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Collection Information
Size: 0.2 Linear feet
Summary: The letter collection of soprano Susan Metcalfe and cellist Pablo Casals collected by George Moore contains 53 items and dates from 1915 to 1918.
Susan Metcalfe and Pablo Casals letter collection, 1915-1918
Moore, George P.
Collector, Educator, Musician
Biographical/Historical Note
Susan Metcalfe Casals (1878-1959), mezzo-soprano, was the first wife of the renowned Spanish cellist, Pablo Casals (1876-1973). They married in 1914 and divorced in 1957. The couple often socialized with Lydia Field Emmet in New York and with her sister Jane de Glehn in England. Metcalfe shared a property with Lydia at "Strawberry Cottage" in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
Provenance
The Susan Metcalfe and Pablo Casals letter collection was purchased by George P. Moore, a cellist and music professor at the University of Southern California in 1982 and donated to the Archives of American Art in 1996. Moore continued to delve further into Casals' life and his associations with Lydia Field Emmet and the Emmet family.
Language Note
English .
