• Classification number: 3P
• Title of Record Series: Katharine Lee Bates
• Record Group: Faculty
• Sub Group: Individuals
• Date: April 7. 1977
• Source: existing files
• Restrictions: none
• Volume: 22 Boxes

Papers of Katharine Lee Bates; dating from 1866-1977; consisting of diaries, correspondences, musical scores, publications, scrapbooks, manuscripts, reports, memorials and tributes, memorabilia; concerning “America the Beautiful” and other writings of Katharine Lee Bates, her travels, and her life at Wellesley, Falmouth, Mass.; including material concerning Dream and Deed: The Story of Katharine Lee Bates by Dorothy Burgess, Wellesley Semi-Centennial, Sophie Jewett Ambulance.

• General: 1
• General: 2
• General: Taken from books
• Biographical Data: Pamphlets and Magazine Articles
• Biographical Data: Newspaper Articles
• Biographical Data: Pamphlets
• Bibliographies
• Wills: Caligula Lysander Bates; Jeannie Bates; Katharine Lee Bates
• Services and Memorials: Pamphlets
• Obituaries and Memorials: Newspaper Accounts

• Tributes and Memorials: Unpublished
• Poems Written About or Dedicated to Miss Bates
• Character Reference
• Honors: Undated, 1889-1925, 1949
• Dogs: General
• Wellesley Semi-Centennial
• Falmouth: Katharine Lee Bates Centennial
• Diaries: Undated
• Diary: 1866
• Diaries: 1890

• Diaries: 1893-1987, 1894
• Diaries: Caroline Hazard 1905, 1905-1926
• Diaries: 1898-1911
• Diary: 1912-1926

• Diary: 1917
• Diary: 1927-1929
• Letters to: Her Family 1890
• Letters to: Her Family: 1981-1894
• Letters to: Her Family 1898-1907, 1926

• Letters to: Katherine Andrews; Mary Sheldon Barnes; Mary Russell Bartlett; Rev. Newton Bates; Mrs. C. F. Bath; Miss Brown
• Letters to: Dorothy Wittemore Bates Burgess
• Letters to: Helen M. Cady; Mary Caswell
• Letters to: Katharine Coman 1891-1915
• Letters to: Miss Denkinger; Millie Dyer (?); Ella Smith Elbert; Nancy K. Foster; Mr. Garrison; Olga Halsey; Miss Hart
• Letters to: Caroline Hazard undated, 1903-1906
• Letters to: Caroline Hazard 1907
• Letters to: Caroline Hazard 1908-1909
• Letters to: Caroline Hazard 1910
• Letters to: Caroline Hazard 1912

• Letters to: Caroline Hazard 1913-1914
• Letters to: Caroline Hazard 1915-1923
• Letters to: Caroline Hazard 1924-1925
• Letters to: Caroline Hazard 1926
• Letters to: Caroline Hazard 1927-1929
• Letters to: Miss Hewitt; Miss Hickey
• Letters to: Louise Manning Hodgkins 1885-1889

• Letters to: Louise Manning Hodgkins 1889-1892
• Letters to: Louise Manning Hodgkins 1896-1923
• Letters to: Louise Manning Hodgkins 1924-1925
• Letters to: Louise Manning Hodgkins 1926-1929
• Letters to: Estelle May Hurll; Thomas J. Jones, Jr.; Grace Cook Kurz; Bertha Palmer Land; Editor of the Lewiston Journal; Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay; Laura E. Lockwood; Katharine Bacon McKoy
• Letters to: Jeanette A. Marks 1899-1902
• Letters to: Jeanette A. Marks 1903-1927
• Letters to: Helen Merrill; Antoinette Metcalf; Edith Metcalf; Flora Bell Mussey Metcalf; Miss Morgan; Editor of The Nation; Emily Norcross Newton
• Letters to: Helen Womersley Norcross; Katharine Norcross; Katharine Norcross; George Herbert Palmer; Caroline North Bowman Parkinson; Josephine Preston Peabody

• Letters to: Ellen Fitz Pendleton; Harriet Cummings Blake Pingree; Mrs. Howard L. Porter; Ethel Dane Roberts; Charlotte Rose; Miss Rowley
• Letters to: Vida Dutton Scudder; Frances Searle; Gertrude M. Shults; Cora Stickney; Sara Teasdale; Anna Stockbridge Tuttle; Miss Ward; Miss Wheeler; Carrie Williamson; Miss Wolcott; Mary Emma Woollsey; Mr. And Mrs. Charles Lowell Young
• Letters to: Various people from Palestine 1907; Sophie Jewett Memorial Ambulance: Sept.-Oct. 1917
• Letters from: Various people A-M
• Letters from: Various people: P-W
• Letters requesting permission to publish various poems

• “America the Beautiful”: General
• “America the Beautiful”: General Letters
• “America the Beautiful”: Letters requesting permission to print 1902-1918
• “America the Beautiful”: Letters requesting permission to print 1919-1929
• “America the Beautiful”: Letters requesting permission to print 1929-1936
• “America the Beautiful”: Letters requesting permission to print 1937-1942
• “America the Beautiful”: Letters requesting permission to print 1943-1949
• “America the Beautiful”: Letters requesting permission to print 1950-1963

• “America the Beautiful”: Letters concerning its origin
• “America the Beautiful”: Thank-you notes and letters of admiration
• “America the Beautiful”: Letters urging Miss Bates to write other anthems
• “America the Beautiful”: Letters from schoolchildren to Miss Bates
• “America the Beautiful”: Letters requesting autographed and handwritten copies
• “America the Beautiful”: Photocopies of holograph; Colorado Medals: Unit poems copies
• “America the Beautiful”: Echoes, Translations and Adaptations
• “America the Beautiful”: Newspaper copies
• “America the Beautiful”: Newspaper articles mentioning “America the Beautiful”
• “America the Beautiful”: Programs and printed copies undated
• “America the Beautiful”: Programs and printed copies 1905-1917

• “America the Beautiful”: Programs and printed copies 1918-1921
• “America the Beautiful”: Programs and printed copies 1923-1926
• “America the Beautiful”: Programs and printed copies 1927-1928
• “America the Beautiful”: Pageants making use of “America the Beautiful”
• “America the Beautiful”: Magazine articles about or containing reference to the poem undated, 1914-1915

• “America the Beautiful”: Magazine articles about or containing reference to the poem 1917-1927
• “America the Beautiful”: Magazine articles about or containing reference to the poem 1928-1946
• “America the Beautiful”: Magazine articles about or containing reference to the poem 1948-1956
• “America the Beautiful”: Magazine articles about or containing reference to the poem 1957

• “America the Beautiful”: Lists of music composers
• “America the Beautiful”: Music manuscripts A-S
• “America the Beautiful”: Music manuscripts T-W
• “America the Beautiful”: Printed copies of music B-M

• “America the Beautiful”: Printed copies of music P-W
• “America the Beautiful”: Printed copies of music W-Z and multi-composer copies
• “America the Beautiful”: National Anthem Discussion and Music Setting Contest
• “America the Beautiful”: National Anthem Discussion and Music Setting Contest newspaper clippings 1908-1926
• “America the Beautiful”: National Anthem Discussion and Music Setting Contest newspaper clippings 1927-1977
• “America the Beautiful”: Nelly Hale Root Letters concerning the poem as National Anthem

• Manuscript of Prose: Undated, 1877
• Manuscript of a Play: Undated
• Manuscript of Verse: Undated
• Manuscript of Verse: 1870-1923
• Manuscript of verse: Notebook
• Manuscript of Verse: Bound and annotated
• Manuscript of Verse: Undated, 1892, 1900, 1909, 1917, 1925
• Manuscript of Reports: 1912-1913, 1921, 1924

• Published copies of writings: Undated
• Published copies of writings: 1879-1897
• Published copies of writings: 1899-1906
• Published copies of writings: 1907
• Published copies of writings: 1908-1913
• Published copies of writings: 1914

• Published copies of writings: 1914-1921
• Published copies of writings: 1921-1927
• Published copies of writings: 1927-1946
• Reviews of Miss Bates’ Publications: Undated, 1901-1930
• Newspaper copies of writings: Undated, 1884-1928
• Book Reviews by Katharine Lee Bates: Undated, 1904-1928
• Christmas Greetings: Undated
• Christmas Greetings: Undated

• Christmas Greetings: Undated, 1904
• Christmas Greetings: 1909, 1923, 1927
• Greetings Received by Miss Bates: Undated, 1927

• Scrapbook of Writings: 1876-1885
• Scrapbook of Writings: 1886-1894
• Scrapbook of Writings: 1894-1899

• Scrapbook of Writings: 1900-1909
• Scrapbook of Writings: 1909-1916

• Scrapbook of Writings: 1916-1920
• Scrapbook of Writings: 1920-1929

• Dorothy Bates Burgess: General Correspondence
• Dorothy Bates Burgess: Correspondence from Lucile Gulliver concerning the publication of Dream and Dead
• Dorothy Bates Burgess: Correspondence from the University of Oklahoma Press concerning the publication of Dream and Dead
• Dorothy Bates Burgess: Correspondence concerning the “This Week” article and the article itself
• Dorothy Bates Burgess: Newspaper reviews and articles concerning Dream and Dead
• Dorothy Bates Burgess: Typescript of Dream and Dead Chapters 1-13
• Dorothy Bates Burgess: Typescript of Dream and Dead Chapters 14-25

• Andrews, Katherine
• Bates, Rev. Newton
• Dyer [?], Millie
• Garrison, Mr.
• Halsey, Olga
• Hart, Miss
• Hewitt, Miss
• Hickey, Miss
• Jones, Jr., Thomas S.
• Palmer, George Herbert
• Porter, Mrs. H.L. – June 11, 1923
• Shults, Gertrude M.
• Ward, Miss
• Williamson, Carrie

• Adams, Joseph – December 9, 1917
• Bacheler, Clementine – May 5, 1900; June 5, 1900
• Baker, George – November 6, 1917
• Ball, Birdie – November 11, 1926; December 16, 1927
• Baxter, Sylvester – October 21, 1921
• Branch, Anna Hempstead – November 23, 1926
• Chadwick, Edwina – February 19, 1920
• Dowden, Edward – February 12, 1913
• Eliot, Charles W. – June 19, 1900
• Farnam, Henry A. – December 29, 1924
• Gannett, W.G. – July 5, 1915
• Garrison, Wendell P. – January 16, 1898; March 21, 1898; March 25, 1898
• Habicht, Marguerite E. – January 19, 1918
• Hall, Minnie – May 11, n.y.
• Hammond, Eleanor P. – March 27, 1909
• Lee, Catherine – August 8, 1864
• Locke, Adelaide
• Mabie, Hamilton W. – February 7, 1898; March 18, 1898; April 17, 1901
• Martin, Robert G – October 13, 1921; March 18, 1922
• Maxwell, Clara D. – July 29, 1913
• Metcalf, Caroline Soule – April 26, 1922
• Metcalf, Edith – April 28, 1887; September 6, 1903; September 3, 1925, August 20, 1926
• Metcalf, John C. – November 5, 1920 (see James Wilson)
• Miller, Nellie B. – March 24, 1926
• Moore, Charlotte – March 10, 1919
• Overndorfer, Anne Faulkner
• Park, Elizabeth D.
• Park, Joseph D. – November 9, n.y.
• Parkinson, Caroline B. – April 26, n.y.
• Peterson, May C. – March 30, 1903
• Pingree, Harriet – December 23, 1927; June 14, 1928 [may be another one – page torn]
• Purrington, Geroge – November 2, 1904
• Rand, McNally & Company – March 6, 1906
• Rojas, Julio – May 15, 1899; June 11, 1899
• Russell, M.C. – May 30, 1900
• Smith, Marcia E. C. – July 24, 1926
• Stockbridge, Anna – December 3, 1927
• Stocker, Stella P. – April 5, 1922
• Tours, Professeur Lycee de – January 31, 1926
• Wallace, Charles William – March 26, 1916
• Wallace, Hilda B. – November 22, 1916