CARMICHAEL MSS.
The Carmichael mss., 1921-1955, consist of letters and papers of Hoagland Howard (Hoagy) Carmichael, 1899-1981, composer, radio artist, recording artist, and writer for Broadway shows and motion pictures.
Career: born in Bloomington, Indiana, November 22, 1899; son of Howard Clyde and Lida Mary (Robinson) Carmichael; LLB, Indiana University, 1926; married, March 14, 1936, to Ruth Mary Meinardi; composer of many hit songs; star of own radio program, Tonight at Hoagy's; own television show, Saturday Night Review, 1953; played feature role in films, To Have and to Have Not, Johnny Angel, Canyon Passage, Best Years of our Lives, Night Song; author of The Stardust Road, (New York, Rinehart and Company, Inc., [1946].)
Included in the collection are letters, 1921-1923, concerning Carmichael's college band; original draft of an undated telegram from Carmichael to Howard Allen on the occasion of a reunion of the class of 1926 of Indiana University; correspondence, 1943-1949, on the making of the motion picture, Young Man with a Horn; letters of thanks for public appearances, invitations, etc.
Other letters in 1953-1954 are those of Evelyn Gramley, Robert A. Miller, and Ora Leonard Wildermuth concerning the gift of the Wildermuth collection of Hoagy Carmichael sheet music to Indiana University. Among them is a letter of Carmichael to Mrs. Gramley, February 9, 1954, in which he assists in the compilation of his songs. For the year 1974 are found four letters from Herman B Wells and David A. Randall referring to the celebration of Carmichael's seventy- fifth birthday.
There is a folder of printed material consisting of clippings from newspapers and periodicals relating to Carmichael, programs for performances in which he took part, etc.
Correspondents represented in the collection include Leon (Bix) Biederbecke, Dwight David Eisenhower, Bob Hope, William Ezra Jenner, Patrick Anthony McCarran, Richard Milhous Nixon, Don Redman, and Herman B Wells.
Manuscripts of Carmichael's musical compositions included ar "I Love You in December," "Isle of Capri," "Ivy," "Little Old Lady," "Memphis in June," and "Music Master."
Collection size: 56 items