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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 52963 R
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Scope & Content:: La demande en marriage, song with words by Gustave Lemoine for the music by Mlle. L. Puget. Printed. French. Licence sent 19 December 1856 for performance at the St James’s. Publisher’s list at back. Keywords: French influence. ff. 2. Gustave Lemoine, dramatist: London; Secular Instituti...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and German
Date Range:: 19 Dec 1856
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 53767-53770
Title:: 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

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 53768
Title:
Scope & Content:: HOLLANDER PAPERS. Vol. II (ff. 210). General correspondence; 1880-1930, n.d. English, Dutch, French, and German. At the end of the volume are miscellaneous items, including photographs (ff. 205-210). includes: f. 1 Edward [Ullmann?], of Chicago: Letter to B. Hollander: 1880: Germ.ff. 2, 6-28...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: Dutch, English, French, and German
Date Range:: 1880-1930
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 53816
Title:: 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

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 54193
Title:: 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

Reference (shelfmark):: 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

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 54316-54317
Title:: MILLAR BEQUEST. Vols. XC, XCI. Autograph collection
Scope & Content:: Some French, German and Italian. See BMQ, xxxiii, pp. 50-51. Mounted in an album, with printed portraits and photographs of a number of the writers. The album is annotated by Millar, with details of acquisition, etc., including information about items dispersed from the collection. Millar's book...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, and Italian
Date Range:: 1689-1937
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 54436-54476
Title:: 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

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 54485
Title:: 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

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