Indiana University Finding Aids

Golden Family Collection

 
Series: William Echard Michael Goldern (Jun 9, 1865-Mar 26, 1930)  

 
Subseries: Correspondence,  1888-1930  

Box 6  
Correspondence, 1888-1894  24 items; 1 folder
 
Scope Note: Enquires re plays; congratulations from Indiana University faculty on Hearts award; to Augustin Daly; exchange of letters re job at Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute; exchange wth Lyceum Theatre re play Blue Bells
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Correspondence, 1900-1910  19 items; 1 folder
Scope Note: Trip to Europe; card-photo of Maclure Park with birches
 
Correspondence, 1914-1919  11 items; 1 folder
Scope Note: Electricity installed in Golden home; Harry Robinson's death, Dec 1918; March 1919 letters of Bella's illness and death.
 
Correspondence, 1925-1926  24 items; 1 folder
Scope Note: to Frances: exchange of letters between them re daily life, work, cultural events attended; plays in New York and his opinion about them
 
Correspondence, 1927 Jan-Jun  20 items; 1 folder
Scope Note: to Frances: keen observations on contemporary stage - players, plays, audiences (vulgar) prices (high); Roxy's new theatre and new Ziegfeld theatre; Charles Lindbergh'sfeat.
 
Correspondence, 1927 Jun-Aug  23 items; 1 folder
Scope Note: To family re European travels: Scotland, England, Holland, Belgium; observations on new social styles (smoking by women and cocktails); visits to "dukeries"; visit to Rosamond Dale Owen Templetonand Daisy Owen Clarke: he and Cary boys traveled first class and visited all appropriate tourist spots. Remainder of letters to Frances in Brooklyn ; description of opera "Turnandot" with Maria Jeritza
 
1927  - Postcards  35 items; 1 folder
Scope Note: From European trip; most have incomplete dating; mainly to brother Martin; many not sent through mails.
 
Correspondence, 1928-1929  25 items; 1 folder
Scope Note: To Frances: social activities; theatrical news - Katherine Cornell, Helen Gahagan, Gertrude Lawrence, Roland Hayes, Will Rogers; Ravels new waltz, '"Bolero", Strange Interlude, Journey's End and other war plays; school activities with students and faculty, families and alumni
 
Correspondence, 1930  17 items; 1 folder
Scope Note: Undated - to Frances: death of brother Martin; bad economic situation for banks and status of New Harmony bank; last letter he wrote before death
 
Postcards  44 items; 1 folder
Scope Note: mainly from Brooklyn Polytechnic School for boys - approx. 1907-1918. Not arranged
 
Greeting and Souvenir Cards  21 items;1 folder
 
Subseries: Personal Papers, 1874-1929  

Box 7  
Personal Papers, 1874-1894  29 items; 1 folder
 
Scope Note: School papers (New Harmony, Indiana University, Columbia) and career (New Harmony, Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute).
 
Personal Papers, 1898-1929  13 items; 1 folder
 
Scope Note: Poetry. "Midsummer Night's Dream", passport, health report.
 
Knights of Pythias, lecture & notes  

 
"Thomas Lodge", poem  

 
Handwritten "The Counting" by James Russell Lowell  

 
Typed October 1898  "The Counting" By James Russell Lowell  

 
Honorary Alpha Delta Tau membership ceritificate  

 
The Polygon, December 1922 , article about William E. Golden, 25 years of teaching  

 
Death and Estate Papers, 1930  16 items; 1 folder
 
Letter from Frances Golden, April 1930   

 
Draft of letter from Frances Golden, April 1930   

 
Letter from Brooklyn Trust Company to Frances Golden, May 1930   

 
Memorial from Polytech Preparatory to Frances Golden  

 
Letter from Brooklyn Trust Company to Frances Golden, June 1930   

 
Letter from Brooklyn Trust Company to Frances Golden, July 1930   

 
List of articles desired by Frances Golden from William E. Golden's estate  

 
Letter from Brooklyn Trust Company to Frances Golden, August 1930  

 
Letter from Brooklyn Trust Company to Frances Golden, August 1930  

 
Letter from Brooklyn Trust Company to Frances Golden, October 1930  

 
Cremation certificate  

 
Property transfer note  

 
Newspaper clipping, William E. Golden's estate  

 
Subseries: Writings  

Box 7  
Writings, 1885-1888  7 items; 1 folder
 
Scope Note: While a student at Indiana University
 
"Ciriticism"  

 
"Facts", 1886   

 
"The newspaper", 1886   

 
"Philomathean Society", 1886   

 
"Ruy Blas", 1887   

 
Incomplete untitled writing, 1888   

 
Incomplete, "Temperance Literature"  

 
"Caroline, A Story"  71 p.; 1 folder
 
Writings  5 items; 1 folder
 
Scope Note: "An Introduction to English History", "Sweet Charity", "Biography of Adam North", poetry.
 
"An introduction to English history"  

 
"Sweet Charity"  

 
"Chapter 3"  

 
"Biography of Adam North"  

 
Poetry  

 
Poetry  

 
Writings, 1929  1 item; 1 folder
 
Scope Note: History of the Golden Family - "The Goldens."
 
"The Goldens" A History of the Golden family"  

 
Benedict Arnold, 1896  28 items; 1 folder
 
Scope Note: Printed plays, research material, contracts, programs, reviews and clippings.
 
Benedict Arnold, with notes  

 
Notes  

 
Play contract for Benedict Arnold, November 1895   

 
Play contract for Benedict Arnold, December 1895   

 
Contract draft, May 1895   

 
Play contract for Benedict Arnold,May 1895   

 
Newspaper clipping, Benedict Arnold, 1895   

 
Fifth Avenue Theatre program, December 1895   

 
Park Theatre program, January 1896   

 
Newspaper clipping, "Benedict Arnold" & Echard Golden  

 
Hearts, 1892  14 items; 1 folder
Scope Note: Printed play, programs, clippings.
 
Play Copyrights, 1886-1890  9 items; 1 folder
 
Subseries: Bound Manuscripts  

Box 7  
Notebook, covers 1835-1911, Written ca. 1911 .   47 p. utilized; 20 x 25 cm.; 1 folder
 
Scope Note: Lives of Martin and Bella Golden up to the celebration of their 50th weddings anniversary on Aug 25, 1911. Written by W.E.M. Golden.
 
 
Autograph Book, 1877-1879  112 p. (many blank); 14 x 9 cm.
Scope Note: Messages mainly for "Willia" although book may have been begun by Bella.
 
Scrapbook1889-1892    33 p. utilized; 17 x 21 cm.
Scope Note: The contents, largely correspondence and clippings deal with: a. reviews of Will's play, Hortense, 1889; b. his Brief History of the English Drama , 1890, articles and reviews; c. reviews of his prize play Hearts , 1892
 
Addresses and Phone Numbers, ?-1924  80 p.; 8 x 13 cm. Papers laid in.
Scope Note: Mainly New York and New Jersey persons.
Box 7  
Subseries: Clippings, 1881-1930   15 items; 1 folder
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Box 7  
Subseries: Photographs   5 items; 1 folder
 
Scope Note: Mainly unidentified people and houses