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 Machine-readable finding aid derived from WordPerfect. [Date of source: 1997. Description is in English. Feb 16, 2004 PUBLIC "-//University of Virginia::Library::Special Collections Dept.//TEXT (US::ViU::00290::Percy Wallace MacKaye Collection)//EN" "ViU00290.sgm" converted from EAD 1.0 to 2002 by v1to02.xsl (sy2003-10-15). Feb 27, 2004 converted to conform to eadVIVA.dtd by vivastrict.xsl A Guide to the Percy Wallace MacKaye Collection A Collection in the Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature 7431-a

Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library 1997 Special Collections Department Staff 1997 Courtney Boissonnault Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, #7431-a Descriptive Summary University of Virginia. Library. Special Collections Dept.
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Percy Wallace MacKaye Collection 1897-1948 7431-a 12 items English Administrative Information Access Restrictions

Collection is open to reseaarch.

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Percy Wallace MacKaye Collection, Accession 7431-a, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library

 Acquisition Information

Deposit [17 December 1963]24 March 1965

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Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities

 Item Listing Manuscript Fair copy of two stanzas from "Moments en Voyage": poem for the HarvardClass of 1897 n. d. AMsS 1 p. Letters Percy Wallace MacKayeto Richard Watson Gilder 1906 June 29 ALS 2 p.

[Asks Gilder to write something for The Centuryon MacKaye's play Shappho and Phaonstarring Julia Marloweand E. H. Sothern; mentions color sketches of the actors made by Barry Faulkner; MacKaye mentions that he is working on another play, "Jeanne d'Arc", scheduled for October; mentions that Sappho and Phaonis scheduled to open December 10, 1906 in Chicago, and that MacMillanwill publish the play; mentions William Vaughn Moody. ]

 Percy Wallace MacKayeto Walter Prichard Eaton 1908 Jan 10 TLSw/env 1 p.

[Letter discusses a lunch appointment with Eaton, drama critic for The [New York] Morning Sun. ]

 Percy Wallace MacKayeto Mr. Browne 1914 Oct 24 ALS 4 p.

[Discusses the stage and the technical aspects of the marionette performance of Pageant and Masque of St. Louisgiven in May. States that accounts of the production can be found in July or August World's Workby Prof. George Pierce Baker, in the August Review of Reviewsby Arthur Farwell, and the Sept. Current Literature. Estimates that 1/2 million people saw the performances.]

 Percy Wallace MacKayeto Charles D. Scott 1925 Nov 29 ALS1 p.[Note written on an envelope]

[The note was enclosed with an autographed photo (the photo is not in this collection). Says the plays he likes best are: A Garland to Sylvia, This Fine Pretty World, and The Scarecrow. ]

 Percy Wallace MacKayeto Hamilton Bowen Holt 1926 Feb 21 ALS 1 p.

[Offers sympathy to Holt on a great loss.]

 Percy Wallace MacKayeto Roy Day(?) 1928 Aug 10 ALS 1 p.

[Discusses the proof of a book by Ernest Harold Baynesand requests extra copies for Baynes' widow and friends.]

 Percy Wallace MacKayeto Walter Prichard Eaton 1929 Feb 18 ALS 1 p.

[Encloses a book by Dartmouth Presswhich contains Eaton's greeting at MacKaye's 50th birthday celebration. At the invitation of Hamilton Holthe is spending a few weeks at Rollins Collegeto meet with students interested in poetry.]

 Percy Wallace MacKayeto Carty Ranck 1931 March 22 APCS

[Thanks Ranck for the birthday greeting and wishes his new play success. Mentions that he is lecturing in Florida. Written on a picture post card with a scene of a highway through orange groves near Winter Park, Florida. ]

 Percy Wallace MacKayeto Walter Prichard Eaton 1932 Feb 15 ALSw/env 2 p.

[Sends Eaton a copy of Wakefieldfor review in a New Yorknewspaper. Extends an invitation to Eaton to attend the Washington, D. C.premiere on Feb. 21 to which the President, Cabinet, Supreme Court, Ambassadors, and Congress have been invited.]

 Percy Wallace MacKayeto Louis Untermeyer 1941 Mar 6 TLS 3 p.

[Mentions meeting Untermeyer at a National Institute of Arts and Lettersmeeting; MacKaye sends him four books by MacKaye that were published in Europe: The Far Familiar; In Another Land; Poesia Religio; My Lady Dear, Arise; discusses publication in pre-World War II and inter-World War II Europe. ]

 Percy Wallace MacKayeto [William (?)] Maxwell n. d. ANS 1. p

[Discusses an article MacKaye has agreed to write about Santa Claus.]

[Note: Correspondent is identified as (William) Maxwellbecause he was editor of The New Yorker, and Reader's Guide to Periodical Literaturelists several articles by Percy Wallace MacKayepublished in The New Yorker. However, an article about Santa is not listed.]