Abstract Includes professional correspondence and applications and recommendations for grants and university positions. Also, personal correspondence with his parents while studying in Europe and teaching at Mills College and with a friend, Jonathan Schiller; worksheets, photographs and galley proofs for A HISTORY OF WESTERN MUSIC and both editions of A SHORT HISTORY OF OPERA; notes and notebooks on "Early Opèra Comique" and others, his dissertation manuscript; a manuscript on West Indian Music;...

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Theater programs; Chinese Students' Club dinner program; photograph of class banquet in Risley Hall; copy of English Metres by William Strunk, Jr.; lecture notes from Music 24, The Opera, taught by Otto Kinkeldey; and typescript lecture notes from Music 18, summer session, also taught by Professor Kinkeldey.

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Letters written home to his family by John Hunter Detmold as a Cornell undergraduate and as assistant editor of the Cornell Alumni News. Also, class notes for Bibliography 2, "The Book," taught in spring 1942 by Otto Kinkeldey; a review of Scott Elledge's biography of E. B. White, originally published in the Cornell Alumni News, 1984; "A Cornellian's Lexicon of Indigenous Diction," 1943; "A Lexicon for Cornellians," revised edition, 1944; and souvenir edition, 1993.