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Record Id:

032-002103434

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002103434

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Add MS 47216

Title:

LETTERS TO AUGUSTUS HUGHES-HUGHES, relating to his work in the Department of Manuscripts, mainly from musicologists and librarians; 1883-1922. English, French, Italian and German. The letters are chiefly on musical subjects and include (ff. 6-8, 39, 40) information from librarians on manuscripts of the works of John Hothby, on whom Hughes-Hughes wrote an article for the second edition of Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ii, 1906. The names of the writers are given in the Index to the present Catalogue. Paper; ff. 76. Folio. 1883-1922. Presented by the recipient.

Scope & Content:

Music: Letters from musicologists, etc., to A. Hughes-Hughes: 1883-1922.: Engl., Fr., Germ. and Ital.

Augustus Hughes-Hughes, Assistant Keeper, Department of Manuscripts, British Museum: Letters to: 1883-1922.: Engl., Fr., Germ. and Ital.

includes:

ff. 2, 4, 5 William Chappell, music publisher: Letters to A. Hughes-Hughes: 1883, 1886.
f. 6 B[artolomeo?] Podestà, of the Biblioteca Nazionale, Florence: Letter to A. Hughes-Hughes: 1887.: Ital.
f. 7 Federico Parisini, of the Biblioteca del Liceo Comunale, Bologna: Letter to A. Hughes-Hughes: 1887.: Fr.
f. 9 Carlo Castellani, of St Mark Library, Venice: Letter to A. Hughes-Hughes: 1889.
ff. 10, 12 Antonio Maria Ceriani, of the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan: Letters to A. Hughes-Hughes: 1888.
f. 13 Thomas Lea Southgate, DCL: Letter to A. Hughes-Hughes: 1889.
ff. 15, 16 François Joseph Amours, of Glasgow: Letters to A. Hughes-Hughes: 1891, 1892.
ff. 18, 28 Admiral Sir Charles George Frederick Knowles, 4th Baronet: Letters, etc., to A. Hughes-Hughes: 1894, 1897.
ff. 20b-23 Knowles family: Genealogical notes on, by Sir C. Knowles: 1894.
ff. 20b-23 Genealogies: Knowles family; notes rel. to, compiled by Sir C. Knowles: 1894.
f. 24 W. J. Muckley: Letter to A. Hughes-Hughes: 1895.
f. 26 James Kendrick Pyne, junior; Organist of Manchester Cathedral: Letter to A. Hughes-Hughes: 1896.
f. 31 William Hayman Cummings, Mus.D: Letter to A. Hughes-Hughes: 1903.
ff. 32, 34, 36 Edward J. Grutchfield, musicologist: Letters to A. Hughes-Hughes: 1903.
f. 37 Wolfgang Kallab, of the Kunsthistorisches Hofmuseum, Vienna: Letter to A. Hughes-Hughes: 1904.: Germ.
f.39 Henri Auguste Omont, of the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris: Letter to A. Hughes-Hughes: 1904.: Fr.
f. 40 Léopold Delisle, administrator-general of the Bibliothèque Nationale: Note to A. Hughes-Hughes: n.d.: Fr.
f. 41 Frank Kidson, musicologist; of Leeds: Letter to A. Hughes-Hughes: 1909.
ff. 43, 45 (signed), 46, 60, 61 Sir Ernest Clarke, Kt.; FSA: Letters to A. Hughes-Hughes: 1909-1913.
f. 47 William Warde Fowler, Sub-Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford 1881-1906: Letter to A. Hughes-Hughes: 1911.: Typewritten. Signed.
ff. 48, 50 (signed), 54 Samuel Royle Shore, musicologist: Letters to A. Hughes-Hughes: 1912.
ff. 56, 58 Charles Jean Eugène Van den Borren, musicologist: Letters to A. Hughes-Hughes: 1913.: Fr.
ff. 62, 64, 66 Hubert W. Hunt, of Bristol Cathedral: Letters to A. Hughes-Hughes: 1915.
f. 68 William Westley Manning, artist and collector: Letter to A. Hughes-Hughes: 1917.
f. 70 Comte Marie Olivier Georges du Parc Poullain de Saint-Foix,; musicologist: Letter to A. Hughes-Hughes: [1919?].: Fr.
f. 72 Walter Fielding Holloway Blandford, horn player and writer: Note to A. Hughes-Hughes: 1921.
ff. 73, 74 Arthur Howard Frere: Letters to A. Hughes-Hughes: 1922.
f. 75 Alfred Robert Dryhurst, Assistant Secretary, British Museum; Fabian: Letter to A. Hughes-Hughes: 1922.

Collection Area:

Music Collections

Project / Collection:

Additional Manuscripts

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Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

1 item

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English
French
German
Italian

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1883

End Date:

1922

Date Range:

1883-1922

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Names:

Amours, François Joseph, of Glasgow
Blandford, Walter Fielding Holloway, horn player and writer
Castellani, Carlo, of St Mark Library, Venice
Ceriani, Antonio Maria, of the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan
Chappell, William, music publisher
Clarke, Ernest, Kt, FSA
Cummings, William Hayman, organist, tenor and musicologist, 1831-1915
Delisle, Léopold Victor, librarian and historian, 1826-1910
Dryhurst, Alfred Robert, curator and Fabian, 1859-1949
Fowler, William Warde, Sub-Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford 1881-1906
Frere, Arthur Howard
Grutchfield, Edward J, musicologist, fl 1903
Hughes-Hughes, Augustus, Assistant Keeper Department of Manuscripts British Museum
Hunt, Hubert W, of Bristol Cathedral
Kallab, Wolfgang, of the Kunsthistorisches Hofmuseum, Vienna
Kidson, Frank, musicologist; of Leeds
Knowles, Charles George Frederick, 4th Baronet, Admiral
Knowles, Family
Manning, William Westley, artist and collector
Muckley, W. J.
Omont, Henri Auguste, of the Bibliothèque Nationale Paris
Parisini, Federico, of the Biblioteca del Liceo Comunale, Bologna
Podestà, Bartolomeo?, of the Biblioteca Nazionale, Florence
Pyne, James Kendrick, junior; Organist of Manchester Cathedral
Saint-Foix, Marie Olivier Georges du Parc Poullain, Comte, musicologist
Shore, Samuel Royle, musicologist
Southgate, Thomas Lea, DCL
Van den Borren, Charles Jean Eugène, musicologist