Manuscript Notebooks and Untitled Music
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Boatwright, Ruth Ellington, 1914-2004
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content: Ruth Ellington Collection of Duke Ellington Materials
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content: Ruth Ellington Collection of Duke Ellington Materials / Series 1: Music Manuscripts, Scripts, and Compositional Materials
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content: undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0415, Subseries 1.4
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Consists of bound manuscript notebooks and loose manuscript pages including ones by Ellington, Strayhorn and Tom Whaley. These "sketchbooks" are particularly valuable and fragile and contain many untitled compositions. The notebooks are available to researchers with special instructions for handling. The materials are arranged by composer and then alphabetically by the title of the song.