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- Title
- Papers of the Fay family, 1800-1967, folder 52
- Fay family, creator
Fay, Amy, 1844-1928
Stone, Amy Fay, 1888-1953
Wright, Austin Tappan, 1883-1931
Wright, Margaret Garrad Stone, 1886-1937 - Massachusetts
- Letters from Amy Fay to her family, especially her sisters (one of whom was Melusina Fay Peirce), including letters from Germany where she studied piano (1869-1875) with Tausig, Kullak, Liszt, and Deppe are in Series I. Included are descriptions of concerts from this period and later. Diaries, correspondence, and photographs of Amy Fay Stone provide information on theatrical life in New York and on the road in the 1910s and 1920s, and on life in the tuberculosis treatment center at Saranac Lake, New York. Series III consists of the courtship correspondence, 1910-1912, of Margaret Stone Wright and Austin Tappan Wright, and includes some photographs. Addenda to the collection documents Margaret Stone Wright's and Katherine Fay Stone's time in private schools in France and Belgium, genealogy of the Stone and Hopkins families, and Sylvia Wright Mitarachi's time as a student at Bryn Mawr.
- 5.2 linear feet (12 + 1/2 file boxes) plus 4 photograph folders, 1 folio photograph folder.
- English
- Books and documents
- Rankin, Doris
Arliss, George
Barrymore, Lionel
Fay, Amy
Fay family
Fiske, Minnie Maddern
Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott)
Fitzgerald, Zelda
Hemingway, Ernest
Irwin, Wallace
James, Henry
Liszt, Franz
Lunt, Alfred
Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)
McCutcheon, John T. (John Tinney)
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis)
Paderewski, Ignace Jan
Peirce, Fay
Perkins, Maxwell E. (Maxwell Evarts)
Pichel, Irving
Seeger, Alan
Stone, Amy Fay
Tarkington, Booth
Williams, John D
Woollcott, Alexander
Wright, Austin Tappan
Wright, Margaret Garrad Stone
Women's Philharmonic Society of New York
Saranac Laboratory
Theater--New York (State)--New York
Actresses
Concerts--Germany
Courtship
Music--Instruction and study
Musicians
Pianists
Tuberculosis--Treatment--New York (State)
Women in the theater
Women musicians
Cambridge (Mass.)--Social life and customs
Germany--Social life and customs
New York (N.Y.)--Social life and customs - Arranged in four series: I. Amy Fay. II. Amy Fay Stone. III. Margaret Garrad (Stone) and Austin Tappan Wright. IV. Addenda
Materials in English.
German letters from Series I were published by Melusina Fay Peirce as Music Study in Germany (1880, re-issued 1965).
Electronic finding aid available http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:RAD.SCHL:sch00141 - Fay family members represented in this collection are Amy Fay, a pianist and the first president of the Women's Philharmonic Society of New York, and her two nieces, the actress Amy Fay Stone (whose stage name was Anne Faystone) and her sister, Margaret Stone Wright.
- Fay Family Papers, 1800-1967. 78-M105--96-M100. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
- Open Collections Program at Harvard University
- Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
- 990006049270203941_RAD.SCHL:1267673
- Title
- Papers of the Fay family, 1800-1967, folder 52
- Creator / Contributor
- Fay family, creator
Fay, Amy, 1844-1928
Stone, Amy Fay, 1888-1953
Wright, Austin Tappan, 1883-1931
Wright, Margaret Garrad Stone, 1886-1937 - Place of Origin
- Massachusetts
- Description
- Letters from Amy Fay to her family, especially her sisters (one of whom was Melusina Fay Peirce), including letters from Germany where she studied piano (1869-1875) with Tausig, Kullak, Liszt, and Deppe are in Series I. Included are descriptions of concerts from this period and later. Diaries, correspondence, and photographs of Amy Fay Stone provide information on theatrical life in New York and on the road in the 1910s and 1920s, and on life in the tuberculosis treatment center at Saranac Lake, New York. Series III consists of the courtship correspondence, 1910-1912, of Margaret Stone Wright and Austin Tappan Wright, and includes some photographs. Addenda to the collection documents Margaret Stone Wright's and Katherine Fay Stone's time in private schools in France and Belgium, genealogy of the Stone and Hopkins families, and Sylvia Wright Mitarachi's time as a student at Bryn Mawr.
- Extent
- 5.2 linear feet (12 + 1/2 file boxes) plus 4 photograph folders, 1 folio photograph folder.
- Language
- English
- Digital Format
- Books and documents
- Subjects
- Rankin, Doris
Arliss, George
Barrymore, Lionel
Fay, Amy
Fay family
Fiske, Minnie Maddern
Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott)
Fitzgerald, Zelda
Hemingway, Ernest
Irwin, Wallace
James, Henry
Liszt, Franz
Lunt, Alfred
Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)
McCutcheon, John T. (John Tinney)
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis)
Paderewski, Ignace Jan
Peirce, Fay
Perkins, Maxwell E. (Maxwell Evarts)
Pichel, Irving
Seeger, Alan
Stone, Amy Fay
Tarkington, Booth
Williams, John D
Woollcott, Alexander
Wright, Austin Tappan
Wright, Margaret Garrad Stone
Women's Philharmonic Society of New York
Saranac Laboratory
Theater--New York (State)--New York
Actresses
Concerts--Germany
Courtship
Music--Instruction and study
Musicians
Pianists
Tuberculosis--Treatment--New York (State)
Women in the theater
Women musicians
Cambridge (Mass.)--Social life and customs
Germany--Social life and customs
New York (N.Y.)--Social life and customs - Notes
- Arranged in four series: I. Amy Fay. II. Amy Fay Stone. III. Margaret Garrad (Stone) and Austin Tappan Wright. IV. Addenda
Materials in English.
German letters from Series I were published by Melusina Fay Peirce as Music Study in Germany (1880, re-issued 1965).
Electronic finding aid available http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:RAD.SCHL:sch00141 - Biographical / Historical Note
- Fay family members represented in this collection are Amy Fay, a pianist and the first president of the Women's Philharmonic Society of New York, and her two nieces, the actress Amy Fay Stone (whose stage name was Anne Faystone) and her sister, Margaret Stone Wright.
- Cite As
- Fay Family Papers, 1800-1967. 78-M105--96-M100. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
- Series
- Open Collections Program at Harvard University
- Repository
- Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
- Record ID
- 990006049270203941_RAD.SCHL:1267673
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