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Container Reference (shelfmark) MS Mus. 1747/2/4

1. MS Mus. 1747/2/4/1

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1747/2/4/1
Title:
Supplementary Humphrey Searle Collection. Papers. Personal papers, early papers and memoirs and correspondence
Scope & Content:
1. Papers from Searle's early years: Savings account book, 1915-1927. Papers relating to Searle's time at Scaitcliffe school (at Egham in Surrey): Scaitcliffe Notes, school newsletter, April 1924; School report, 18 June 1924; Scaitcliffe Half Term List, 18 June 1924; Scaitcliffe Notes, August 1...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1915-1982
Extent:
210 folios

2. MS Mus. 1747/2/4/2

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1747/2/4/2
Title:
Supplementary Humphrey Searle Collection. Papers. Autograph book
Scope & Content:
Likely to have been a gift on the occasion of Searle’s departure from the BBC in 1948.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1948
Extent:
i, 29 folios

3. MS Mus. 1747/2/4/3

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1747/2/4/3
Title:
Supplementary Humphrey Searle Collection. Papers. Diaries
Scope & Content:
A. Diary (of engagements), 1979. ii, 73 folios B. Diary (of engagements), 1980. i, 114 folios C. Diary (of engagements), 1981. i, 82 folios
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1979-1981
Extent:

3 pocket diaries

4. MS Mus. 1747/2/4/4

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1747/2/4/4
Title:
Supplementary Humphrey Searle Collection. Papers. Address book
Scope & Content:
Searle's records of names and addresses of friends and acquaintances. A bound volume into which cards, notes, etc. had been inserted. Broadly, the alphabetical arrangement is Searle’s. At a smaller scale, loose leaves have been grouped at the beginning of the relevant alphabetic section, and the...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1940-c 1970
Extent:
244 folios

5. MS Mus. 1747/2/4/5

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1747/2/4/5
Title:
Supplementary Humphrey Searle Collection. Papers. Further administrative papers
Scope & Content:
1. ff. 1-152. Contracts relating to Searle’s musical and scholarly works, along with some correspondence and papers related to royalties 2. ff. 153-175. Correspondence and papers relating to possible musical and scholarly commissions, originally filed with the contracts. This includes a photoco...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1947-1989
Extent:
208 folios

6. MS Mus. 1747/2/4/6

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1747/2/4/6
Title:
Supplementary Humphrey Searle Collection. Papers. Papers and press cuttings of Searle’s parents
Scope & Content:
Papers kept by Searle's parents, including concert programmes, newspaper cuttings and letters and drawings of Humphrey Searle as a very young child. Including a letter from Gwen Scott, foster carer for the Searle brothers, writing to Lady Schlich, Searle's paternal grandmother, about Searle's sch...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1915-c 1945
Extent:
75 folios

7. MS Mus. 1747/2/4/7

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1747/2/4/7
Title:
Supplementary Humphrey Searle Collection. Papers. Papers of Fiona Searle
Scope & Content:
Papers created or accumulated by Fiona Searle, many relating to her husband. For correspondence of Fiona relating specifically to the publication of Humphrey Searle’s autobiography, see MS Mus. 1747/2/5/3. 1. Correspondence received or sent by Fiona Searle, mostly after her husband's death. Som...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1976-1992
Extent:
201 folios