Photocopies of Sir Charles Villiers Stanford: Autograph manuscript of the Minstrels Song, signed, 5 pages folio. Creation date of original: 5 Dec 1868.
Photocopy of an autograph letter, signed, of Johann Christian Fischer, oboist and composer (1733-1800). Concerns oboe reeds, and is illustrated with a diagram. 1 page, large octavo, Hampstead. Dated 13 February [circa 1790].
Photocopies of Sir Charles Villiers Stanford: autograph music from 'An Irish Concertino' and 'Ballata and Ballabile'. Creation date of originals: circa 1919.
Photocopy of an autograph letter, signed, from Sir Edward Elgar to Gertrude Walker, giving his news on Cornwall and expressing the fear that they will not be able to meet at the Hereford Festival. 2 pages 4to. With autograph envelope, postmarked Hampstead, 25 July 1912.
Microfilm of a collection of 29 items of engraved music, 18th century editions, as described in Richard Macnutt's catalogue 'The Music Collection of an Eighteenth Century Gentleman'. With a manuscript entitled 'William White His Book Augustye ix MDCCL'. Also a boxed volume containing a manuscrip...
Photocopies of Sir William Walton: Autograph draft of The Foresaken Merman (1916) and proof copies with annotations of Siesta (1928).
Scope & Content:
1. The Forsaken Merman for tenor and soprano solo, chorus and orchestra, text by Matthew Arnold, in vocal score, the orchestration only occasionally indicated in the piano part, notated in pencil and blue ink on up to twelve staves, with a number of deletions, alterations and ersures. ff.20. Lar...