Clippings and Offprints

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The material in Part A of this division of Adler's papers offers at least a suggestion of the diversity of the historian's interests. Some substantial groups of clippings, such as those connected with Beethoven, Wagner, and Mahler, clearly reflect long-standing preoccupations with individual composers. Other articles were the work of colleagues and students, and were probably saved as much for that reason as for the subjects dealt with. Thus a rigidly systematic pattern could not be followed in arranging this material. A large percentage of the clippings in the General File were at some time labelled by Adler himself, however, and the subject headings here used reflect these labels as closely as possible. Some inevitable discrepancies result, since different articles by the same person were sometimes kept for different reasons. A number of Hanslick's reviews, for example, were apparently kept because of their associations with the critic; others were saved because of the subjects about which he wrote. In such cases cross references are provided under the appropriate headings. And since the authors of many of the articles preserved were acquaintances of Adler, additional cross references are included in Part II of this inventory.

The descriptive information for each item indicates what has been preserved, and varies correspondingly. In some cases it is complete; in others gaps are found. The authors of some articles are indicated only by initials, and fuller identification remains to be established. Where possible, names of newspapers and periodicals, issue numbers, and dates have been supplied in full. If such information is not included, it is not available in the preserved material. When an article is described an "in" in a specific newspaper, rather than "from" it, the designation means that the article has been preserved in a larger part of the paper, whether a single page, a section, or an entire issue. Although not strictly speaking clippings or offprints, some pamphlets, monographs, and other similar types of publications seem originally to have been kept with this material, and are also included here.

The following "Miscellaneous Issues of Unbound Periodicals" were incorporated into the papers purely as a practical device to maintain their association with the Adler collection. Complete volumes and sets of periodicals that were acquired as a part of Adler's library were bound and catalogued in the general library of the University of Georgia. A comprehensive listing of all of the periodicals in the Adler library, including those reported here, is found in the thesis of Mary Gail Means cited in the introduction to this inventory.

For the clippings on Adler and his activities (Part III B of this section), detailed information on each individual item seemed an unnecessary luxury in terms of space. Hence only summary statements are provided, indicating the date, the work or event involved, and the total number of documents preserved. The 61 envelopes of clippings about every aspect of the Haydn-Zentenarfeier constitute by far the largest body of material in this area. In a few cases letters responding to complimentary copies of some of Adler's writings have been kept with clippings of reviews. As in other sections of this inventory, references to such letters are included under the author's name in Part II, and summary lists of correspondents are provided here.

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