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Box 3

 Container

Contains 8 Results:

Artwork, undated

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Series is located in box 1, folders 6-11; and box 3, folder 8. Included are business cards, receipts, news clippings, ticket stubs, etc. One particularly interesting item, located in folder 11, is a theatre scrapbook circa 1929-1930 with news clippings and Diana’s personal reviews of various plays and movies. Diana would have been around 14 or 15 at the time. Also in this series are various pieces of artwork, including preliminary sketches by Frederic James and prints by other artists.

Dates: undated

Specimen of Mozart’s handwriting, 1829

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents

Given to Vincent Novello by Mozart’s widow, 1829.

Dates: 1829

Canon for Flute and Cello, 1952

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents

Copy [3] of MS. 35.5 x 28.5 cm. 2 pp. Title of copy 1 is inscribed “Merry Xmas to Fred, 1952, James Adair”. Music by James Adair.

Dates: 1952

Isolde and the Shortstop, undated

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents

Copy of MS. 31 pp. Comic Opera in One Act. Music by James Adair. Libretto by Tom Baker. Inscribed “For Diana who started the whole thing!"

Dates: undated

Isolde and the Shortstop [copy 2], undated

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents

Copy of MS. 31 pp. Comic Opera in One Act. Music by James Adair. Libretto by Tom Baker.

Dates: undated

Scarlet Letter, 1953

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents

Copy of MS. 35.5 cm x 29 cm. 110 pp. An opera based on the novel by Nathanial Hawthorne. Libretto by Thomas K. Baker. Music by James Adair.

Dates: 1953

Scarlet Letter [copy 2], 1953

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents

Copy of MS. 35.5 cm x 29 cm. 110 pp. An opera based on the novel by Nathanial Hawthorne. Libretto by Thomas K. Baker. Music by James Adair.

Dates: 1953

Scarlet Letter, January 30, 1953

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents

Copy of MS. 38 cm x 28 cm. 110 pp. An opera based on the novel by Nathanial Hawthorne. Libretto by Thomas K. Baker. Music by James Adair. Inscribed inside “For Diana- who was partly responsible for this. Jim–Sacramento California Jan 30, 1953."

Dates: January 30, 1953