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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 47861 A
Title:: Meyerstein Bequest. Vol. XXI.
Scope & Content:: Autograph music:- (1) Sketch for the mazurka in C, op. 56, no. 2, by Fryderyk Chopin; circ. 1843. Two leaves (ff. 1-2), 215 mm × 280 mm, formerly one bifolium, the music being written on the first recto. The sketch contains most of the thematic material, written in sections each ending with a ...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: German
Date Range:: 1772-1853
Extent:: 52 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 48085
Title:: Papers relating to the German Protestant states, 1563-1580
Scope & Content:: Copies of papers concerning foreign affairs, chiefly with reference to the German Protestant states between 1563 and 1580. Alarmed by divisions between Lutherans and Calvinists in Germany, Queen Elizabeth I sent three missions to that country in 1577, with the aim of establishing a Protestant Le...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, German, and Latin
Date Range:: 1563-1580
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 49014
Title:: JELLICOE PAPERS. Vol. XXVI. Papers relating to the Battle of Jutland; 1915-1936.
Scope & Content:: JELLICOE PAPERS. Vol. XXVI (ff. 301). Papers relating to the Battle of Jutland, etc.; 1915-1936. 1. ff. 1-21. Grand Fleet Battle Orders in force on the eve of the battle; 1915. Typewritten extracts. 2. ff. 22-37. Further Correspondence between His Majesty's Government and the United States G...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and German
Date Range:: 1915-1936
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 49035
Title:: JELLICOE PAPERS. Vol. XLVII. Personal and official letters received by Jellicoe before and during the First World War; 1900-1916.
Scope & Content:: Vol. XLVII (ff. 207). 1900-1916. includes: f. 2 Edward Marjoribanks, 2nd Baron Tweedmouth: Letter to Lord Jellicoe: 1907. ff. 4-7b, 24, 89 Reginald McKenna, PC; MP: Correspondence, etc., with Lord Jellicoe: 1908-1922: Mostly signed. ff. 8, 13-22b, 31, 55 Ernst Adolph Julius Guido von Usedom, G...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and German
Date Range:: 1900-1916
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 58037
Title:: Edward Elgar: 'Sospiri' for strings, harp (or pianoforte) and harmonium (or organ), op. 70
Scope & Content:: Score. 'W. H. Reed freundschaftlichst zugeeignet'. On f. ii is typed 'This short orchestral piece has the violin part written for Reed'. Annotated in pencil.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and German
Date Range:: [1914]
Extent:: 1 volume (ii + 9 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 58054
Title:: Edward Elgar: 'Ecce Sacerdos magnus' for chorus and orchestra and 'Sospiri, (Seufzer) Adagio für Violine mit Begleitung für pianoforte', op. 70
Scope & Content:: 1. ff. 1-30. 'Ecce Sacerdos magnus' for chorus and orchestra; 1888. Full score (ff. 1-15) and orchestral parts (ff. 17-30). The title and choral part in the score are cut from the printed vocal score. Vocal score published as part of A. E. Tozer (ed.), 'Modern Church Music for Catholic Choirs', ...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: German and Latin
Date Range:: 1888-1914
Extent:: 1 volume (i + 40 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 60615
Title:: Benjamin Britten: 'Children's Crusade', op. 82 (short score)
Scope & Content:: Autograph music manuscript, in pencil, including discarded passages. Dated by Britten: 'November 10th 1968' (f. 20v). Title page (f. 1): 'Kinderkreuzzug 1939 (Brecht) / For Boy's [sic] voices (solo & chorus) / 2 pianos & percussion / (with electric organ to support voices)'; list of voic...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and German
Date Range:: 1968
Extent:: 1 volume (36 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 60616
Title:: Benjamin Britten: 'Children's Crusade', op. 82 (full score)
Scope & Content:: A partly autograph music manuscript, in pencil, setting a text by Bertolt Brecht (translated by Hans Keller). Signed and dated by Britten: 'Aldeburgh October-November 1968' (f. 1), with an additional folio dated in a copyist's hand: 'Sept. '69' (f. 48). The volume comprises: title page (f. 1), ...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and German
Date Range:: 1968-1969
Extent:: 1 volume (48 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 62162
Title:: NORTHCLIFFE PAPERS. Vol. X. Proceedings of the Committee for Propaganda in Enemy Countries; 1918.
Scope & Content:: Vol. X (ff. 101). Minutes, etc.; 1918. Committee for Propaganda in Enemy Countries: Proceedings: 1917, 1918, n.d.: Partly Fr. and Germ.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and German
Date Range:: 1918
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 62163
Title:: NORTHCLIFFE PAPERS. Vol. XI. Proceedings of the Committee for Propaganda in Enemy Countries; 1917-1918.
Scope & Content:: Vol. XI (ff. 146). Memoranda, etc.; 1917, 1918, n.d. Committee for Propaganda in Enemy Countries: Proceedings: 1917, 1918, n.d.: Partly Fr. and Germ. includes: ff. 2-9 Herbert George Wells, author: 'Memorandum of the General Principles of Propaganda' by Herbert George Wells: 1918: Typewritten.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and German
Date Range:: 1917-1918
Extent:: 1 item

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