Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: The Arthur Johnston Papers represent an extensive collection of materials documenting the life and works of Arthur Johnston (1898-1954), a prolific American music composer who wrote music for the theater and for film. Some of Johnston's correspondence and contracts are preserved among his papers. Also, printed materials about his career and numerous photographs of him and others are present. A large number of his musical compositions--both published an unpublished--are retained in the...

Scope and contents note From the Collection: The Douglass Woodruff Papers are divided into seven series. The Correspondence Series comprises 12 boxes and includes separate sections of correspondence from Evelyn Waugh, Emily Hewett Woodruff (Woodruff's letters to his mother), Marie Immaculee Woodruff, and Mildred Woodruff Tschoeberle (Woodruff's letters to his sister). The letters in this Series contain discussion on a variety of topics, most notably Catholicism, the Tablet, literary endeavors of Woodruff and others, and news regarding...

Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: The Arthur Johnston Papers represent an extensive collection of materials documenting the life and works of Arthur Johnston (1898-1954), a prolific American music composer who wrote music for the theater and for film. Some of Johnston's correspondence and contracts are preserved among his papers. Also, printed materials about his career and numerous photographs of him and others are present. A large number of his musical compositions--both published an unpublished--are retained in the...

Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: The Arthur Johnston Papers represent an extensive collection of materials documenting the life and works of Arthur Johnston (1898-1954), a prolific American music composer who wrote music for the theater and for film. Some of Johnston's correspondence and contracts are preserved among his papers. Also, printed materials about his career and numerous photographs of him and others are present. A large number of his musical compositions--both published an unpublished--are retained in the...