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

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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Repository
University of Virginia. Library. Special Collections Dept. Alderman Library University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 USA
Collection Number
7431-c
Title
Percy Wallace MacKaye Collection 1903-1913
Extent
8 items
Creator
Location
Language
English

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

Letters
  • Percy MacKaye , Harvard Club , to Walter Prichard Eaton
    1908 Jan 9
    ALS, 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.

  • Percy MacKaye , San Francisco, California , to Walter Prichard Eaton
    1908 July 27
    ALS, 1 p.

    concerning the production of his play Mater

  • Percy MacKaye , Cornish, New Hampshire , to Walter Prichard Eaton ,
    1908 Nov 8
    ALS, 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."

  • Percy MacKaye , The Players, to Walter Prichard Eaton ,
    1910 Nov 7
    ALS, 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..."

  • Percy MacKaye , Cambridge, Massachusetts , to Walter Prichard Eaton , Stockbridge, Massachusetts ,
    1913 Jan 13
    TLS w/env, 1 p.

    praising the excerpt of his lecture which appeared in the Transcript

  • Percy MacKaye , Harvard Club , to William Winter , a highly regarded contemporary of his father, [James Morrison] Steele MacKaye ,
    1903 Mar 20
    ALS, 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.

Miscellaneous
  • Program for an open-air performance of The Canterbury Pilgrims by Percy MacKaye
    1909 May 25
    Broadside
  • Newspaper clipping, " Walter P. Eaton 's New York Letter" re Percy MacKaye 's Anti-Matrimony
    1910 Oct 8
    Printed