RPS MS 405

Miscellaneous lists, and insurance policies with schedules; 1902-61.

ff. 88. Various sizes.

As follows:—

1. ff. 1-53. Two copies of printed concert programmes for the 1893 season, each with extensive annotations to the descriptive list of the Society’s select manuscript scores published in the programmes that year, and each used as a checklist for scores deposited at the bank: ‘No. 1’, signed by Francesco Berger, Hon. Sec., Aug. 1902, and ‘No. 2’ signed by W. P. Rivers, Librarian, 1911. With associated papers. Partly printed.

2. ff. 54-60. ‘Catalogue of Books in the Library of the Royal Philharmonic Society’; n.d., circa 1913. Typewritten.

3. ff. 61-7. ‘List of Manuscript Scores Deposited at the British Museum on the Tenth June, 1914’. Typewritten, with annotations by J. A. Herbert, Assistant Keeper, Department of Manuscripts, the British Museum, and receipted by him.

4. ff. 68-88. Insurance policies, with summary schedules of the Society’s property and its various locations; 1948-61. Printed and typewritten, with MS annotations.

includes:

• ff. 1-22 Francesco Berger, pianist and composer; Secretary, Philharmonic Society: Philharmonic Society concert programme, 1893, annotated and signed by Francesco Berger: 1902, 1911: Printed.
• ff. 23-50 W. P. Rivers, librarian, Philharmonic Society: Philharmonic Society concert programme, 1893, annotated and signed by W. P. Rivers: 1911: Printed.
• f. 51 Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, composer: William Hayman Cummings, Mus.D: Note about the Philharmonic Society's manuscript score of Mendelssohn's Sinfonia in C minor, op. 11 , by William Hayman Cummings: 1909.
• f. 52 Ludwig van Beethoven, composer: Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, composer: Francesco Berger, pianist and composer; Secretary, Philharmonic Society: Note about the Philharmonic Society's manuscript scores of Mendelssohn's Sinfonia, op. 11 and Beethoven's Overture, op. 124, signed by Francesco Berger rel. to Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy and Ludwig van Beethoven: 1909: Autogr.
• f. 53 Henry R. Clayton, of Novello & Co: Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, composer: Francesco Berger, pianist and composer; Secretary, Philharmonic Society: Note in the hand of F. Berger acknowledging receipt of the Philharmonic Society's manuscript score of Mendelssohn's Sinfonia, op. 11, signed by Henry R. Clayton: 1909.
• ff. 61-67 John Alexander Herbert, of the Department of Manuscripts, British Museum: List of manuscript scores deposited at the British Museum by the Royal Philharmonic Society, annotated and receipted by John Alexander Herbert: 1914: Typewritten.
• f. 70-71 Sun Insurance Office Limited: Insurance policies and associated correspondence relating to the property of the Royal Philharmonic Society from Sun Insurance Office Limited: 1948: Printed and typewritten.
• ff. 70, 75, 78 G. J. M. Peel, of the Sun Insurance Office: Letters from the Sun Insurance Office to the Royal Philharmonic Society, signed by G. J. M. Peel: 1948, 1955: Typewritten.
• f. 74 R. F. Elmer, of the Sun Insurance Office: Memorandum from the Sun Insurance Office to the Royal Philharmonic Society, signed by R. F. Elmer: 1955: Printed, typewritten.
• f. 76 F. J. Pycroft, of the Sun Insurance Office: Memorandum from the Sun Insurance Office to the Royal Philharmonic Society, signed by F. J. Pycroft: 1955: Typewritten.
• f. 77 David Ritson Smith, Secretary, Royal Philharmonic Society: Letter to the Sun Insurance Office from David Ritson Smith: 1955: Typewritten; carbon copy.