MS Mus. 133 E

E. Letters to Thomas William Bourne, Assistant in the Department of Printed Books of the British Museum; 1889-90. Bourne was employed as an Assistant to William Barclay Squire from 7 May 1888 until his resignation with effect from 20 May 1890. This collection consists of a letter of confirmation of appointment dated 18 May 1889, a letter to Mrs Bourne from Alfred W. Pollard and a letter of good will signed by several of his contemporaries. His papers relating to Handel are in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. See A. H. King, Printed Music in the British Museum (1979), pp. 120-1 and T. Armstrong, ‘T. W. Bourne (1862-1948) — a forgotten pioneer’, The Handel Institute Newsletter, 3/1 (Spring 1992), pp. [2-4]. Presented by Prof. Donald Burrows, 27 Mar. 1995.

ff. 62-9. ff. 64-9 bound in parchment.

includes:

• f. 62 Sir Edward Maunde Thompson, GCB; Director of the British Museum: Thomas William Bourne, musicologist; of the British Museum: Letter to Thomas William Bourne from Sir Edward Maunde Thompson: 1889: Copy, signed.
• f. 63 Alfred William Pollard, of the British Museum; bibliographer: Mrs - Bourne, mother or wife of T W Bourne: Letter to Mrs — Bourne from Alfred William Pollard: [1890]: Autogr.
• ff. 65-9 British Museum: George Knottesford Fortescue, of the British Museum: Alfred William Pollard, of the British Museum; bibliographer: Richard Alexander Streatfeild, musicologist; of the British Museum: William Robert Wilson, Assistant Keeper of Printed Books, British Museum: Cecil Bendall, Professor of Sanskrit; of département of Oriental Manuscripts and Printed Books, British Museum: Edward Ernest Stride, of the British Museum: George Frederick Barwick, Keeper of Printed Books, British Museum: Thomas William Bourne, musicologist; of the British Museum: Robert Edmund Graves, Assistant Keeper, Department of Printed Books, British Museum: Frederick Elliot Blackstone, of the Department of Printed Books, British Museum: Arthur William Kaye Miller, of the Department of Printed Books, British Museum: Edward James Feild, of the Department of Printed Books, British Museum: Henry Jenner, of the British Museum: Cyril James Davenport, of the Department of Printed Books, British Museum: Richard Hanley Caunter, of the Department of Printed Books, British Museum: John Metivier, of the Department of Printed Books, British Museum: John Theophilus Naaké, of the Department of Printed Books, British Museum: Alexander George Ellis, of the British Museum: Samuel van Straalen, of the British Museum: John Macfarlane, of the Department of Printed Books, British Museum: Charles A. L. Walker, of the Department of Printed Books, British Museum: Dorset Eccles, of the Department of Printed Books, British Museum: Robert Nisbet Bain, of the Department of Printed Books, British Museum: Stephen John Aldrich, of the Department of Printed Books, British Museum: Francis Bunbury Fitz-Gerald Campbell, of the Department of Printed Books, British Museum: John Parker Anderson, of the Department of Printed Books, British Museum: Henry Martin Mayhew, of the Department of Printed Books, British Museum: Lawrence Herbert Edward Taylor, Assistant Keeper, Department of Printed Books, British Museum: Paul England, of the British Museum: Edward Dundas Butler, of the British Museum: Gregory William Eccles, of the Department of Printed Books, British Museum: James Baynes, alias Baynes Jago; of the Department of Printed Books, British Museum: Robert Farquharson Sharp, Keeper of Printed Books, British Museum: Letter to Thomas William Bourne from the staff of the Department of Printed Books of the British Museum: 1890: Signed.