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541. Add MS 53767-53770

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HOLLANDER PAPERS: correspondence and memoirs of Benno Hollander, Dutch violinist, conductor and composer (b.1853, d.1942); 1880-1936, n.d. Some printed material. English, Dutch, French, and German. Purchased from Lieutenant-Commander David I. Aldrich, R.N., Hollander's nephew, on 11 June 1966. Paper. Four volumes. British Library arrangement.
Scope & Content:
Music: Benno Hollander, violinist and composer: Correspondence and papers of Benno Hollander: 1880-1936, n.d.: Engl., Dutch, Fr. and Germ: Partly printed.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, and German
Date Range:
1880-1936
Extent:
4 items

542. Add MS 53816

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MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS AND PAPERS. Paper; ff. 126. British Library arrangement. A. Two letters; 1843, 1856. Transferred from the Department of Printed Books, 9 Feb. 1967. ff. 1-4. 1. ff. 1-2. John Pye Smith, nonconformist divine, to? Rev. Dr Joseph Bosworth; 11 Jan. 1843. 187 x 113mm. 2. ff. 3-4. Wilson Armistead, Quaker author, to James Kirkly; 25 March 1856. 202 x 127mm. B. Letter from William Harrison Ainsworth, novelist, to Richard Harris Barham, author, with draft of Barh...
Scope & Content:
includes: f. 1 Joseph Bosworth, Anglo-Saxon scholar: John Pye Smith, DD: Letter to(?) Joseph Bosworth from John Pye Smith: 1843.f. 3 Wilson Armistead, Quaker author: James Kirkly: Letter to James Kirkly from Wilson Armistead: 1856.ff. 5-8v Richard Harris Barham, author: William Harrison A...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, German, Italian, and Spanish
Date Range:
1673-1946
Extent:
1 item

543. Add MS 54193

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Add MS 54193
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BACHE ALBUM: album concerning Francis Edward Bache, composer and musician (d.1858); 1833-1855. Partly printed. English, German and shorthand. Composed by Bache's mother Emily (neé Higginson), wife of Samuel Bache, unitarian minister at Birmingham. The material chiefly consists of correspondence between Bache and his parents, particularly while he was away from home in London and Leipzig, 1849-1953. The album also includes portraits, a narrative by Emily Bache on the composer's early life and...
Scope & Content:
Emily Bache, née Higginson; wife of S Bache: Album of, conc. her son, F. E. Bache: 1833-1855: Partly Germ. and shorthand: Partly printed. Emily Bache, née Higginson; wife of S Bache: Correspondence with family and friends: 1837-1853: Partly shorthand: Partly extracts. Music: Francis Edward Bac...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and German
Date Range:
1833-1855
Extent:
1 item

544. Add MS 54229-54323*

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Add MS 54229-54323*
Title:
MILLAR BEQUEST
Scope & Content:
Manuscripts bequeathed to the British Museum by Dr Eric George Millar (1887-1966), Keeper of Manuscripts 1944-1947. See also Add. 54179-54180 and Add. Chs. 75641-75722. See The Eric George Millar Bequest of Manuscripts and Drawings 1967. A Commemorative Volume. BMQ, xxxiii, 1-2 (1968). Acquire...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
[1150-1999]
Extent:
95 items

545. Add MS 54436-54476

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H. W. WILLIAMS PAPERS. Letters and papers of Harold Whitmore Williams (d.1928), journalist, Foreign Editor of the Times, and of his wife, Ariadna Vladimirovna, formerly Tyrkova, relating mainly to the activities of the Russian Liberation Committee in London; 1918-1929, n.d. Russian, English, French and German. Partly typewritten. Partly copies. Acquired with printed material by the Slavonic section of the Department of Printed Books as a gift from Mrs Tyrkova-Williams in 1937 and transferred...
Scope & Content:
Russia General: Russian Language: Ariadna Vladimirovna Tyrkova Williams, wife of H W Williams: Harold Whitmore Williams, Editor of 'The Slavonic Review': Correspondence and papers conc. the Russian Liberation Committee: 1918-1929, n.d: Russ., Engl. Fr. and Germ: Partly typewritten and copies.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, and Russian
Date Range:
1918-1929
Extent:
41 items

546. Add MS 54485

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Add MS 54485
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TAYLOR LETTER-BOOK: letter-book of Peter Taylor, afterwards M.P., Deputy Paymaster of the British forces in Germany during the Seven Years War; 16 May 1760-2 March 1761. Autograph. Some French and German. Included is an account, dated 15 July 1760, of the battle at Corbach (f. 8v), and some material of a personal nature. Presented by Hofmann and Freeman (Antiquarian Booksellers) Ltd., 14 Oct. 1968. Paper; ff. iii+45. 372 x 240mm. Contemporary brown calf binding, worn.
Scope & Content:
Peter Taylor, Deputy Paymaster of the British forces in Germany: Army; England: Letter-book of Peter Taylor: 1760-1761: Partly Fr. and Germ: Autogr.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and German
Date Range:
16 May 1760-2 Mar 1761
Extent:
1 item

547. Add MS 54488-54493

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Add MS 54488-54493
Title:
GÜNTHER PAPERS
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and papers of Dr Albert Charles Lewis Gotthilf Günther, F.R.S., Keeper of Zoology at the British Museum 1875-1895, and his brother, Dr Carl Theodor Günther, physician; 1847-1914. German, with some English. Partly printed. Some photographs. The main correspondent is their mother, E...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and German
Date Range:
1847-1914
Extent:
6 items

548. Add MS 54495 A-B

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Add MS 54495 A-B
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GESSI PAPERS: correspondence and papers of and concerning Romolo Gessi, his family and associates; circa 1878-1931. Some copies, typewritten and printed material. English, French, German, Italian, Arabic and Turkish. Gessi (d.1881) was Governor of Bahr el-Ghazal and the Equatorial Provinces in the Sudan under the Governor-Generalship of General Charles George Gordon and subsequently of Raouf Pasha. The papers chiefly concern Gessi's operations in 1878-1880, particularly against Suleiman Zebh...
Scope & Content:
includes: ff. 94-95v Paolo Virginio Zucchinetti, surgeon: Letter to R. Gessi: 1879: Ital. f. 137 Achille Salza, agent; of Alexandria: Letter to T. Figari: 1881: Ital. f. 139 Hermann Braun, of Genoa: Letter to T. Figari: 1881: Ital.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, French, German, Italian, and Turkish
Date Range:
c 1878-1931
Extent:

2 items

549. Add MS 54575-54578

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LORD MACMILLAN PAPERS: correspondence and papers of Hugh Pattison Macmillan, Baron Macmillan; 1934-1949, n.d. Partly copies, with a large proportion of typewritten material and some printed items. Some French. Presented by Mrs Hope Pattison Dyson on behalf of the residuary legatees of Lady Macmillan, 11 Jan. 1969. Paper. Four volumes. British Library arrangement.
Scope & Content:
Hugh Pattison Macmillan, Baron Macmillan: Correspondence and papers: 1939-1949, n.d.: Some French: Partly typewritten.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and German
Date Range:
1934-1949
Extent:
4 items

550. Add MS 54724-54781

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Add MS 54724-54781
Title:
BAX COLLECTION. Music manuscripts of Sir Arnold Edward Trevor Bax (b. 1883, d. 1953), Master of the Queen's Music; 1897-1949, n.d. Autograph. Manuscripts are in ink, and works were published in London, unless otherwise stated. Significant dedicatees are noted. For a catalogue of Bax's music, including details of surviving manuscripts held elsewhere, see Lewis Foreman, Bax: a composer and his time (1983). Firm dates in square brackets are taken from this catalogue. For other Bax manuscripts...
Scope & Content:
Music: Music manuscripts of Arnold Bax: 1897-1949, n.d. Sir Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, alias 'Sheila McCarthy'; alias 'Dermot O'Byrne'; KCVO; composer: Music manuscripts: 1897-1949, n.d.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Danish, English, and German
Date Range:
1897-1949
Extent:
58 items

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