1. MS Mus. 291-292
- Reference (shelfmark):
- MS Mus. 291-292
- Title:
- MSS Mus. 291-292. SIR MICHAEL TIPPETT: letters (156) and postcards (33) to Douglas Newton (b.1920, d.2001); 1939-1946, n.d. With various other letters, which are listed in the index. Newton was at the time a freelance journalist, script-writer and poet, and later became director of the Rockefeller Museum of Primitive Art, subsequently the Department of Primitive Art of the Metropolitan Museum, New York. Purchased from John Amis, Esq., 14 July 1996. Two volumes. Overall size 280 x 255mm.
- Scope & Content:
- Sir Michael Kemp Tippett, OM; CH; composer: Brean Leslie Douglas Newton, poet, museum curator and oceanic art specialist: Letters to Brean Leslie Douglas Newton from Sir Michael Kemp Tippett: 1939-46, n.d.: Autogr.
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1939-1946
- Extent:
- 2 items