IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 1249 MS 6877
Held at: Royal College of Music
Title: GARDEN, Mary (1874-1967)
Date(s): c1907
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 5 items
Name of creator(s): Garden | Mary | 1874-1967 | American soprano
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born Aberdeen in 1874; trained in Chicago and Paris; a leading operatic soprano in the 1900s, renowned for her operatic performances in France, particularly at the Opera-Comique. For further details see Grove Dictionary of Music.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of Mary Garden, comprising three undated letters (c1900-1910) and a thankyou card, one letter including her programme for a proposed concert; contract for her performance as Mélisande in Pelléas et Mélisande at the Theatre Royal de la Monnaie, Brussels, Belgium, Jan 1907.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: French.
System of arrangement:
Conditions governing access:
Usual conditions of the Library of the Royal College of Music apply. See the RCM website or contact the RCM Library for details.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Photocopying is permitted at the discretion of the Archivist for research purposes only.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
The collection is catalogued in the 'Provisional catalogue of letters in the RCM library' by J Kersey, 1997, vol 1. An entry is also given in the supplement to volume 3 of the Manuscripts catalogue in the library of the Royal College of Music.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Acquired by the RCM from the family, 1964.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
Existence and location of copies:
Related material:
Portraits Department, Royal College of Music, holds notebooks, photographs, letters and original typescript of Garden's autobiography.
Publication note:
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Compiled by Robert Baxter as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project. Source: Grove Dictionary of Music.
Date(s) of descriptions: Nov 2001