Folder 70: “Materials for Whitman opera” , circa 1885-1997

Book; Voodoo in New Orleans by Robert Tallant, Pelican Publications, 1983

Article; “Voodoo (A chapter from “The French Quarter: An Informal

History of the New Orleans Underworld” by Herbert Asbury, Garden City 1983, 254, stapled

Article; Neo-African Religious and Ancestral Cults, author and publication information unknown, annotated by Pfeil

Article; Minstrel Gags and End Men’s Handbook (c. 1875, New York), author and publication information unknown, annotated by Pfeil

Notes; 4 Sheets, typed, stapled

Notes; “Blacking up”

Notes; “Gentelmen, be seated”

E-mail from Ron Thomas to Fred, 10/22/97, important request

Email from Margaret Lee (Assistant literary editor of the Nation Magazine), 10/21/97, ‘Fed Pfeil’ (concerning a review Pfeil wrote)

Notes: 8 sheets, typed/printed, stapled with marginalia in ink

Notes: “Whitman the Political Poet’ by Betsy Erkkila, NY, Oxford UP, 1989

E-mail from Ann August to Pfeil, October 23, 1997

E-mail from Ann August to Pfeil, October 23, 1997

E-mail from Ann August to Pfeil, October 30, 1997

E-mail from Trysh Travis to Pfeil, October 29, 1987

E-mail from Jan Cohn, October 6, 1997

Production notes, typed and handwritten

Email from Pfeil to Peter Gyorgy, October 10, 1997

Article; The Formation of Afro-Crede Culture by Gwendolyn Midlo Hall from Creole New Orleans: Race and Americanization, A R Hirsch and J Logsdon, eds, Louisiana University Press, 1992, p. 56; Note: Pfeil’s papers only contains pages 56, 59-87 of article

Article; “The Collected Writings of Walt Whitman” pp. 604-610, 773

Open letter to Cambridge Springs Administration from the Move Organization (concerning the case of Merle Africa, and imprisoned woman who was abused in prison), 6 pgs, typewritten, stapled; 2/10/1996

Map; New Orleans, French Quarter highlighted

Email from Michael Niemann to Fred. September 27, 1997, text of “Legba”/ D. Beaubruen

Notes; 9 sheets, typed/printed, stapled

Notes; “Queen New Orleans: City by the River” by Harnett T. Kane, NY: Bonanza Books, 1949

Notes; “The French Quarter: An Informal History of the New Orleans Underworld” by Herbert Asbury, NY: Garden City Pull, 1938

E-mail from Sara Raskin to Pfeil, October 20, 1997

E-mail from Peter Gyorgy to Pfeil, September 26, 1997

E-mail from Mary Q Foote to Pfeil, October 9, 1997

E-mail from Ron Thomas to Pfeil, October 9, 1997

E-mail from Sarah Raskin to Pfeil, October 22, 1997

E-mail from Mary Q Foote to Pfeil, October 25, 1997

Email from Ann August to Pfeil, October 28, 1997

Notes; 10 sheets, typed, stapled

Notes; “Voodoo in New Orleans” by Robert Tallant

Notes; “Fabulous New Orleans by Lyle Saxon

Notes; “Neo-African Religions and Ancestral Cults”

E-mail from John Pfeil to Pfeil, October 10, 1997

Letter to Pfeil from Putnam Brodie Remington June 5, 1997 and catolog of books--Gill, James, Lords of Misrule: Mardi Gras and the politics of race in New Orleans; Corsan, W.C. English merchant

E-mail from Ron Thomas to Pfeil, October 23, 1997

E-mail from Margaret Lee to Pfeil, October 23, 1997

E-mail from Sarah Raskin to Pfeil, October 23, 1997

Notes; 21 sheets, typed, loose

Notes; “Walt Whitman’s America – A Cultural Biography” by David S. Reynolds, NY: Knopf, 1995

Article; “Voodoo take this man?” by Damian Fowler with photographs of James Rexroad from the Independent Saturday Magazine (report on a voodoo wedding)

Article; “The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman,” pp. 180-229

Article; “The Collected Writings of Walt Whitman,” pp. 27-36

Article; “Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman,” pp. 62-91, annotated by Pfeil

Sketches for a poem; “Bone-white marrow…” 6 versions in ink

Notes; BUNRAKU handwritten notes in a notepad, related to voodooism and Whitman in New Orleans

Poem; “Stand behind me now,” handwritten

Articles; “The Evolution of the Minstrel Show” and “Images of Negroes in Antebellum Minstrelsy”/ Chapter 2+3. “Backing up The Minstrel Show in Nineteenth Century America” by Robert Toll, NY: Oxford UP, 1974, pp. 24-103, photocopy, stapled

Article; “This Grotesque Essence – Plays from the American Minstrel Stage” by Gary D. Engle, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University

Press, 1978, pp, 2-49. (Plays discussed: “Oh, hush!” or, the virgining cupids,” “The Challenge Dance,” “De Cream ob Tenors,” “The Quck Doctor,” “Scampini”)