Mrs. Edward MacDowell (Marian Griswold Nevins]) to Mrs. Will Owen Jones (Edith M. Doolittle), 1918/1922

Containers:

Box 18, Folder 2-3

Extent:

2 letters

Scope and content:

Congratulates Mrs. Owens upon her daughter's success in playing the MacDowell concerto (July 22, 1918). Marian MacDowell apologizes for not responding to the receipt of Owen's fine program due to circumstances and overwork, since it always pleases her to see the "Keltic"on a program and she admired the way she divided the songs from the piano numbers (1922 December 27). The later letter is accompanied by a pamphlet, "The Peterborough Colony" by Hermann Hagedorn. Both letters have envelopes.

Biographical / historical:

Marian Griswold Nevins MacDowell (1857-1956) was an American pianist and philanthropist. Marian and her husband, Edward MacDowell, an American composer, founded an artist retreat in Peterboro, New Hampshire, in 1907.

Mrs. Will Owen Jones, the pianist Edith M. Doolittle, was the wife of a newspaper editor in Lincoln, Nebraska.

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