I. Log of the Good Yacht Althea on the Summer Cruise of 1914.
| Box 1 | Item 1 | Log of the Good
Yacht Althea on the Summer Cruise of 1914 46 typescript leaves, with 30 2 x 3" photographs attached |
II. Photographs.
| Box 1 | Item 2 | Frederick Caldecott Slee
Photograph by Howard Beach |
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| Box 1 | Item 3 | Frederick Caldecott Slee
Photograph by Nussbaumer, 1910 |
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| Box 1 | Item 4 | Alice Slee
Photograph by Leon Frères |
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| Box 1 | Item 5 | John P. Seymour and Grace Gratten Collins |
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| Box 1 | Item 6 | Charles "Gus" Augustus Collins (father of Elizabeth C. Sewall) and Frederick C. Slee |
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| Box 1 | Item 7 | Katie Simpson |
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| Box 1 | Item 8 | Grace Gratten Collins and Alice Slee, March, 1908 |
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| Box 1 | Item 9 | Alice Slee, March 1908 |
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| Box 1 | Item 10 | Grace Gratten Collins, March 1908 |
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| Box 1 | Item 11 | Alice Slee, March 1908 |
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| Box 1 | Item 12 | String quartet, with Frederick C. Slee, 2nd from right |
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| Box 1 | Item 13 | String quartet, with Frederick C. Slee, 2nd from right |
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| Box 1 | Item 14 | Unidentified flooding river
Photograph by Charles Augustus Collins? |
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| Box 1 | Item 15 | Canal lock
Photograph by Charles Augustus Collins? |
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| Box 1 | Item 16 | Frederick C. Slee in automobile |
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| Box 1 | Item 17 | Group of eleven boys |
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| Box 1 | Item 18 | Outside view of Slee home at 59 Saybrook Place, Buffalo, N.Y.? |
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| Box 1 | Item 19 | Interior view of room, presumably in Slee home |
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III. Writings of Frederick Slee
| Box 2 | Item 20 | From Wagner to Schoenberg, [1914] Typescript (15 leaves) |
| Box 2 | Item 21 | Untitled reminiscences, after 1924
Typescript with ms. additions ([26] leaves; numbered 4-6, 6 1/2, 7-9, 9 1/2, 9 1/2A, 10-19, 22-28) |
| Box 2 | Item 22 | Concerts of Saybrook String Quartet, [programs and notes for concerts
November 1931-May 30, 1937]
Typescript ([38] leaves; title page, 36 numbered leaves, with leaf 33 repeated) |
| Box 2 | Item 23 | Saybrook String Quartet program, May 1938
Typescript (1 leaf) |
| Box 2 | Item 24 | Saybrook String Quartet program, September 1938
Typescript (1 leaf) |
| Box 2 | Item 25 | Saybrook String Quartet program, April 2, 1939
Typescript (1 leaf) |
| Box 2 | Item 26 | Saybrook String Quartet program, April 30, 1939
Typescript (1 leaf) |
| Box 2 | Item 27 | Saybrook String Quartet program, May 30, 1939
Typescript (1 leaf) |
| Box 2 | Item 28 | Summary of Saybrook String Quartet repertoire
Typescript (1 leaf) |
IV. Correspondence
| Box 2 | Item 29 | Original letter from Mrs. Alice Slee concerning repertoire of the Saybrook String Quartet, sent to audience members
to solicit recommendations for future seasons. Marked with answers by unknown recipient.
Typescript with ms. additions (1 leaf) |
| Box 2 | Item 30 | Capen, Grace
Manuscript (3 leaves) |
| Box 2 | Item 31 | Perry, Elizabeth
(?) Manuscript (1 folded leaf) |
| Box 2 | Item 32 | Silverman, Oscar
Manuscript (1 leaf) |
| Box 2 | Item 33 | Unidentified
Manuscript (1 folded leaf) |
| Box 2 | Item 34 | Apthorp, William F. to Frederick Slee, October 29, 1896
concerning program notes for Boston Symphony Orchestra concerts
Typescript (1 leaf) |
V. Clippings
| Box 3 | Item 35 | Obituary for Frederick Caldecott Slee, 1954 |
| Box 3 | Item 36 | Obituary for Frederick Caldecott Slee, 1954 |
| Box 3 | Item 37 | Buffalo Evening News, November 12, 1954
Report of Slee Bequest to the University of Buffalo (photocopy) |
| Box 3 | Item 38 | Buffalo Evening News, October 1, 1955. Article about first cycle of Beethoven string quartets performed by the Budapest Quartet |
| Box 3 | Item 39 | Buffalo Evening News , May 21, 1956 obituary for Alice Slee (photocopy) |
| Box 3 | Item 40 | Buffalo Evening News, Jan. 24, 1976, article by John Dwyer about Frederick and Alice Slee and the twentieth anniversary of the Slee Beethoven String Quartet Cycle series |
| Box 3 | Item 41 | Buffalo Evening News, July 19, 1981 article by John Dwyer about Frederick and Alice Slee and the upcoming twenty-fifth season of the Slee Beethoven String Quartet Cycle series (photocopy) |
VI. Slee Bequest Documents (photocopies)
| Box 3 | Item 42 | Last Will and Testament of Frederick C. and Alice Slee, Oct. 1952
3 leaves |
| Box 3 | Item 43 | Sept. 20, 1955 letter to Alice Slee from Claude E. Puffer, Treasurer of University of
Buffalo, thanking Mrs. Slee for receipt of funds to cover expense of concert by the Budapest
String Quartet
1 leaf |
| Box 3 | Item 44 | The proper usage of the Slee Bequest and its integration with other departmental resources, The Music Department, SUNY at Buffalo
14 leaves, 1981, written by James McKinnon |
VII. Programs
A. Slee Beethoven Quartet Series
| Box 3 | Item 45 | Program for Feb. 22, 1955 performance of
Beethoven string quartets by the Budapest String Quartet. The concert was
performed in memory of Frederick C. Slee.
2 leaves (photocopy) |
| Box 3 | Item 46 | Program for Sept. 23 and Sept. 24, 1955 concerts at Samuel P. Capen Hall
at the University of Buffalo of Beethoven string quartets by the Budapest String Quartet, the first
two concerts presented in the continuing Slee Beethoven String Quartet Cycle series.
2 leaves (photocopy) |
| Box 3 | Item 47 | Program note booklet for twentieth consecutive playing of the Slee Beethoven Quartet Cycle, 1976,
with notes written by John Dwyer.
7 pages |
| Box 3 | Item 48 | Fifty years of Beethoven, 1955-2005. Program booklet for 2005-2006 Slee Beethoven
Quartet Cycle, with notes by Paul Katz
13 pages |
B. Boston, Cambridge, and Northampton, Massachusetts
| Box 3 | Item 49 | Boston Symphony Orchestra
Sanders Theatre, Harvard University October 18, 1894 1 leaf |
| Box 3 | Item 50 | Boston Symphony Orchestra
Sanders Theatre, Harvard University October 19, 1894 1 leaf |
| Box 3 | Item 51 | Boston Symphony Orchestra
Sanders Theatre, Harvard University November 2, 1894 1 leaf |
| Box 3 | Item 52 | Boston Symphony Orchestra
Sanders Theatre, Harvard University November 16, 1894 1 leaf |
| Box 3 | Item 53 | Boston Symphony Orchestra
Sanders Theatre, Harvard University January 4, 1895 1 leaf |
| Box 3 | Item 54 | Boston Symphony Orchestra
Sanders Theatre, Harvard University February 15, 1895 1 leaf |
| Box 3 | Item 55 | Boston Symphony Orchestra
Sanders Theatre, Harvard University March 8, 1895 1 leaf |
| Box 3 | Item 56 | Boston Symphony Orchestra
Sanders Theatre, Harvard University April 6, 1895 1 leaf |
| Box 3 | Item 57 | Boston Symphony Orchestra
Sanders Theatre, Harvard University April 26, 1895 1 leaf |
| Box 3 | Item 58 | Handel and Haydn Society
Boston Music Hall December 18, 1893 5 pages |
| Box 3 | Item 59 | Handel and Haydn Society
April 18, 1894 1 leaf |
| Box 3 | Item 60 | Pierian Sodality of Harvard University
Radcliffe College May 10, 1894 1 leaf |
| Box 3 | Item 61 | Harvard Glee Club, Pierian Sodality, Harvard Banjo Club, and Harvard Mandolin Club
Sanders Theatre, Harvard University May 17, 1894 1 booklet (12 pages) |
| Box 3 | Item 62 | Pierian Sodality and Mandolin Club of Harvard University
Assembly Hall, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts May 23, 1894 1 folded leaf |
| Box 3 | Item 63 | Harvard Glee Club, Pierian Sodality, Harvard Banjo Club, and Harvard Mandolin Club
Sanders Theatre, Harvard University December 18, 1894 1 booklet (12 pages) |
| Box 3 | Item 64 | Harvard Glee Club, Pierian Sodality, Harvard Banjo Club, and Harvard Mandolin Club
Sanders Theatre, Harvard University May 23, 1895 1 booklet (11 pages) |
| Box 3 | Item 65 | Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)
Mechanics Hall Auditorium (Boston, Mass.) February 27, 1894 1 leaf |
| Box 3 | Item 66 | Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)
Mechanics Hall Auditorium (Boston, Mass.) March 2, 1894 1 leaf |
| Box 3 | Item 67 | Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)
Concert program of selections from various operas. Performers include Nellie Melba Mechanics Hall Auditorium (Boston, Mass.)? March 4, 1894 1 leaf |
| Box 3 | Item 68 | Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)
Mechanics Hall Auditorium (Boston, Mass.) March 9, 1894 1 leaf |
| Box 3 | Item 69 | New York Symphony Orchestra; Walter Damrosch, conductor
Boston Theatre April 11-12, 1894? 1 leaf |
| Box 3 | Item 70 | Sherwood, William H., b. 1854
Boston, 1895? 1 booklet (6 pages) |
| Box 3 | Item 71 | Buffalo Symphony Orchestra
Music Hall (Buffalo, N.Y.) January 7, 1897 1 booklet (16 pages) |
| Box 3 | Item 72 | Buffalo Symphony Orchestra
Music Hall (Buffalo, N.Y.) February 4, 1897 1 booklet (14 pages) |
| Box 3 | Item 73 | Buffalo Symphony Orchestra
Music Hall (Buffalo, N.Y.) February 3, 1898 1 booklet (16 pages) |
| Box 3 | Item 74 | Buffalo Symphony Orchestra
Music Hall (Buffalo, N.Y.) March 10, 1898 1 booklet (16 pages) |
| Box 3 | Item 75 | Twentieth Century Club (Buffalo, N.Y.)
Song recital by Mr. and Mrs. Georg Henschel November 26, [1897?] 1 booklet (8 pages) |
| Box 3 | Item 76 | Twentieth Century Club (Buffalo, N.Y.)
String quartet concert March 24, 1933 1 leaf |
| Box 3 | Item 77 | Café Parisien, Hotel Savoy
Menu July 4, 1924 1 folded leaf |
| Box 3 | Item 78 | Worshipful Company of Musicians
Stationers Hall July 8, 1924 1 leaf |
| Box 3 | Item 79 | Worshipful Company of Musicians
Diagram of banquet seating Stationers Hall July 8, 1924 1 leaf |
| Box 3 | Item 80 | Worshipful Company of Musicians
Concert program Stationers Hall July 8, 1924 1 booklet (5 pages) |
| Box 3 | Item 81 | New Theatre (New York, N.Y.)
Program for performance of Beethoven, a dramatic biography by René Fauchois April 11 - May 1910 1 folded leaf |
| Box 3 | Item 82-89 | Assorted music and theater programs, May 1924 - February 1925 |
| Box 3 | Item 90 | Busch, Adolf, 1891-1952
Accademica di Santa Cecilia December 24, 1924 1 booklet (16 pages) |
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