Marian Robertson Wilson papers, 1920s-2009
Table of Contents
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Wilson, Marian Robertson, 1926-2013
- Title
- Marian Robertson Wilson papers
- Dates
- 1920s-2009 (inclusive)19202009
- 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
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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
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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
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.
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.
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.
Detailed Description of the Collection
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General Materials
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Description: CorrespondenceDates: 1986-2000Container: Box 1, Folder 1
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Description: Marian Robertson Wilson, "Leroy Robertson and the Oratorio From the Book of Mormon: Reminiscences of a Daughter"
Outlines and drafts.
Dates: 1999Container: Box 1, Folder 2 -
Description: ProgramDates: 1999Container: Box 1, Folder 3
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Personal Materials
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Description: CorrespondenceDates: 1920s-2000Container: Box 2, Folder 1
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Description: Childhood LettersDates: 1930sContainer: Box 2, Folder 2
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Description: Grade School Autograph BookDates: 1936-1938Container: Box 2, Folder 3
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Description: Brigham Young University Junior High and High School
Includes 50th reunion items.
Dates: 1939-1944; 1998Container: Box 2, Folder 4-5 -
Description: University of Utah, Commencement Program and Presidential ReportDates: 1959-1960Container: Box 2, Folder 6
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Description: Bachelor of Arts DegreeDates: 1948Container: Box 2, Folder 7
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Description: Masters DegreeDates: 1952Container: Box 2, Folder 8
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Description: Doctorage DegreesDates: 1960; 1970Container: Box 2, Folder 9
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Description: School and Sorority MaterialsDates: 1950sContainer: Box 3, Folder 1
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Description: ScholarshipDates: 1944-1948Container: Box 3, Folder 2
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Description: Oral HistoryDates: 1979Container: Box 3, Folder 3
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Description: Utah Concerts Council, Correspondence and ProgramDates: 1952Container: Box 3, Folder 4
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Description: Association for Mormon Letters Award, Correspondence and AnnouncementDates: 1996-1997Container: Box 3, Folder 5
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Description: C. Craig Nelson, CorrespondenceDates: 1992-1994Container: Box 3, Folder 6
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Description: "Circus Parade"
Music piece with words by Marian Robertson Wilson and music by Leroy J. Robertson.
Dates: 1933Container: Box 3, Folder 7 -
Description: CertificatesDates: 1948; 1950Container: Box 3, Folder 8
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Description: Scrapbook Contents
Items from a dissasembled scrapbook.
Dates: 1930sContainer: Box 3, Folder 9
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Writings by Marian Robertson Wilson
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Description: "A Chronology of Egyptian Rulers from Menes to the Arab Conquest with a Brief Outline of the Prehistoric Period"Dates: 1967Container: Box 4, Folder 1
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Description: "A Coptic Melody Sung Interchangeable in Different Languages: Comparisons Thereof and Proposed Dating Therefor"Dates: 1984Container: Box 4, Folder 2
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Description: "Ernest Newlandsmith et sa Notation de la Musique Copte"Dates: 1988Container: Box 4, Folder 3
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Description: "Ernest Newlandsmith's Transcriptions of Coptic Music: A Description and Critique"Container: Box 4, Folder 4
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Description: "The Good Friday Trisagion of the Coptic Church"Dates: 1999Container: Box 4, Folder 5
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Description: "The Gulezyan Manuscripts: Possible Remnants of Ancient Coptic Musical Notation"Dates: 1992Container: Box 4, Folder 6-7
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Description: "The Modern Coptic Tarnimah, 'Farahanin, Farahanin'"Container: Box 5, Folder 1
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Description: "Preserving the Coptic Musical Tradition"Container: Box 5, Folder 2
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Description: "The Reliability of the Oral Tradition in Preserving Coptic Music: A Comparison of Three Musical Transcriptions of an Extract from the Liturgy of St. Basil"Dates: 1982Container: Box 5, Folder 3
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Description: "The Reliability of the Oral Tradition in Preserving Coptic Music, Part II: A Comparison of Two Recordings of the Hymn Tenouosht"Container: Box 5, Folder 4
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Description: "The Reliability of the Oral Tradition in Preserving Coptic Music, Part III: A Comparison of Four Recordings of the Confession of Faith from the Liturgy of St. Basil"Container: Box 5, Folder 5
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Description: "Vocal Music in the Early Coptic Church"Dates: 1984Container: Box 5, Folder 6
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Description: "Which Came First, the Music or the Words?"Dates: 1986-1989Container: Box 5, Folder 7
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Description: "Festschrift" ArticleDates: 1997-2000Container: Box 5, Folder 8
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Description: "Coptic Encyclopedia" ArticlesDates: 1979; 1990-1991Container: Box 6, Folder 1-5
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Description: "Grove" ArticleDates: 1994-2000Container: Box 6, Folder 6-7
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Description: "Grove" ArticleDates: 1999-2000Container: Box 7, Folder 1
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Description: Topaz ArticleDates: 1922; 1998-2001Container: Box 7, Folder 2-6
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Description: Rocky Mountain Language Association Conference Paper PresentationDates: 1972-1973Container: Box 7, Folder 7
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"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.
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Description: CorrespondenceDates: 1996-1999Container: Box 8, Folder 1
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Description: Permission to Publish LettersDates: 1996Container: Box 8, Folder 2
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Description: Distribution ListsContainer: Box 8, Folder 3
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Description: Announcements and Order InformationContainer: Box 8, Folder 4
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Description: LDS Archival Recording ProjectDates: 1994-1995Container: Box 8, Folder 5
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Description: Leroy J. Robertson BiographiesDates: 1948-1995Container: Box 8, Folder 6-7
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Description: Friends of the University of Utah Libraries ConcertDates: 1993-1994Container: Box 8, Folder 8
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Description: Leroy J. Robertson Administrative Suite DedicationDates: 2001Container: Box 8, Folder 9
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Description: Early and final drafts for the introduction through chapter 14Container: Box 9
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Description: Early and final drafts for chapters 15-22, appendices, epilogue, and bibliographyContainer: Box 10
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Research Materials, Essays and Articles
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Description: Louis Badget, "Chants Liturgies des Coptes"Container: Box 11, Folder 1
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Description: Merrill Jenson, "Come unto Christ: The Conversion of Alma the Younger," ReviewDates: 2000-2001Container: Box 11, Folder 2
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Description: "The Music of Egypt"Dates: 1976Container: Box 11, Folder 3
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Description: Research Materials, Essays and Articles
This box contains short essays and articles, as well as many extracts. Original folder titles were photocopied and put with their correspoding contents.
Dates: 1920s-1990sContainer: Box 12
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Research Materials, Subject Files
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Description: Ancient Coptic Manuscripts, CopiesContainer: Box 13, Folder 1
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Description: Arabic Fellowship and StudiesDates: 1966-1972Container: Box 13, Folder 2-4
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Description: Aziz S. Atiya FoundationDates: 1994-2000Container: Box 13, Folder 5
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Description: Coptic Liturgy of St. BasilDates: 1990Container: Box 13, Folder 6
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Description: Coptic Music SeminarDates: 1992-1993Container: Box 13, Folder 7
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Description: Coronation of Shenuda IIIContainer: Box 14, Folder 1
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Description: Diocese of the Armenian Church of AmericaDates: 1982Container: Box 14, Folder 2
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Description: H. Aram Gulezyan MaterialsDates: 1947-1995Container: Box 14, Folder 3-4
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Description: Verlag HerderDates: 1995-1997Container: Box 14, Folder 5
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Description: International Association for Coptic StudiesDates: 1981-2001Container: Box 14, Folder 6-8
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Description: Library of CongressDates: 1995Container: Box 15, Folder 1
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Description: Ragheb Moftah Collection of Coptic Music RecordingsDates: 1992-1998Container: Box 15, Folder 2-3
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Description: Music Periodical ListingContainer: Box 15, Folder 4
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Description: "Mystery Records" DescriptionContainer: Box 15, Folder 5
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Description: Newlandsmith's Coptic Church MusicContainer: Box 15, Folder 6-8
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Description: Newland Smith's Coptic Church MusicContainer: Box 16
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Description: Newlandsmith's Coptic Church MusicContainer: Box 17, Folder 1-7
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Description: News ArticlesDates: 1940s-1990sContainer: Box 17, Folder 8
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Description: Patriarchs DatesContainer: Box 17, Folder 9
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Description: Persian MusicContainer: Box 17, Folder 10
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Description: Pilgrimages and Monks ClothingContainer: Box 17, Folder 11
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Description: Arthur ShepherdDates: 1949-1955Container: Box 17, Folder 12
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Description: Ute Indian MelodiesContainer: Box 17, Folder 13
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Description: MiscellaneousContainer: Box 17, Folder 14
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Personal and Teaching Materials
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Description: Oral History ManuscriptDates: 1978Container: Box 18, Folder 1
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Description: Ph.D. Materials
Correspondence, notes, and thesis proposal.
Dates: 1967-1970Container: Box 18, Folder 2 -
Description: Brigham Young University
Correspondence regarding faculty position.
Dates: 1972Container: Box 18, Folder 3 -
Description: University of Grenoble, NotebooksDates: 1950-1951Container: Box 18, Folder 4-5
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Description: Utah State University, NotesContainer: Box 18, Folder 6
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Description: University of Utah, Department of Languages BookletsDates: 1958Container: Box 18, Folder 7
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Teaching Materials
This series contains notes, notebooks, and outlines for classes taught and taken by Wilson.
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Description: Teaching Materials
This box contains notes, notebooks, and outlines for French classes taught by Wilson.
Dates: 1944-1969Container: Box 19 -
Description: FrenchContainer: Box 20, Folder 1
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Description: GermanContainer: Box 20, Folder 2-3
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Description: Greek TheaterContainer: Box 20, Folder 4
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Description: English DContainer: Box 20, Folder 5
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Description: Egypt StudiesDates: 1968-1969Container: Box 20, Folder 6
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Description: Music in the RenaissanceContainer: Box 20, Folder 7
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Description: Literary CriticismContainer: Box 20, Folder 8
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Description: Arabs in the Middle AgesDates: 1969Container: Box 20, Folder 9
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Description: Persian StudiesContainer: Box 20, Folder 10
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Description: Russian StudiesContainer: Box 20, Folder 11
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Thesis Materials
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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: 1970Container: Box 21 -
Description: Thesis MaterialsDates: 1970Container: Box 22, Folder 1-7
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Description: "Coptic Loan Words in Colloquial Egyptian Arabic: Their Antiquity and Prevalence"Dates: 1972; 1974Container: Box 22, Folder 8
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Description: "Le Drame au XIX Siecles"Container: Box 22, Folder 9
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Description: "Introduction au Romantisme Francais au XIX Siecle"Container: Box 22, Folder 10
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Description: "It's All Greek to Me!"Container: Box 22, Folder 11
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Description: "La Litterature du XVII Siecle"Container: Box 22, Folder 12
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General Materials
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Description: Mary Bush, "Looking Back at Mud Lake"Container: Box 23, Folder 1
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Description: Carol Pendleton, Senior Honors ThesisDates: 1972Container: Box 23, Folder 2
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Description: Jean Cocteau, Correspondence and New ArticlesDates: 1950sContainer: Box 23, Folder 3
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Description: Gerhardt Hamptmann
Essays, correspondence, and articles.
Dates: 1961-1964Container: Box 23, Folder 4 -
Description: "Coptic Encyclopedia"
Correspondence and other materials concerning publishing permissions.
Dates: 1984-1990Container: Box 23, Folder 5-6 -
Description: Coptic Research NotesContainer: Box 23, Folder 7
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Description: MiscellaneousContainer: Box 23, Folder 8
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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
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Coptic Music Materials
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Description: Correspondence
The majority of these correspondeces are exchanges with Laurence Moftah.
Dates: 1998-2008Container: Box 25, Folder 1 -
Description: Correspondence DraftsContainer: Box 25, Folder 2
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Description: Coptic Music Website EssaysDates: 2009Container: Box 25, Folder 3
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Description: Coptic Chant Recording and Text InventoriesDates: 1992; 2008Container: Box 25, Folder 4
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Description: "Guide to the Ragheb Moftah Collection of Coptic Chant Recordings"Dates: 1997Container: Box 25, Folder 5
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Description: "Guide to the Ragheb Moftah Recording of the Liturgy of Saint Basil"Dates: 2005Container: Box 25, Folder 6
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Description: "Memories of KUED's First Years"Dates: 2008Container: Box 25, Folder 7
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Description: "The Reliability of the Oral Tradition in Preserving Coptic Music, III"Dates: 1989Container: Box 25, Folder 8
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Description: "Revised Guide to the Ragheb Moftah Collection of Coptic Chant Recordings, Vol.1"Dates: 2005Container: Box 25, Folder 9
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Description: "Revised Guide to the Ragheb Moftah Collection of Coptic Chant Recordings, Vol.2"Dates: 2005Container: Box 25, Folder 10
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Description: "Table of Contents for Musical Transcriptions of Coptic Sacred Music"Dates: 1997Container: Box 25, Folder 11
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Description: Articles about Ragheb Moftah by Laurence MoftahContainer: Box 25, Folder 12
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Description: Articles by Others and Research MaterialsContainer: Box 25, Folder 13
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General Materials
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Description: "The Naming of Naomi Peak"
This is an article by Wilson that appeared in the Spring 2007 issue of History Currents.
Dates: 2007Container: 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: 1961-1967Container: 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: 1951-1963Container: Box 26, Folder 3 -
Description: French Course NotesDates: 1950-1951Container: Box 26, Folder 4
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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: 1988Container: Box 26, Folder 6
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Addendum
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Music Scores and Writings
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Description: Libera Me - A Prayer for Eternal LifeDates: 1980Container: Box 27, Folder 1
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Description: Old Things are Done AwayContainer: Box 27, Folder 2
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Description: WonderingContainer: Box 27, Folder 3
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Description: A Glad Song of LoveContainer: Box 27, Folder 4
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Description: Christmas SongContainer: Box 27, Folder 5
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Description: The Prince of Peace
This piece is not written by Wilson.
Container: Box 27, Folder 6 -
Description: "Wanda Robertson: A Teacher for All Children"Container: Box 27, Folder 7
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Oversized items
Besides the two listed folders which contained oversized scores of songs in the previous subseries, this subseries also contains 3 drawings.
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Description: Libera Me - A Prayer for Eternal LifeDates: 1980Container: Box 28, Folder 1
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Description: Christmas SongContainer: Box 28, Folder 2
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Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
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)
