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Collection of papers removed from Yates Thompson MSS
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A collection of over 100 papers and letters to Henry Yates Thompson removed from other Yates Thompson MSS, mostly from museums and libraries in England and abroad offering provenance information, translations, and commentaries on his manuscript collection. Includes letters from M. R. James (15r...
Stefan Zweig Collection: Music, literary and historical manuscripts
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Comprising items collected by Stefan Zweig and by his immediate heirs, with a number presented to Zweig by the writers. All manuscripts are autograph unless otherwise stated. A number of the music manuscripts from the collection were formerly placed on loan in the British Library, the Mozart man...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Danish, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Norwegian, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish
Igor Stravinsky: ‘Pulcinella’, ballet with song in one act (music after Pergolesi and others, scenario Serge Diaghilev, Leonide Massine and the composer), for small orchestra and soprano, tenor and bass soloists: notebook containing drafts and sketches
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Autograph. In short, condensed and full score. Written in black ink and pencil, with additions and annotations in red ink and blue crayon, on systems of two to twelve staves; staves are ruled individually as required on each page. Where pages contain more than one system the music is often writt...
Richard Wagner: ‘Das Liebesverbot’ (WWV 38), comic opera in two acts (libretto, the composer after Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure), 1834-40: draft libretto, and French translation, with draft of a letter to Giacomo Meyerbeer
STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CLI. André Gide: lecture 'De l'importance du public'; 1903 (see f. 2). Draft. French. See Oeuvres Complètes d'André Gide, ed. L. Martin-Chauffier, vol. 4 [Paris, 1937], pp. 181-197. Author's presentation letter to Zweig, 1914 (f. 1). ff. 24. 218 x 167mm. André Pa...
STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vols. CLXXXIV, CLXXXV. Two notebooks containing the final part of the novel 'Jean-Christophe'; 1911-1912. Draft. French. Entitled 'L'Aube Nouvelle', but published in the section 'La fin du voyage' as 'La Nouvelle Journée'. See Cahiers de la Quinzaine, series xiv, cahiers 2, 3 (Paris, 1912). ff. 111, 108. 219 x 177mm. Bound volumes.