A Guide to the Percy Wallace MacKaye Collection
A Collection in the
Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature
Accession number 7431-c
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Administrative Information
Access Restrictions
Collection is open to research.
Use Restrictions
See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.
Preferred Citation
Percy Wallace MacKaye Collection, Accession 7431-c, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library
Acquisition Information
Transfer 1989 August 29
Funding Note
Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities
Significant Persons Associated With the Collection
- Percy MacKaye
- Walter P. Eaton
- Walter Prichard Eaton
- Walter Prichard Eaton
- William Winter
- [James Morrison] Steele MacKaye
Significant Places Associated With the Collection
- Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Cornish, New Hampshire
- New York
- San Francisco, California
- Stockbridge, Massachusetts
Item Listing
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Percy MacKaye , Harvard Club , to Walter Prichard Eaton1908 Jan 9ALS, 2 p.
mentioning that he is to lecture on "The Drama of Democracy" before the MacDowell Association and also at Earl Hall, Columbia University , and wishing to see him while he is in town.
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Percy MacKaye , San Francisco, California , to Walter Prichard Eaton1908 July 27ALS, 1 p.
concerning the production of his play Mater
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Percy MacKaye , Cornish, New Hampshire , to Walter Prichard Eaton ,1908 Nov 8ALS, 1 p.
congratulating him on the loss of his job [from the New York Sun ?] which "may mean a black mark on your bank-account but it means a gold medal to you from the angels & the muses."
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Percy MacKaye , The Players, to Walter Prichard Eaton ,1910 Nov 7ALS, 4 p.
thanking him for the article on Anti-Matrimony in the Chicago Record-Herald and expressing his gratitude for Eaton's emphasis on "the use of putting the whole body of modern European drama into a better perspective for Americans..."
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Percy MacKaye , Cambridge, Massachusetts , to Walter Prichard Eaton , Stockbridge, Massachusetts ,1913 Jan 13TLS w/env, 1 p.
praising the excerpt of his lecture which appeared in the Transcript
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Percy MacKaye , Harvard Club , to William Winter , a highly regarded contemporary of his father, [James Morrison] Steele MacKaye ,1903 Mar 20ALS, 2 p.
having taken the liberty of asking the MacMillan Company to send him a copy of MacKaye's play in verse, The Canterbury Pilgrims , and expressing his desire to have Winter's critical opinion of the play.