- Creator
- Cowell, Olive Thompson, 1887-1984
- Call number
- JPB 99-3
- Physical description
- 1 item (44 leaves), 28 cm; 1 item (44 leaves), 28 cm
- Preferred Citation
- 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
- Repository
- Music Division
- Access to materials
- Request an in-person research appointment.
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.
Administrative information
Source of acquisition
NN, NN, WaOLNUsing the collection
Location
Music DivisionNew York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
40 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023-7498
Third Floor
Access to materials
Request an in-person research appointment.Conditions Governing Use
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