Scope and Contents
The Love Family Papers consist primarily of letters to Lucy Prindle Love and Helen Love Scranton. The correspondence includes letters from composers, conductors, instrumentalists, singers, and critics. The Papers also contain newspaper clippings, photographs, and miscellaneous items.
Dates
- 1850-1960 (inclusive)
Creator
Language of Materials
Materials chiefly in English.
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open to researchers by appointment. There are no restricted materials in the collection. Please contact the Special Collections staff to schedule an appointment.
Some of the materials may be stored at the Library's off-campus shelving facility, so researchers should allow at least two business days to have the appropriate boxes paged.
Some of the materials may be stored at the Library's off-campus shelving facility, so researchers should allow at least two business days to have the appropriate boxes paged.
Conditions Governing Use
The Love Family Papers are the physical property of the Irving S. Gilmore Music Library of Yale University. Copyrights belong to the composers and authors, or their legal heirs and assigns.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The Love Family Papers were established in the Music Library of Yale University by Helen Scranton's cousin, Mrs. William Gaines, in 1969.
Arrangement
In 4 series as follows: I. Correspondence. II. Miscellaneous Correspondence. III. Printed matter. IV. Photographs.
Extent
3 Linear Feet (11 boxes)
Catalog Record
A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog
Persistent URL
Overview
Letters to Lucy Prindle Love and Helen Love Scranton, as well as clippings, photographs, and other items
Biographical / Historical
Lucy Prindle Love and her daughter Helen Love Scranton played an active role in the social and cultural life of New York in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Helen Scranton was secretary for many years to Franz Kneisel, the founder of the Kneisel String Quartet. After the dissolution of the Quartet in 1917, she served as secretary to both the Society of the Friends of Music and the Beethoven Association of New York.
- Aldrich, Richard Stoddard, 1902-1986
- Altschuler, Modest, 1873-1963
- Bagby, Albert Morris, 1859-1941
- Barrère, Georges, 1876-1944
- Bauer, Harold, 1873-1951
- Beach, Amy, 1867-1944
- Betti, Adolfo
- Bing, Rudolf, 1902-1997
- Bingham, Seth, 1882-1972
- Bispham, David, 1857-1921
- Bloch, Alexander, 1881-1983
- Bloch, Ernest, 1880-1959
- Bodanzky, Artur, 1877-1939
- Bonci, Alessandro, 1870-1940
- Bonnet, Joseph, 1884-1944
- Bori, Lucrezia, 1887-1960
- Bos, Coenraad Valentyn, 1875-1955
- Brema, Marie, 1856-1925
- Brockway, Howard, 1870-1951
- Busoni, Ferruccio, 1866-1924
- Cadman, Charles Wakefield, 1881-1946
- Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919
- Carreño, Teresa, 1853-1917
- Casals, Pablo, 1876-1973
- Chadwick, G. W. (George Whitefield), 1854-1931
- Christie, Winifred, 1882-1965
- Composers -- Correspondence
- Conductors (Music) -- Correspondence
- Cortot, Alfred, 1877-1962
- Damrosch, Frank, 1859-1937
- Damrosch, Walter, 1862-1950
- Dannreuther, Gustav, 1853-1923
- Déthier, Edouard, 1886-1962
- Dippel, Johann Andreas, 1866-1932
- Dolmetsch, Arnold, 1858-1940
- Eisler, Paul, 1875-1951
- Fairchild, Blair, 1877-1933
- Farrar, Geraldine, 1882-1967
- Farwell, Arthur, 1872-1952
- Finck, Henry T., 1854-1926
- Fischer, Emil, 1838-1914
- Foote, Arthur, 1853-1937
- Franko, Sam, 1857-1937
- Fremstad, Olive, -1951
- Friedberg, Carl, 1872-1955
- Fryer, Herbert, 1877-1957
- Gabrilowitsch, Ossip, 1878-1936
- Gadski, Johanna, 1872-1932
- Ganz, Rudolph, 1877-1972
- Gauthier, Eva, 1885-1958
- Gebhard, Heinrich, 1878-1963
- Gerhardt, Elena, 1883-1961
- Gilman, Lawrence, 1878-1939
- Giorni, Aurelio, 1895-1938
- Godowsky, Leopold, 1870-1938
- Goldmark, Rubin, 1872-1936
- Goodson, Katharine, 1872-1958
- Gordon, Jacques
- Grau, Maurice, 1849-1907
- Graveure, Louis, 1888-1965
- Gruenberg, Louis, 1884-1964
- Hadley, Henry, 1871-1937
- Hale, Philip, 1854-1934
- Hall, Marie, 1884-1956
- Hamlin, George John, 1868-1923
- Harris, Victor, 1869-1943
- Hartmann, Arthur, 1881-1956
- Henderson, W. J. (William James), 1855-1937
- Herman, Reinhold L., 1849-
- Hertz, Alfred, 1872-1942
- Hess, Ludwig, 1877-1944
- Hinton, Arthur, 1869-1941
- Hoffman, Richard, 1831-1909
- Hofmann, Josef, 1876-1957
- Hollaender, Alexis, 1840-1924
- Homer, Sidney, 1864-1953
- Hoose, Ellison van, 1868-1936
- Huhn, Bruno, 1871-1950
- Huss, Henry Holden, 1862-1953
- Hutcheson, Ernest, 1871-1951
- Jacobi, Frederick, 1891-1952
- Joseffy, Rafael, 1852-1915
- Karl, Tom, 1846-1916
- Kelley, Edgar Stillman, 1857-1944
- Kindler, Hans, 1892-1949
- Klafsky, Katharina, 1855-1896
- Kneisel Quartet
- Kneisel, Franz, 1865-1926
- Kobbé, Gustav, 1857-1918
- Koemmenich, Louis
- Kramer, A. Walter (Arthur Walter), 1890-1969
- Krehbiel, Henry Edward, 1854-1923
- Kreisler, Fritz, 1875-1962
- Kriens, Christiaan, 1881-1934
- Lambert, Alexander, 1862-1929
- Leginska, Ethel, 1886-1970
- Lehmann, Lilli, 1848-1929
- Letz, Hans, 1887-1969
- Levitzki, Mischa, 1898-1941
- Lhévinne, Josef, 1874-1944
- Lilienthal, Abraham Wolf, 1859-1928
- Loeffler, Charles Martin, 1861-1935
- Lohse, Otto, 1858-1925
- Love family
- Love, Lucy Cleveland Prindle
- MacDowell, Edward, 1860-1908
- MacDowell, Marian, 1857-1956
- Mannes, David, 1866-1959
- Martin, Riccardo, 1874-1952
- Mason, Daniel Gregory, 1873-1953
- Mason, William, 1829-1908
- Meader, George, 1888-1963
- Meltzer, Charles Henry, 1853-1936
- Mitropoulos, Dimitri, 1896-1960
- Moiseiwitsch, Benno, 1890-1963
- Music -- United States -- 19th century
- Music -- United States -- 20th Century
- Nevin, Arthur, 1871-1943
- Nordica, Lillian, 1857-1914
- Olitzka, Rosa, 1873-1949
- Parker, H. T. (Henry Taylor), 1867-1934
- Parker, Horatio W. (Horatio William), 1863-1919
- Patti, Adelina, 1843-1919
- Piastro, Mishel, 1891-1970
- Plançon, Pol, 1851-1914
- Powell, Maud, 1867-1920
- Rains, Leon, 1870-1954
- Randolph, Harold, 1861-1927
- Reimers, Paul
- Rogers, Francis, 1870-1951
- Rothwell, Walter H. (Walter Henry), 1872-1927
- Rubinstein, Artur, 1887-1982
- Safonov, Vasiliĭ Ilʹich, 1852-1918
- Salzedo, Carlos, 1885-1961
- Samaroff Stokowski, Olga, 1882-1948
- Saminsky, Lazare, 1882-1959
- Sandby, Herman, 1881-1965
- Schelling, Ernest, 1876-1939
- Schindler, Kurt, 1882-1935
- Schulz, Leo, 1865-1944
- Schumann-Heink, Ernestine, 1861-1936
- Scranton, Helen D. Love (Helen Douglas Love), 1879-1968
- Sembrich, Marcella, 1858-1935
- Shelley, Harry Rowe, 1858-1947
- Singers -- Correspondence
- Smith, David Stanley, 1877-1949
- Smith, Gerrit, 1859-1912
- Spalding, Albert, 1888-1953
- Spiering, Theodore, 1871-1925
- Steinway, William, 1836-1896
- Sternberg, Constantin Ivanovich, Edler von, 1852-1929
- Stock, Frederick, 1872-1942
- Stojowski, Sigismund, 1870-1946
- Stokowski, Leopold, 1882-1977
- Stransky, Josef, 1872-1936
- Svečenski, Louis, 1862-1926
- Tapper, Thomas, 1864-1958
- Ternina, Milka, 1863-1941
- Thomas, Theodore, 1835-1905
- Thursby, Emma Cecilia, 1845-1931
- Toscanini, Arturo, 1867-1957
- Violinists -- Correspondence
- Vogrich, Max, 1852-1916
- Warren, George William, 1828-1902
- Warren, Samuel P. (Samuel Prowse), 1841-1915
- Whithorne, Emerson, 1884-1958
- Whiting, Arthur, 1861-1936
- Willeke, Willem
- Wood, Mary Knight, 1857-1944
- Zadora, Michael, 1882-1946
Creator
- Title
- Register to The Love Family Papers
- Status
- Edited Full Draft
- Author
- Compiled by Dorothée Recordon
- Date
- 1996-2007
- Description rules
- Finding Aid Prepared According To Local Music Library Descriptive Practices
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
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New Haven CT 06520 US
(203) 432-0497
musicspecialcollections@yale.edu