Rogers Memorial Collection
Subtitle: Musical and theatrical programs
Contributors: Rogers, Clara Kathleen, 1844-1931, collector; Rogers Memorial Collection
Published: 1794
Language: eng
Subjects: Concerts; Theater
Description: This collection consists primarily of programs from plays and concerts in the Boston (Mass.) area, with substantial numbers also from New York (N.Y.) and London (England). Many of these programs feature friends of Henry Munroe Rogers from the theatrical world such as Julia Marlowe, E.H. (Edward Hugh) Sothern, and Edward Smith Willard. Some also feature his wife Clara Kathleen Rogers as composer or singer.
Notes: Rogers Memorial Collection: Musical and Theatrical Programs, 1794-1937 (MS Thr 470 (1073) - (1175)). Harvard Theatre Collection, Houghton Library, Harvard University.

The Rogers Memorial Collection, of which this is Series V, contains literary and historical material relating to mid-nineteenth-century America and memorabilia concerning the English composer John Barnett (1802-1890). A master list of the Rogers Memorial Collection series can be found in HOLLIS 10104119.

Henry Munroe Rogers (1839-1937) was a Boston lawyer and a patron of local theater. He attended Harvard College (A.B. 1862; L.L.B. 1867) and served as a paymaster in the United States Navy during the Civil War. He became a successful Boston lawyer and a charter member in the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. After his marriage in 1878 to the English opera singer Clara Kathleen Barnett (daughter of the English composer John Barnett), the couple entertained many theatrical, literary and musical luminaries in their home.

In English.

Electronic finding aid available http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:hou01906

Unpublished printed finding aid available in the Harvard Theatre Collection Reading Room.

For a description of the Rogers Memorial Collection, see The Rogers Memorial Room : an account of the nature, origin, and significance of the memorabilia presented to Harvard College in 1930 by Clara Kathleen & Henry Munroe Rogers ([Boston] : Cosmos Press, 1935).