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Horace Reynolds papers (Ms.Reynolds)

Brown University Library

Box A
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
Tel: 401-863-2146
email: hay@brown.edu

Inventory

Series 1. Account books, ledgers, etc., 1802-1825
9.0 items

Container Description Date
Box 1 Invoice book
53.0 pages

Contents Note: Pages 7-26 excised.

Bookseller's ticket advertising Valentino Nutter Bookseller and Stationer tipped in on verso of cover.

Titles of musical pieces sent on commission to Newport, Providence, Portsmouth, Salem, Portland, Philadelphia.

Titles of pieces bought by G. Graupner in London.

Instruments, strings, cases, etc., bought by G. Graupner in London.
Accession Number: A54745[1]
Genre: invoices

Names:
Graupner, Gottlieb
Parker, John Rowe

1802 July 21-1817 March 11
Box 1 Order book
9.0 pages

Contents Note: Some pages excised.

Goods ordered to Clementi & Co., London: Musical instruments, strings, etc., pieces of music.

Goods ordered from Philadelphia: Musical instruments, strings, etc., pieces of music.
Accession Number: A54745[1]
Genre: manuscript

Names:
Graupner, Gottlieb
Parker, John Rowe

1808 April 8-1815 June 5
Box 1 Account book
103.0 pages

Contents Note: Front cover and pages 1-3 wanting.

Expenses on estate, property; yearly family expenses (1805-1824); Church Fund (1805-1824) received from G. Graupner; expenses and receipts as boarding house keeper; owner of real estate, retailer of commodities and merchandise.

Three sheets of manuscript laid in.
Accession Number: A54745[2]
Genre: account book

Names:
Parker, Anne

1805-1825
Box 1 Account book
82.0 pages

Contents Note: Cover wanting.

"Private Personal Expenses" and business account under individual or company names.

Note by H.M. Reynolds laid in.
Accession Number: A54745[3]
Genre: account book

Names:
Parker, John Rowe

1809-1813
Box 1 Account book
88.0 pages

Contents Note: Cover wanting.

Business accounts under individual or company names arranged approximately alphabetically.

Note by H.M. Reynolds laid in.
Accession Number: A54745[4]
Genre: account book

Names:
Parker, John Rowe

1809-1816
Box 1 Concerts 1816
17.0 pages

Contents Note: Includes "Expenses of the Concerts" May 29-July 9, 1816, and individual accounts with musicians. Names indexes on verso of front cover. Note on page 14: Carried to new book.
Accession Number: A54745[5]
Genre: manuscript

Names:
Graupner, Gottlieb
Parker, John Rowe

Box 1 Invoice and commission book
12.0 pages

Contents Note: Invoice of shipments of music (lists of song titles) sent from New York by J. Hewitt to be sold on commission, with the names of ships and captains.
Accession Number: A54745[5]
Genre: invoices

Names:
Graupner, Gottlieb
Parker, John Rowe

1802-1805
Box 1 J.H. Shaffer and G. Graupner general concert account
22.0 pages

Contents Note: Records of expenditures, names of artists, workers, etc., for outdoor garden concerts, August 1816 directed by Francis C. Shaffer and G. Graupner.

Note by H.M Reynolds laid in.
Accession Number: A54745[6]
Genre: account book

Names:
Parker, John Rowe

1816 August
Box 1 Day book
64.0 pages

Contents Note: Account. Sundries sold on Commission at the Franklin Music Warehouse, no. 6 Milk Street, Boston.

Contents: titles of songs; instrumental scores; strings for piano, violin, etc.; instruments; sale of tickets.

Notes by H.M. Reynolds on envelope and in notebook laid in.
Accession Number: A54745[7]
Genre: daybook

Names:
Parker, John Rowe

1817 September 1-1818 November 6
Box 1 Ledger
86.0 pages

Contents Note: Pages excised; pages mutilated.

Business accounts under individual or company names. Index of names with page reference on pages [85-86].

Notes by H.M. Reynolds laid in.
Accession Number: A54745[8]
Genre: ledger (account books)

Names:
Graupner, Gottlieb
Parker, John Rowe

1817-1818
Box 1 Account ledger
106.0 pages

Contents Note: Lists of musical pieces, instruments, strings, etc., bought by S.H. Parker with the names of sellers and of buyers.

Note by H.M. Reynolds identifying author laid in.
Accession Number: A54745[9]
Genre: ledger (account books)

Names:
Parker, S. H.

1817-1821

Series 2. Documents, 1806-1838
4.0 items

Container Description Date
Box 1 Special letter of attorney
London
4.0 pages

Contents Note: Appointing J.R. Parker to collect debts from George Barker, Jr. and William Rogers of Boston with signature of James Shaw, Lord Mayor of London.
Accession Number: A54745[10]
Genre: document signed

Names:
Grillier, John Henry

1806 October 1
Box 1 Order to pay Mrs. Noah Kendell
2.0 pages

Contents Note: For teaching Elliot School by John Parker, secretary, with authorization by Trustees.
Accession Number: A54745[11]
Genre: document signed

Names:
Parker, John Rowe

1813 March 19
Box 1 Agreement
1.0 page

Contents Note: True and Greene to print and press 600 copies of J.R. Parker's musical and literary papers, one each week, the proprietorship, profits, etc. of said papers to belong to J.R. Parker.
Accession Number: A54745[12]
Genre: document signed

Names:
Parker, John Rowe
True & Greene

1822 March 20
Box 1 Agreement
1 page with conj. blank e.

Contents Note: Hayward to take charge of State House telegraph repeating station, make copies of the telegraph flags at observatory, signal the arrival of mail, and deposit newspapers in telegraph box at City Hall; Parker to pay him and allow him commission on sale of flags and collection of subscription bills.
Accession Number: A54745[13]
Genre: document signed

Names:
Hayward, S. H.
Parker, John Rowe

1838 May 15

Series 3. Letters, 1819, 1837
2.0 items

Container Description Date
Box 1 Parker, John Rowe to Mackay, John
Boston
1 page with conj. blank e.

Contents Note: Is alarmed at rumor of Mackay's closing the Franklin Manufactory. Earnestly begs payment for his services of the last eighteen months.
Accession Number: A54745[48]
Genre: autograph letter signed

Names:
Mackay, John
Parker, John Rowe

1819 March 2
Box 1 Greene, Samuel to Parker, John Rowe
New London, CT
2.0 pages

Contents Note: Asks if Parker can get type for him from Boston foundry. Asks Parker's help in collecting a debt owed him by Harvard Medical School. Invoice of Parker's account on second leaf.
Accession Number: A54745[49]
Genre: autograph letter signed

Names:
Greene, Samuel
Parker, John Rowe

1837 November 17

Series 4. Correspondence about purchase of Parker-Graupner material and manuscripts, 1952-1954, undated
9.0 items

Container Description Date
Box 1 Johnson, H. Earle to Reynolds, Horace Mason
1.0 page with envelope

Accession Number: A54745[50]
Genre: typed letter signed

Names:
Johnson, H. Earle
Reynolds, Horace, 1896-

1952 January 12
Box 1 Neiburg, Jack to Reynolds, Horace Mason
1.0 page with envelope

Accession Number: A54745[51]
Genre: typed letter signed

Names:
Neiburg, Jack
Reynolds, Horace, 1896-

1954 July 12
Box 1 New York Public Library to Reynolds, Horace Mason
1.0 page with envelope

Accession Number: A54745[52]
Genre: typed letter signed

Names:
New York Public Library
Reynolds, Horace, 1896-

1954 April 8
Box 1 New York Public Library to Reynolds, Horace Mason
Accession Number: A54745[53]
Genre: typed letter signed

Names:
New York Public Library
Reynolds, Horace, 1896-

1954 April 23
Box 1 Peters, Harry T. to Reynolds, Horace Mason
Contents Note: The envelope is postmarked New York, NY, 1942 January 27.
Accession Number: A54745[54]
Genre: envelope

Names:
Peters, Harry T.
Reynolds, Horace, 1896-

1942 January 27
Box 1 Reynolds, John H. to Reynolds, Horace Mason
Accession Number: A54745[55]
Genre: envelope

Names:
Reynolds, Horace, 1896-
Reynolds, John H.

1954 June 6
Box 1 Tighe, Benjamin to Reynolds, Horace Mason
1.0 page

Accession Number: A54745[56]
Genre: typed note signed

Names:
Reynolds, Horace, 1896-
Tighe, Benjamin

1954 March 14
Box 1 Tighe, Benjamin to Reynolds, Horace Mason
1.0 page

Accession Number: A54745[57]
Genre: typed letter signed

Names:
Reynolds, Horace, 1896-
Tighe, Benjamin

1954 March 22
Box 1 Tighe, Benjamin to Reynolds, Horace Mason
1.0 page

Accession Number: A54745[58]
Genre: typed note signed

Names:
Reynolds, Horace, 1896-
Tighe, Benjamin

1954 April 5

Series 5. Manuscripts, 1817-1832
30.0 items

Container Description Date
Box 1 Detached sheets of invoices
8.0 items

Contents Note: For pieces of music, general merchandise, expenses, etc.
Accession Number: A54745[18]-A54745[25]
Genre: invoices

Names:
Parker, John Rowe

1817-1820
Box 1 Invoice to E. Billings
1.0 page

Contents Note: For tuning piano. Photocopy.
Accession Number: A54745[26]
Genre: invoice

Names:
Graupner, Gottlieb

1832 April 24
Box 1 Notes about J.R. Parker-G. Graupner papers
19.0 items

Accession Number: A54745[27]-A54745[45]
Genre: manuscriptstypescripts

Names:
Reynolds, Horace, 1896-

Box 1 Notes on Graupner-Stone family
2.0 items

Accession Number: A54745[46]-A54745[47]
Genre: manuscripts

Names:
Reynolds, Horace, 1896-

Series 6. Manuscript music
4.0 items

Container Description Date
Box 1 Flauto, Prinzipalo
5.0 pages

Accession Number: A54745[14]
Genre: manuscript

Names:
Keller, Karl

18--?
Box 1 Violino Primo
6.0 pages

Contents Note: Note by H.M. Reynolds on the cover.
Accession Number: A54745[15]
Genre: manuscript
18--?
Box 1 Concerto
Contents Note: Title page in hand of G. Graupner with his signature.

Negative [16] and positive [17] photostats.
Accession Number: A54745[16]-A54745[17]
Genre: manuscripts

Names:
Winter, Peter von