Helen Hewitt Music Research Collection, 1925-1978
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- Collection Overview
- Scope and Contents
- Biographical Note
- Access Information
- Detailed Description
- Box & Folder Listing
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Collection Overview
Title: |
Helen Hewitt Music Research Collection, 1925-1978![]() |
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ID: | 06/ 048 |
Primary Creator: | Hewitt, Helen (1900-1977) |
Extent: | 11.0 Boxes |
Arrangement: | Arranged into series based on accruals of materials. |
Languages: |
English French German |
Scope and Contents of the Materials
The collection consists of eleven boxes of materials from Dr. Hewitt's research and teaching, and primarily professional correspondence. Those materials include manuscript transcriptions from centuries-old music manuscripts scattered in libraries across Europe, research for articles and conference papers, teaching materials and student projects, speeches, and unpublished writings, along with a box of concordance cards from the preparation of her edition of Ottaviano Petrucci's Harmonices musices odhecaton A.
Please see also:
The Helen Hewitt Microfilms Collection
The Helen Hewitt Papers in the UNT Archives
Biographical Note
Born in Granville, New York, Helen Margaret Hewitt was a pioneering music historian who is best known for her editions of Ottaviano Petrucci's chanson compendia Harmonices musices odhecaton A, and Canti B. Hewitt earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Vassar College in 1921, and a Bachelor of Music from Eastman School of Music in 1925. In the summer of 1926, she traveled to France, studying organ with Charles-Marie Widor and harmony with Nadia Boulanger at the Conservatoire américain de Fontainebleau. After returning to the United States, Hewitt studied organ with Lynwood Farham at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. She began her teaching career at what is now SUNY at Potsdam (1925-1928), and completed a master's degree in sacred music at the Union Theological Seminary in 1932, with an additional Master of Arts degree from Columbia University in 1933. Hewitt then returned to Europe, studying with Heinrich Besseler at the University of Heidelberg, and earned a Ph.D. from Harvard (Radcliffe) in 1938. Before joining the faculty of what is now the University of North Texas in 1942, Hewitt taught at Florida State College for Women (1938-1939) and Hunter College (1942).
Hewitt published numerous articles, and compiled the first four editions of Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology. While on the North Texas music faculty until her retirement in 1969, she taught classes and served as an adviser or committee member on many theses and dissertations, and remained active in guiding the maintenance and upgrading of pipe organ facilities on campus.
In addition to her distinguished career, Dr. Hewitt was a devoted owner of persian cats, and kept up cordial correspondence with friends and colleagues over many decades, and across continents.
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Series 2: Second accrual
Consists of correspondence, organized alphabetically.
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Box 1
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Folder 1: Adler, Samuel, 1970 December 19
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Folder 2: Albrecht, Otto, 1971 June 11
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Folder 3: Angles, H., 1948 May 8; 1948 June 28; 1949 September 21
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Folder 4: Apfel, E., 1957 October 8; 1957 December 13
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Folder 5: Arndt, Karl J., 1948 February 18
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Folder 6: Barraclough, J., 1947 November 29; 1948 February 15; 1948 February 20
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Folder 7: Barret, Edward, 1975 November 22; 1976 October 18
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Folder 8: Bass, Carlyle, 1947 December 7; 1948 May 5
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Folder 9: Besseler, Heinrich, 1947 May 31 - 1967 August 9
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Folder 10: Besseler, Hildegard, 1942 December 26; 1947 July 22; 1973 June 2
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Folder 11: Biggs, E. Power, 1947 February 22
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Folder 12: Blair, Isabel L., 1948 February 9
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Folder 13: Blume, Ruth, 1973 February 7
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Folder 14: Boorman, Stanley, 1976 August 24
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Folder 15: Bradley, Joe, undated
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Folder 16: Brady, Leslie S., 1948 February 6
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Folder 17: Bridgman, Nanie, 1948 February [?] 6
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Folder 18: Briggs, Morton, 1948 January 21 - 1973 May 30; undated
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Folder 19: Broder, Nathan, 1964 May 16 - 1966 May 19
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Folder 20: Brooks, Catherine, 1947 September 16
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Folder 21: Bruinsma, Henry, 1948 February 26 - 1949 August 6
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Folder 22: Bukofzer, Manfred, 1939 November 4 - 1948 March 18
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Folder 23: Carapetyan, Armen, 1948 April 5; 1948 June 14
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Folder 24: Choiseul, M. de, undated
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Folder 25: Clozets, L.X. Pierre de, 1948 January 29; 1948 February 12; 1968 June 1
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Folder 26: Coffman, Wesley, 1947 October 14
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Folder 27: Conant, Isabel, 1946 November 3 - 1976 January 5
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Folder 28: Cornelisse, Jan, 1957 May 10; 1957 July 4
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Folder 29: Craighead, David, 1961 June 13
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Folder 30: Crevel [illegible], 1948 February 22
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Folder 31: Cuyler, Louise, 1947 August 23 - June 3 1971; undated
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Folder 32: Daniel, Ralph, 1957 November 27
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Folder 33: Davenport, LaNoue, 1968 November 4
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Folder 34: David, Frances, 1967 November 26
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Folder 35: Davison, Alice, 1961 December 13
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Folder 36: Davison, Archibald, 1942 September 22 - 1958 March 29
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Folder 37: Dickinson, Clarence, 1943 July 22; 1948 January 15; 1948 April 5
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Folder 38: Dickinson, George S., 1946 November 18 - 1961 December 16
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Folder 39: Dohme, Beatrice, 1948 May 19; 1948 September 22
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Folder 40: Doty, E.W., 1948 March 29
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Folder 41: Drath, Jan, 1969 November 23
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Folder 42: Drath, Nina, 1969 April 26
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Folder 43: Dyson, Shirley Ann, 1947 December 31
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Folder 44: Einstein, Alfred, 1942 October 6; 1944 March 28; undated
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Folder 45: Ellis, Helen, 1947 December 16
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Folder 46: Everett, Vernon, 1947 December 8
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Folder 47: Federov, V., 1955 January 24
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Folder 48: Fox, Charles W., 1956 August 27 - 1969 October 18
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Folder 49: Garros, Madeleine, 1947 November 16
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Folder 50: Geiringer, Karl, 1955 June 9; 1960 April 4
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Folder 51: Gleason, Harold, 1951 (?) June 4
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Folder 52: Gombosi, Otto, 1953 January 27; 1953 May 11
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Folder 53: Griffin, Howard, undated
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Folder 54: Grout, Donald J., 1961 February 22; 1961 February 28; 1961 March 7
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Folder 55: Halm, H., 1961 August 10
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Folder 56: Haney, [illegible], 1948 February 7
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Folder 57: Henley, Katie, 1948 January 14
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Folder 58: Hewitt, Mrs. E.C., 1947 January 13
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Folder 59: Hewitt, Mrs. F.W., 1948 January 9 - 1948 February 22
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Folder 60: Hewitt, Helen, 1940 June 10; 1954 May 22; 1961 February 7
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Publishing contract for Odhecaton A, poem in honor of Lloyd Hibberd, letter to Jean Langlais with Braille alphabet card and receipt from Texas School for the Blind for Braille transcription -
Folder 61: Hewitt microfilm inventory, 1978 March 27
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Folder 62: Heyer, Anna Harriet, 1948 July 10
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Folder 63: Hibberd, Fred, 1967 January 7; 1968 September 13
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Folder 64: Hibberd, Lloyd, 1947 October 6; 1947 November 13; 1954 November 5
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Folder 65: Hinrichsen, Max, 1964 December 3
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Folder 66: Hinrichsen, Walter, 1962 July 17 - 1968 April 22
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Folder 67: Hodgson, Walter, 1947 August 11 - 1948 May 31
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Folder 68: Hofmann, Josef, 1934 June 20
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Folder 69: Hughes, David G., 1960 May 3
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Folder 70: Jacques, Robert, 1947 December 16
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Folder 71: Jeppesen, Knud, 1938 January 25; 1938 February 8
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Folder 72: Kahn, Ruby (Mrs. Marvin D.), 1948 August 13; 1948 September 24
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Folder 73: Keahey, T. Herman, 1975 November 14
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Folder 74: Kenney, Arthur, undated
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Folder 75: Kenney, Sylvia, 1956 February 7
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Folder 76: Kerman, Joseph, 1968 April 11
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Folder 77: Kinkeldey, Otto, 1949 November 14 - 1961 June 3
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Folder 78: Kirshbaum, Joseph, 1947 December 28
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Folder 79: Klemm, Eberhardt, 1959 July 29
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Folder 80: LaRue, Jan, 1968 January 22 - 1968 May 6
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Folder 81: Leet, Dorothy, 1947 August 4
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Folder 82: Lesure, Francois, 1953 August 18
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Folder 83: Lockwood, Lewis, 1965 March 18
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Folder 84: Lowinsky, Edward, 1941 August 11 - 1969 February 25; undated
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Folder 85: Luper, Albert, 1968 April 17
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Folder 86: Mann, Louise (Mrs. Chester Mann), 1947 November 28
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Folder 87: Martin, D.R. Y2C (US Navy), 1943 December 7
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Folder 88: Mason, Marilyn, 1958 February 26; 1968 May 11
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Folder 89: Masson, Paul Marie, 1947 October 8; 1947 December 2
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Folder 90: McConnell, W.J., 1948 March 2
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Folder 91: McPeek, Gwynn, 1960 April 11; 1970 December 8
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Folder 92: Michels, Marianne, 1947 [February?] 21; 1947 July 30
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Folder 93: Miller, Charles, 1948 March 30
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Folder 94: Miller, Clem, 1968 November 18; undated
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Folder 95: Milner, Anthony, 1965 April 10
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Folder 96: Moe, Henry Allen, 1948 April 15
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Folder 97: Moser, Hans, 1963 September 12
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Folder 98: Myers, Susanna, 1945 September 6
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Folder 99: Nesbit, Arthur P., 1948 March 10
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Folder 100: Newton, John Nevill, 1948 January 18
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Folder 101: Newton, Paul, 1972 September 24 - 1975 January 4
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Folder 102: Norton, Mrs. E.R. (Aunt Hattie), 1948 January 29
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Folder 103: O'Meara, Eva, 1947 August 16
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Folder 104: Parrish, Carl, 1951 November 17 - 1970 May 4
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Folder 105: Pearson, Donald, 1961 June 21
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Folder 106: Petrobelli, Pierluigi, 1964 December 11
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Folder 107: Picker, Martin, 1960 January 2 - 1961 April 19
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Folder 108: Pincherle, Marc, 1948 [February 9?] - [1948 April 12?]
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Folder 109: Pisk, Paul, 1949 October 15 - 1960 October 19
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Folder 110: Plamenac, Dragan, 1943 October 27 - 1972 April 29
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Folder 111: Poladian, Sirvart, 1947 May 10 - 1948 January 19
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Folder 112: Reese, Aimee, undated
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Folder 113: Reese, Gustave, 1960 December 5 - 1970 April 10
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Folder 114: Reeves, Harold, 1944 September 28
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Folder 115: Rokseth, Yvonne, undated
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Folder 116: Rubsamen, Walter, 1948 June 7; 1948 June 17;1969 December 29
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Folder 117: Seay, Albert, 1969 December 29
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Folder 118: Siedersbeck, Beatrice Dohme, 1947 December 1
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Folder 119: Smijers, Albert, undated
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Folder 120: Smith, Campbell, 1947 September 16; others undated
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Folder 121: Smith, Carleton Sprague, 1939 November 20; 1939 November 27
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Folder 122: Smith, Julia, 1958 October 31; 1968 May 10
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Folder 123: Stevens, Denis, 1958 March 17
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Folder 124: Strunk, Oliver, 1934 October 4 - 1960 April 5
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Folder 125: Tamchynova, Jarmila, 1947 December 17; 1948 March 9
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Folder 126: Van Crevel, 1948 March 30; 1948 May 23; 1948 July 21
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Folder 127: Van den Borren, Charles, 1948 May 27 - 1958 April 14
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Folder 128: Van Hoorn, L.G., 1954 February 5
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Folder 129: Videro [illegible], undated
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Folder 130: de Villiers [illegible], 1947 October 30
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Folder 131: Waite, William, 1967 September 6, 1968 April 2
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Folder 132: Watkins, Glenn, 1948 January 10 - 1961 June 2
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Folder 135: Wilhite, Charles, 1947 August 21
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Folder 136: Will, Ray, 1957 January 11
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Folder 137: Wilson, David, 1961 August 14
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Folder 138: Wolf, Johannes, 1934 April 8
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Folder 139: Illegible, 1947 February 12
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Box 2: Canti B research
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A Photostat copy of Canti B.Barcode: 713130
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