concerts
Box-folder
4.6
Correspondence by E.G. Trigg regarding CWA
Music Project
Box-folder
4.7
Miscellaneous papers, correspondence
regarding CWA Music Project
1933-1934
Box-folder
4.8
Permit, programs for CWA Concerts
Box-folder
4.9
Contribution Lists, to Special Collections
1968-1975
Box-folder
4.10
Miscellaneous clippings
Box-folder
4.11
Miscellaneous materials regarding Poetry
Society of Virginia and Poetry Society
Collection
Box-folder
4.12
Miscellaneous items
Box-folder
4.13
Photographs, concert performers, Emma Gray
Trigg
Box-folder
4.14
Nearprint,
"Intellectual Life in
Nineteenth Century Richmond", by Maurice
Duke
Box-folder
4.15
Introduction for Parke Rouse by Harry
Woodward
Box-folder
4.16
Nearprint,
"On Human Nature and
Survival"by Paul Note
1970
Box-folder
5.1
Score and Lyrics from
The Green
Thumb
Box-folder
5.2
A Green Thumb
Box-folder
5.3
Manuscript poetry
Box-folder
5.4
The Rainbow Has An End
Box-folder
5.5
Scrapes of Magic
Box-folder
5.6
Score and Lyrics for Scrape of
Magic
Box-folder
5.7
Spring's Around the
Corner
Box-folder
5.8
Misc. materials of Spring's Around the
Corner
Box-folder
5.9
To Have and to Hold,
typed manuscript
Box-folder
5.10
misc. manuscripts
To Have and to
Hold
Box-folder
5.11
manuscripts Re: Production of
To Have and to
Hold
Box-folder
6.1
Eastman, Max
1937-1939
Box-folder
6.2
Eastman, Max
1940-1945
Box-folder
6.3
Eastman, Max
1951-1961
Box-folder
6.4
Eastman, Max, n.d.
Including a letter dated 6/29/71 from Trigg to Gerald
McCabe, of the VCU Libraries regarding her relationship
to Eastman
Box-folder
6.5
Letter from Trigg regarding Eastman's views
on Russia
Box-folder
6.6
Cabell, James Branch
1937-1938
Box-folder
6.7
Dillon, George
1937-1961
Box-folder
6.8
Glasgow, Ellen, n.d.
1931, 1942,
1945
Box-folder
6.9
Meacham, Harry M.
1972-1975
Box-folder
6.10
Rawlings, Marjorie K.
Box-folder
6.11
Untemeyer, Louis
1940-1973
Box-folder
6.12
Van Vechten, Carl
1937
copies of letters from Van Vechten to Trigg made by
Edgar MacDonald covering the years 1923-24 and a letter
about the letters from Trigg dated 1959
Box-folder
6.12
Miscellaneous correspondence
Box-folder
6.13
Miscellaneous clippings and
material
Box-folder
6.14
Miscellaneous papers,
correspondence
Box-folder
6.15
Photographs
including: Doris Holmes - 1955, John Holmes - 1956,
John L. Holmes - 1955, Margaret Freeman Cabell, Emma
Gray Trigg & Martha Richford Roberts - 1973, Emma
Gray White - 1914, Carl Van Vechten and Farina Marinoff
- 1924, Carl Van Vecthten - 1927, Joseph Herghesmer -
1923, Max Eastman - taken by Carl Van Vechten, and
1939
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