This collection primarily contains published opera, oratorio, and musical theatre libretti, along with a few programs and Metropolitan Opera House Grand Opera Season guides. These are of particular interest in terms of their covers, publication materials, and performance information. Many of the libretti were donated by music critic Olin Downes; these contain handwritten research notes, drafts of reviews, miscellaneous programs and cast lists for the Metropolitan Opera Company. Publication dates range from 1804-1960s, and composers represented include Eugen D'Albert, Louise Aubert, J.S. Bach, L.V. Beethoven, Vincenzo Bellini, Georges Bizet, François-Adrien Boieldieu, Arrigo Boito, Benjamin Britten, Charles Wakefield Cadman, Francesco Cavalli, Gustave Charpentier, Domenico Chimarosa, Frederick Shepherd Converse, Walter Damrosch, Claude Debussy, Léo Delibes, Gaetano Donizetti, Frank Dumont, Manuel De Falla, Henry Fevrier, Carlisle Floyd, Alberto Franchetti, Vittorio Giannini, Umberto Giordano, Christophe Willibald Von Gluck, Charles Gounod, Henry Hadley, Jacques F. Haley, George Frederick Handel, Howard Hanson, Frederic Hart, Ferdinand, Hérold, Paul Hindemith, Arthur Honegger, Engelbert Humperdinck, Leoš Janáček, Sidney Jones, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Ernst Krenek, Reginald De Koven, Charles Lecocq, Franz Lehar, Ruggero Leoncavallo, Franco Leoni, Luigi Mancinelli, Pietro Mascagni, Victor Masse, Jules Massenet, Gian-Carlo Menotti, Isaac Hickman Meredith, Giancarlo Meyerbeer, Darius Milhaud, Italo Montemezzi, Claudio Monteverdi, Modest Moussorgsky, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Jacques Offenbach, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Errico Petrella, Amilcare Ponchielli, Sergei Prokofieff, Giacomo Puccini, Henri Rabaud, Maurice Ravel, Ottorino Respighi, Ernest Reyer, Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov, Lodovico Rocca, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, Bernard Rogers, Ludwig Roselius, Gioacchino Rossini, Anton Grigorievich Rubinstein, Camille Saint-Saëns, Shanghai Shi Long jiang song ju zuo, Arnold Schönberg, Friedrich Smetana, Gaspare Spontini, William Grant Still, Deems Taylor, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, The Ukrainian National Chorus, Guiseppe Verdi, Giovanni Verga, Ignatz Waghalter, Richard Wagner, David Ward-Steinman, Carl Maria von Weber, Jaromir Weinberger Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, Kurt Weill, Riccardo Zandonai, along with the United States Army.
Editorial and research files of Dr. William S. Coker, Editor, the Papers of Panton, Leslie and Company. Includes an extensive body of correspondence, business papers, court records, and other documents relating to the British firm and its successors, John Leslie and Company, and John Forbes and Company, 1739-1847. The company, under a monopoly granted by the Spanish government, engaged in an extensive Indian trade throughout the Old Southwest, and continued under British and American governance. The documents in the editorial files, photocopied from depositories throughout the world, were selectively published on microfilm.
These papers deal largely with Silas Gilbert Patterson and his family, but materials on other families are also included. His family resided in Cornwall Bridge, Connecticut, but the papers are from other areas of Connecticut as well. The papers consist primarily of personal and business letters, family genealogies, and advertisements from local businesses. Other families and persons with papers in the collection include John L. Andrews family, Bonney family, Lewish Marsh, Morse family, Rouse family, Gilbert family, Elnathan Patterson, and Seth Pierce.
The Paul A. M. Dirac Papers consists of the personal and family papers, photographs, manuscripts, galley proofs, and published papers, scientific calculations, lecture notes, and office files of Dr. Paul A. M. Dirac, winner of the Nobel Prize (Physics, 1933). Materials relating to his professorships at St. John's College at Cambridge University where he held the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics chair from his election in 1932 until his retirement in 1969 and then as Professor of Physics at Florida State University from 1972 until his death in 1984, comprise the bulk of the Collection. A small group of audio recordings, certificates, realia, and selected published items transferred from his office at the time of his death are also included.
Small group of photocopy letters written from Pensacola between 1825 and 1852. Subjects and correspondents include Henry Marie Brackenridge, Lt. Richard H. Morris, W. L. Campbell, J. G. Williams, the Marines in the Pensacola Navy Yard, the U.S.S. Raritan, and John Hutchinson.
This series of photographs ranges from the late 1800s through the 1960s which has been broken into four subseries that include Assorted Photographs, Bishop College, South Dakota, and the William T. Vernon collection.
Papers, 1781-1842, of Vicente Sebastian Pintado (1774-1829), alcalde, commandant, and surveyor general of Spanish West Florida from 1799-1817. The bulk of the materials relates to land surveys, land purchases, and deed covering the period 1800-1817. Correspondence includes copies of his outgoing letters as well as letters from Carlos de Grand-Pre, Captain Francisco Rivas, Ira C. Kneeland, Christoval de Armas, Manuel Gayoso de Lemos, Carlos Trudeau, Christopher Bolling, Vincent Folch, Manuel Lopez, Antonio Cruzat, and Juan Morales. Includes information on the Nicolls raid in the Apalachicola River area and the Kemper brothers' raids in Louisiana in 1804-1805.
