Opera-Specific Files, ca. 1920s-1980s

Series 3 holds files specific to William Grant Still’s eight operas. The files fall under three categories: archival documents, Soll’s data files, and William Grant Still source materials. The archival files include sketches, drafts of plots, general notes, and other materials that Still compiled during the composition of the eight operas. All are from the University of Arkansas collection with the exception of the Library of Congress files relating to Blue Steel, Still’s earliest opera. The documents relating to Highway 1, U.S.A. and A Southern Interlude have been grouped together in the same subseries and folder; Soll notes in the Index that the first is only a revision of the latter.