Correspondence
name: label: Collection Composer
content: Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974
label: Collection Photographer
content: Yim, Ken
label: Collection Photographer
content: Rider, Doug
label: Collection Photographer
content: English, Fred
label: Collection Collector
content: McGettigan, Betty
setName: label: See more items in
content: Betty McGettigan Collection of Duke Ellington Memorabilia
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0494, Series 2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Correspondence consists of letters and notes to and from Duke Ellington, Mercer Ellington, and Betty MCgettigan, Duke Ellington memorabilia, ephemera and miscellanea (including business cards and loose files).  The letters to and from Duke include business correspondence, letters from friends and acquaintances, fan mail, birthday and Easter correspondence.  The notes to McGettigan accompanied her pay (April, 1972-January, 1974), concerned company business, or included short greetings.  Among the names on the business cards and the loose file of names and addresses were the composers Betty Jackson King and Coleridge Taylor Perkinson, and Brock Peters an actor with a beautiful singing voice.  All three are African Americans.