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2031. Add MS 89231/25/55

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Add MS 89231/25/55
Title:
Cox-Ife Bequest to D'Oyly Carte Archive: Music for Le répétiteur d'anglais
Scope & Content:
Musical support material of several simple songs for an English language course for young French learners. Draft pencil scores. For related correspondence with the French publishers Hachette, see Add MS 89231/25/43. Note: Twelve small 'disques' of recorded material, which include Cox-Ife's mus...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1960s
Extent:
1 file

2032. Add MS 89231/25/56

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Add MS 89231/25/56
Title:
Cox-Ife Bequest to D'Oyly Carte Archive: Three Art Works
Scope & Content:
(1). Printed caricature (colour) of Thomas Beecham, by 'Emu'. Published as a supplement to The World (1910). 355 x 240 mm. (2). 'Bristol City'. Woodcut by C. Lovat Fraser. Numbered 33 of 50 (published 1916). 270 x 415 mm (lower edge damaged). (3). 'A Design for a Stage Dress'. Original costume...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1910-1916
Extent:
1 file

2033. Add MS 89231/25/57

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Add MS 89231/25/57
Title:
Bertha Lewis Bequest to D'Oyly Carte Archive: Correspondence with D'Oyly Carte in Connection with the Estate of Bertha Lewis
Scope & Content:
Brief correspondence following the death of Bertha Lewis concerning her estate. Letters from Hulbert, Crowe & Hulbert (Solicitors, Liverpool Street), and the Evelyn Nursing Home, Cambridge. A copy letter dated 8 Jun 1931 from [Richard Collet] to Miss Gladys Lewis, West Ealing, inquires abou...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1931
Extent:
1 file

2034. Add MS 89231/25/57-64

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Add MS 89231/25/57-64
Title:
D'Oyly Carte Opera Company: Bertha Lewis Bequest
Scope & Content:
Papers relating to the contralto Bertha Lewis (1887-1931). Also includes an album of material about her brother, Second Lieutenant William Thomas Lewis (Essex Regiment) who was killed in action (1917).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20th century
Extent:
8 files

2035. Add MS 89231/25/58

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Add MS 89231/25/58
Title:
Bertha Lewis Bequest to D'Oyly Carte Archive: Photographs
Scope & Content:
Photographs and other material as follows: (1). Six black and white portrait photographs (one signed by Lewis), including one of Lewis as the Duchess of Plaza-Toro (from The Gondoliers). (2). Six black and white photographs taken at the grave of Bertha Lewis (Cambridge City Cemetery), together...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1920s]-1932
Extent:
1 file

2036. Add MS 89231/25/59

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Add MS 89231/25/59
Title:
Bertha Lewis Bequest to D'Oyly Carte Archive: Newspaper Cuttings
Scope & Content:
Various newspaper cuttings (not comprehensive) including reports of her funeral (1931). Also included, a three-part series of 'Gilbert and Sullivan Reminiscences' by Lewis published in the Westminster Gazette (1924).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1912-1931
Extent:
1 file

2037. Add MS 89231/25/60

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Add MS 89231/25/60
Title:
Bertha Lewis Bequest to D'Oyly Carte Archive: Theatre Programmes and Piano Scores for Two Songs
Scope & Content:
(1). Three theatre programmes: Fulham Theatre, 6 Sep 1909. The Mikado. Bertha Lewis as Katisha. Kennington Theatre, 27 Sep 1909. Patience. Bertha Lewis as Lady Jane. Kennington Theatre, 4 Oct 1909. The Gondoliers. Bertha Lewis as The Duchess of Plaza-Toro. (2). For voice and piano, 'Learn to Hop...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1909-1926
Extent:
1 file

2038. Add MS 89231/25/61

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Add MS 89231/25/61
Title:
Bertha Lewis Bequest to D'Oyly Carte Archive: Bezique Markers
Scope & Content:
Two 'Bezique' markers, for keeping score in the card game. Cardboard with brass dials.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 20th century
Extent:
1 file

2039. Add MS 89231/25/62

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Add MS 89231/25/62
Title:
Bertha Lewis Bequest to D'Oyly Carte Archive: Notebook of Cookery Recipes
Scope & Content:
Notebook containing various cookery recipes in autograph ink and pencil, beginning with a recipe for 'Orange Marmalade'. All pages used.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 20th century
Extent:
1 file

2040. Add MS 89231/25/63

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Add MS 89231/25/63
Title:
Bertha Lewis Bequest to D'Oyly Carte Archive: Book of Common Prayer
Scope & Content:
(1). The Book of Common Prayer (Oxford University Press), signed 'Bertha Lewis' on front fly-leaf and inscribed on the verso: 'To dear Be with Daisy's love / Xmas 1903'. Otherwise unmarked, but corner of p. 183 turned-down ('The Form of Solemnization of Matrimony'). (2). Two pink fabric pendant...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1903
Extent:
1 file