Frieda Peycke (born in Omaha, Nebraska in 1884 and died in Los Angeles, California in 1964) was a pianist, composer, and performer who rose to prominence in the early 20th century as a diseuse. Peycke wrote and performed her own musical settings for popular poetry and prose of the time. A diseuse is defined as a female who performed monologues; however, she rejected the labels of both elocutionist and monolinguist and billed herself instead as a “Pianist, Composer, Interpreter” whose compositions were “Musically Illustrated Readings – Music that Speaks – Poems that Sing.” She toured across the United States as a solo performer doing her own material during much of the first half of the 20th century. During this same time, dozens of her compositions spent several decades in print for leading musical publishers. In her later years, she slowed her performance schedule and focused instead on instruction of her many students in piano, composition, and musical readings.
Peycke began training as a concert pianist at a young age and, after relocating to Los Angeles in her early twenties began composing her own musical material in earnest at the urging of her mentor, Fred C. Gamble. Her decade long friendship and mentorship of Fred C. Gamble’s son, Frederick Gamble, shaped much of this collection as nearly all the correspondence is addressed to him and the collection itself was acquired from him. Peycke typically began her compositions by finding contemporary popular poetry and prose written by others that appealed to her and then writing piano music that could accompany a reading of the material. Her vocal performances then struck a balance between singing and elocution that was her own unique style that she was able to popularize and spread to other performers of the time.
Peycke was also active in civic and religious matters throughout her time in Los Angeles. She was an advocate for and frequent performer at the Hollywood Bowl. She was a member of and former president of both the Hollywood Community Sing and The Dominant Club.
Peycke was married, in her middle age, to George Holman, a widower from Texas whose children were fully grown at the time of their nuptials. Holman died shortly after their marriage.
Series 1, Correspondence (1914-1964). Handwritten and typed letters from Frieda Peycke, primarily addressed towards her pupil and friend, Frederick Gamble over the date range from 1934 to 1964, but with some additional miscellaneous correspondence as well. The parenthetical numbers used for correspondence match with numbers written physically on the materials by Frederick Gamble. All correspondence is from Frieda Peycke to Frederick Gamble unless noted.
Series 2, Printed/Published Sheet Music by or related to Frieda Peycke (1908-1949). Commercially published sheet music that was authored by Frieda Peycke as the musical composer. This series includes individual pieces arranged predominantly in alphabetical order with collections containing multiple pieces arranged in chronological order.
Series 3, Handwritten Sheet Music by or related to Frieda Peycke (1907-1936). Handwritten sheet music manuscripts, with individual manuscripts arranged predominantly in alphabetical order and notebooks arranged in a pre-assigned numerical order. Religious and piano only are grouped separately. Additionally, there are some pieces by other authors that are dedicated to Frieda Peycke. The vast majority of these pieces are undated.
Series 4, Recorded Music by or related to Frieda Peycke (1948-1979). Audio recordings made by Frieda Peycke and recordings of her music performed by Frederick Gamble. Included are original vinyl master recordings and CD copies of these same recordings.
Series 5, Ephemera and Miscellaneous Material (1914-1982). This series consists of musical performance programs, flyers, press clippings, articles authored by Frieda Peycke, a book with chapters about Frieda Peycke, biographical documents, photographs, and other miscellaneous material.
Some of the material contains racist and offensive language.
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Frieda Peycke Papers, Ms.2020.003, Brown University Library.
Arranged in five series.
Gift of sheet music and notebooks by Marguerite T. Schmidt in 1982; correspondence and ephemera donated by Frederick Gamble in October 1984.
Publications citing this collection:
KIMBER, M. W. (2017). The Elocutionists: Women, Music, and the Spoken Word. University of Illinois Press.
All Correspondence is from Frieda Peycke to Frederick Gamble unless noted. Some of the material contains racist and offensive language.
Includes annotations from Frederick Gamble
Some of the material contains racist and offensive language.
Angelina (2 copies), T.S. Denison & Company, 1928, Paul Lawrence Dunbar
The Annual Protest, Harold Flammer, 1921, Anonymous.
The Barnacle, Willis Music Co., 1928, A.P. Herbert
A Barnyard Fable, Harold Flammer, 1923, Capitol Calcutta
The Brat, Clayton F. Summy, 1922, James Clarence Harvey
The Brothers, Harold Flammer, 1921
The Child Next Door, Clayton F. Summy, 1923, Rose Fyleman
The Christmas Spirit, Theodore Presser, 1936, Homer Hatfield Rhodes
Chums, Clayton F. Summy, 1919, James W. Foley
Comfort, Clayton F. Summy, 1922 (with signed note from F.P. to Marguerite Schmidt), Robert W. Service
The Canary, Clayton F. Summy, 1924, Rose Fyleman
Christmas Eve, Theodore Presser, 1936, Jocelyn C. Lea
The Delusion of Ghosts, Oliver Ditson, 1927, James W. Foley
Doughnutting Time, Oliver Ditson, 1927, James W. Foley
Epidemics, Theodore Presser, 1949, Anne Campbell
The Fly in Church, G. Schirmer, 1931, Jocelyn C. Lea
Friendly Enemy (x2), Clayton F. Summy, 1948, Edith Stubbs Parker
The Family Album, G. Schirmer, 1931, Dorothy D. Miles
Friends of Mine, Harold Flammer, 1923, James W. Foley
Husbands (x2), Clayton F. Summy, 1942, Edgar A. Guest
How Time Flies, Clayton F. Summy, 1919, Anon.
I’m Glad to See You, G. Schirmer, 1931, Edmund Vance Cooke
If You Want to Live, Clayton F. Summy, 1925, Topeka Capitol Newspaper
It’s a Funny Old World, Eldridge Entertainment House, 1933, Anonymous
James, Clayton F. Summy, 1921, Elizabeth Gordon
Kris Kringle, Lorenz, 1928, Thomas Bayley Aldrich
Lil Pup, Clayton F. Summy, 1927, Maurine Hathaway
The Little Gate-Bed, Clayton F. Summy, 1927, Anne Campbell
Lost, Theodore Presser, 1933, Arthur Guiterman
Mah Lil’ Bit Sistah, Clayton F. Summy, 1919, Elizabeth Gordon
Modern Youth (x2), Theodore Presser, 1943, Angela Crispin
A Mortifying Mistake (x2), Theodore Presser, 1943, Anna Maria Pratt
My Bonnet, Willis Music Co., 1929, Anon.
My House, Willis Music Co., 1929, Ed. Stone
My Skates, Theodore Presser, 1936, Florence E. Eakman
My Mother, T.S. Denison & Co., 1930, Ann Zuker
A Name for a Boy, T.S. Denison & Co., 1929, Anon.
Never Say Die, Theodore Presser, 1927 (with handwritten note from F.P. to Nada Haley), Maurine Hathaway
The Night After Christmas, Theodore Presser, 1922, Mrs. John T. Van Sant
O’er and O’er, Clayton F. Summy, 1926, James Montague
Oh Henry! What Is It?, Clayton F. Summy, 1922, James W. Foley
One Morning in May (x2), Lorenz Publishing Co., 1923, Hazel Harper Harris
Over in Germany (words by Hugo A. Hamilton), Peycke Publishing, 1908 (3x copies)
The Penalty, Clayton F. Summy, 1930, Charlotte Canty
Prayer for Jimmy Banks (x2), Theodore Presser, 1943, James W. Foley
A Rainy Night, Lorenz Publishing Co., 1928, James W. Foley
Rejected, Clayton F. Summy, 1927, Burgess Johnson
The Reward of the Cheerful Candle, Clayton F. Summy, 1920, Mary Morstell
Rose Marie (x2), Lorenz Publishing Co., 1928, M.F.W. in Des Moines
Sister Mary Ann Has Got the Measles, Theodore Presser, 1933, Anonymous
Somedays, Clayton F. Summy, 1925, Rose Fyleman
Spring Gardening, Theodore Presser, 1927, Harry James Beardsley
The Sugary Shipwrecked Zoo, Harold Flammer, 1926, Mrs. John T. Van Sant
A Stray Letter, Theodore Presser, 1927, Mrs. John T. Van Sant
Sweet Pea Bonnets, Clayton F. Summy, 1920, Ada Potter Wiseman
Thanksgiving Guests (x2), Clayton F. Summy, 1920, Lannie Haynes Martin
Timothy, Clayton F. Summy, 1924, Rose Fyleman
The Tattle-tale Bird, Willis Music Co., 1928, Fannie D. Stedman
To a New Little House, Clayton F. Summy, 1927, Rosanna Bleecker
To Our Fair-Weather Salesmen, Clayton F. Summy, 1933, Anonymous
There’s a Dark Little Room in My Heart (words by G. Carl Bronson)
What’s in a Name, Lorenz Publishing Co., 1937, Dorothy Miles
Laurel Songs Series by Frieda Peycke Vol. 2, 1909
Contains: A Streaming Sunbeam (words by F.P.), Castles in Spain (words by Hugo A. Hamilton), Crocus Time (words by anon.), One Little Weed (words by H.AH.), A Finland Love Song (words by Thomas Moore)
Laurel Song Series by Frieda Peycke “Musical Dots for Tiny Tots” Vol. III, 1912 (2x copies)
Contains: The Toymaker, The Cuckoo Bird, Tick-Tock, Boom! Boom! Boom!, See-Saw, The Telephone Bell, Little Ah Joy, The Eskimo, The Locomotive, I’d Like To Be a Bird (all with words by Hugo A. Hamilton
Some of the material contains racist and offensive language.
Advice You Get From Friends
Advertising
After School
Age
All You Need is Money
America, My Home
An Office
At School
A Baby’s Bed Time
Balloons are Lovely
The Blacksmith / A Good Day To You / Try, Try Again / Summer’s Coming
A Boy’s Dad
A Boy’s Secret
Bridges
By What Subtle Means?
California
A Candy Calamity
The Captain and the Mate
The Carpenter
The Carrier’s Cart
Cart Wheels in May
The Chauffeur
Courtesy
Christmas Gifts
Critics (x2)
Count Your Blessings
The Cuckoo Birds
Daddy’s Sweetheart
The Dancing Bear’s Visit to the Children
Depression Note
The Disposition Doctor
Don’t Monkey
Dishodragorishis
A Divine Command
Down on the Coral Strand
Do Something
Dress in School
His Dog
Ducky-Daddle
Fairies
Fairy Antics
Finis
Fireflies (x2)
First Date
The Foolish Fir Tree (words by Henry Van Dyke) (in fragile condition) with Xerox of above
A Garden Romance
The Gardeners
The Gay Little Ticker on my Wrist
A Giraffe’s Eccentric Dance
God Loves You Dear
Good Counsel (x2)
Good Morning (x2)
A Graceful Lady on a Tight-Rope
Hans and Gretchen at the Fair
Having Company
He Tol’ Me to Meet Him Heah
Help!
Helping Mother
Henry, Oh Henry, He’s Choiman, Too (?)
Her Answer
Home Songs (words by E.G.)
Honk! Honk!
How to Preserve a Husband
Humanity
Humming Bird
I Haven’t a Thing to Wear
If We Only Could!
In Passing
The Indefatigable Oyster
Indignant
An Invitation
Journey’s End
It
Just Christmas
The Kingfisher
The Lady-Bugs Dress
A Letter to Gram (or a Feller’s Best Friend) (with xerox copy of typed A Letter to Gram From Teddy)
A Lie
The Lonely Little Button
Lighted Windows
The Little Black Dog and the Little White Cat (words by Elizabeth Gordon)
Little Duties
The Little Lights of Christmas
Lost Illusions
Love is Blind?
Love Lights
Look at the Duck
Maybe
The Merchant
Merry Christmas (x2)
A Mile With Me
Moonshine (x2)
The Mother is Rocking Her Baby (x2)
Morning Song
Mother Dear
Mt. Fujiyama
My Cat
My Dog
My Kingdom
My Lady’s Eyes
Mrs. Jones Goes to Europe
My Submarine Ship
Neighbors
Now Wasn’t That Just Like a Man
A Nymph for an Hour
The Old Grey Spider (x2)
On a Moonlight Night in June (with typed lyrics on blue paper)
On the Day I Get to Heaven
Once I was a Bachelor
Optimists
Out Where the West Begins
Over the Garden Wall (with typed words on a separate sheet)
Partners: Life and I
Pick Up Yo’ Feet (x2)
Pussy Wants a Corner
The Point of View
The Plumber (x2)
Pop Corn Play
The Poppy and The Peach
Ram Joy
The Rancher
Recipe for the Christmas Pudding
The Redheaded Woodpecker
A Reflection at Sea
Recompense
Regarding the Apple
Retired
The Rooster’s Song
The Rose and the Buttercup
The Rose in the Old Dinner Pail
Saturday: A Boy’s Opinion
A Sea Romance
Sing to Me With Your Eyes (words by H.G. Hamilton)
Sing to Me (words by H.G. Hamilton)
The Small Mother
Sleep Baby Sleep
Some Summer Vacations
Somebody Told Me
A Song of Good Habits
The Sound of Japan
The Story of the Antelope
The Story of the Codfish and the Whale (with typed lyrics on blue paper)
Superstitions
Specialties
Summer’s Coming!
Sunset Glow on Snow
The Tale of a Whale
Tame Duck
That’s Me
There’ll Be No Tipping There (with typed lyrics on blue paper)
There’s a Dark Little Room in My Heart (words by G. Carl Bronson)
They Were All Doing The Same (x2)
Things (x2)
The Thistle Fairies
This Day will Bring Some Lovely Thing
The Toadstool and the Acorn
Today
A Two-Toed Tree Toad
The Twin Seeds
Ups and Downs
Wasted Morning
We Have a Little Singing Bird
Wave Patterns on Sand
We Thank Thee
Weeding the Garden (x2)
The Weather Man
Why the Cat-Bird Is
What a Rabbit Thinks
When Children Play
When Sweetheart Becomes Wife
Wishful Waiting
A White Rose Blooms and Grows
A Zamboanga Boy with His Kite
Painting Song and A Harvest Frolic (words by E.G.)
One Page Home Songs (words by E.G.)
The Little Brook
The Sea World
The Lady Bug’s Dress
Home Songs
Short Songs (words by E.G.)
May Day Song
Home Songs b/w My Hen
A Southern Croom b/w How I Make My Garden
The Shoemaker, Helping Mother, The Sandman, Ready for Bed, Mother’s a Pretty Lady, Miss Dandelion, Daddy’s Coming, The Cricket’s Song, Moo-Moo, The Old Hand-Organ Man, Grasshopper Grey, The North Wind
The Shower, Morning Glory Children
Songs without Piano
Marching Song, Flag Song
Over in Germany
Separate pages for Voice, Trombone, Flute, Bass, Violin, Cello, Clarinet
Little Con
With Typed Monologues on blue paper
All items are handwritten manuscripts dedicated TO Frieda Peycke unless otherwise noted
An American Ace, Scene Dramatique, The Poem by James Church Alvord, The Music by Frederick Stevenson, The Wilmford Music Company, 1909
Written dedication: To Frieda Peycke, Any Puccini-type Pupie (?) , from Frederick Stevenson, May 6, 1919
God Smiled Upon the Desert, Words by Elizabeth Gordon, Music by Charles Wakefield Cadman
Written dedication: To My good Friend Frieda Peycke
The Maid and the Moon, Words by Kate Simpson-Hayes, Music by Homer Grunn
Written dedication: To Frieda Peycke
All items are handwritten manuscripts with music by Frieda Peycke unless otherwise noted
And He Healed Them (words by Frederick L. Knowles)
A Divine Command (words by Stokes Anthony Bennett) x2
Every Good Gift (words by The Scriptures)
Here in the Hush (words by Laura Gerahty) x2
I Say Unto Thee Watch (words by Bible)
My Prayer (words by Harry Beardsley)
Proof? (words by Nautilus Magazine)
All items are handwritten manuscripts with music by Frieda Peycke unless otherwise noted
Advance Preparatory Chord and Arpeggio Study for Fairy Frolics
After School Frolics
Bonree d’Arvergal
California
The Dance
Happy Vacation Days
Heigh Ho!
Playing Marbles
I See You! (x2)
I’m A Living (x2)
Minuet en Miniature, Follow The Leader, My First Dancing Party, Hippity-Hop to School We Go
Nights of Music (words by Thomas Moore)
The Songs of the Wind (words by Margaret Stewart)
Easy Piano Pieces by Frieda Peycke, W.H. Willis & Co., 1907
Tarantella, The Chase, Dolly’s Waltz, Good Night
Follow the Leader
The Sunbeams are Kissing Each Other Goodnight (words by Amy Churchill)
Vacation Frolics
Wistful April
File card content is slightly inconsistent with actual contents of notebooks as they appear to be based off the listings on the covers, which do not always match the actual contents. The below listings reflect the actual contents of the notebooks to the best of my knowledge
Fairy Antics
My Phantom Lover
Things
Pop-Corn Play
Tomorrow
The Best that I Can
Today
Love and Each Day (with clippings of typed words)
All’s Well
The Expert
The Milk Horse
I Like Men
The Secret Place
The Fly in Church
The Penalty
Birdeen to Her Grandmother
The Christmas Spirit
The Child in the Garden
Ah, Little House
Every Good Gift (Is From Above)
Playing Leap Frog
Ping Pong Chatter
Wave Patterns on the Sand
Come Out and Play (Chord Study for Left Hand)
Allegretto Caprice
The Gay Little Ticker on My Wrist
Woodland Echoes
Hop, Hop!
Indian Festival Dance
Up in a Swing
Galloping Hunting Horses
Bouncing Ball
A Little Prayer
Vacation Fun
Retired
The Gardeners
Every Good Gift
A Divine Command
I Say Unto Thee, Watch
A Divine Command
And He Healed Them
The Secret Place
A Thought at Christmas
The Naughty Little Clock
Lullaby
OO OO Boogy-Boo
The Lost Child (x2, one on loose sheets)
The Spirit Flower (A White Rose)
Tulips and Your Lips
Memory’s Garden
The Secret Place (crossed out)
Smiles
There’s a Dark Little Room in My Heart
Roses Red and White
Love’s First Edition
Tree Number Three (words by Dr. Seuss)
To a Husband
Santa Claus Comes
Help
A Corner of My Heart
Untitled Instrumental
A Nymph for an Hour
The Lure of the Desert Land
Pinewood Fairies (Paul Bliss)
Untitled Instrumental (3/2/1959)
Company
The Carpenter
Indignant
A Tragedy of Aches
Some Summer Vacations
The Last Trick
The Brothers
Sonny
Limericks
Prayer for Jimmy Banks
Woes of a Boy
Lil Mistah Love
The Annual Protest
The Happy Boy
Humanity
The Road Not Taken (words by Robert Frost)
What The Boy Said
Cheer Up, Honey
Kris Kringle (A Christmas Gift)
Thanksgiving Guests
Out Where the West Begins
When Tulips Bloom
Sister Mary Ann Has Got the Measles
Weeding in the Garden
The Chauffer
A Song of Good Habits
Courtesy
Good Counsel
My Kingdom
Helping Mother
Cake Making
Dress in School
The Rancher
The Merchant
Thanksgiving
Do Something
Come Dance and Sing
Lullaby
How Time Flies
Mah Lil Bit Sistah
About Clocks
The Little Wild White Rose
Sweet Pea Bonnets
Out in the Fields
The World is Full of Sunshine
The Vinegar Man
The Reward of the Christmas Candle
The Foolish Fir Tree
The Legend of the Forget-Me-Not
(Loose Lyrics Typed and set list from 3/17/36)
The Fairies Have Never a Penny to Spend
A Jolly Juggler in Japan
The Tattle-Tale Bird
Chinese Coolie Hurries (At Summer Palace in Peking China)
When Earth’s Last Picture is Painted
Saturday (A Boy’s Opinion)
The Shadow’s on the Wall
Bells
Zamboanga Boy with His Kite in Philippine Islands
Ardjoen’s Marionette Dance
The Wizard Lizard
Monkey Jungle Frolic
A Harvest Frolic
Blue Bell’s Answer
My Cat
At School
My Sewing Lesson
The Tulip Child
A Rooster’s Song
The Fuzzy Caterpillar
My Dog
Two Cuckoo Birds
The Poppy and the Peach
Today
The Toadstool and the Acorn
The Delusion of Ghosts
Practicin’
When Music Heavenly Maid Was Young
A Rainy Night
Corporal Punishment
Back to School
First Day at School
James
Orthodox
Getting Washed
What the Boy Said
The Brat
His Dog
Mother Dear
Concerning Love
Us Twins
His “Fraid-Cat” Sister
A Stray Letter
The Child Next Door
A Candy Calamity
A Name for a Boy
Rejected
My Mother
The Blossoming Barrow
The Terrible Tale of a Mouse
If You Want to Live in a Kind of a Town
The Little Turtle
Watch the Corners of Your Mouth
A Last Will
Henry Blake’s Chum
Friendliness
Fairies
Little Duties
A Fable
Their Little Ways
Friendliness
A Little Bit of Love
The Motive
The Little White Seed Pearl
Let’s Play Make Believe
An Argument Settled
The Grief-Stricken Alligator
Two Thoughts of a Child
The Owl
The Night After Christmas
The House with Nobody In It
America for Me
An Office
Comfort
(Tale of a Puppy Dog, Typed words, handwritten music, loose sheet)
And He Healed Them
April in Manhattan
The Joys of a Summer Morning
Friends of Mine
The Cardinal Bird
The Lure of the Desert Land
The Return
My Little Truant Heart
Oh! Henry!
The Big Road
The Tale of a Whale
How the Rabbit Came to Have Long Ears
The Oyster
The Two-Toed Tree Toad Was He
Ballad of Mary Ann
Great Moments of Old Glory
Dame Fashion
Apple Blossoms
Maybe
Friends of Mine
For Thinkers
Is Marriage a Failure?
The Little Gate Bed
The Sugary Shipwrecked Zoo
The Elf and the Doormouse
To a New Little House
The Point of View
O’er and O’er
Gifts
Somedays are Fairy Days
Timothy
The Apple Tree
The Canary
Specialties
Workin’ Dad
The Visiting Aunt and the Dough (Aunt Kate’s Dough)
“It”
A Lie
At the Piano
Daddy’s Sweetheart
Doughnutting Time
She Would
A Stray Letter
The Delusion of Ghosts
The Circus Clown and His Hobby Horse (Words to Explain)
The Elephant’s Band
Graceful Lady on a Tight-Rope
The Wind and The Leaves
What the Fir Tree Told Me
The Giraffe’s Eccentric Dance
Our Funny Snow Man
The Greedy Blue-Jay, A Squirrel Hides His Nuts
Bunny Cottontail
The Sun and the Saucy Icicles
The Polliwog
Little Bunny Bunniken
(Typed Note with words to A Psalm of Marriage by Pheobe Cary with note from Nanno Woods regarding copyright, dated 1935)
The Worm that (Re)turned
A Squirrel Scolds
Hill Top Sketches
The Curse of Plenty
A Divine Command
April
Equipment
Spring Tulips
Just Days
Bedland
The Owl and the Pussy Cat
One Morning in May
Midstream Meeting
Proof?
Little Gustava
Now Let’s All Get Down to Work, To Our Fair-Weather Salesman
Depression Note
Before and After
Two Plus Two Equals Four
Obedience
The End
Mid-Morning
David
Little Gustava
2 plus 2 equals 4
You Have to Believe
These Things Are Free
Life
Lost Illusions
Philosophy as of Today
The Buttercup
Independence Limited
Flower Time and Dower Time
Lost
David
Youth
The Sings The Thing
Red Slippers
Telephone Order of a Young Bride. Summer Love
Speed
Singapore
An Aspiration. Necessity
Count Your Blessings
Wasted Morning
Preference
Lighted Windows
After School
Two Bears
Otto and the Auto
Out of the Mist
Youth Unrepressed
And Loneliness as Mine Once More
The Day Will Bring Some Lovely Thing
A Mortifying Mistake
Regarding the Apple
Water in a Wheelrut
The House with the Golden Windows
The Rose in the Old Dinner Pail
Angel-Hero
Once I Was a Bachelor
God’s Bonfires
Rain Again
Uncle Abe’s Philosophy
Husbands
Porch Scene American
My Crown
Socrates Snooks (with typed lyrics)
A Boy and God
Balloons Are Lovely
Modern Youth
Scale Tricks
Seek God in the Morning
Fashion Smiles
Fireflies
Four O’clock Frolic
Just Once More
Harmony
The Leaf Turns
In a Swing
After School
Echoes
Summer’s Coming
Ducky-Daddle
A Wistful Farmer
Contentment
If We Only Could
Half-Past Tears
Like Calls to Like
A Lesson with the Fan
Poor Mari’s Garden (Russell)
An Old Sweetheart of Mine (Harris)
Piano Music
Efficiency Expert
Bouquet Woogie
Private Performance
Tame Duck
First Date
I Know Something Good
Belinda Boggs
Fairy Frolic-Leap Frog
Epidemics
The Magic Door
Nature Stuff Through a Monocle
Provocative Ages of Woman: Adolescence Blooming aka Wishful Thinking
How to Preserve a Husband
For Carolyn
The Little Lights of Christmas
My Prayer
When Grandma’s Making Cake
My Prayer
The Little French Clock (Kountz)
Ma and the Auto (Rosa)
Her Gown
You Had to Believe
An Obstacle
Dirty Little Boys
Now Honestly
Bridges
Red Slippers
Nymphs
One Two Three (Fergus)
Pinewood Fairies (Bliss)
Negra Consenteda (My Pet Brunette)
La Borrachita
Don. 13th
Our Christmas
Ain’t You Got a Grandma?
Betty in the Springtime
The Christmas Pudding: A Recipe
Just Christmas
Negra Consentida My Pet Brunette
A Thought
It Was
Mary Ann’s Luncheon
Poor Bee
Fishes Fashion Show
Age
Wild Flowers
Friendly Enemy
The Lyre
Aside to a Husband
Eve
A Walk to the Corner
Kiddy Kangaroo
Chords
“Heartbeats: Song Cycle” Dedicated to My Papa May 25, 1905
A Reflection at Sea
A Night Thought
A Finland Love Song
A Dream
To One Who Knows
Hobellied (Germany)
Ach Wie Ists – moglich dawn (Folk Song)
Lezte Rose
Tyroler
Stille Nacht Heilige Nacht
Du Liegst Mir um Herzen
Tannenbaum
Morning Song
Why Poor Me
See Saw
Thanksgiving Day
I Wonder Why
“California” Song Without Words Nov. 3 1904
America, My Home
Ups and Downs
The Little Antelope
A Smile
Woman
Christmas Eve
Little Dirty Boys
Seeds
Thanksgiving
I’m Glad to See You
Partners
Little God Pan
Love Lights
Teach Me to Love
A Little Girl’s Secret
I Sent Them Not
Inequality
Journey’s End
Angelina
Dishodragorish
The Tale of the Terrible Mouse
Hollywood Neighbors
My Skates
Never Say Die
All I Ask
Lil’ Pup
Somebody Told Me
The Barnacle
Mt. Fuji
The Sound of Japan
The Summer Palace Speaks
My Dad
Go Get It
Spring Gardening
A Boy’s Dad
They Say
Rose Marie
Jus’ Keep on Keepin’ On
Bridges
How the Elephant Got His Trunk
In Passing
A Nymph for an Hour
My House
My Bonnet
Some of the material contains racist and offensive language.
Contains copies of the vinyl recordings on 5 CDs each labeled:
Orange Disc c.1 (Carter 27B-01)
Discs 1-6
Recording Bank NY, NY c.1 (Carter 27B-02)
Recording Bank c.1
Frederick Gamble
Some of the material contains racist and offensive language.
Frieda Peycke: A Biographical Sketch by Frederick Gamble (3 page letter typed)
Regarding Frieda Peycke’s Letters by Frederick Gamble, 1982 (3 page letter typed)
An Explanation of Abbreviations and People Found in Frieda Peycke’s Letters (1 page letter typed with notes, double sided)
Listing of Frieda Peycke Letters Which Mean Most to Me by Frederick Gamble (1 page letter handwritten xerox with notes)
Frieda Peycke Records by Frederick Gamble (1 page letter typed)
1947 reprint on newsprint with fold
1. Frieda Peycke in Seattle in front of Foolish House Lunch Counter (undated)
2. Frieda Peycke at Cascade Mountains, Washington State (ca. 1946)
3. Frieda Peycke and Olive Paine in Japan 1963
Letter regarding price increase at Hollywood Bowl
With page letters relating to Frieda Peycke noted