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2. Add MS 47843-47882
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- Add MS 47843-47882
- Title:
- Musical and literary collections of Edward Harry William Meyerstein (b. 1889, d. 1952); late 16th-20th cent
- Scope & Content:
- See Brit. Mus. Quart., xviii, 1953, pp. 97-100. Forty-five volumes. Paper and (Vol. XLV) vellum. Various sizes. Arranged as follows:- A. Musical manuscripts (47843-47862). B. Literary manuscripts, etc. (47863-47882). Bequeathed, with Add. MS. 48212, ff 1-2, and Add. Roll 75068, by E. H. W. Mey...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, French, German, and Italian
- Date Range:
- Late 16th century-20th century
- Extent:
- 44 items
3. Add MS 47859 A-B
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- Add MS 47859 A-B
- Title:
- MEYERSTEIN BEQUEST. Vol. XVII-XIX. Letters, translations and music relating to the first performance of the oratorio 'Elijah' by Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy at the Birmingham Festival, 26 Aug. 1846, and its subsequent revision and publication. Mostly in the hand of William Bartholomew, the English translator of the words, but including eleven autograph letters of Mendelssohn (Add. MS. 47859 A, ff. 1- 17b). The collection belonged to Frederick George Edwards, who acquired it (cf....
- Scope & Content:
- Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, composer: Collections rel. to 'Elijah': 1846-1847.: With autogr. annotations.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- [1846-1847]
- Extent:
- 2 items
4. Add MS 47859 B
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- Add MS 47859 B
- Title:
- Scope & Content:
- Vols. XVIII, XIX (ff. 1-137, 138-256+v). Music, relating particularly to the Birmingham performance of 'Elijah', 26 Aug. 1846, and to its subsequent revision. See F. G. Edwards, op. cit., and articles by J. Bennett in The Musical Times, Oct. 1882-Apr. 1883. See also Egerton MS. 3094, passim, and...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1846
- Extent:
- 1 item
5. Add MS 47863
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- Add MS 47863
- Title:
- Scope & Content:
- MEYERSTEIN BEQUEST. Vol. XXIV (ff. 18). Miscellaneous literary autographs; 1600-1861. As follows:- (1) 'Charges sustained at Woollwich in the moneth of August 1600'. Signed by Fulke Greville, etc. f. 1. (2) Letter from Francis Atterbury, Bishop of Rochester, to Alexander Pope, relating to Sa...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1600-1861
- Extent:
- 1 item
6. Add MS 47863-47882
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 47863-47882
- Title:
- B. LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS, ETC.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- [1600-1999]
- Extent:
- 22 items
7. Add MS 47864
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- Add MS 47864
- Title:
- MEYERSTEIN BEQUEST. Vol. XXV (ff. iii+ 117). William Wordsworth''s Poems, in Two Volumes, 1807: the printer''s manuscript, conveyed in packets from Coleorton to the publishers Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme between 14 Nov. 1806 (postmark on f. 2b) and circ. early Apr. 1807. Partly autograph, with revisions and annotations throughout by the poet.
- Scope & Content:
- © Dove Cottage - Wordsworth Trust. Most of the texts are revised from an earlier collection of shorter poems transcribed circ. Jan.- Mar. 1806 by Dorothy Wordsworth and Sara Hutchinson, of which sixtyeight octavo leaves or fragments of leaves survive here. Poems from the same and other sources w...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1807
- Extent:
- 1 volume (ff. iii + 117)
8. Add MS 47865
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- Add MS 47865
- Title:
- Scope & Content:
- Vol. XXVI. (ff. ii+212). George Symes Catcott, of Bristol; author: Letter-books rel. to the Chatterton-Rowley controversy: 1764-1799.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1764-1799
- Extent:
- 1 item
9. Add MS 47865-47866
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 47865-47866
- Title:
- Vols. XXVI, XXVII (ff. ii+212, ii+259). Letter-books of George Symes Catcott relating to the Chatterton-Rowley controversy; 1764-1799. Transcribed from the original letter-book in Bristol Central Library (MS. 5342) by Maria George, 1883 (see 47865, f. 1), and others. Belonged to William George of Bristol.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1764-1799
- Extent:
- 2 items
10. Add MS 47865-47878
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- Add MS 47865-47878
- Title:
- MEYERSTEIN BEQUEST. Vols. XXVI-XL Materials relating to Thomas Chatterton, the poet, compiled by various persons, 19th-20th centt., and mostly assembled by Meyerstein in connection with A Life of Thomas Chatterton, 1930. Partly in Meyerstein's autograph. See also The Bodleian Library Record, iv, 1952-1953, pp. 235-236; D. S. Taylor, The Complete Works of Thomas Chatterton, 1971. Fifteen volumes. As follows:-
- Scope & Content:
- Edward Harry William Meyerstein, author: Collections rel. to T. Chatterton: circ. 1760-1951. Thomas Chatterton, poet: Collections of E. H. W. Meyerstein rel. to: circ. 1760-1951.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 19th century-20th century
- Extent:
- 15 items