Author: Fay family. Title: Papers, 1800-1953 (inclusive), 1859-1953 (bulk). Description: 2.5 linear ft. Notes: Fay family members represented in this collection are Amy Fay, a pianist and the first president of the Women's Philharmonic Society of New York, and her two nieces, the actress Amy Fay Stone (whose stage name was Anne Faystone) and her sister, Margaret Stone Wright. Letters from Amy Fay to her family, especially her sisters (one of whom was Melusina Fay Peirce), including letters from Germany where she studied piano (1869-1875) with Tausig, Kullak, Liszt, and Deppe are in series one. Included are descriptions of concerts from this period and later. Diaries, correspondence, and photographs of Amy Fay Stone provide information on theatrical life in New York and on the road in the 1910s and 1920s, and on life in the tuberculosis treatment center at Saranac Lake, New York. Series three consists of the courtship correspondence, 1910-1912, of Margaret Stone Wright and Austin Tappan Wright, and includes some photographs. Gift of Sylvia Wright Mitarachi and Rosamund Jackson Ellis, 1978. Gift of Sylvia Mitarachi, 1980-1981. Gift of Paul Mitarachi, 1981. Margaret Garrard Wright and Austin Tappan Wright Papers (Series three), are temporarily closed to research. Preliminary finding aid. Fay Family Papers. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College. German letters from series I were published by Melusina Fay Peirce as Music Study in Germany (1880, re-issued 1965). Subjects: Arliss, George, 1868-1946. Barrymore, Doris. Barrymore, Lionel, 1878-1954. Fay, Amy, 1844-1928. Fay family. Fiske, Minnie Maddern, 1865-1932. Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940. Fitzgerald, Zelda, 1900-1948. Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961. Irwin, Wallace, 1876-1959. James, Henry, 1843-1916. Liszt, Franz, 1811-1886. Lunt, Alfred, 1893- Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset), 1874-1965. McCutcheon, John Tinney, 1870- Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956. Paderewski, Ignace Jan, 1860-1941. Peirce, Melusina Fay. Perkins, Maxwell E. (Maxwell Evarts), 1884-1947. Pichel, Irving, 1891-1954. Seeger, Alan, 1888-1916. Stone, Amy Fay, 1888-1953. Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946. Williams, John D., d. 1941. Woollcott, Alexander, 1887-1943. Wright, Austin Tappan, 1883-1931. Wright, Margaret Garrad Stone, 1886-1937. Women's Philharmonic Society of New York. Music -- Instruction and study. Concerts -- Germany. Women in the theater. Women musicians. Courtship. Theater -- New York (N.Y.). Tuberculosis -- Treatment -- New York (State). Cambridge (Mass.) -- Social life and customs. Germany -- Social life and customs. New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs. Diaries. ftamc Actresses. lcsh Musicians. lcsh Pianists. lcsh Location: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College, Cambridge, MA 02138. Control No.: MHVW85-A166