Guide to the Earle Gearhard Vought Collection MS.M.006

Carole McEwan; inventory added by Zoe MacLeod, 2020.
Special Collections and Archives, University of California, Irvine Libraries
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The UCI Libraries
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Contributing Institution: Special Collections and Archives, University of California, Irvine Libraries
Title: Earle Gearhard Vought collection
Creator: Vought , Earl Gearhard
Identifier/Call Number: MS.M.006
Physical Description: 10.4 Linear Feet (5 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1918-1978
Abstract: This collection mainly comprises treatises by Vought on music, literature, and Japanese poetry. There is also an 11-volume chronology of Mozart compiled by Vought, as well as various documents and publications related to U.S. political, military, and social affairs (1910s-1940s), including Upton Sinclair materials.
Language of Material: English .

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Earle Gearhard Vought collection. MS-M006. Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California. Date accessed.
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Acquisition Information

Gift of Earle G. and Florence E. Vought, 1979.

Collection Scope and Content Summary

This collection mainly comprises treatises by Vought on music, literature, and Japanese poetry. There is also an 11-volume chronology of Mozart compiled by Vought, as well as various documents and publications related to U.S. political, military, and social affairs (1910s-1940s), including Upton Sinclair materials.

box 1, folder 1

On gathering "Flowers of the narcissus": Life-experiences of a connoisseur of the aesthetic. By E. Vought and others. 1977

box 1, folder 2

Schubert chronology: The lyricism of Romantic poetry. Recordings, historical and critical texts: 71 listening-reading programs. 4 v. 3 notebooks. v. 1:Introduction. v. 2: To 1818: programs 1-27. 1941 - 1972

box 1, folder 3

Schubert chronology: The lyricism of Romantic poetry. Recordings, historical and critical texts: 71 listening-reading programs. 4 v. 3 notebooks. v. 3: 1819 - 1827: programs 28 - 60. 1941 - 1972

box 1, folder 4

Schubert chronology: The lyricism of Romantic poetry. Recordings, historical and critical texts: 71 listening-reading programs. 4 v. 3 notebooks. v. 4: 1828 (excepting great Symphony in C major): programs 61 - 69. 1941 - 1972

box 1, folder 5

Franz Schubert masterworks: Beauty for its own sake. 1976

box 1, folder 6

Masterworks of Mozart:15- program cycle. Recordings with historical and critical texts. 1974

box 1, folder 7

Haydn chronology: The final creative period, 1796 - 1803, last years and farewell. 1957 - 1971

box 1, folder 8

Baroque trinity: Handel, D. Scarlatti, J. S. Bach. 1974 - 1975

box 1, folder 9

Chopin: A musicological disc-chronology. 1915 - 1977

box 1, folder 10

Survey of German lieder: The "Central essence". 3 v. v. 1:Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, and minor contemporaries. 1967 - 1968

box 1, folder 11

Survey of German lieder: The "Central essence". 3 v. v. 2: Hugo Wolf. 1967 - 1968

box 1, folder 12

Survey of German lieder: The "Central essence". 3 v. v. 3: Mahler, Strauss, Coda, summary. 1967 - 1968

box 1, folder 13

Masterpieces for the harpsichord through its two richest centuries: 17th and 18th. Eleven programs: a graduate or post-graduate thesis outline. 1969

box 1, folder 14

Miscellaneous papers on music. [11 papers, beginning with "Artur Schnabel, on Schuburt, and on pianism generally." 1970's

box 1, folder 15

"Some impossible things--so perfectly achieved!" Lyric poetry of quality, over twenty-seven centuries. 1978

box 1, folder 16

Personal anthology of lyric world-poetry. 2 v. v. 1: Asia and Europe. 1976

box 1, folder 17

Personal anthology of lyric world-poetry. 2 v. v. 2: U.S.A., Britain, 20th century. 1976

box 1, folder 18

A modest bouquet of mediaeval Latin lyrics (Waddell translation), gathered from gardens, spanning thirteen centuries. With brief historical notes, and a Roman prelude. 1970, 1972

box 1, folder 19

Sonnet anthology: "Shadows of created beauty". 1971 - 1972

box 1, folder 20

Sappho, Orchid-perfume of poetry: songs and reconstructions. A brief personal anthology. In 2 parts. Part 1: Surviving songs and precious fragments. Part 2: Reconstructions realized by Bliss Carman. 1949 - 1971

box 1, folder 21

Emily Dickenson: Essences. A brief anthology distilled from the life, the letters, the criticism, and the poems. 4 v. v. 1: Biographical. 1976

box 2, folder 1

Emily Dickenson: Essences. A brief anthology distilled from the life, the letters, the criticism, and the poems. 4 v. v. 2: The letters. 1976

box 2, folder 2

Emily Dickenson: Essences. A brief anthology distilled from the life, the letters, the criticism, and the poems. 4 v. v. 3: The criticism. 1976

box 2, folder 3

Emily Dickenson: Essences. A brief anthology distilled from the life, the letters, the criticism, and the poems. 4 v. v. 4: Indispensible poems. 1976

box 2, folder 4

Robinson Jeffers: A brief anthology from the shorter poems. 1972

box 2, folder 5

Star-gleams and glowings from the constellation "Berenson": An inclusive Bernard Berenson anthology. 2 v. v. 1: From diaries, journals, letters, world affairs. 1977 - 1978

box 2, folder 6

Star-gleams and glowings from the constellation "Berenson": An inclusive Bernard Berenson anthology. 2 v. v. 2: Art history and criticism, general aesthetics. 1977 - 1978

box 2, folder 7

"Time ... and the river flowing" ... for the Powell centennial, 1869 - 1969. 1969

box 2, folder 8

Haiku: a brief "autobiography" of the great Japanese poetic form, the Haiku, from the fifteenth into the twentieth century. 1968 - 1972

box 2, folder 9

Anthology of Japanese nature-haiku poetry (translation). 2 v. in one notebook. 1967

box 2, folder 10

"Winnowed from the easterly winds!" Over 100 Japanese "Maple leaves": Master nature-haiku by over sixty poets selected from the abundant harvests of six centuries. 1963 - 1967

box 2, folder 11

"Four seasons": An anthology of great nature literature in prose and verse. 6 v. v. 1: Introduction. 1968

box 2, folder 12

"Four seasons": An anthology of great nature literature in prose and verse. 6 v. v. 2: Spring. 1969 - 1971

box 2, folder 13

"Four seasons": An anthology of great nature literature in prose and verse. 6 v. v. 3: Summer. 1969 - 1971

box 2, folder 14

"Four seasons": An anthology of great nature literature in prose and verse. 6 v. v. 4: Autumn. 1969 - 1971

box 2, folder 15

"Four seasons": An anthology of great nature literature in prose and verse. 6 v. v. 5: Winter. 1969 - 1971

box 2, folder 16

"Four seasons": An anthology of great nature literature in prose and verse. 6 v. v. 6: Closing volume. 1968

box 2, folder 17

Nature lyrics. 4 v. v. 1: Through nature's year with Japanese haiku poets of four centuries. 1968

box 2, folder 18

Nature lyrics. 4 v. v. 2: Through the four seasons with Emily Dickenson. 1974

box 2, folder 19

Nature lyrics 4 v. v. 3: Through the four seasons: A cycle of nature-poetry gleaned from Robert Frost. 1971

box 2, folder 20

Nature lyrics 4 v. v. 4: Nature-haiku written in English: A brief, personal selection [from] American and Canadian poets. 1973 - 1975

box 2, folder 21

"Through nature's year": lyric verse of the four seasons, Orient and Occident. (Same compilation as folders 17-20 above, contained in a single notebook.) 1968 - 1975

box 2, folder 22

"Earth's processional": Through nature's year with David Morton, 1932. Selected and arranged in seasonal chronology. 1978

box 2, folder 23

"The four sweet months": Songs and lyric of the springtide and the summer, overheard calling aloud for music, their complementary. 1933 - 1934

box 2, folder 24

"Thrush music" overheard: Notations "recorded" in prose and verse. A brief anthology (Britain and America) ... as garned through seven decades. undated

box 2, folder 25

Henry James, "Flowers of awareness": Studies in artistic creativity selected from the "Prefaces" to the New York edition. [With] Jamesian commentary by scholars. 1975

box 2, folder 26

"Novelists on novelists": Their impressions of the work of their colleagues, past and present. 1975

box 2, folder 27

"A belated journey to the studios of geological aeons: The Utah-Arizona Plateau. 1962

box 2, folder 28

Grand Canyon Views, etc. Photographs undated

box 2, folder 29

Five small books on Japanese fans, scrolls, screens, and prints. undated

box 3

Mozart chronology in 11 v., compiled by E.G. Vought. undated

box 4

Documents of the American Expeditionary Forces, Siberia Intelligence Section, (1 folder). 1918 - 1920

box 4

Documents concerned with the office of Price Administration, Price Control Board, Pomona, (4 folders). 1945 - 1946

box 4

Pamphlets, newsletters, offprints, and miscellanea relating to Upton Sinclair and the End Poverty League of the 1930s. (4 folders) Supplemented by 68 issues of the Epic news, extending (with gaps) from the v. 1 no. 24 (Nov. 5, 1934) to v. 4 no. 10 (Aug. 2, 1937), and one issue of National epic magazine (June 1936). 1934 - 1937

box 4

A miscellany of catalogs articles, photographs, etc. on the cactus. (1 folder, ca. 28 items). undated

box 5

1981 additions (oversized flat box). 1981