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Marian Robertson Wilson papers, 1920s-2009

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Wilson, Marian Robertson, 1926-2013
Title
Marian Robertson Wilson papers
Dates
1920s-2009 (inclusive)
Quantity
16.5 linear feet, (27 boxes and 1 oversize box)
Collection Number
ACCN 0202
Summary
The Marian Robertson Wilson papers (1920s-2009) consist of correspondence, article drafts, writings, research materials and other papers. The bulk of the materials relate to Wilson's writings about her father, Leroy J. Robertson, a world-renowned musician and composer, and her research into coptic studies. Wilson (b. 1926) is a musician, as well as a linguist and teacher. She has been recognized internationally as music editor of Coptic Encyclopedia and has lectured and taught at universities throughout the world.
Repository
University of Utah Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library
University of Utah
295 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City, UT
84112-0860

Telephone: 8015818863
special@library.utah.edu
Access Restrictions

Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must be used on-site. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.

Languages
English, French
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Content Description

The Marian Robertson Wilson papers (1920s-2009) consist of correspondence, article drafts, and a program relating to an article written by Marian Wilson about her father, musician and composer Leroy Robertson. The article was published in the Journal of Book of Mormon Studies and is titled: "Leroy Robertson and the oratorio from the Book of Mormon: reminiscences of a daughter." Also included are materials relating to Marian Wilson's studies of Coptic music, drafts of the book entitled: Leroy Robertson, music giant from the Rockies, teaching materials, and drafts of her dissertation entitled: Classical Arabic and colloquial Cairene: an historical linguistic analysis. The collection also contains guides to coptic music recordings, research concerning Ragheb Moftah. Correspondences with Jean Cocteau and Wilson's translations of some of his works are also part ofthe collection.

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

The library does not claim to control copyright for all materials in the collection. An individual depicted in a reproduction has privacy rights as outlined in Title 45 CFR, part 46 (Protection of Human Subjects). For further information, please review the J. Willard Marriott Library's Use Agreement and Reproduction Request forms.

Preferred Citation

Collection Name, Collection Number, Box Number, Folder Number. Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, The University of Utah.

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Administrative Information

Acquisition Information

Box 1 was donated by Marian Robertson Wilson in May 2002 (0.25 linear feet).

Boxes 2-17 were donated by Marian Robertson Wilson in October 2002 (7.75 linear feet).

Boxes 18-23 were donated by Marian Robertson Wilson in November 2002 (3 linear feet).

Box 24 was donated by Marian Robertson Wilson in May 2006 (0.5 linear feet).

Box 25-26 were donated by Marian Robertson Wilson in September 2009 (0.75 linear feet).

Box 27, folder 7 was donated by Marian Robertson Wilson in 2018.

Processing Note

Processed by Lisa DeMille in 2002 and 2007.

Processed by Emma McFarland in 2011.

Processed by Taylor Ouimette in 2014.

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Separated Materials

See also the Marian Robertson Wilson photograph collection (P1043) and audio-visual materials (A0724) in the Multimedia Division of Special Collections.

Related Materials

Forms part of the Aileen H. Clyde 20th Century Women's Legacy Archives.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

  • General Materials

    • Description: Correspondence
      Dates: 1986-2000
      Container: Box 1, Folder 1
    • Description: Marian Robertson Wilson, "Leroy Robertson and the Oratorio From the Book of Mormon: Reminiscences of a Daughter"

      Outlines and drafts.

      Dates: 1999
      Container: Box 1, Folder 2
    • Description: Program
      Dates: 1999
      Container: Box 1, Folder 3
  • Personal Materials

    • Description: Correspondence
      Dates: 1920s-2000
      Container: Box 2, Folder 1
    • Description: Childhood Letters
      Dates: 1930s
      Container: Box 2, Folder 2
    • Description: Grade School Autograph Book
      Dates: 1936-1938
      Container: Box 2, Folder 3
    • Description: Brigham Young University Junior High and High School

      Includes 50th reunion items.

      Dates: 1939-1944; 1998
      Container: Box 2, Folder 4-5
    • Description: University of Utah, Commencement Program and Presidential Report
      Dates: 1959-1960
      Container: Box 2, Folder 6
    • Description: Bachelor of Arts Degree
      Dates: 1948
      Container: Box 2, Folder 7
    • Description: Masters Degree
      Dates: 1952
      Container: Box 2, Folder 8
    • Description: Doctorage Degrees
      Dates: 1960; 1970
      Container: Box 2, Folder 9
    • Description: School and Sorority Materials
      Dates: 1950s
      Container: Box 3, Folder 1
    • Description: Scholarship
      Dates: 1944-1948
      Container: Box 3, Folder 2
    • Description: Oral History
      Dates: 1979
      Container: Box 3, Folder 3
    • Description: Utah Concerts Council, Correspondence and Program
      Dates: 1952
      Container: Box 3, Folder 4
    • Description: Association for Mormon Letters Award, Correspondence and Announcement
      Dates: 1996-1997
      Container: Box 3, Folder 5
    • Description: C. Craig Nelson, Correspondence
      Dates: 1992-1994
      Container: Box 3, Folder 6
    • Description: "Circus Parade"

      Music piece with words by Marian Robertson Wilson and music by Leroy J. Robertson.

      Dates: 1933
      Container: Box 3, Folder 7
    • Description: Certificates
      Dates: 1948; 1950
      Container: Box 3, Folder 8
    • Description: Scrapbook Contents

      Items from a dissasembled scrapbook.

      Dates: 1930s
      Container: Box 3, Folder 9
  • Writings by Marian Robertson Wilson

  • "Leroy J. Robertson: Music Giant from the Rockies"

    Materials related to Leroy J. Robertson, but not necessarily this biography by Marian Robertson Wilson, are also included in this series.

  • Research Materials, Essays and Articles

  • Research Materials, Subject Files

  • Personal and Teaching Materials

  • Teaching Materials

    This series contains notes, notebooks, and outlines for classes taught and taken by Wilson.

    • Description: Teaching Materials

      This box contains notes, notebooks, and outlines for French classes taught by Wilson.

      Dates: 1944-1969
      Container: Box 19
    • Description: French
      Container: Box 20, Folder 1
    • Description: German
      Container: Box 20, Folder 2-3
    • Description: Greek Theater
      Container: Box 20, Folder 4
    • Description: English D
      Container: Box 20, Folder 5
    • Description: Egypt Studies
      Dates: 1968-1969
      Container: Box 20, Folder 6
    • Description: Music in the Renaissance
      Container: Box 20, Folder 7
    • Description: Literary Criticism
      Container: Box 20, Folder 8
    • Description: Arabs in the Middle Ages
      Dates: 1969
      Container: Box 20, Folder 9
    • Description: Persian Studies
      Container: Box 20, Folder 10
    • Description: Russian Studies
      Container: Box 20, Folder 11
  • Thesis Materials

    • Description: Thesis, "Classical Arabic and Colloquial Cairene: An Historical Linguistic Analysis"

      This box contains notes and drafts for Wilson's Ph.D. thesis. They are organized by chapter.

      Dates: 1970
      Container: Box 21
    • Description: Thesis Materials
      Dates: 1970
      Container: Box 22, Folder 1-7
    • Description: "Coptic Loan Words in Colloquial Egyptian Arabic: Their Antiquity and Prevalence"
      Dates: 1972; 1974
      Container: Box 22, Folder 8
    • Description: "Le Drame au XIX Siecles"
      Container: Box 22, Folder 9
    • Description: "Introduction au Romantisme Francais au XIX Siecle"
      Container: Box 22, Folder 10
    • Description: "It's All Greek to Me!"
      Container: Box 22, Folder 11
    • Description: "La Litterature du XVII Siecle"
      Container: Box 22, Folder 12
  • General Materials

    • Description: Mary Bush, "Looking Back at Mud Lake"
      Container: Box 23, Folder 1
    • Description: Carol Pendleton, Senior Honors Thesis
      Dates: 1972
      Container: Box 23, Folder 2
    • Description: Jean Cocteau, Correspondence and New Articles
      Dates: 1950s
      Container: Box 23, Folder 3
    • Description: Gerhardt Hamptmann

      Essays, correspondence, and articles.

      Dates: 1961-1964
      Container: Box 23, Folder 4
    • Description: "Coptic Encyclopedia"

      Correspondence and other materials concerning publishing permissions.

      Dates: 1984-1990
      Container: Box 23, Folder 5-6
    • Description: Coptic Research Notes
      Container: Box 23, Folder 7
    • Description: Miscellaneous
      Container: Box 23, Folder 8
    • Description: Marian Robertson Wilson, "Eight Plays by Jean Cocteau Translated from French into English"

      This box also contains one folder of miscellaneous ephemera found in books separated from the collection.

      Container: Box 24
  • Coptic Music Materials

    • Description: Correspondence

      The majority of these correspondeces are exchanges with Laurence Moftah.

      Dates: 1998-2008
      Container: Box 25, Folder 1
    • Description: Correspondence Drafts
      Container: Box 25, Folder 2
    • Description: Coptic Music Website Essays
      Dates: 2009
      Container: Box 25, Folder 3
    • Description: Coptic Chant Recording and Text Inventories
      Dates: 1992; 2008
      Container: Box 25, Folder 4
    • Description: "Guide to the Ragheb Moftah Collection of Coptic Chant Recordings"
      Dates: 1997
      Container: Box 25, Folder 5
    • Description: "Guide to the Ragheb Moftah Recording of the Liturgy of Saint Basil"
      Dates: 2005
      Container: Box 25, Folder 6
    • Description: "Memories of KUED's First Years"
      Dates: 2008
      Container: Box 25, Folder 7
    • Description: "The Reliability of the Oral Tradition in Preserving Coptic Music, III"
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box 25, Folder 8
    • Description: "Revised Guide to the Ragheb Moftah Collection of Coptic Chant Recordings, Vol.1"
      Dates: 2005
      Container: Box 25, Folder 9
    • Description: "Revised Guide to the Ragheb Moftah Collection of Coptic Chant Recordings, Vol.2"
      Dates: 2005
      Container: Box 25, Folder 10
    • Description: "Table of Contents for Musical Transcriptions of Coptic Sacred Music"
      Dates: 1997
      Container: Box 25, Folder 11
    • Description: Articles about Ragheb Moftah by Laurence Moftah
      Container: Box 25, Folder 12
    • Description: Articles by Others and Research Materials
      Container: Box 25, Folder 13
  • General Materials

    • Description: "The Naming of Naomi Peak"

      This is an article by Wilson that appeared in the Spring 2007 issue of History Currents.

      Dates: 2007
      Container: Box 26, Folder 1
    • Description: Pablo Casals Competition and Master Class Materials

      This folder contains correspondence, schedule and competition information concerning the Pablo Casals Competition,1961 and the Pablo Casals Master Class,1962. Also included are newspaper and magazine clippings about Pablo Casals, 1966-1967.

      Dates: 1961-1967
      Container: Box 26, Folder 2
    • Description: Jean Cocteau Materials

      This folder contains letters from Jean Cocteau, handwritten drafts of Wilson's responses, correspondences held with publishing companies concerning Wilson's translations of Cocteau plays, and magazine articles about Jean Cocteau. Most materials are in French.

      Dates: 1951-1963
      Container: Box 26, Folder 3
    • Description: French Course Notes
      Dates: 1950-1951
      Container: Box 26, Folder 4
    • Description: General Materials

      This folder contains sheet music for "My Boy" by Harrison R. Merrill and a talk by Gordon B. Hinckley, "Till We Meet Again."

      Container: Box 26, Folder 5
    • Description: News Clippings

      These newsclippings refer to nuclear fallout issues in St. George, Utah and flooding in Fountain Green, Utah.

      Dates: 1988
      Container: Box 26, Folder 6
  • Addendum

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Subject Terms

  • Calques
  • Comparative linguistics
  • Composers--Utah--Archives
  • Coptic chants--History and criticism
  • Coptic chants--Translating
  • Copts--Songs and music--History and criticism
  • Copts--Songs and music--Texts
  • Copts--Songs and music--Translating
  • Women linguists--Utah--Archives

Personal Names

  • Robertson, Leroy J.--Archives
  • Wilson, Marian Robertson, 1926-2013--Archives

Corporate Names

  • University of Utah--Alumni and alumnae
  • University of Utah--Employees--Archives

Form or Genre Terms

  • Academic theses
  • Articles
  • Biographies
  • Chants
  • Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
  • Degrees (Academic)
  • Instructional and educational works
  • Manuscripts
  • Notated music
  • Personal correspondence
  • Research notes
  • Scores
  • Translations (documents)
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