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Document 157422
GRACE COOLIDGE. TLS: "Grace Coolidge",
1p, 7¼x10¼. Road Forks, Northampton, Massachusetts, 1947 November 14.
Letter of recommendation "To Whom it may Concern". In part:
"Robert S. Brawley, at present a member of the faculty of Smith College in
the music department, is organist and choir director at the church which I
attend, the Edwards Congregational Church of Northampton, Massachusetts...We have
a chorus choir, mainly volunteer, and he has worked diligently to inprove
(sic) the personel (sic), give balance to the voices and raise the
standard of the music...He has a pleasing personality and is well liked by the
people with whom he works...." From the Smith College website: "In 1945,
Robert S. Brawley became director [of the Glee Club] and added two more firsts
for the Glee Club: their first television appearance in November 1947 in New
York City along side Princeton, and their first record album, also in 1947, a
joint effort with Yale." BRAWLEY later directed the Hartt Schola
Cantorum, Hartford, Conn., recording an album. When MRS. COOLIDGE was 16,
she decided to become a member of the Congregational Church, changing her
affiliation from the Methodist church where her parents worshipped. Her family,
including her parents, eventually joined her church and her husband was also a
Congregationalist. After his death in 1933, Mrs. Coolidge sold their Northampton
home, the Beeches, and auctioned off the furniture, with all the proceeds going
to the Red Cross. She then built a new house (Road Forks) in Northampton, where
she wrote this letter. Lightly creased. ¼-inch diagonal slit at lower right
blank margin (all intact). Fine condition.
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