Joan and Peggy Murray Papers, 1880-1969
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Sophia Smith Collection Smith CollegeNorthampton, MA
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Joan and Peggy Murray Papers
Creation of Joan and Peggy Murray Papers
Time of Creation of Joan and Peggy Murray Papers
Murray, Joan, 1917-1942
Biographical History for: Joan and Peggy Murray Papers
Biographical Note Florence Margaret (Peggy) Toaps Murray was born in Ottawa (date unknown). She toured Canada and England as a "diseuse" ("The Canadian [Yvette] Guilbert"), doing readings in accents, singing, etc. She took up painting at age 52, and at some point moved to Easthampton, Massachusetts. Her date of death is presently unknown. Her daughter, Joan Vincent Murray was born in London on 12 February 1917 during a World War I air raid. She spent her early childhood in England, and later attended schools in London, Paris, Ontario, and Detroit. Rheumatic fever injured her heart, and she was largely self-educated thereafter. She studied acting at several New York City schools and appeared in semi- professional plays. Her poems attracted the attention of W.H. Auden, who wrote the forward to one of her book of poems, published in 1947. She died of an infection in Saranac Lake, NY on 4 January 1942.
Scope and Contents of the Collection The collection consists of correspondence (1931-46); clippings; writings; memorabilia; photographs; and printed material documenting the lives of mother Peggy Murray, diseuse, and daughter Joan Murray, poet.
Actresses--Canada--Biography--Sources
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Actresses--England--Biography--Sources
Poets, American--20th century--Biography--Sources
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Murray, Peggy
Dreier, Katherine Sophie, 1877-1952
Auden, W.H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973
Joan Murray
Rilke, Rainer Maria. Selected Poems, London, The Hogarth Press, 1941
Murray, Joan. Poems. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1947. Edited by Grant Code. (Yale Series of Younger Poets)-contains hand written notes
Book of Common Prayer
Correspondence between Grant Code and W.H. Auden, 1946
Correspondence, 1931-42
Correspondence re her final illness, 1941-42
Tributes and reviews, 1947-18, n.d.
Photographs
Writings and notes
Biographical material
Writings
Poems
Notes
Reviews
Proofs
True copies
Correspondence
Grant Code and Mary Newman, 1946
Grant Code and Helen Anderson, 1946
Clippings, 1946
Forward to A Faun Surmising by Grant Code, 1946
"Sway to the Clouds Swing to The Sun," dedicated to Joan, by Peggy Murray (sheet music)
Typescripts of poems
Peggy Murray
Notebook
Poetry to reshape for publication
Study at conservatory
The studio
Society about 1910
Sketches from my life
Dodging subs
The costume party
The escort
Introductions
Girlhood and school
The shoemaker
Taxi ride to studio
Debarkation
Stan in London
Whales
Days at sea
The Mad Man's Monologue
The ship's concert
Kipling: whale
Drummond's poems and others
The Walkers
Prose version
Icebergs
Fog
The agent
Stan and his painting
Beginning of romance with Stan
Mrs. Allingham
Stan's family
Eastbourne
Secret marriage
Maidenhead
6 unlabeled folders and miscellaneous loose material, poetry, printed material, mss. Data for biography
Scrapbook, 1914-1916
Notes (small spiral notebook)
Engagement book
Autograph book
Notecards of possibly books, articles read ??
Love and Valor by Tom Hood
Heritage of Byzantium by Marcu Beza
Ever A Fighter:A Modern Approach To The Work Of Robert Browning by Dallas Kenmare
Little Journeys, Eminent Artists: Botticelli
1 pair of earrings, locket with hair, pin, porcelain of Queen Elizabeth, and a scarf
folder of miscellaneous photographs, correspondence, prints and drawings, and notes.
"A New Musical Comedy Introducing Singing Chorus of Dancers". Ballet by Peggy Murray
History of the Isle of Mull,the Hebrides and the history of the Mac or McLeans
The St Laurence
Sketches on my life for BBC
The poetry of the unicorn and specters, etc
Scripts
Poetry
Miscellaneous poetry, scripts, programs, printed material
L.Baindridge Crist: songs
Seventeen wives
Printed material
The French Visitor
Family opposition to marriage
Miscellaneous printed material and poetry
Proposal in ... ?
Sister's marriage
The telephone call
Duplicates
The Spirit of the Brush translated by Shio Sakanishi
Little Books on Art: Holbein edited by Cyril Davenport
2 loose photographs
Manilla envelope of poetry
Diaries, 1928, n.d.
Charles Dickens by Julian Symons
Margot Fonteyn by Gordon Anthony
A Confucian Notebook by Edward Herbert
The Snow Goose by Paul Gallico
Siklianos by Grant Code
Cadenza (poetry, scripts, notes)
Plays and poetry
Poetry, notes, misc. photographs
Photographs and notes
"History of the Isle of Mull" (2 notebooks)
Words, ideas, sketches for "A New Musical Comedy..."
Notes (blue notebook) may be part of above??
Manilla envelope of correspondence to Peggy Murray
Aristotle On Poetry and Music
Peggy Murray's "bits and pieces"
Miscellaneous photographs
series
Oversized Materials
"The World's Need, A Play of Light"
Drawings, poetry