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Interview : conducted by Oliver Daniel, Sept. 13, 1978.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 382 Folder 726; Box 57, CD 170
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- Format:
- Other
- Author/Creator:
- Merrill, Evangeline Johnson, interviewee.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Interviews.
- Oral histories (literary works)
- Sound recordings.
- Transcripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 audiocassette : analog
- 1 sound tape reel : analog, 7 1/2 ips, 2 tracks, NAB standard ; 10 1/2 in., 1/4 in. tape
- digital ; 4 3/4 in.
- 18 leaves
- Contained In:
- Oliver Daniel Research Collection on Leopold Stokowski. Folder 726; Box 57, CD 170.
- Place of Publication:
- Sept. 13, 1978.
- Biography/History:
- Second wife of Stokowski.
- Summary:
- Merrill discusses a trip to India with Stokowski in 1927; a trip to Russia with Stokowski in 1928; a trip to India, Java, and Bali in 1935, including visits to Gandhi, theosophists Annie Besant and Krishnamurti, and kettle-drum specialist and physicist Jagadis Bose; and a trip to Mexico. She mentions the Heinrich Hertz Institute, Henry Eichheim, and Bill Spratling.
- Notes:
- Telephone interview recorded on Sept. 13, 1978, Palm Beach, Fla.
- Original copy: cassette tape 138; preservation copy: one 10 1/2 in. reel to reel tape 170; service copy: one compact disk CD 170. Preservation and service copies recorded December 2000.
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