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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 58435
Title:: Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester, autograph poems
Scope & Content:: Autograph collection of poetry by Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester, courtier and poet (1563-1626). Inscribed ‘For the Countess of Pembroke’, i.e. the poet’s sister Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, writer and literary patron (1561-1621). ff. i-ii W. Blott: letter to H.J. Cooke, ag...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1590-1600
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 58436
Title:: GEORGE ELIOT: correspondence of, together with some letters relating to Mary Ann Evans al. George Eliot; 1856-1880. Printed as indicated in G. S. Haight, The George Eliot Letters (1975-1978). Purchased from Mrs A. S. Womersley of Wilmslow, co. Chest., 13 Feb. 1975. Paper; ff. 20. British Library arrangement. 1. ff. 1-2v. George Eliot to her brother, Isaac Evans; 1856. Imperfect. Haight, VIII, pp. 155-156. 2. ff. 3-5v. G. H. Lewes to the Rev. James R. Quirk; 1859. Haight, III, p. 135. ...
Scope & Content:: Marian Cross, née Evans; alias ''George Eliot''; novelist: Correspondence of and rel. to George Eliot: 1856-1880: Partly imperf. includes: ff. 1, 15 Isaac Pearson Evans, brother of ''George Eliot'': Letters to, from George Eliot: 1856, 1880: Imperf. and autogr. copy. f. 3 George Henry Lewes, w...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1856-1880
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 59798
Title:: Benjamin Britten: 'A Boy Was Born', choral variations for unaccompanied men's, women's and boys' voices, op. 3
Scope & Content:: A set of nine vocal parts, marked Boys, Sopranos I, Sopranos II, Altos I, Altos II, Tenors I, Tenors II, Basses I and Basses II. Autograph music manuscript in ink, with numerous paste-down corrections and some pencil annotations. 'A Boy Was Born' received its first public performance at the Merc...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1932-1933
Extent:: 1 volume (i + 72 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 59899
Title:: Household book of Henry VII for the years 1502-1505
Scope & Content:: A household book for the court of Henry VII (b. 1457, d. 1509), including lists of monthly loans, revenues, bonds, obligations, taxes, rents and memorandi for the years 1502-1505 written by John Heron (b. 1470, d. 1522), Treasurer of the Chamber, sometimes signed by the king himself. Contents:...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1502-1505
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 59900
Title:: Household book of Henry VIII for the years 1543-1544
Scope & Content:: A household book for the court of Henry VIII (b. 1491, d. 1547), including monthly receipts and payments for the period of October 1543 until October 1544, and the rewards given at the beginning of the year 1544 to the royal household, donors, noblemen and clergy. Contents: ff. 1r-32r: Monthly...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1543-1544
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 60596
Title:: Benjamin Britten: 'Friday Afternoons', op. 7
Scope & Content:: Title-page (f. i): 'Friday Afternoons / A Dozen School Songs', with Britten's signature. Autograph music manuscript. The volume contains the following songs (numbered in red crayon), scored mainly for voice and piano: I. 'Be-gone dull care!' (f. 1-1v). Words anonymous. Scored in pencil, initi...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1933-1935
Extent:: 1 volume (i + 32 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 60598
Title:: Benjamin Britten: 'Song for St Cecilia' [Hymn to St Cecilia], op. 27
Scope & Content:: Words, W.H. Auden. Short score, for five-part unaccompanied chorus. Autograph music manuscript, in pencil, with an addition in red crayon on f. 7v. The work's original title ('Song for St Cecilia') is written across partially erased score which has also been struck-through (f. 1), and f. 1v is ...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1942
Extent:: 1 volume (8 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 60599
Title:: Benjamin Britten: 'Serenade' for tenor, horn and strings, op. 31
Scope & Content:: Short score. Autograph music manuscript, in pencil, with some revision of song titles in red crayon. The 'Prologue' and 'Epilogue' are not included. Title page (f. 1): 'Serenade', in red crayon, written across a draft of the beginning (struck-through) of 'Dirge' (cf. f. 9). The draft continues ...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1943
Extent:: 1 volume (15 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 60600
Title:: Benjamin Britten: '[The] Beggar's Opera', op. 43
Scope & Content:: Ballad-opera with words by John Gay and music realized from the original airs by Benjamin Britten. Full score, mostly in pencil, mostly autograph (apart from ff. 124-128v and ff. 139-140v which are in black ink, in the hand of Arthur Oldham, Britten's pupil and assistant). Adhered to the inside...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1948-1979
Extent:: 1 volume (i + 189 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 60601
Title:: Benjamin Britten: 'Abraham & Isaac or Canticle II', op. 51
Scope & Content:: Score, for alto and tenor voices and piano. Autograph music manuscript, in pencil (small additions in blue ink on f. 3v and on f. 9). Britten's initials on the title page (f. 1). Not dated. Text: from the Chester Miracle Play Histories of Lot and Abraham. First performance: 21 January 1952, Al...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1952]
Extent:: 1 volume (10 folios)

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