Alvah Bessie Papers, 1929-1991

Container Title
No for an Answer (1941 January 5)
U.S. Mss 35AN/Micro 1049
Box/Folder   20/7
Reel/Frame   22/427-520
Correspondence, 1939 October-1969 February 7
Box/Folder   20/8
Reel/Frame   22/521-534
Contracts, royalty statements
Box/Folder   20/9
Reel/Frame   22/535-547
Production plan, narration, undated
Box/Folder   20/10-12
Reel/Frame   22/548-844
Notes, circa 1938-1940
Box/Folder   21/1
Reel/Frame   22/845-941
Working notes, working scripts, 1939
Box/Folder   21/2-8
Reel/Frame   23/1-926
Working notes, working scripts, 1939, undated
Box/Folder   21/9
Reel/Frame   23/927-1038
Early script, 1939
Box/Folder   22/1
Reel/Frame   24/1-49
Script, undated
Box/Folder   22/2
Reel/Frame   24/50-175
Complete script, annotated, undated
Box/Folder   22/3
Reel/Frame   24/176-298
Script with handwritten annotations, undated
Box/Folder   22/4-6
Reel/Frame   24/299-582
Dialogues, undated
Box/Folder   22/7
Reel/Frame   24/583-670
Petition, address lists, miscellaneous, 1940 February 20
Box/Folder   22/8
Reel/Frame   24/671-717
Publicity, 1939 February 11-1960 April 25
Box/Folder   22/9
Reel/Frame   24/718-785
Clippings
Box/Folder   22/10
Reel/Frame   24/786-791
“Blitzstein's Answer” / by Samuel L.M. Barlow, Modern Music, 1941 January-February, pp. 81-82
Box/Folder   48/3
Reel/Frame   24/792-985
Master sheets piano score
Box/Folder   49/1
Reel/Frame   25/1-220
Music sketches and unfinished songs
Box/Folder   49/2
Reel/Frame   25/221-403
Piano-vocal score, 1938-1940
Note: “In the Clear,” pp. 97-100, missing from this version.
Box/Folder   49/3
Reel/Frame   25/404-423
Incomplete piano-vocal score, undated
Box/Folder   49/4-10
Reel/Frame   25/424-503
Vocal parts for Bulge, Clair, Emanuel, Jimmie and Bobbie, Gina, Nick, and Mary, circa 1938-1941
Box/Folder   50/1-4
Reel/Frame   25/504-745
Bound choral scores, circa 1938-1941
Edited Chorus Parts, circa 1938-1941
Box/Folder   51/1-2
Reel/Frame   25/746-776
Act I (Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass)
Box/Folder   51/3-4
Reel/Frame   25/777-806
Act II (Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass)
Chorus parts, original Master
Box/Folder   52/1
Reel/Frame   25/807-836
Act I (Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass)
Box/Folder   52/2
Reel/Frame   25/837-866
Act II (Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass)
Songs
Box/Folder   52/3
Reel/Frame   25/867-872
“Fraught Song” piano-vocal score: negative photostat
Box/Folder   52/4
Reel/Frame   25/873-880
Songs, circa 1938-1941
513A/4
Recorded excerpts, 1941
1049A/14
Recorded excerpt - “Weep for Me” / Leonard Bernstein, artist
Note: Original: Disc 161A/27
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