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Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS A1775-7,A1779,B1780-1,A1783-4,A1786-7,1788,A1790,B1792-5,A1796,B1800,B4306,B4307,B4310,5055-6
Title:: Letters (31) from Robert Louis Stevenson to Edmund Gosse; 16 April 1879-1 Dec. 1894. A1775, 1776, A1779, 1788, A1790, B1794, B1795, A1796, B1800, B4307, B4310 and 5055, letters II, III, IV, V, VII, VIII, have envelopes. Stevenson and Gosse probably met in 1873 or 1874, and remained on intimate terms until the end of Stevenson's life - indeed, the last letter in this collection (5055, ff. 28-31, of which ff. 28b, 29b-30b are in the hand of his step-daughter, Mrs Isobel Strong) was written onl...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, Greek, Modern, and Italian
Date Range:: 16 Apr 1879-1 Dec 1894
Extent:: 23 items

Reference (shelfmark):: 07896.e.59.
Title:: Letter
Scope & Content:: Letter to Henry Cope Colles from Charles Wilfred Orr c 1933
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1933
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 785.a.9.
Title:: MUSICAL EXAMPLES, ETC.; 1730. Bound at the end of the printed volume (by J. C. Pepusch) A Short Treatise on Harmony (J. Watts, 1730) and comprising ‘Examples in Notes referring the [MS.] Figures in the Margin & serving to explain every Example (either in Figures, or in Letters, or in Words,) that is mentioned in this Treatise on Harmony. 1730.’ Sir John Hawkins (who bequeathed the volume to the British Museum in 1789) states that these examples are in the hand of [Joshua] Steele, being ‘...
Scope & Content:: Johann Christoph Pepusch, composer: James Hamilton, 7th Earl of Abercorn: Musical examples , probably in the hand of James Hamilton, to accompany and explain A Short Treatise on Harmony by Johann Christoph Pepusch: 1730.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1730
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 785.k.7.(9.)
Title:: DANCE TUNES; about 1710. With figures or diagrams showing how they were to be danced; explanatory of A Small Treatise of Time and Cadence in Dancing…By John Weaver…(1706), bound at the beginning of the volume. Bequeathed by Sarah Sophia Banks and presented by Lady Banks, 1818. Paper; ff. 8. 230 x 165mm. Including:— 1. f. 1b. ‘La Nouvelle Gaillarde Par Mr [Louis] Pécour’. 2. ff. 5b-6. ‘The Friendship by Mr Isaac’.
Scope & Content:: includes: f. 1v Louis Guillaume Pécour, dancing-master and choreographer: 'Nouvelle Gaillarde': circa 1710: Copy.f. 5v Isaac, musician: Dance tune, 'The Friendship': circa 1710: Copy.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1710
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 785.k.7.(10.)
Title:: DANCE TUNES; about 1710. With figures or diagrams showing how they were to be danced; explanatory of A Small Treatise of Time and Cadence in Dancing…By John Weaver…(1706), bound at the beginning of the volume. Bequeathed by Sarah Sophia Banks and presented by Lady Banks, 1818. Paper; ff. 4. 230 x 165mm. Including:— 1. f. 1. ‘The Morris by Mr Isaac’. 2. f. 4b. ‘Rigadoun’. Without music.
Scope & Content:: includes: f. 1 Isaac, musician: Dance tune, 'The Morris': circa 1710: Copy.f. 4v Music: Rigaudon, dance tune: circa 1710.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1710
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1562/293.
Title:: CARL CZERNY: catalogue of works, op.401 – op.753; circa 1850. Appended to a printed catalogue, Carl Czerny’s sämmtliche Original-Compositionen von opus 1 bis 300 [Vienna: Diabelli, 1834?]. The list includes opus number, title, price and publisher, and is incomplete from op.600 onwards. Purchased, 30 Oct. 1979. ff. 10. Largest size 395 x 267mm.
Scope & Content:: Carl Czerny, composer: Catalogue of works: circa 1850: Copy.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1850
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1784.a.13.1
Title:: Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the War, Washington, [1865], vol. 1
Scope & Content:: Printed
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1865
Extent:: Printed

Reference (shelfmark):: 1784.a.13.2
Title:: Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the War, Washington, [1865], vol.2
Scope & Content:: Printed
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1865
Extent:: Printed Book

Reference (shelfmark):: 3433.bb.10.
Title:: PSALM MELODIES; after 1734. Bound at the front of the printed collection The Psalms of David…by I. Watts, 9th ed. (printed for Richard Ford and Richard Hett, 1734). Melodies, most of them with a bass written in score, inserted in MS. in a contemporary hand between pp. 4 and 5 of Tunes in the tenor part fitted to the several metres [of the Psalms] engraved by Francis Hoffman. Purchased, 8th Oct. 1863. Paper; ff. 7 + pp. viii, 319, [21]. 150 x 90mm. 1. f. 3r. Ps. 75, ‘Common Metre’; – Ps. 13...
Scope & Content:: Music: Psalms: Psalm tunes: after 1734.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: after 1734
Extent:: 1 item

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