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Joan Murray
Oversized Materials
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Joan and Peggy Murray Papers, 1880-1969
Finding Aid
Encoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
© 2005
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Creator:
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Murray, Joan, 1917-1942 |
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Title:
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Joan and Peggy Murray Papers |
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Dates:
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1880-1969 |
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Dates:
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1911-1969 |
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Abstract:
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Collection consists of correspondence (1931-46); clippings; writings; memorabilia;
photographs; and printed material documenting the lives of mother Peggy Murray, diseuse, and
daughter Joan Murray, poet.
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Extent:
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7 boxes(3 linear ft.) |
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Language:
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English |
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Identification:
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MS 295 |
Florence Margaret (Peggy) Toaps Murray was born in Ottawa (date unknown). She toured Canada and England as a "diseuse" ("The Canadian [Yvette] Guilbert"), doing readings in accents, singing, etc. She took up painting at age 52, and at some point moved to Easthampton, Massachusetts. Her date of death is presently unknown. Her daughter, Joan Vincent Murray was born in London on 12 February 1917 during a World War I air raid. She spent her early childhood in England, and later attended schools in London, Paris, Ontario, and Detroit. Rheumatic fever injured her heart, and she was largely self-educated thereafter. She studied acting at several New York City schools and appeared in semi- professional plays. Her poems attracted the attention of W.H. Auden, who wrote the forward to one of her book of poems, published in 1947. She died of an infection in Saranac Lake, NY on 4 January 1942.
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The collection consists of correspondence (1931-46); clippings; writings; memorabilia; photographs; and printed material documenting the lives of mother Peggy Murray, diseuse, and daughter Joan Murray, poet.
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Rilke, Rainer Maria. Selected Poems, London, The Hogarth Press,
1941
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Murray, Joan. Poems. New Haven, Yale University Press, . Edited by Grant Code. (Yale Series of Younger Poets)-contains hand written notes
1947
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Correspondence between Grant Code and W.H. Auden,
1946
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Correspondence,
1931-42
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Correspondence re her final illness,
1941-42
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Tributes and reviews,
1947-18, n.d.
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Grant Code and Mary Newman,
1946
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Grant Code and Helen Anderson,
1946
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Forward to A Faun Surmising by Grant Code,
1946
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"Sway to the Clouds Swing to The Sun," dedicated to Joan, by Peggy Murray (sheet music)
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Typescripts of poems
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Poetry to reshape for publication
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The Mad Man's Monologue
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Drummond's poems and others
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Beginning of romance with Stan
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6 unlabeled folders and miscellaneous loose material, poetry, printed material, mss. Data for biography
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Scrapbook,
1914-1916
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Notes (small spiral notebook)
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Notecards of possibly books, articles read ??
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Love and Valor by Tom Hood
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Heritage of Byzantium by Marcu Beza
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Ever A Fighter:A Modern Approach To The Work Of Robert Browning by Dallas Kenmare
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Little Journeys, Eminent Artists: Botticelli
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1 pair of earrings, locket with hair, pin, porcelain of Queen Elizabeth, and a scarf
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folder of miscellaneous photographs, correspondence, prints and drawings, and notes.
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"A New Musical Comedy Introducing Singing Chorus of Dancers". Ballet by Peggy Murray
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History of the Isle of Mull,the Hebrides and the history of the Mac or McLeans
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Sketches on my life for BBC
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The poetry of the unicorn and specters, etc
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Miscellaneous poetry, scripts, programs, printed material
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L.Baindridge Crist: songs
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Family opposition to marriage
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Miscellaneous printed material and poetry
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The Spirit of the Brush translated by Shio Sakanishi
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Little Books on Art: Holbein edited by Cyril Davenport
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Manilla envelope of poetry
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Diaries,
1928, n.d.
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Charles Dickens by Julian Symons
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Margot Fonteyn by Gordon Anthony
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A Confucian Notebook by Edward Herbert
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The Snow Goose by Paul Gallico
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Siklianos by Grant Code
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Cadenza (poetry, scripts, notes)
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Poetry, notes, misc. photographs
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"History of the Isle of Mull" (2 notebooks)
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Words, ideas, sketches for "A New Musical Comedy..."
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Notes (blue notebook) may be part of above??
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Manilla envelope of correspondence to Peggy Murray
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Aristotle On Poetry and Music
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Peggy Murray's "bits and pieces"
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Miscellaneous photographs
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Oversized Materials
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"The World's Need, A Play of Light"
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