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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 71615
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Scope & Content:: SUPPLEMENTARY HARROD PAPERS. Vol. VII (ff. 119). Correspondence concerning the will of George Bernard Shaw; 1955-1957. In 1956 solicitors acting for the British Museum and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art asked Harrod to depose to an Affidavit on their behalf. The Public Trustee was seeking di...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and German
Date Range:: 1955-1957
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 71627
Title:: GEORGE WILLIAM CHAD: miscellaneous correspondence and papers of George William Chad, diplomatist; 1825-1842, n.d. Partly French and German. Mostly diplomatic correspondence as minister at Dresden with officials in London, but with some later family letters and papers; one letter (6 June 1826) refers to the composer Weber's stay and death in London. See also Add. 59705-59736, 61836. Purchased from Julian Browning, 13 June 1995. Paper; ff. 70. 335 x 208mm.
Scope & Content:: George William Chad, diplomatist: Correspondence and papers: 1825-1842, n.d. includes: f. 1 George William Chad, diplomatist: Madame de Smith, of The Hague: Letter to G. W. Chad from Madame de Smith: 1825: Fr.f. 2 George William Chad, diplomatist: Madame Fagel, of The Hague: Letter postscr...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and German
Date Range:: 1825-1842
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 71641-71644
Title:: EMIL BÖCHER: aerial photographs, maps, certificates and other papers relating to his military career; 1914-1944.
Scope & Content:: Böcher joined a German infantry regiment at the outbreak of World War I, and from 1915 to June 1918 he was stationed in several sectors of the Western Front, where he was presumably involved in liaison between the infantry and the Luftwaffe. In World War II he saw active service in Poland, and w...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and German
Date Range:: 1914-1944
Extent:: 4 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 71688
Title:: CHRONOGRAMS: mostly of German origin; circa 1654-circa 1702. Collected and partly transcribed by James Hilton, F.S.A., 1899. Mostly Latin, with French and German; Hilton's transcriptions in Latin and English. A note by Hilton on f. 1 gives the origin of the 17th and 18th century leaves in the volume as 'apparently from note books broken up by the bookseller at Munich who sold them to me from time to time in 1899.' He bequeathed his collection of books of or relating to, chronograms, to the B...
Scope & Content:: James Hilton, FSA: Chronograms: Chronograms and chronogrammatic verses, etc., collected, and with notes by James Hilton: circa 1654 - circa 1702, 1899: Mostly Lat.; partly Fr. and Germ. includes: ff. 2, 4 Ferdinand III; Emperor of Germany: Chronograms rel. to his eldest son, Ferdinand, King of...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: c 1654-c 1702
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 71694
Title:: EWALD OSERS CORRESPONDENCE: correspondence of Ewald Osers (b.1917), translator, with T. S. Eliot (b.1888, d.1965), poet, publisher and critic, and with Ashley Dukes (b.1885, d.1959), dramatist, critic, theatre manager and dramatic agent to T. S. Eliot, together with Osers' translation into German of Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral and related material, including autobiographical notes by Osers; 1945-1995. Mostly signed; partly copies, partly printed, partly typewritten. The correspondence co...
Scope & Content:: includes: ff. 1-20, passim Ashley Dukes, author and dramatist: Ewald Osers, translator: Correspondence between Ewald Osers and Ashley Dukes: 1945-1947: Partly signed. Partly copies.ff. 1-20, passim Thomas Stearns Eliot, poet: Ewald Osers, translator: Correspondence between Ewald Osers and T...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and German
Date Range:: 1945-1995
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 71721-71862
Title:: HUMPHREY SEARLE COLLECTION. Music manuscripts and papers by and relating to Humphrey Searle, CBE (1915-1982), composer, broadcaster and Liszt scholar; 1880-1982, n.d. Scores are autograph and in pencil, and annotations, which appear in many scores and are not generally noted, are in ink except where otherwise stated. Opus numbers, and firm datings, where not present on the manuscripts themselves, are taken from Searle’s own lists of his works in Add. 71824. Published works bear a London impr...
Scope & Content:: Humphrey Searle, CBE; composer: Music manuscripts, papers, etc., by and rel. to: 1880-1982, n.d.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English, French, German, Greek, Modern, and Spanish
Date Range:: 1880-1982
Extent:: 142 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 71739-71743
Title:: HUMPHREY SEARLE COLLECTION. Vols xix-xxiii. ‘Hamlet’, opera in three acts after Shakespeare, op.48; 1965-8. Revised full score issued [Faber Music, 1968]. Vocal score published Faber Music, 1971. Five volumes.
Scope & Content:: William Shakespeare, dramatist and poet: Humphrey Searle's opera 'Hamlet' after William Shakespeare: 1965-1968: Engl. and Germ.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and German
Date Range:: 1965-1968
Extent:: 5 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 71807
Title:
Scope & Content:: L. Music by other composers. All autograph. 71807. HUMPHREY SEARLE COLLECTION. Vol. lxxxvii. ff. 61. Largest size 355 x 275mm. 1. ff. 1-9. R Gorer: ‘Sonata’ for piano; 1947. 2. ff. 10-16. Elizabeth Lutyens: ‘Sonata for Viola Solo’ op.5 no.4; 1938. Ink. Published Lengnick, 1946. 3. ff. 17-18...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and German
Date Range:: 1910-1949
Extent:: 1 item

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