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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 41634
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Scope & Content:: PERABO COLLECTION. Vol. VII. Music by Johann Michael Haydn and Karl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber, viz.:- (1) 'Messa de Requiem', in Bb, for four voices, two violins, viola, two oboes, two horns, two fagotti, tromboni, two clarini and drums, and figured bass for organ with violoncello, by Gi...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and German
Date Range:: 1804
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 41636
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Scope & Content:: Vol. I (ff. 367). 1795-1882. includes: f. 1 John Jacob Astor, musical instrument manufacturer: Letter to Messrs Broadwood and Son: 1795.: Photogr.f. 2 Thomas Campbell, poet: Certificate by: 1842.ff. 3-125 passim John Sliegh, humorous artist: Letters and verses to A. J. and Mrs Hipkins: 1...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English, French, German, and Italian
Date Range:: 1795-1882
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 41636-41639
Title:: HIPKINS PAPERS. Correspondence, etc., of Alfred James Hipkins, F.S.A. (1826-1903), relating mainly to his researches on ancient musical instruments and musical pitch, and including letters, etc., from Alexander John Ellis, F.R.S. (on pitch), Victor Mahillon of Brussels (on keyboard instruments), Charles Russell Day (on Indian musical instruments) and contemporary musicians, artists, actors and literary personalities. The collection also includes letters written to members of his family. The ...
Scope & Content:: Music: Correspondence and papers, with drawings and photographs, of A. J. Hipkins rel. to antique keyboard instruments, musical pitch, etc.: 19th-20th centt. Alfred James Hipkins, FSA: Correspondence and papers: 19th-20th centt.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English, French, German, and Italian
Date Range:: [1795-1927]
Extent:: 4 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 41639
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Scope & Content:: Vol. IV (ff. 331). 1895-1927 and n.d. includes: f. 1 Sir Walter Besant, novelist: Letter to A. J. Hipkins: 1895.ff. 2, 6, 11 Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, Baronet; composer: Letters to A. J. Hipkins: 1893-1895.ff. 5, 74 Sir Isidor George Henschel, musician: Letters to A. J. Hipkins:...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English, French, German, and Italian
Date Range:: 1895-1927
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 41749
Title:: ANTIQUARIAN COLLECTIONS, correspondence, and notes by Albert Way, F.S.A.; 1841-1870, n.d. The principal contents are a series of letters to Way from Dr Ferdinand Keller, President of the Antiquarische Gesellschaft in Zürich, 12 July 1858-21 Aug. 1870, and n.d. (ff. 1-145), correspondence with other antiquaries, drawings of armour, costume, monumental brasses, etc., with notes on the same. Other collections of Way are in Add. MSS. 42571, 42727 and 42728. Paper; ff. 455. Quarto. XIX cent. Tran...
Scope & Content:: Brasses, Sepulchral: Drawings of brasses in A. Way collections, and by E. Blore: 19th cent. Albert Way, FSA: Letters to, and antiquarian notes and drawings by: 1841-1870, n.d. includes: ff. 1-145 Ferdinand Keller, Swiss antiquary: Letters to A. Way: 1858-1870. f. 47 Sir John Evans, KCB, FSA: ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and German
Date Range:: 1841-1870
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 41771
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Scope & Content:: SMART PAPERS. Vol. I (ff. I94). Correspondence, etc., of Sir George Thomas Smart, largely in connection with the Philharmonic Society (including some letters written to Lady Smart after her husband's death); 1790-1867, n.d. includes: ff. 1-3, 35, 47, 88 London; City Companies. Stationers' C...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English, French, and German
Date Range:: 1790-1867
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 41771-41779
Title:: PAPERS of Sir George Thomas Smart (knt. 1811; d. 1867), musician and orchestral conductor. Smart was an original member of the Philharmonic Society, founded in 1813, and in 1822 was appointed joint organist of the Chapel Royal, St James's. The material has been used by H. B. Cox and C. L. E. Cox, Leaves from the Journals of Sir George Smart, 1907. Nine volumes (Vol. X is Add. MS. 42225). Various sizes. Presented by H. B. Cox, Esq., C.B.
Scope & Content:: Sir George Thomas Smart, musician: Correspondence and papers: 1776-1861. Music: Papers of Sir G. T. Smart: 1790-1867.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and German
Date Range:: [1776-1867]
Extent:: 9 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 41803-41805
Title:: MIDDLETON PAPERS. Vols. I-III. Letters and papers dealing with home affairs
Scope & Content:: Owen Wynne, d 1700 LLD; Under-Secretary of State: Correspondence and papers of, in the Middleton Papers. Charles Middleton, 2nd Earl of Middleton: Papers of: 1660-1688, n.d.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Dutch, English, French, German, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:: [1660-1688]
Extent:: 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 41803-41846
Title:: MIDDLETON PAPERS, consisting mainly of the official correspondence of Charles Middleton, 2nd Earl of Middleton, Secretary of State from 1684 till the flight of James II, with a few earlier papers of previous Secretaries of State, 1660-Nov. 1688 and n.d.
Scope & Content:: Cf. Brit. Mus. Quart., iv, 1929-1930, pp. 80-82. A number of letters are addressed to his secretary, Dr Owen Wynne (see above), whose family inherited the papers and added the later, mostly 18th cent., collections, Add. MSS. 41843-41845. The final volume (Add. MS. 41846) consists of the papers o...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Polish, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish
Date Range:: 1660-Nov 1688
Extent:: 48 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 41804
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Scope & Content:: MIDDLETON PAPERS. Vol. II (ff. 318). Papers rel. mainly to the suppression of Monmouth's rebellion, the apprehension of, and informations against rebels, and reports on English conspirators in Holland, including intercepted letters, July 1685-Dec. 1687. includes: f. 1 Colonel Henry Eve: Corr...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Dutch, English, French, German, and Spanish
Date Range:: Jul 1685-Dec 1687
Extent:: 1 item

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