Susan Metcalfe and Pablo Casals letter collection
name: label: Creator
content: Moore, George P.
label: Names
content: Casals, Pablo, 1876-1973
label: Names
content: Emmet, Lydia Field, 1866-1952
label: Names
content: Metcalfe-Casals, Susan, 1878-1959
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: 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.
creator: label: Creator
content: Moore, George P.
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content: Susan Metcalfe and Pablo Casals letter collection
abstract: label: Summary
content: The letter collection of soprano Susan Metcalfe and cellist Pablo Casals collected by George Moore contains 53 items and dates from 1915 to 1918.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Susan Metcalfe Casals (1878-1959), mezzo-soprano, was the first wife of the renowned Spanish cellist, Pablo Casals (1876-1973).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.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.2 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1915-1918
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.moorgeor
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Due to the small size of this collection the letters are arranged as one series.
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: The collection was processed by Jean Fitzgerald in 2002. A finding aid was written by Caroline Donadio in 2018.
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: The collection is available on 35mm microfilm reel 5743 in Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan. Researchers should note that the arrangement of the material described in the container inventory does not reflect the arrangement of the collection on microfilm.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The letter collection of soprano Susan Metcalfe and cellist Pablo Casals collected by George Moore contains 53 items and dates from 1915 to 1918.

The collection consists primarily of letters from Susan Metcalfe Casals to her husband, Spanish cellist, Pablo Casals. Metcalfe wrote from New Rochelle, New York, New York City, and Stockbridge, Massachusetts., to Casals in New York, London, Spain, and other locales. The letters reflect the tempestuous nature of their marriage. Also included are drafts of three letters from Casals to Metcalfe; three from Metcalfe's mother and brother to Casals mother, Pilar, chastising Casals on his behavior toward his wife; and one letter from Lydia Field Emmet to Casals.