urn:taro:drtsa.00136 A Guide to the Louise Daggett Fischer Papers, 1863-1966 2011 July 27Encoded in oXygen XML Editor by David Gallin-Parisi. Descriptive Summary Fischer, Louise D. (Louise Daggett), 1872-1959 Louise Daggett Fischer Papers 1863-1966 Materials are in English. Col 935 10.29 linear feet (8 document boxes, 8 oversize boxes) Daughters of the Republic of Texas Library at the Alamo, San Antonio, Texas Minnesota native Louise Daggett (1872-1959) moved to San Antonio, Texas, with her family in 1891. She studied and taught music throughout her life and was a long-time member of local and state musical organizations as a composer and performer. Married to businessman Albert M. Fischer of San Antonio, she had one daughter. Creative works, correspondence, legal and financial documents, printed material, scrapbooks and scrapbook material, and photographs created or collected by Louise Daggett Fischer are found in her papers, documenting her personal and family life and emphasizing her musical interests as a composer, performer, and clubwoman in San Antonio, Texas. Biographical Note

Emma Louise Daggett was born in Ottertail City, Minnesota, on 1872 April 3 to Lorenzo Dow and Mary Frances Reynolds Daggett, the oldest of the couple's four children. Her father was a piano and pipe organ tuner who also gave piano and voice lessons. In 1891, he moved the family from their home in Erie, Pennsylvania, to San Antonio, Texas, for health reasons.

In 1898, Louise married Albert Martin Fischer, a local businessman. They owned and operated the Fischer Drug Store, located in an adobe building at the corner of Alamo and Houston streets. Their only child, Katharine Louise, was born in 1900.

Louise Daggett Fischer was a noted pianist, composer, and arranger and was a member of several musical societies in San Antonio and Texas. She was the first member invited to join the Tuesday Musical Club (1901) and began writing arrangements for the group. This work led to her charter membership in the Composers' Club (organized in 1927), and she served as the organization's dean for three years in the late 1930s. In addition, she served as Chairman of the Junior Tuesday Musical Club and suggested the formation of the Manuscript Group within the Texas Federation of Music Clubs.

Mrs. Fischer won many awards for her compositions, including prizes from the Composers' Club and several offered by the Manuscript Group. Her works were frequently performed in recitals presented by the Tuesday Musical Club, the Composers' Club, and Our Lady of the Lake College in San Antonio; at state meetings of the Texas Federation of Music Clubs; during annual observances of Music Week; and on at least one occasion on a national radio broadcast.

Louise Daggett Fischer died in San Antonio on 1959 July 7 at the age of eighty-seven.

Scope and Content Note

Creative works, correspondence, legal and financial documents, printed material, scrapbooks and scrapbook material, and photographs created or collected by Louise Daggett Fischer are found in her papers, documenting her personal and family life and emphasizing her musical interests as a composer, performer, and clubwoman in San Antonio, Texas.

The greater portion of the papers is associated with Fischer's musical activities, including her work as a composer of songs, chamber music, solo instrumental pieces, and choral works, which are represented by over thirty complete scores in addition to notes and sketches. A much smaller amount of material is associated with general personal and business activities, including a few items associated with her husband's business, Fischer's Drug Store.

Organization of Collection

This collection is organized into three series.

Series 1: Musical activities Series 2: Business and personal papers Series 3: Photographs Access Restrictions

No restrictions. The collection is open for research.

 Usage Restrictions

Please be advised that the library does not hold the copyright to most of the material in its archival collections. It is the responsibility of the researcher to secure those rights when needed. Permission to reproduce does not constitute permission to publish. The researcher assumes full responsibility for conforming to the laws of copyright, literary property rights, and libel.

 Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Louise Daggett Fischer Papers, 1863-1966, Col 935, Daughters of the Republic of Texas Library, San Antonio, Texas.

 Acquisition Information

Gift of Katherine L. Fischer and Ella Daggett Stumpf, 1979 November.

 Processing Information

Processed by Andy Crews, Lynda Howell, and Kathy Rankin, 2002 December.

Additional processing by Warren Stricker, 2003 August.

Finding aid edited and encoded by David Gallin-Parisi, 2011 August.

Index Terms Personal Names Fischer, Louise D. (Louise Daggett), 1872-1959. Fischer, Albert M. Fischer, Katherine, d. 1984. Organizations Composer's Club (San Antonio, Tex.) Fischer's Drug Store (San Antonio, Tex.) Tuesday Musical Club (San Antonio, Tex.) Subjects Music--Texas--San Antonio--Societies, etc. Women composers--Texas--San Antonio. Genres/Formats Personal papers. Correspondence. Financial records. Legal documents. Notebooks. Photographs. Printed ephemera. Scores. Scrapbooks. Separated Material

The Geology and Mineral Resources of Bexar County by E. H. Sellards (Austin: University of Texas, 1919) has been separated from the collection and is part of the general library collection (call number 551 S467g c.2).

 Detailed Description of the Collection Series 1: Musical activities

Forming the bulk of the papers, this series gathers together correspondence related to music, musical scores, material associated with musical organizations, and general musical information. Further divided into subseries by form and subject matter, significant items include compositions by Fischer in various stages of the creative process, from preliminary sketches and exercises found in notebooks to completed manuscript and printed scores. Writing for a variety of performers, the works include songs, chamber music, choral works, and solo pieces. Several compositions exist in multiple arrangements for various instrumental and vocal combinations. Frequently found with her scores are correspondence related to copyright and permission for the use of poems set to music and occasionally some performance-related material such as programs. Over thirty of her works exist in complete form.

A small number of works by other composers, arranged by Fischer, also exist in manuscript form.

Collected music consists primarily of published works by various composers, including familiar classical masters and Fischer's friends and colleagues.

Fischer's musical studies and research are represented by notebooks and scrapbooks reflecting her interest in particular composers and other aspects of music, such as bells, sounds in the natural world, and the physics of sound.

Fischer was a member of a number of local and state musical organizations. Her long association with the Tuesday Musical Club led to the creation of three notebooks documenting the history of the organization (at least one other notebook, the first in a numbered series, is not found the papers), gathering notes, photographs, and printed material. Programs and a fairly complete set of yearbooks dating from 1922-1966 are also found. Other organizations are represented by a smaller amount of material; material on the Composers' Club consists of a notebook on club history, programs, notes and yearbooks. Miscellaneous material for the Texas Federation of Music Clubs is also part of the papers.

1 Correspondence 1 1 1928-1953, undated 1 2 Notebook: "Business letters," circa 1930-1939 1 Compositions by Louise Daggett Fischer 1 Notebooks 1 3 Allemande, Bourree, arrangements, 1929 1 4 Counterpoint, volume II, 1929-1930 1 5 Modal exercises, 1931 1 6 Early Hebrew music, 1932 1 7 Reverie, Sailing Away, A Cradle Song, 1933 1 8 Sketches and exercises, 1933 1 9 How the Wog became a Frog, etc., 1941 1 10 Book I: Questing Duo, Chiaroscuro, 1939, undated 1 11 Book II. String Quartet, etc., undated 1 12 Book III, undated 1 13 Book IV. Etude in 7/8 rhythm, etc., 1940, 1943, undated 1 14 Kyrie, Agnus Dei, Sanctus, Gloria, 1946 1 15 Mass in D-flat, 1946-1947 1 16 Wood Violets, etc. 1 17 Lambkins, A Song of Thanksgiving, undated 1 18 A Prayer for Courage, sketches, undated 1 19 Star Cop, sketches, undated 1 20 Pastorale, sketches, undated 1 21 Sketches, undated 1 22 Sketches, transcripts, undated Tall 2 Scores Tall 2 23 “An album leaf: for four violins and piano,” manuscript and copyright material, 1932 Tall 2 24 “An album leaf: cello solo with four violins and piano accompaniment,” manuscript, undated Tall 2 25 “Allemande – String Quartet,” manuscripts, undated Tall 2 26 “Anthems: A song for Christmas or Mother’s Day,” words by Minnie Case Hopkins, manuscripts, correspondence, copyright material, 1928-1929 Tall 2 27 “The beautiful land of Nod: Four Part Chorus for Women’s Voices with String Quartet and Piano accompaniment,” words by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, manuscripts, correspondence, copyright material, 1929 Tall 2 28 “A birthday song,” words by Maude K. Yates, manuscripts and copyright material, 1929 Tall 2 29 “Bourrée: string quartet,” manuscript, undated Tall 2 30 “A Celtic plaint: Theme in the 1st Gregorian Mode, string quartet,” manuscripts, correspondence, copyright material, 1931-1935 Tall 2 31 “A Celtic plaint: Theme in the 1st Gregorian Mode, arranged for organ,” manuscripts and copyright material, 1931 Tall 2 32 “Clouds,” words by Sidney Stone Field, manuscripts, correspondence, copyright material, 1928-1929 Tall 2 33 “Embers,” manuscripts, copyright material, 1939 Tall 2 34 “Esther," manuscript, undated Tall 2 35 “An evening song (Now the day is over),” mixed quartet, words by S. Baring-Gould, manuscripts, correspondence, copyright material, 1928-1932 Tall 2 36 “Freedom,” soprano with violin obbligato and harp accompaniment, words by Hester King, manuscripts and copyright material, 1934 Tall 2 37 “Healing waters,” manuscript, undated Tall 2 38 “How the polly wog became a frog,” words by Dr. W. H. Pomeroy, manuscript, undated Tall 2 39 “I thought,” words by Cristel Hastings, manuscripts, correspondence, copyright material, 1928-1930 Tall 2 40 “If I were king of Ireland,” words by Alfred Perceval Graves, manuscripts and copyright material, 1930 Tall 2 41 “An Irish trilogy” (I. “Glendalough”; II. “The Banshee”; III. “A Jig”), piano duo, four violins and piano, manuscripts and copyright material, 1935-1937 Tall 3 42 “Kyrie,” women’s voices in three parts, manuscripts and copyright material, 1932 Tall 3 43 “Lambkins,” words by Francesca Talk Miller, manuscripts, copyright, correspondence, 1930-1950 Tall 3 44 “Longing,” various arrangements, manuscripts, correspondence, copyright material, 1931 Tall 3 45 “The lost lagoon,” words by E. Pauline Johnson, manuscripts, correspondence, copyright material, 1936-1942 Tall 3 46 “Love meets our needs,” words by Hazel Harper Hannis, manuscripts and copyright material, 1930 Tall 3 47 “Meet Him in the morning,” manuscript and correspondence, 1928 Tall 3 48 “O lovely May,” manuscripts and copyright material, 1932 Tall 3 49 “Pastorale,” various arrangements, manuscripts, undated Tall 3 50 “A prayer for courage,” words by Grace Noll Crowell, manuscripts, correspondence, copyright material, 1929-1938 Tall 3 51 “The puppy parade,” piano duet, manuscripts, undated Tall 3 52 “Questing,” manuscripts, printed copy, copyright, correspondence, 1935-1947 Oversize 9 “Questing,” additional printed copies, 1935-1947 Tall 4 53 “Reverie,” various arrangements, manuscripts and copyright material, 1930 Tall 4 54 “Sailing away,” words by Tristan Marc, manuscripts and copyright material, 1935 Tall 4 55 “Scherzo,” piano duo, manuscripts, undated Tall 4 56 “Sketch #1, Eglantine (Rose de Chemin),” manuscripts and copyright material, 1940-1941 Tall 4 57 “Sketch #2,” manuscripts, copyright material, printed, 1943-1951 Tall 4 58 “A slumber song,” manuscript and copyright material, 1935 Tall 4 59 “The star cop,” words by Katharine L. Fischer, manuscripts, correspondence, copyright material, 1931-1932 Tall 4 60 “That funny little pup,” words by Katharine L. Fischer, manuscripts and copyright material, c. 1935 Tall 4 61 “Theme in the Hypo-Dorian or the 2nd Gregorian mode,” for organ, manuscript, undated Tall 4 62 “Theme in the Phrygian or 3rd Gregorian mode,” for organ, manuscript, undated Tall 4 63 “The Tuesday Musical Club’s forty-fifth anniversary song, 1901-1946,” manuscript, 1946 Tall 4 64 “A twilight meditation,” violin and piano, trio for violin, cello and piano, manuscripts and copyright material, 1933 Tall 4 65 Violin obbligati, “Freedom” and “Clouds,” manuscripts, undated Tall 4 66 Unidentified and incomplete, manuscripts Tall 4 Arrangements by Louise Daggett Fischer Tall 4 67 Anonymous, “The Origin of the Harp,” arranged by Louise D. Fischer for vocal duet with harp accompaniment, manuscript, undated Tall 4 68 Franck, Caesar, “Prelude, fugue, and variations,” arranged by Louise D. Fischer, manuscripts, printed, 1928 Tall 4 69 Hawley, C. B., “Land of Nod,” arranged by Louise D. Fischer for violin solo with violin and cello accompaniment, manuscript, 1928 Tall 4 70 Lake, Mary Daggett, “Have you ever been to Texas in the spring,” arranged by Louise D. Fischer, manuscript, 1928 Tall 4 71 Lieurance, Thurlow, “By the waters of Minnetonka,” arranged by Louise D. Fischer, manuscript, undated Tall 4 72 Scott, John Prindle, “Sun of my soul,” arranged by Louise D. Fischer, manuscripts, printed, correspondence, 1927 Tall 4 73 Thern, Carl, “Genius loci,” arranged by Louise D. Fischer, manuscript, 1928 Tall 4 74 Tivindelli, P. A., “Joy with sorrow,” arranged by Louise D. Fischer for violin solo with three violins and cello accompaniment, manuscript, printed, 1928 Tall 4 75 Copyright records Tall 5 Notes Tall 5 76 Notebook: Orchestration Note Book, exercises Tall 5 77 Notebook: Bird Calls and Sounds, appended loose notes and clippings, 1942 Tall 5 78 Notes: Chinese music Oversize 15 Notebook: General music, 1918-1928 Oversize 15 Notebook: General music, 1931 Oversize 15 Notebook: General music, 1935 Oversize 15 Notebook: General music, 1936 Tall 5 79 Notebook: General, incomplete Tall 5 80 Notes: found sounds Tall 5 81 Notes: general Tall 5 Collected music Tall 5 82 Bach, Johan Sebastian, "Air," printed Tall 5 83 Balfe, Michael William, “The Bohemian Girl: An Opera in Three Acts,” printed, 1902 Tall 5 84 Beethoven, Ludwig von, “Concerte fur Pianoforte,” op. 73, printed Tall 5 85 Botts, Ida Bassett, “Our yesteryears,” printed, 1936 Tall 5 86 Brack, Ione Nerissa, “I thought,” words by Crystal Hastings, manuscript, 1937 Tall 5 Brack, Ione Nerissa, “No Summer,” printed, 1938 Tall 5 Brack, Ione Nerissa, “Snow toward evening,” manuscript, undated Tall 5 87 Bruch, Max, “Fair Ellen: a Cantata,” printed, 1911 Tall 5 88 Cecil, Richard, “I will arise,” printed, undated Tall 5 89 Chopin, Frederic, "Concert fur Piano forte,” op. 11 Tall 5 Chopin, Frederic, “Nocturne, op. 9, no. 1,” printed, undated Tall 5 90 Clough-Leighter, H., “In royal David’s city,” printed, 1904 Tall 5 91 Coenen, W., “Come unto me,” printed, undated Tall 5 92 Davidica, Sister M., “Vocation, or Divine call,” manuscript, undated Tall 5 93 Debussy, Claude, “The Blessed Damozel,” manuscript copy and printed, 1908, undated Tall 5 94 Dubois, Theodore, “The Seven Last Words of Christ,” printed, 1927 Tall 5 95 Eaton, H. Grace, “Carol” and “Benediction,” printed, undated Tall 5 96 Elaine, Sister Mary, “Mass in honor of Blessed Martin de Porres,” printed, 1945 Tall 5 97 Ellis, James G., “Leave it with Him,” printed, 1917 Tall 5 98 Franck, César, “Panis Angelicus,” manuscript copy, undated Tall 5 99 Franck, César, “Priére,” manuscript copy, undated Tall 5 100 Gipprich, F. P. M., “Love’s golden dream,” manuscript, undated Tall 5 101 Graebner, Bertha, “Peace,” manuscript, undated Tall 5 102 Greenlund, Alys, “Bethlehem road,” printed, 1950 Tall 5 103 Hahn, Carl, “Come unto Me,” manuscript, undated Tall 5 Hahn, Carl, arranger, “The lost chord,” manuscript, undated Tall 5 104 Harrington, Bess Farmer, “Dere’s a home beyond the river,” manuscripts, undated Tall 5 Harrington, Bess Farmer, “The Lord is my shepherd,” manuscript, undated Tall 5 Harrington, Bess Farmer, “This night in Spain,” manuscript, 1935 Tall 5 105 Harty, Hamilton, arranger, “My Lagan Love: Song from Three Traditional Ulster Airs,” manuscript copy, undated Tall 5 106 Liszt, Franz, “Fantasie uber Ungarische Volksmelodien,” printed Tall 5 107 Little, Jack, “Fiesta” and “Siesta,” manuscript, 1945 Tall 5 108 Marcia, “Fourth District Federation song,” words by Childs, Ida May, manuscript, undated Tall 6 109 Marsh, W. J., “A Flour Wreath: Song Suite,” printed, 1923 Tall 6 Marsh, W. J., “Hail! Day of Gladness,” printed, 1952 Tall 6 Marsh, W. J., “Nine Carols for Christmas,” printed, 1941 Tall 6 110 Maunder, J. H., “Penitence, Pardon and Peace: A Short Lenten Cantata,” printed, 1898 Tall 6 111 Mears, Ione Brack, “The Lord’s prayer,” printed, 2 copies, 1941 Tall 6 112 Mendelssohn, Felix, “Lieder Ohne Worte,” op. 9, nos. 1-6, printed, 1894 Tall 6 113 Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, “Sonate D Dur fur 2 Pianoforte 4 Handen,” printed Tall 6 114 Neidlinger, W. H., “The Birthday of a King,” printed, 1890 Tall 6 115 Neuland, Wilhelm, “Moonlight on the Rhine,” op. 39, printed Tall 6 116 Nevin, Ethelbert, “The rosary,” 13/15, 1898 Tall 6 117 Owen, Julia D., “Texas bluebonnet song,” printed, 1922 Tall 6 118 Parker, Effie Jackson, “To the Christ-Child,” printed, 1940 Tall 6 119 Peeples, Katherine B., “The Lost Lagoon,” manuscripts, undated Tall 6 120 Rawls, Kathryn Hill, “The Balloon Man,” printed, 1948 Tall 6 121 Rodesney, M. A., “O.L.L. Cheer Song,” printed, 1932 Tall 6 122 Siéroslawskiego, Jósefa, “Zbiór Kolęd,” 1922 Tall 6 123 Smart, Henry, “Run up the sail,” printed, undated Tall 6 124 Steinfeldt, John M., “Missa in honorem Sti. Thomae Apostoli,” printed, 1940 Tall 6 125 Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich, “Concerto pour le Piano,” printed Tall 6 126 Venth, Carl, “Album of fifteen songs,” printed, 1922 Tall 6 127 Ware, Harriet, “Woman’s Triumphal March,” printed, 1927 Tall 6 128 Weber, Carl Maria von, “Concertstuck fur Pianoforte,” op. 79, printed Tall 6 129 Weimar, Fritzi, “My song to mother,” manuscript, undated Tall 6 130 Wiggins, Alvin S., “The barefoot trail,” printed, 1920 Tall 6 131 Wollenhaupt, H. A., “Spinning song,” printed, 1863 Tall 6 132 Unidentified, “A Change of Mind/La Bas Trinque/Fair, Isabeau was Walking/Shepherdess, Whence Come You?,” manuscript Tall 6 133 Fragments Oversize 16 Musical organizations Oversize 16 Tuesday Musical Club Oversize 16 Notebooks: Volumes II, III, IV 7 134 Programs 7 135 Notes Oversize 14 Yearbooks, 1923-1966 Oversize 14 Junior Tuesday Musical Club yearbook, 1956-1957 Oversize 16 Composer's Club Oversize 16 Notebook 7 136 Programs 7 137 Notes Oversize 14 Yearbooks, 1929-1930 Oversize 14 San Antonio Musical Club Oversize 14 Yearbook, 1922-1923 7 Texas Federation of Music Clubs 7 138 Correspondence 7 139 Printed material 7 General printed material 7 140 Invitations and programs 7 Books and pamphlets 7 141 Cohon, A. Irma, An introduction to Jewish music in eight illustrated lectures, incomplete, possibly 1923 7 142-143 Famous Composers and their Works. Boston: J. Millet Co., incomplete, possibly 1891. 7 144 Gehrkens, Karl Wilson, The Fundamentals of Music. Boston: Oliver Ditson Company, 1923. 7 145 Assorted pamphlets and brochures 7 Clippings 7 146 General Music 7 147 Bells 7 148 Sounds 7 149 Sounds in nature Oversize 10 Scrapbooks Oversize 10 "MacDowell" Oversize 10 "Nature Music" Oversize 10 Richard Wagner Oversize 11 "Chopin" Oversize 11 "Grieg" Oversize 11 "Music" Series 2: Business and personal papers

This much smaller portion of the papers is associated with business and personal activities of Louise Daggett Fischer and her family and consists of a miscellany of items, arranged by type.

Correspondence is made up of scattered letters from family and friends. A body of letters from the 1940s was received from Chinese military officers whom Fischer had assisted with English language studies while they were in San Antonio.

A few items are associated with Fischer's Drug Store, the San Antonio business owned by Albert M. Fischer, including two daybooks, a lease, financial documents, and some printed items. Other personal material includes Mrs. Fischer's grade reports from Westmoorland College, individual items from several organizations, printed ephemera, clippings, and scrapbooks and albums. Also found in the papers are plaster casts of the hand of Elsa Sternsdorff, described as a pianist and one of Mrs. Fischer's music teachers.

8 Correspondence 8 150 General, 1918-1946, undated 8 151 Chinese officers, 1945-1947 8 Legal documents 8 152 Lease, 1909 8 153 Promissory note, 1917 8 Financial documents 8 154 Daybooks, 1917-1918 8 155 Daybooks, 1920-1924 8 156 Bills and receipts 8 157 School material: Our Lade of Lake College, Westmoorland College, 1930-1932, undated 8 Organizations 8 158 Alamo Country Club, undated Oversize 14 San Antonio Conservation Society yearbook, 1955-1956 8 159 Texas Pharmaceutical Association, 1915, 1921 8 160 Travis Club, 1912 8 161 Creative works: poetry 8 Printed material 8 162 Sugar certificates, 1918 8 163 Invitations, cards, announcements 8 164 Advertising and promotional material 8 165 Menu 8 166 Calling card 8 167 Napkins: Louise D. and Albert M. Fischer anniversary, 1948 8 168 Pamphlets 8 169 Periodicals 8 170 Programs 8 171 Printed poetry and quotations 8 Clippings 8 172 Poetry 8 173 Family 8 174 General interest 8 175 Notes Oversize 9 Scrapbooks and albums Oversize 9 Autograph album, Lorenzo Dow Daggett, 1877-1894 Oversize 12 "Pickings," Albert M. Fischer Oversize 12 "Beautiful Thoughts Illustrated," Albert M. Fischer, 1907 Oversize 12 Botany 8 176 Loose scrapbook pages Oversize 13 Artifacts: plaster casts Series 3: Photographs

This series consists of a small number of photographic portraits and snapshots of family, friends, and colleagues from the musical world.

8 177 Albert M. Fischer, 3 items 8 Mary Frank Reynolds Daggett, 1 item 8 178 Roe Daggett Johnson and Ever Johnson, 3 items 8 179 Louise D. Fischer, Jennie Sachs, Mrs. Hesse, and unknown, 1 item 8 Gilbert Schramm, Alena Howerson, Pat Means, Gus Bonnet, Louise Daggett, Marion Dove, Ben Hammond, "The Mets," 2 copies, 1896 8 Carolers, 1 item, 1928-1929 8 180 Percy Grainger, 1 item, 1921 8 William J. Marsh, 1 item, 1927 Oversize 10 Katherine B. Peeples, 1 item, 1924 8 180 Plants, snapshots, 9 items