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040-001966184

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032-001966038

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HUMPHREY SEARLE COLLECTION. Vol. cxviii. Letters from notable writers, arranged alphabetically by correspondent; 1936-1982, n.d. Partly typewritten. Searle removed these letters from the main sequence (now Add. 71839-71840).

ff. 195.

includes:

ff. 1-4 Michael Ayrton, artist and author: Letters to Humphrey Searle: 1971-1975, n.d.: Autogr.
f. 5 Béla Bartók, composer: Letter to Humphrey Searle: 1937: Autogr.
ff. 6-11 Samuel Beckett, author: Letters to Humphrey Searle: 1973-1978: Autogr.
ff. 12-14 Sir Isaiah Berlin, OM; philosopher: Letters to Humphrey Searle: 1737-1967.: Autogr.
ff. 15-18 Sir Lennox Randall Francis Berkeley, CBE; composer: Letters to Humphrey Searle: 1943-1978: Autogr.
f. 19 Sir John Betjeman, poet: Letter to Humphrey Searle: 1974: Typewritten.
ff. 20-27 Sir Arthur Drummond Bliss, KCVO; CH; Master of the Queen's Music: Letters to Humphrey Searle: 1953-1971, n.d.: Autogr.
f. 28 Gertrude Bliss, née Hoffmann; wife of Sir Arthur Drummond Bliss: Letter to Humphrey Searle: [1975].
ff. 29-35 Sir Adrian Cedric Boult, CH; conductor: Letters to Humphrey Searle: 1944-1977: Partly typewritten, partly photocopies.
ff. 36-40 Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten; composer: Letters to Humphrey Searle: 1956, 1966, n.d.: Autogr.
f. 41 Edward Clark, composer and conductor: Letter to Humphrey Searle: 1937: Autogr.
ff. 42-55 Luigi Dallapiccola, composer: Letters to Humphrey Searle: 1947-1955: Fr: Partly typewritten.
ff. 58-64 Alfred Einstein, musicologist: Letters to Humphrey Searle: 1937: Germ: Partly typewritten.
ff. 65-81 Peter Racine Fricker, composer: Letters and postcards to Humphrey Searle: 1955-1982: Partly typewritten.
f. 82 Gerard Hoffnung, artist, illustrator, musician and humorist: Letter to Humphrey Searle: 1956.
f. 83 Eugène Ionesco, writer: Letter to Humphrey Searle: 1963: Fr.
ff. 85-99 John Nicholson Ireland, composer and pianist: Letters to Humphrey Searle: 1936-1957: Autogr.
f. 100 James Augustine Aloysius Joyce, author: Letter to Humphrey Searle: 1940: Autogr.
ff. 103-106 Josef Krips, conductor: Letters to Humphrey Searle: 1966, 1974: Autogr.
f. 107 Harietta Krips, widow of Josef Krips: Letter to Humphrey Searle: 1974: Autogr.
ff. 109-115 Leonard Constant Lambert, composer and conductor: Letters and postcards to Humphrey Searle and his wife: 1951, n.d.
f. 116 Darius Milhaud, composer: Letter to Humphrey Searle: 1966: Fr.
ff. 118-127 Madeline Milhaud, wife of Darius Milhaud: Letters to Humphrey Searle: 1967, 1972, n.d.: Fr.
f. 128 Humphrey Searle, CBE; composer: Dimitri Mitropoulos, conductor, pianist and composer: Jean St Clair, acquaintance of Humphrey Searle: Letter to Jean St Clair from Dimitri Mitropoulos, relating to Humphrey Searle: 1955.
f. 130 Luigi Nono, Italian composer: Letter to Humphrey Searle: 1961: Fr: Autogr.
ff. 131-133 Sir Peter Pears, tenor: Letters to Humphrey Searle: n.d. [1965]: Autogr.
f. 134 Egon Petri, pianist: Letter to Humphrey Searle: '1936' (recte 1937).
f. 136 Alan Rawsthorne, composer: Letter to Humphrey Searle: 1969: Autogr.
f. 138 Paul Sacher, conductor: Letter to Humphrey Searle: 1949.
ff. 139-149 Hermann Scherchen, conductor: Letters to Humphrey Searle: 1948-1966: Germ.
ff. 150-158 Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg, composer: Letters to Humphrey Searle: 1948-1950: partly Germ.: Partly facsimile: Mostly autogr.
f. 159 Mátyás Seiber, composer: Letter to Humphrey Searle: 1953: Autogr.
ff. 160-163 Dylan Marlais Thomas, poet: Letters to Humphrey Searle: 1952-1953: Autogr.
ff. 164-178 Olav Fartein Valen, composer: Letters to Humphrey Searle: 1947-1948.
ff. 179-180 Edgard Victor Achille Charles Varese, composer: Letters to Humphrey Searle: 1953.
ff. 181-188 Sir William Turner Walton, OM; composer: Letters and postcards to Humphrey Searle: 1952, 1954: Autogr.
ff. 189-194 Anton Friedrich Wilhelm von Webern, composer: Letters to Humphrey Searle: 1937-1939: Germ: Autogr.
f. 195. Wilhelmine von Webern, née Mörtl; wife of Anton Friedrich Wilhelm von Webern: Letter to Humphrey Searle: 1948: Germ.

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Music Collections

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032-001966038
036-001966161
037-001966182
038-001966183
040-001966184

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Add MS 71721-71862 : HUMPHREY SEARLE COLLECTION. Music manuscripts and papers by and relating to Humphrey Searle, CBE (1915-1982), composer,…
Add MS 71824-71843 : PAPERS.
Add MS 71838-71843 : Q. Letters and Papers.
Add MS 71838-71840 : HUMPHREY SEARLE COLLECTION. Vols. cxviii-cxx. Letters to Searle and his family; 1929-1982, n.d. The names of correspondents are…

Add MS 71838 : HUMPHREY SEARLE COLLECTION. Vol. cxviii. Letters from notable writers, arranged alphabetically by correspondent; 1936-1982, n.d.…

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032-001966038[0002]/036-001966161[0004]/037-001966182[0001]/038-001966183[0001]/040-001966184

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1 item

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Languages:

English
French
German

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Latin

Start Date:

1936

End Date:

1982

Date Range:

1936-1982

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Names:

Ayrton, Michael, artist and author
Bartók, Béla Viktor János, composer; ethnomusicologist, 1881-1945
Beckett, Samuel, author, 1906-1989
Berkeley, Lennox Randal Francis, Knight, composer, 1903-1989
Berlin, Isaiah, Knight, OM, philosopher, 1909-1997
Betjeman, John, Knight, poet, 1906-1984
Bliss, Arthur Edward Drummond, Knight, composer, 1891-1975
Bliss, Gertrude, née Hoffmann, 1904-2008
Boult, Adrian Cedric, Knight, conductor, 1889-1983
Britten, Edward Benjamin, Baron Britten of Aldeburgh, composer, 1913-1976,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121181099
Clark, Edward, conductor and administrator, 1888-1962
Dallapiccola, Luigi, composer, 1904-1975
Einstein, Alfred, musicologist and music editor, 1880-1952
Fricker, Peter Racine, composer, 1920-1990
Hoffnung, Gerard, artist, illustrator, musician, and humorist, 1925-1959,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000108675000
Ionesco, Eugène, writer
Ireland, John Nicholson, composer and pianist, 1879-1962
Joyce, James Augustine Aloysius, author, 1882-1941,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121302495
Krips, Harietta, widow of Josef Krips, d 2015
Krips, Josef, conductor, 1902-1974,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000108559026
Lambert, Leonard Constant, composer and conductor, 1905-1951
Milhaud, Darius, composer
Milhaud, Madeline, wife of Darius Milhaud
Mitropoulos, Dimitri, conductor pianist and composer
Nono, Luigi, Italian composer
Pears, Peter, Knight, singer, 1910-1986
Petri, Egon, pianist
Rawsthorne, Alan, composer, 1905-1971
Sacher, Paul, conductor, 1906-1999,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000109377400,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/114456621
Scherchen, Hermann, conductor, 1891-1966,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000109078240,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/61733025
Schoenberg, Arnold Franz Walter, composer, 1874-1951
Searle, Humphrey, composer, 1915-1982,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000109128535
Seiber, Mátyás György, composer; pseudonym George S Mathis, 1905-1960
St Clair, Jean, acquaintance of Humphrey Searle
Thomas, Dylan Marlais, poet, 1914-1953
Valen, Olav Fartein, composer
Varese, Edgard Victor Achille Charles, composer
Walton, William Turner, OM, composer, 1902-1983
Webern, Anton Friedrich Wilhelm, composer, 1883-1945
Webern, Wilhelmine von, née Mörtl wife of Anton Friedrich Wilhelm von Webern