Egerton MS 3097 B

EDWARDS PAPERS. Vol. XIII (2). (ff. 39.) Miscellaneous letters, locks of hair, and photographs, mainly of eminent musicians, including:-

(1) Fragment of a letter from Ludwig van Beethoven to Frau Nanette Streicher; n.d. Printed by A. C. Kalischer, Beethovens sämtliche Briefe, no. 575, and with another fragment of the same letter in the H. C. Bodmer collection, Beethovenhaus, Bonn, by Emily Anderson, Letters of Beethoven, ii, 1961, no. 885, where it is dated Jan. 1818. ff. 1-2.

(2) Locks of the hair of:-(a) Karl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber, cut off on the day of his death, 10 June 1826. f. 4;-(b) Samuel Wesley. f. 9;-(c) Samuel Sebastian Wesley. f. 10;-(d) Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy. ff. 23, 25.

(3) Leaves gathered by F. G. Edwards from the graves of Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert at Vienna, 1890. ff. 10-13.

(4) Photographs of:-(a) Samuel Sebastian Wesley, n.d. f. 27;-(b) Giuseppe Verdi, signed with date 20 Jan. 1901. f. 31;-(c) T. C. Wageman's water-colour of Sir William Sterndale Bennett, 1847, reproduced in the Musical Times, Aug. 1903. f. 35;-(d) Felix Moscheles. Signed. f. 39.

(5) Letter from Robert Browning to Felix Moscheles, 1887. Autograph. ff. 29-30.

includes:

• f. 1 Elizabeth Mounsey, organist: Note rel. to an autograph of Beethoven in her possession.: 1898.
• f. 2 Elizabeth Mounsey, organist: Note rel. to an autograph of Beethoven in her possession.: 1898.
• f. 2 Ludwig van Beethoven, composer: Letter to [(?)Frau N. Streicher: 18181.: Germ.: Autogr. Fragm.
• ff. 3-6 Miss A. C. Smart, daughter of Sir George Thomas Smart: Letter, etc., to F. G. Edwards: 1893.
• f. 4 Baron Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber,; composer: Lock of his hair: 1826.
• f. 10 Samuel Sebastian Wesley, Mus.D: D.; d. 1876. Lock of his hair.
• f. 11 Johann Chrysostom Wolfgang Gottlieb Mozart, alias Wolfgang Amadeus; composer: Leaves gathered from his grave: 1890.
• f. 12 Ludwig van Beethoven, composer: Leaves gathered from his grave: 1890.
• f. 13 Franz Peter Schubert, composer: Leaf gathered from his grave: 1890.
• ff. 14, 19 Sir George Grove, musicologist: Letters to F. G. Edwards: 1880-1898.
• f. 15 Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, composer: Photograph of, as a child: n.d.
• f. 16 Rebecka Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, afterwards Dirichlet: Photograph of, as a child: n.d.
• f. 17 Fanny Cäcilie Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, afterwards Hensel: Photograph of, as a child: n.d.
• f. 18 Paul Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, brother of Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: Photograph of, as a child: n.d.
• f. 21 Paul Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, brother of Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: Signed photograph: 1871.
• ff. 23, 25 Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, composer: Locks of his hair.
• f. 24 Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, composer: Visiting-card: n.d.: Printed.
• f. 27 Samuel Sebastian Wesley, Mus.D: Photogr.: n.d.
• f. 28 Eliza Wesley, daughter of S Wesley: Photograph of: n.d.
• f. 29 Robert Browning, poet: Letter to F. Moscheles: 1887.
• f. 31 Fortunino Giuseppe Francesco Verdi, composer: Photograph: 1901.: Signed.
• f. 32 George Alfred Gibson, musician: Photograph of (?): 1857.
• f. 34 Alexander R. Stenning, of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway Co: Letter to Messrs Higgins: 1894.: Signed.
• f. 35 Art. Portraits: Sir William Sterndale Bennett; photogr. (circ. 1903) of T. C. Wageman's water-colour portrait of: 1847.
• f. 35 Sir William Sterndale Bennett, composer: Photograph (circ. 1903) of T. C. Wageman's watercolour portrait of: 1847.
• f. 35 Thomas Charles Wageman, portrait painter: Photogr. of his portrait (1847) of Sir W. S. Bennett: circ. 1903.
• ff. 36, 38 Sir William Sterndale Bennett, composer: Photographs of his house in St John's Wood: n.d.
• f. 39 Sir George Job Elvey, organist and composer; d.1893: Photograph: n.d.
• f. 40 Felix Moscheles, artist; son of I Moscheles: Letter to Mrs F. G. Edwards: 1913.