My life with Cowells : being an account of personal relationships / by Olive Thompson Cowell, 1887- , wife of Henry Clayton Blackwood Cowell, known as Harry Cowell, 1866-1954, father of Henry Dixon Cowell, composer, 1897-1965, husband of Sidney Rovertson

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{"value"=>"My life with Cowells : being an account of personal relationships / by Olive Thompson Cowell, 1887- , wife of Henry Clayton Blackwood Cowell, known as Harry Cowell, 1866-1954, father of Henry Dixon Cowell, composer, 1897-1965, husband of Sidney Rovertson [sic] Cowell, 1904- , composed in November, 1972 and finished in May 1973 at the Cowell House, 171 SanMarcos Avenue, San Francisco, Ca. 94116"}

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1972

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1973

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{"value"=>"Cowell, Olive Thompson, 1887-1984", "type"=>"persname"}

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{"value"=>"<p>Includes material on the career of composer Henry Cowell; encounters with many musicians and other artists, the founding of New Music and the New Music Society; an extended trip to Ireland, Russia, and points between in 1929 with Henry; various later trips without Henry; Henry's imprisonment in San Quentin for a morals charge, 1936-1940 (later pardoned); Henry's marriage to Sidney Robertson, 1942; relationship between Henry's parents and Sidney Cowell; Harry's death, 1954; and Henry's death, 1965.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}

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{"value"=>"<p>Olive Thompson, Professor of International Relations at San Francisco State College, married Harry Cowell, writer, tennis instructor and father of composer Henry Cowell. She remained deeply involved in Henry's career throughout the rest of his life</p>"}

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{"value"=>"<p>Typescript with emendations in ink</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"500"}

{"value"=>"<p>Caption title: My life with the Cowells</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"500"}

{"value"=>"<p>Accompanied by a poem, My heart is full of you, by Henry Cowell (in Poetry vol. xxvii, February 1926)</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"500"}

{"value"=>"<p>Accompanied by letter (TLS) from Olive Thompson Cowell, San Francisco, Ca., to Frank Campbell, [New York, NY], 1974 July 1, stating conditions for unsealing the document's envelope after the deaths of both Olive and Sidney Cowell</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"500"}

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1972

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{"value"=>"My life with Cowells : being an account of personal relationships / by Olive Thompson Cowell, 1887- , wife of Henry Clayton Blackwood Cowell, known as Harry Cowell, 1866-1954, father of Henry Dixon Cowell, composer, 1897-1965, husband of Sidney Rovertson, Music Division, The New York Public Library"}

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{"value"=>" Includes material on the career of composer Henry Cowell; encounters with many musicians and other artists, the founding of New Music and the New Music Society; an extended trip to Ireland, Russia, and points between in 1929 with Henry; various later trips without Henry; Henry's imprisonment in San Quentin for a morals charge, 1936-1940 (later pardoned); Henry's marriage to Sidney Robertson, 1942; relationship between Henry's parents and Sidney Cowell; Harry's death, 1954; and Henry's death, 1965.", "generated"=>true}

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1 item (44 leaves), 28 cm; 1 item (44 leaves), 28 cm

date_start

1972

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1973

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