Call Number:

TC104

Repository:

Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division

Extent:

• 21 boxes
• 10.2 linear feet

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Clare Beecher Kummer Papers, Box and Folder Number; Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Date:

1890s-1955 (inclusive)

Creator:

Kummer, Clare Beecher, 1886-1958

Form:

Correspondence., Manuscripts., Photographs., Playbills., Sheet music., and Songs.

Abstract:

Consists of the papers of song-writer, playwright, and poet Clare Beecher Kummer. Included are manuscript plays, musical compositions, songs, verse, and correspondence.

Born Clare Rodman Beecher in Brooklyn, New York, Kummer was a granddaughter of Edward Beecher and a niece of Harriet Beecher Stowe. She became a song-writer, playwright, and poet.

The collection consists of the papers of Kummer: manuscript plays, musical compositions, songs, verse, and correspondence. The manuscripts span Kummer's career, from her early popular songs, such as "The Summerland Song" (1901) and "Dearie" (1905), to her many dramatic works.

Included are The Opera Ball (1912), a musical comedy written in collaboration with Sydney Rosenfeld; A Successful Calamity (prod. 1917) in which her cousin, William Gillette performed; Rollo's Wild Oat (prod. 1920); Good Gracious Annabelle (1916), later produced by Florenz Ziegfeld as a musical entitled Annie Dear; and her last Broadway success, Her Master's Voice, produced by Max Gordon in 1933.