Reports from Edgware, Employees' Travelling Expenses, Files H- to P-.
Scope & Content:
Correspondence to and from departments in Boosey & Hawkes' factory and warehouse at Edgware, Middlesex, records of employees' travelling expenses, and files involving or relating to other departments of Boosey & Hawkes with names beginning H- to P.
Documentation relating to Boosey & Hawkes' acquisition in 1943 of the rights to publish and distribute music in the catalogue of the publishers Fürstner, including the rights of the operas of Richard Strauss.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian, Romanian, and Spanish
Papers and correspondence, both internal and external, and created mainly by Carl Rosen, Ann Padwick or Pamela Jarvis, relating to composers' submissions of manuscripts for Boosey & Hawkes' consideration and possible publication.
Papers, accounts, drafts of typescripts and correspondence of Anthony Gishford relating to the editing and publication of 'Tempo', Boosey & Hawkes' quarterly music review, issues 41–44. Some letters from Donald Mitchell, Anthony Gishford's successor as Editor.
Correspondence, predominantly letters and inter-departmental correspondence between Rufina Ampenoff and Ernst Roth. This file was originally entitled 'Dr. Roth 1957 & Dr. Roth 1958' and held in a packet marked 'Dr. Roth's Personal Files: 1959-1960 & 1961-1962'.