Royal Philharmonic Society Archive RPS MSS 272-417. Official papers, etc., of the Royal Philharmonic Society; 1813-1968, n.d. Formerly British Library Loan 48. The Society was founded in London in 1813, and granted the prefix ‘Royal’ in 1912. The larger part of the archive was placed on loan in 1962 and, where the arrangement allowed, added to on a number of subsequent occasions. When the final additions were made, in 1990, a terminal date of 1960 was set, though because of the format of so...
Receipts (signed) mainly from performers, some entered on printed forms; 1815, 1830-80, n.d. Arranged in alphabetical order. Receipts for 1912-13 have been incorporated into the alphabetical series of ‘Original Letters’ in RPS MSS 333-368. ff. 405. Various sizes. includes: f. 1 Anthony Abbo...
Album containing miscellaneous printed official notices, copies of programmes for command concerts, etc., tickets, seating plans of St James’s Hall, menus for directors’ annual dinners, and other material; 1867-72. Printed. Part of an earlier binding, preserved on the present upper cover, is let...
‘Original letters’: Abell – Artôt (ff. 255); 1823-1913, n.d. includes: f. 1 Edith Abell, singer: Letter to the Directors of the Philharmonic Society: 1878: Autogr.f. 2-3 Stanley Lucas, Secretary, Philharmonic Society: Edith Abell, singer: Letter to Stanley Lucas from Edith Abell: 1879: Aut...
‘Original letters’; 1813-1955, n.d. The principal part of the series, surviving from the Society’s archive since its inception, had been gathered together and arranged by 1910. Subsequently select later letters were inserted into the series, and the whole bound into these volumes on their incorporation as a loan in the British Museum. A small number of draft letters from the Society is included, placed in order with the letters from the addressee. The letters are arranged in alphabetical o...