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Folio album containing photographs, concert programmes and other memorabilia from the Wandering Minstrels' concerts staged between 1860 and 1867.

Contents:-

f. i. Reproduction of a 17th-century illustration of a viol player, taken from Christopher Simpson’s The division-violist (1659).

f. 1. Decorative title-page bearing the words ‘The Wandering Minstrels’ Book / 1861 / Fidibus Flatu’ and ‘G. FitzGerald Fecit’.

f. 2. Decorative page bearing the words ‘Presented to the Wandering Minstrels by E. A. Breedon.’. With the name of the artist, ‘N. Hanhart’.

f. 3. Decorative page bearing information about the formation of the Wandering Minstrels: ‘The Wandering Minstrels. / Formation. / At a Meeting held at the Castle Hotel, Windsor, on the 14th November, 1860, / The Hon. Seymour I. Grey Egerton / in the Chair, / It was resolved, that those present do form and / constitute a Society, to be called / The Wandering Minstrels, / to meet on the first Thursday in each month throughout the year, for the practice of / Orchestral Music.’

With the name of the artist, ‘N. Hanhart’.

f. 4. Decorative page bearing a list of officers: ‘Officers. / President and Conductor, / The Hon Seymour I. Grey Egerton. / Treasurer and Librarian, / The Lord Gerald Fitzgerald. / Secretary, / Val. Morris.’. With the name of the artist, ‘N. Hanhart’.

f. 5-7. List of members, 1860-1867. With columns for dates elected, instrument, and remarks, the last used to indicate the date of resignation or death of members.

f. 8. List of four associate members.

f. 8v. Line drawing of a man’s head.

f. 9. List of honorary members, including ladies.

f. 9v. Photograph of Windsor Castle. ‘Photogd by Sir Archibald Macdonald for W.M.’

f. 10. Pasted-in extracts from a playbill for an ‘Amateur Performance’ on Wednesday 14 November 1860 at the Theatre Royal, Windsor, to include ‘A Musical Performance, By the Amateur Orchestra. Conductor – Mr. Egerton.’ Below is a manuscript note giving details of a meeting held after the performance, at which those present resolved to meet monthly to perform orchestral music:

‘At a Meeting held on the above Evening after Performance, at the Castle Hotel, Windsor It was resolved That those, then present, do form and constitute to meet on the first Thursday in each month to practise Orchestral Music. A.B. Mitford Hon. Sec.’

f. 11. Photograph of Marion Terry (as Sybil) and Lady Katharine Egerton (as Anne Carew) in A Sheep in Wolf’s Clothing at Melton Mowbray, 1861.

f. 12. Poster for an evening performance in the second season of ‘Grand Amateur Theatricals’ at the Corn Exchange, Melton Mowbray, on Wednesday 30 January 1861, ‘The Proceeds of which will be devoted to Charitable Purposes.’ Works to be performed were the ‘Original Drama’ A Sheep in Wolf’s Clothing, by Tom Taylor, The Mummy (a farce), and Sheridan’s comedy The Critic. Scenery and decorations were by Mr. H. Craven, and musical interludes were to be performed by the Wandering Minstrels, under the ‘Presidency’ of the Hon. Seymour Egerton. The musical works are not listed. Special trains were to run from Leicester to Melton and back. Ticket prices: First Reserved Seats: 12s 6d. Second Reserved Seats: 5s 6d. Unreserved: 2s 6d. Available from Mr. Darley, bookseller, Melton, with seating plan. A seven-year-old Marion Terry was in the cast.

f. 13. Photograph of a scene from ‘A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing’ [sic], Melton Mowbray, 30 January 1861, featuring Colonel Henry de Bathe (as Colonel Kirke), Lady Katharine Egerton (as Anne Carew), Marion Terry (as Sybil), C. Stephenson Esq. (as Jasper Carew).

f. 14. Poster for an evening performance in the second season of ‘Grand Amateur Theatricals’ at the Corn Exchange, Melton Mowbray, on Friday 1 February 1861. Works: Prison and Palace; Shocking Events; Whitebait at Greenwich. Scenery and decorations were by Mr. H. Craven and musical interludes were to be performed by the Wandering Minstrels. No pieces are listed. Special trains were to run between Leicester and Melton. Ticket prices: First Reserved Seats: 12s 6d. Second Reserved Seats: 5s 6d. Unreserved: 2s 6d. Available from Mr. Darley, bookseller, Melton, with seating plan.

f. 15. Photograph of Lady Alice Grey Egerton as the Second Niece in Sheridan’s The Critic, Melton Mowbray, 30 January 1861.

f. 16. Poster for a ‘Grand Promenade Concert by the Wandering Minstrels’ on Thursday 31 January 1861, at the Corn Exchange, Melton Mowbray. Admission: Promenade: one shilling. Lower gallery: 6s; Upper gallery (seats limited): 2s 6d. ‘The orchestra will number nearly 30 performers.’ Special trains were to run between Leicester and Melton.

f. 17. Six photographs: Alice M Des Voeux; Viscount Grey de Wilton; Viscountess Grey de Wilton; the Earl of Wilton; Lady Katharine Coke; Hon. Seymour Egerton.

f. 18. Poster for Handel’s Messiah, given as an evening entertainment in the second season of ‘Grand Amateur Performances’ at the Corn Exchange, Melton Mowbray, Monday 4 February 1861. ‘The orchestra and chorus will number nearly 100 performers’. ‘Mr. Le Patourel will preside at the organ’. Conductor: Hon. S. Egerton. Ticket prices: First Reserved Seats: 12s 6d. Second Reserved Seats: 5s 6d. Upper Gallery seats: 3s 6d. Unreserved: 2s 6d. Tickets available from Mr. Darley, bookseller, Melton, with a seating plan. A special train was to run from Leicester to Melton and back on the night of the performance.

f. 19. Two photographs of the Wandering Minstrels, with instruments, at Melton Mowbray, January 1861.

f. 20. Newspaper cutting from The Grantham Journal, Saturday 2 February 1861, containing a review of the ‘Grand Amateur Theatricals’ at Melton Mowbray.

f. 21. Two photographs:

1) Family photograph showing Hon. Seymour Egerton and family members Colonel de Ros (brother-in-law), the Earl of Wilton (father), Viscount Grey de Wilton (brother), Lady de Ros (sister), Lady Katherine Coke (sister), Viscountess Grey de Wilton (sister-in-law), Lady Alice Des Voeux (sister).

2) Group photograph of Hon. Seymour Egerton (with horn), Henry Le Patourel (with flute), Frederic Clay (with violin), Bertie Mitford (with cornet).

f. 22. Newspaper cutting, Leicester Journal, Friday 1 February, 1861. Review headed ‘Amateur Theatricals at Melton Mowbray’.

f. 23. Photograph of Colonel Henry De Bathe, standing, holding top hat.

f. 24. Pencil designs by Lord Gerald Fitzgerald for the Wandering Minstrels’ monogram.

f. 25. Ten small photographs labelled ‘Amateur Theatricals, Egerton Lodge, Melton 1861’.

f. 26. Two playbills for performances by the Windsor Strollers’ Amateur Theatrical Club, Theatre Royal, Windsor, Tuesday 9 and Wednesday 10 April 1861. The Wandering Minstrels, under Hon. Seymour Egerton, to play between the pieces.

f. 27. Two copies of a press cutting reviewing the Windsor Strollers’ performances on 9 and 10 April, with an extract from a printed programme headed ‘During the evening, the “Wandering Minstrels” will perform the following selections’ and a list of music performed.

f. 28. Seven small photos, some labelled with names of the sitters, including Frederic Clay; Charles Pritchard; Col. Henry de Bathe and Richard Hughes; Val Morris.

f. 28v. Caricature of a conductor seated at the organ.

f. 29. Handbill for a performance of Haydn’s Creation at Crystal Palace on Wednesday 1 May 1861, conducted by Michael Costa. There is no mention of the Wandering Minstrels, but underneath is a stamp reading ‘Present’, together with the following signatures: Seymour Egerton, W.M., Richard Hughes, W.M., G. Croke Rowden, D.C.L., G. Fitzgerald, W.M., A.J. Macdonald,

Charles Pritchard, W.M., Louis D’Egville, W.M., Willm Louis Turner, W.M., S.H.S., Val. Morris, W.M., Henry Le Patourel, W.M.

f. 30. German caricature of musicians, captioned ‘Eine Kapelle’, printed.

f. 31. Concert programme for a concert by the Wandering Minstrels, Freemasons’ Hall, London, Thursday 30 May 1861.

f. 32. Caricatures of musicians, printed.

f. 33. Handbill for the Wandering Minstrels’ performance of Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Freemasons’ Hall, Thursday 20 June 1861

f. 34. Two photographs: Heaton House, Manchester and Egerton Lodge, Melton Mowbray.

f. 35. Rehearsal schedule (seven rehearsals) for Mendelssohn’s Elijah at Freemasons’ Hall and a newspaper cutting from The Morning Post, 21 June 1861, comprising a review of the concert headed ‘Fashionable Entertainments’.

f. 36. Cutting from The Illustrated London News (undated) comprising an illustration of a concert with the caption ‘Amateur performance by nobility and gentry at Freemasons’ Hall, under the leadership of the Hon. Seymour Egerton’.

f. 36v. Spoof programme for the ‘Woolmer Grand Annual Musical Festival. Tea and Croquet Contest.’, Wednesday 31st of July 1861.

f. 37. Three photographs: Spencer Curtis;Viscount Grey de Wilton; Colonel de Bathe (with bass drum), the latter annotated ‘A very Gross Case’ in pencil [a pun on ‘Grosse Caisse’].

f. 38. Three postcards of Canterbury, printed.

f. 39. Extracts from a poster for Canterbury Cricket Week, New Theatre, Canterbury, August 1861, listing music to be performed by the Wandering Minstrels. With newspaper cuttings from The Canterbury Journal and Farmers’ Gazette, and two photographs.

f. 40. Programmes for Wandering Minstrels’ performances, Canterbury Cricket Week, 15 and 16 August 1861.

f. 40v. Menu for the Wandering Minstrels’ 1st Anniversary Dinner, 14 November 1861.

f. 41. Ticket for the Wandering Minstrels’ 1st Anniversary Dinner, and signatures of those present.

f. 42. Programme for a concert at Heaton House, Friday 25 October 1861.

f. 43. Two photographs: Hon. Seymour Egerton, seated, with baton and conductor’s stand; St. Mary’s Church, Melton Mowbray.

f. 44. Programme for a concert at the Public Rooms, Uxbridge, Friday 1 November 1861, by Hillingdon and Ickenham Church Choirs, ‘to whom several amateurs have kindly lent their assistance’. The programme includes compositions by two Wandering Minstrels – Seymour Egerton and Frederic Clay - and performances by Bertie Mitford (cornet) and Seymour Egerton (violin). Egerton was also the conductor.

f. 44v. Engraving of a musician bearing the caption ‘Le plaisant Charlatan’.

[unnumbered sheet] Pasted-in letter to Lord Gerald Fitzgerald from J.G. Slee, an amateur flautist, asking to be taken into Fitzgerald’s service.

f. 45. Photograph of Lord Gerald FitzGerald, seated, with cello and music stand. Photographer: Archibald K. Macdonald, D.B.W.M.

f. 46. Part of a poster for an ‘Amateur Performance’, Theatre Royal, Windsor, in aid of the funds of the Windsor Dispensary and Infirmary, Wednesday 27 and Thursday 28 November 1861. ‘The Band of the “Wandering Minstrels,” under the Direction of the Hon. Seymour Egerton, Will Play Selections from favourite Operas, between the Pieces, on both Nights.’ Details of the musical works performed have been added in manuscript.

f. 47. Manuscript note, inscribed ‘Infantry Barracks, Sheet Street, Nov 25th 1861’ and bearing the stamp of the Scots Fusilier Guards, reading: ‘Colonel de Bathe, & the officers 1st Batt. Sc: Fus: Guards beg that the “Wandering Minstrels” will all consider themselves Mess Guests during their stay at Windsor.’

f. 48. Nine small photographs, of (1) Charles Pritchard (2) Charles Garnett (3) Thomas Selby (4) Frederick H. P. Wetherall (5) E. Breedon (with cornet) (6) Rev. D. C. Croke Rowden (7) Nicholas Hanhart (with cello) (8) H.E. Tatham (9) H. Curtis.

f. 49. Cuttings from an ‘Amateur Dramatic Performance’, in aid of the Funds of the 3rd London Rifle Regiment, Royal Princess’s Theatre, London, Saturday 14 Dec 1861 and a printed rehearsal schedule (two rehearsals, both the day before). Details of the music performed by the Wandering Minstrels have been added in manuscript. Sum raised: £100.

f. 50. Charcoal drawing of a ball by Lord Gerald Fitzgerald.

f. 50v-52. Manuscript poem, inscribed directly into the album, entitled ‘Lines on the first Anniversary (Nov. 14 1861) of the foundation of the Society of Wandering Minstrels by Henry Robley (V.cello W.M.)’.

f. 53. Pen and ink drawing bearing the caption ‘The avenging Spirit of the “Omitted” reproveth the talented author of the Motto.’ [FIDIBUS ET FLATU]. ‘Mr Tom Taylor inventing the Motto’. Depicts a drum coming down to strike Taylor in his bed, with the motto ‘Percussus surgo’.

f. 54. Two photographs: Sir William De Bathe, Col. 3d LRV; A.B. Mitford. With a resolution from the Council of the 3rd City of London Volunteers, passed 20 Dec 1861, giving thanks to the gentlemen amateurs who gave their services at Royal Princess’s Theatre, 14th inst. The sum of £100 was realised in aid of the funds of the regiment.

f. 55. Humorous pen and ink drawings by Lord Gerald Fitzgerald illustrating the Wandering Minstrels’ motto FIDIBUS ET FLATU.

f. 56. Handbill for ‘Morning and Evening Grand Amateur Concerts’, with list of patrons. ‘Two Vocal and Instrumental Performances will be given by the Amateurs of Herefordshire, in the Assembly Room, Shire Hall, on Wednesday, 8th January, 1862, in aid of the Cathedral Organ Fund. The Orchestra will include that distinguished Amateur Band, “The Wandering Minstrels,” (conductor the Hon. Seymour J. G. Egerton,) Who have kindly promised their assistance on the occasion.’ Reserved seats: 10s. 6d. each. Family Tickets (admit 4): 30s. Single Ticket to admit to both Performances, 15s. A limited number of unreserved tickets at five shillings each. Includes list of performers, with Wandering Minstrels asterisked. Also performing were John Goss, Joseph Barnby and Frederick Gore Ouseley. Sum raised: £120.18.6. net.

f. 57. Two photographs of Hereford.

f. 58. Programmes for morning and evening concerts, Wednesday 8 January 1862, Assembly Room, Shire Hall, Hereford, in aid of the Cathedral Organ Fund.

f. 59. Three pencil sketches of people, marked ‘Hereford’.

f. 60. Five postcards of Hereford, printed.

f. 61. Highly-decorated folio containing the following words in an ornate border: ‘The Committee of the Herefordshire Amateurs cannot allow The Wandering Minstrels to leave Hereford without expressing to them their cordial thanks not only for the valuable assistance they have rendered at the Concerts for the Organ Fund but also for the kind manner in which notwithstanding several obstacles and at some inconvenience they have come forward on this occasion.’ Signed: Frederick Gore Ouseley, John H. Arkwright, John Goss, Henry Cooper Key and others.

f. 62. Newspaper cutting from the Hereford Journal, headed ‘Grand Amateur Concerts in Hereford’ and containing a detailed report of the Wandering Minstrels’ concerts in Hereford.

f. 62v Poem by Henry Robley, dated February 1862, describing one the early meetings of the Wandering Minstrels.

f. 63. Six postcards of Hereford, printed.

f. 64. Extract from a programme for amateur theatricals by the Queen’s (Westminster) Rifle Volunteers (Pimlico Division). New Royalty Theatre, Dean Street, Soho, Thursday 27 February 1862. ‘Under the Special Patronage of the Right Hon. the Earl Grosvenor, M.P., Lieut.-Colonel Lord Gerald Fitzgerald, and other Officers of the Corps. The Orchestra will be composed of Members of the Band of “The Wandering Minstrels,” who have kindly consented to give their valuable services. Conductor & Director of the Music - The Hon. Seymour Egerton.’ No details of the music are given. With two photographs: 1) Lieut. Col. Com^t. the Earl Grosvenor. 2) Lieut. Col. Lord Gerald Fitzgerald; also a short extract from a press review: the orchestra ‘did good service’ under ‘that accomplished amateur,’ the Hon. Seymour Egerton. Also pasted in is a vote of thanks from the Queen’s Westminster Rifle Volunteers to the Wandering Minstrels, acknowledging their ‘kind and valuable assistance’ at their amateur theatricals. Sum raised: £40 net.

f. 64v. Reproductions of a painting of Gluck presenting the score of Iphigenia to Marie Antoinette and an illustration of Mozart playing before the Court at Vienna.

ff. 65-70. Programme for the Wandering Minstrels’ Amateur Concert at St James’s Hall, London, on Tuesday 11 March 1862, in aid of the Hospital for Consumption and diseases of the Chest, Brompton. Total receipts: £482.17.1. Net profit: £300. Originally intended to raise money for Hartley Colliery widows. The programme included an Ode, with music by Seymour Egerton, written by Shirley Brooks Esq. on the occasion of the accident at the Hartley Colliery. The words are included.

f. 71-72. Newspaper cuttings containing reviews of the concert on 11 March 1862, from The Telegraph, The Times, The Standard, The Post, The Daily News, The Morning Herald, The Examiner, The Sunday Times, The Advertiser and The llustrated.

f. 73. Letter from the Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest, Brompton, dated 3 April 1862, passing on a vote of thanks to the Wandering Minstrels for their concert, and inviting Seymour Egerton and Lord Gerald Fitzgerald to be honorary life governors of the hospital.

f. 74. Printed poem by Henry Robley on the occasion of the concert on 11 March, with his photograph, surrounded by bays and a crown, annotated to show that he died in August 1888, aged 76.

f. 74v. Three photographs of Brighton.

f. 75. Press cuttings containing reviews of the Wandering Minstrels’ concerts on Thursday 24 and Friday 25 April 1862 in Brighton. Details of the pieces performed have been added in manuscript.

f. 76. Photograph of Patrick Lewis Cole Paget, seated, with cello.

f. 77. Handbill for the Wandering Minstrels’ concert at St. Mark’s School, Windsor, on Tuesday 17 June 1862. Admission: 5s, 2s 6d, and 1s. ‘The Funds arising from the Concert for the Free and Industrial Schools and St. Mark’s School.’

f. 77v. Postcards from the International Exhibition of 1862 and a printed brochure of Ignatius Stowasser of Vienna, manufacturer of instruments, in poor English.

f. 78. Photograph of the opening of the International Exhibition at South Kensington, 1862, and a register of those Wandering Minstrels present (28 people).

f. 78v. Printed brochure of Daniel Meinl, wind instrument manufacturer.

f. 79. Extracts from handbills for the Handel Festival, Crystal Palace, 1862, with a list in manuscript of those Wandering Minstrels present.

f. 80. Printed invitation card for a Soirée Musicale et Fumante: ‘The Wandering Minstrels Request the pleasure of Mr. ___ company, at a Soirée Musicale et Fumante, at 47 Sloane Street, London on Friday July 4, 1862. Introduced by ___. W.M. Music to commence at 9 o’clock.’ Below it the details of the programme have been added in manuscript.

f. 81. Part of a poster for Canterbury Cricket Week, 11, 12, 14 and 15 August 1862. ‘The “Old Stagers” on the Musical Foundation, assisted by the “Wandering Minstrels,” will perform every Evening in the Orchestra.’ A list of those Wandering Minstrels present has been added in manuscript, along with details of their programme. Also pasted in is a brief press cutting from The Kentish Chronicle, reading ‘The “Wandering Minstrels,” filled the orchestra and executed several brilliant pieces with excellent effect.’

ff. 82-83 Printed programme, cut up, for the Wandering Minstrels’ Amateur Concert in aid of the Manchester Distress Relief Fund, Tuesday 11 November 1862. Sum raised: £10 net.

f. 84. Printed programme for a ‘Grand Amateur Concert’, Wednesday 12 November 1862, at St. Margaret’s School, Prestwich, in aid of the funds of the Night School. Below it is a photograph of a man seated, labelled ‘J. Lavies – M.D(eigh)’.

f. 84v. Lithograph of Domenico Dragonetti, by F. Salabert, 1845.

f. 85. Programme for concert at Heaton House, Thursday 13 November 1862.

f. 85v. Lithograph of Charles de Beriot, by M Gauci after G. Krusemann, 1829.

f. 86. Press cuttings for concerts in Manchester, November 1862.

f. 86v. Photograph of Windsor Castle.

f. 87. Extracts from a poster for ‘The Annual Amateur Performance’ at the Theatre Royal, Windsor, on Tuesday 25 and Thursday 27 November 1862. One notes that ‘The Band of the “Wandering Minstrels,” under the Direction of the Hon. Seymour Egerton, Will Play Selections from favourite Operas, between the Pieces, on both nights.’ Below is a list, in manuscript, of the Wandering Minstrels present, and their programme.

f. 87v. Seven envelopes addressed to Val Morris and decorated with caricatures.

f. 88. Nine photographs: J. Langton Butcher; T.V. Lister; W.G [?]; F. Gerard; R. Hughes; Val Morris; Hon. E. Thesiger; Leinster; H. Le Patourel.

f. 89. Poem by ‘The Poet Laureate’ [Henry Robley], Upton Park, Slough, 17 November 1862, in manuscript, entitled ‘The Lay of the last Minstrel’ and containing a vivid account of the Wandering Minstrels’ unsuccessful trip to Manchester.

f. 90. Printed programme for a ‘Soirée Musicale et Fumante’ on Thursday 4 December 1862 at 47 Sloane Street. A list of those Wandering Minstrels who participated has been added in manuscript. Below it is a press cutting from The Musical World, 6 December 1862.

f. 90v. 1) a satirical etching by J. Geyn (probably Jacques II de Gheyn) showing players of bellows and grid-iron; 2) ‘The Laughing Audience’, a ticket engraved by Hogarth in 1733, for subscription to his Rake’s Progress.

f. 91. 1) an engraving entitled ‘The merry Fidler’; 2) an engraved plan of the ‘Orchestre de l’Opera de Dresden en 1769’.

f. 91v. Expression of thanks from the Orthopaedic Hospital, Hatton Garden, dated 2 Feb 1863 to J. Charles Pritchard and Lord Gerald Fitzgerald for their aid in the orchestra at the ‘Amateur histrionic performance’ at the Assembly Rooms, St. John’s Wood, on 16 January 1863, with a press cutting relating to the same occasion.

f. 92. Programme for the Wandering Minstrels’ concert on 18 December 1862, at 47 Sloane Street, together with photographs of Rossini, Meyerbeer, Auber, Verdi, Dr. Lavies and Gounod.

f. 93. Programme for a ‘Grand Amateur Vocal & Instrumental Concert’ in aid of the Fund for the Restoration of the Priory Church, at the Corn Exchange, Leominster, on Tuesday 20 January 1863, ‘by the united bands of the Wandering Minstrels and amateurs of Herefordshire’. ‘A special train will leave Leominster after the Concert for Hereford at 10.15, stopping at Dinmore, and for Ludlow at 11.40.’ Sum raised: £80.

f. 94. Five photographs of Hereford.

f. 94v. Public notice of a ‘Grand Morning Concert’ by the united bands of the Wandering Minstrels and the amateurs of Herefordshire, Wednesday 21 January 1863, at the Shire Hall, Hereford, ‘in aid of the funds for the relief of the distress in Lancashire’, and a ‘Grand Concert’ by the same on Tuesday 20 January at the Corn Exchange, Leominster, in aid of the fund for the restoration of Leominster church. Full programme details are given on the notice, along with details of all the performers.

f. 95. Programme for the ‘Grand Morning Concert’, Wednesday 21 January 1863, Shire Hall, Hereford.

f. 96. Press cuttings containing reviews of concerts at Leominster and Hereford on 20 and 21 January 1863.

f. 96v. Coloured lithograph, possibly of Niccolò Paganini.

f. 97. Photograph of Louis d’Egville, with violin.

f. 98. Lithograph of Michael Hanhart.

f. 98v. Coloured lithograph of a man.

f. 99. Programmes for the Wandering Minstrels’ concerts, 14 February and 5 March 1863, 47 Sloane Street.

f. 100. Pen and ink drawing by Alexander Davis Cooper, signed ‘ADC 1862’, depicting cornet players A.B. Mitford and Edward A Breedon.

f. 101. Programmes for the Wandering Minstrels’ concerts, 26 March and 16 April 1863, 47 Sloane Street.

f. 102. Pen and ink drawing by Alexander Davis Cooper, signed ‘ADC 1862’, of himself and W.L. Turner (violas).

f. 103. Programme for the Wandering Minstrels’ performance of music from Rossini’s ‘Gugliemo Tell’ at Cromwell House, South Kensington, Thursday 23 April 1863.

f. 103v. Playbill for ‘Amateur Theatricals’ at the Bijou Theatre, in aid of The Salop Infirmary, Monday 4 May 1863. ‘The Amateur Band of Wandering Minstrels, Under the direction of Captain the Honble. Seymour Egerton, will attend and play various selections’.

f. 104. Extracts from the programme for the Wandering Minstrels’ Amateur Concert, on Thursday 28 May 1863, at the Queen’s Concert Rooms, Hanover Square, for the Association in Aid of the Deaf and Dumb ‘Building Fund’ and the British Asylum for Deaf and Dumb Females, under the patronage of H.R.H. The Prince of Wales, H.R.H. The Princess of Wales, H.R.H. The Duchess of Cambridge, H.R.H. The Princess Mary of Cambridge. Sum raised: £350 net.

f. 105. Additional extracts from the programme for the Wandering Minstrels’ concert on 28 May 1863, giving the names of the artists involved. In the centre is a newspaper cutting (from the Illustrated London News?) containing an illustration of the event, captioned ‘Amateur Concert at the Hanover-Square Rooms for the benefit of the British Asylum for Deaf and Dumb Females’.

f. 106. Further extracts from the programme for the Wandering Minstrels’ concert on 28 May 1863, with a photograph of C.F. Fuller, W.M.

f. 106v. Press cuttings containing reviews of the Wandering Minstrels’ concert on 28 May 1863.

f. 107. Letter of thanks to the Wandering Minstrels for their concert on 28 May 1863, from the Association in Aid of the Deaf & Dumb, dated 1 June 1863. Pasted below is a wedding photograph of Prince Albert Edward (later King Edward VII) and Alexandra of Denmark, London, 1863.

f. 108. Programmes for the Wandering Minstrels’ concerts on 16 April and 18 June 1863, at 47 Sloane Street, the latter programme partly in manuscript.

f. 109. Nine photographs: G.W. Goodbody, Charles Pritchard, T.G. Cooper, C.E. Sparrow, H.D. Curtis (with trombone), T. Fuller, W.H. Stone (with a collection of clarinets), A. Mendes, H. Le Patourel.

f. 110. Part of a handbill for the Wandering Minstrels’ Amateur Concert on Wednesday 10 June 1863, at the Portland Hall, Southsea, in aid of the “Orpheus” Relief Fund (Royal Naval ship, sunk of the New Zealand coast, 7 Feb 1863, with the loss of 189 lives). Under the patronage of the Prince and Princess of Leiningen, and others. Sum raised: £105 net. The names of all the performers have been added in manuscript.

f. 111. Part of a programme for the Wandering Minstrels’ concert on 10 June 1863, with press cuttings from the Hampshire Telegraph, Sussex Chronicle and Standard and a printed postcard of Southsea.

f. 112. Pen and ink drawing of a man addressing a woman by T.G. Cooper. Below is inscribed ‘1st Sweet Creature (languidly): Who are these Wandering Minstrels, that everyone is talking about’…

f. 113. Part of the programme for the Wandering Minstrels’ Amateur Concert in aid of the British Home for Incurables, Clapham Rise, at the Queen’s Concert Rooms, Hanover Square, Thursday 9 July 1863. Sum raised: £65 net.

f. 113v. Pen and ink caricature of musicians by Col. Hepburn, Scots Fusilier Guards.

f. 114. Remainder of the programme for the concert on 9 July 1863.

f. 114v. Programme for the Wandering Minstrels’ concert at Exeter house, Roehampton, 10 July 1863.

f. 115. Press cuttings for the Wandering Minstrels’ concert on 9 July 1863.

f. 116. Letter of thanks from British Home for Incurables, 27 July 1863. Proposes that Seymour Egerton is elected a Vice-President of the Home. Sum raised: £65 net.

f. 116v. Spoof programme for Woolmer Grand Musical Festival and Tea Party, August 6 1863. ‘The directors have the honor to announce that MR. COSTA has not been engaged as Conductor.’

f. 117. Photograph of the Wandering Minstrels with their instruments, captioned ‘Scene at Woolmer’, by Sir A.K. Macdonald, Bart.

f. 117v. Folded sheet containing ‘A Double Acrostic’. Subject: ‘A justly celebrated “W.M.” and “his specialists”.’

f. 118. Extracts from a poster for Amateur Theatricals, Canterbury Cricket Week, New Theatre Royal, Canterbury, on 10, 11, 13 & 14 August 1863. ‘The Old Stagers on the Musical Foundation, assisted by the Wandering Minstrels, will perform every Evening in the Orchestra’. Details of music performed by the Wandering Minstrels, and the performers involved, have been added in manuscript. With photographs of Ellen and Kate Terry and Tom Taylor.

f. 118v. Copies of paintings of ‘Young Mozart’ and ‘Old Handel’.

[unnumbered sheet] Printed programme, in Russian, dated 1864 and with the name A.B. Mitford pencilled at the foot. On the reverse is written, in ink, ‘Programme of the Music played at the Supper of Their Majesties the Emperor & Empress of All the Russias on the 13th Feb (Old Style) 1864…brought from S. Petersburgh by A.B. Mitford, W.M.’

f. 119. Programmes for two smoking concerts by the Wandering Minstrels, on 17 Dec 1863 and 4 Feb 1864, at 47 Sloane Street.

f. 119v. Pass for a First Class ticket from London to Dover and back on the London, Chatham and Dover Railway (No. 50), dated 6 February 1864, together with a press cutting for a concert that day in aid of Dover Hospital.

f. 120. Programme for the Wandering Minstrels’ concert at The Maison Dieu Hall, Dover, on Saturday 6 February 1864. Sum raised: £85.15.

f. 120v. Lithograph of Dover Harbour and Castle, ca. 1860.

f. 121. Three letters of thanks for concert on 6 February 1864: a formal letter from the Chairman of Dover Hospital’s Governors and two letters from Anthony Collett, from the Committee for the Concert.

f. 121v. Three photographs of Dover.

f. 122. Programmes for Wandering Minstrels’ concerts, 1 March and 3 March 1864 (the latter described as a Smoking Concert), 47 Sloane Street.

f. 122v. Programme for the Wandering Minstrels’ Smoking Concert, 31 March 1864, 47 Sloane Street.

f. 123. Etching of a fiddler with peasants by Cornelius Vischer after A. Brouwer, with the caption ‘Trahit sua quemque voluptas’.

f. 123v Letter of thanks on behalf of the Royal South Hants Infirmary, dated 14 May 1864, for concert on 2 April 1864, which raised £150.17. On the same page is pasted a cutting from The Hampshire Advertiser containing a review of the concert on 2 April in the Carlton Hall.

f. 124. Programme for the Wandering Minstrels’ concert in aid of the South Hants Infirmary on Saturday 2 April 1864. Sum raised: £155 net.

f. 124v. Letters of thanks from the Committee of the Surrey County Hospital for two concerts at Guildford on 7 April 1864. Amount raised: £150 net. Also expresses regret ‘that any of the Members should have been put to inconvenience by no provision having been made for the return of the Instruments to the Station on the night of the concert and by the train’s leaving Guildford at an earlier hour than was intended’.

f. 125. Programme for the Wandering Minstrels’ morning concert in aid of the Surrey County Hospital on Thursday 7 April 1864. Sum raised: £175 net.

f. 125v. Newspaper cutting from the Surrey and Hants News and Guildford Times, Saturday 9 April 1864, reviewing the Wandering Minstrels’ concerts at County Hall, Guildford, on Thursday 7 April.

f. 126. Programme for the evening concert at County Hall, Guildford on Thursday 7 April 1864, in aid of the funds of the Surrey County Hospital

f. 126v. Resolution of thanks from the Council of the Royal Dramatic College, ‘on behalf of the aged and infirm members of the dramatic profession’, to the Wandering Minstrels for occupying the orchestra at the Benefit at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, on Wednesday 13 April 1864.

f. 127. Programme cover, with lithograph by Hanhart, for the Wandering Minstrels’ concert on Thursday 5 May 1864 at the Queen’s Concert Rooms, Hanover Square, in aid of the Brigade of Guards Industrial Home, Westminster. With a letter of thanks from the Committee of the Guards Industrial Home, stating that the concert was very successful financially. ‘…As His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales expressed to you personally how much he had been pleased with the performance of your Band, it would be superfluous in me to repeat his praises…’

f. 127v. Lithographed design for the frontispiece to the programme by Eleanor Vere Boyle, whose initials, EVB, are found in the bottom right-hand corner. The date of the concert is given incorrectly on her design as 4 May. Sum raised in this concert: £456.2.4 net.

f. 128. Programme and press cuttings for the Wandering Minstrels’ concert on Thursday 5 May 1864.

f. 128v. Letter from the Royal General Annuity Society, dated 2 August 1864, thanking the Wandering Minstrels for their cheque for £84.5.6

f. 129. Programme for the Wandering Minstrels’ concert on Thursday 19 May 1864 at Cromwell House, South Kensington, in aid of the funds of the Royal General Annuity Society. Sum raised: £84.5.6.

f. 129v. Letter from the Royal Asylum of St. Anne’s Society, thanking Valentine Morris for his aid on the occasion of the concert given by the Wandering Minstrels.

f. 130. Programme for the Wandering Minstrels’ concert in aid of the funds of the Royal Asylum of St. Anne’s Society, ‘affording home, clothing, maintenance and education to necessitous children of parents who have once moved in a superior station of life, orphans or not, of any nation’. No place or date given. Sum raised: £23.

f. 130v. Press cuttings for the Wandering Minstrels’ concert in aid of the funds of the Royal Asylum of St. Anne’s Society, at Hanover Square Rooms. Those present included the Duchesses of Northumberland, Marlborough, Sunderland and the Countess of Derby and Lady Grey de Wilton.

f. 131. Nine photographs: J.L. Butcher; William Lewis Turner; [unnamed]; Frederick Varness; Henry Coke (with small child); H.B. Heath; [unnamed]; H. Whitworth Jones; W.S. Broadwood.

f. 131v. Programmes for Wandering Minstrels’ concerts, 28 April and 26 May 1864, 47 Sloane Street.

f. 132. Programmes for the Wandering Minstrels’ smoking concert on 23 June 1864 at 47 Sloane Street; a ‘Concert at Mr. Swinton’s’, 33 Warwick Square, London on 5 June 1864; and another smoking concert, on 7 July 1864 at 47 Sloane Street.

f. 132v. Envelopes posted at various times to Val Morris and decorated with caricatures.

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f. 133v. A letter, dated 15 July 1864, from the management of the Adult Orphan Institution, 11 St Andrews Place, Regents Park, thanking the Wandering Minstrels and ‘the Lady and Gentleman’ who had kindly assisted at the concert the previous evening.

f. 134. Programme for the Wandering Minstrels’ concert on Thursday 14 July 1864 at the Queen’s Concert Room, Hanover Square, in aid of the funds of the Adult Orphan Institution, St. Andrews Place, Regents Park. Sum raised: £275.

f. 134v. Unattributed painting of a woman kneeling, with a press cutting noting that ‘The Old Stagers’ have made handsome donations to local charities (£230 was presented to local charities from their Cricket Week performances).

f. 135. Extracts from the playbill for ‘Amateur Theatricals’ at the New Theatre Royal, Canterbury, during Canterbury Cricket Week, 1864, noting that ‘The “Old Stagers” on the Musical Foundation, assisted by the Wandering Minstrels, will perform in the Orchestra’. Details of the Minstrels present and music performed, on 8, 9, 11. 12 August 1864, have been added in manuscript. Also pasted in is a small photograph of the Wandering Minstrels, with instruments, and horse and carriage.

f. 135v. Menu for the Wandering Minstrels’ dinner, ‘Service a la Russe’, Crystal Palace, July 1864 and drawings marked ‘Avant’ and ‘Après’, the former showing two instruments bowing to one another. and the latter two boxers in the ring. Also attached is a letter from Henry Robley, in verse, dated 17 February 1865, beginning ‘My Dear Lord Gerald, I invoke the Muse’.

f. 136. Programmes for the Wandering Minstrels’ smoking concerts on 6 December 1864 and 17 January [amended to 19 January] and 7 February [amended to 9 February] 1865, at 47 Sloane Street.

f. 136v. Programmes for the Wandering Minstrels’ smoking concerts, 2 March, 21 March, 23 March 1865, 47 Sloane Street.

f. 137. Decorative lithographed programme for Amateur Theatricals by Officers of the [Scots Guards] Brigade, in aid of the Guards Industrial Home, Monday F[ebruary - rest of date obscured] [1865]. The theatricals featured a Prologue by Shirley Brooks, Esq. (‘Poet-laureate to the Brigade of Guards’) and J. Palgrave Simpson’s comic drama, A Scrap of Paper, which included, among others, Colonel de Bathe, commanding officer of the Scots Guards. Col. De Bathe was also stage manager, and the Wandering Minstrels, conducted by Seymour Egerton, provided the music. Details of the music performed, and the names of the participants, have been added in manuscript.

f. 137v. Expression of thanks, dated 1 March 1865, from Colonel H.P. de Bathe to the Wandering Minstrels for their support for the Amateur Theatricals in aid of the Guards Industrial Home, which raised £460. With press cuttings for same event, revealing that it took place at the Bijou Theatre, and that Sheridan’s The Critic was performed, as well as the works listed on f. 137r.

f. 138. Programmes for the Wandering Minstrels’ concerts on Thursday 15 December 1864 at the Music Hall, Shrewsbury, for the benefit of the Salop Infirmary, and on Wednesday 14 December 1864 at the Shire Hall, Hereford, by the Hereford Philharmonic Society, assisted by members of the Wandering Minstrels, with proceeds devoted to the ‘Liquidation of the Expenses incurred in the recent Alterations of the Shire Hall.

f. 138v Programmes for the Wandering Minstrels’ smoking concerts, 11 and 13 April 1865, 47 Sloane Street, and a small photograph of H. Whitworth Jones. On 11 April, the Moray Minstrels also performed.

f. 139. Three photographs: one of Winchester Cathedral, and two of the Church of the Hospital of St. Cross, Winchester.

f. 139v. Letter from the Master of St. Cross, Winchester, dated 19 April 1865, thanking the Wandering Minstrels for their services at the concert the previous night. He mentions that Seymour Egerton had visited him that afternoon and expressed the hope that the Wandering Minstrels could assist on a future occasion. With a press cutting from the Hampshire Chronicle containing a review of the concert.

f. 140. Programme for the Wandering Minstrels’ concert on Tuesday 18 April 1865 in Winchester for the benefit of the Church of St. Cross. Sum raised: £136 net.

f. 140v. Letter dated 25 May 1865 from the President of St. John’s Working Men’s Club stating that the Wandering Minstrels’ concert given in aid of the Club raised £56 net. It closes off the society’s existing debt and enables the building to be handed over to the managers without encumbrance.

[unnumbered sheet] Attached between folios 140 and 141 is the programme for the Wandering Minstrels’ concert at 7, St. James’s Square, on Tuesday 4 April 1865.

f. 141. Programme for the Wandering Minstrels’ concert at the Music Hall, Store Street, on Monday 1 May 1865 in aid of the school building at St. John’s Working Men’s Club and Institute, John Street, Tottenham Court Road. Sum raised: £56 net.

f. 141v. Letter from the Chairman of Charing Cross Hospital, dated 25 May 1865, thanking the Wandering Minstrels for their assistance at the recent concert and noting that nearly £100 was raised.

f. 142. Programme for the Wandering Minstrels’ concert at the Hanover Square Rooms on Tuesday 16 May 1865 in aid of the Charing Cross Hospital. Sum raised: £100 net. Concert was under the patronage of the Queen, Prince and Princess of Wales, Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and many lady patronesses. Ticket prices: Stalls (reserved): one guinea; unreserved seats: half a guinea.

f. 142v. Lithograph of Niccolò Paganini by Josef Kriehuber. Published by Artaria & Co., Vienna, 1828.

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f. 143v. Resolution of thanks to the Wandering Minstrels from the Committee for the Home for Gentlewomen for their concert at the Queen’s Concert Rooms, Hanover Square on 13 June 1865. With press cuttings relating to the same concert.

f. 144. Programme for the concert given at the Queen’s Concert Rooms, Hanover Square on Tuesday 13 June 1865, by the Wandering Minstrels and the West London Madrigal Society in aid of the Home for Gentlewomen in Reduced Circumstances (the Widows and Daughters of Private Gentlemen, Officers in the Army or Navy, Professional Men, Bankers, and Merchants). Sum raised: £119.3 net.

f. 144v. Programmes for the Wandering Minstrels’ smoking concerts on 30 May and 1 June 1865, 47 Sloane Street. The programme content is identical in the two.

f. 145. Programme for a concert at the Pimlico Literary Institute, Winchester Street by the Wandering Minstrels and ‘Other Distinguished Amateurs’ in aid of ‘the Orphan Family of a lately deceased Physician’, on Tuesday 20 June 1865. Sum raised: £117.7.6 net. The management committee for the concert was mostly drawn from Seymour Egerton’s family. No details of the music are included. Ticket price: Reserved seats: half a guinea.

f. 146. Programme for ‘A Pastoral Cantata’ performed at Cromwell House on Wednesday 21 June 1865, the music composed and conducted by Seymour Egerton, the words by Mrs. Freake.

f. 146v. Large photograph of Canterbury Cathedral.

f. 147. Extracts from the playbill for Amateur Theatricals, Theatre Royal, Canterbury during Canterbury Cricket Week, 7-12 Aug 1865. Details of the music performed by the Wandering Minstrels, and a list of those Minstrels present, have been added in manuscript.

f. 147v. Menu for the Wandering Minstrels’ dinner, 13 July 1865, Crystal Palace. Below is a letter of thanks, dated 22 Dec 1865, from the Council of St. Andrew’s Convalescent Hospital to the Wandering Minstrels for their concert at St. Mark’s School, Windsor.

f. 148. Programme for the Wandering Minstrels’ concert on Saturday 2 December 1865 at St Mark’s School, Windsor, in aid of St. Andrew’s Convalescent Hospital. Sum raised: £80 net.

f. 148v. Press cuttings from The Nottingham Journal, 2 Feb 1866 and other papers, reviewing the Wandering Minstrels’ concert in Nottingham on 29 January.

[unnumbered sheet] Coloured lithograph of Market Place, Nottingham by W.F. Gibson, ca. 1865.

f. 149. Programme of the Wandering Minstrels’ concert at the Mechanics’ Hall, Nottingham, on Monday 29 January 1866, in aid of the Nottingham and Midland Eye Infirmary. Sum raised: £46.12.2. net.

f. 149v. Press cuttings containing reviews of the Wandering Minstrels’ concert at the Corn Exchange, Melton Mowbray on 12 March 1866.

[unnumbered sheet] Letter from the Melton Mowbray committee, dated 13 March 1866, thanking the Wandering Minstrels for their concert on 12 March.

f. 150. Programme for the Wandering Minstrels’ concert at the Corn Exchange, Melton Mowbray, on Monday 12 March 1866, in aid of the church restoration fund. Sum raised: £220 net.

f. 150v. Painted certificate by Charles Goddard of Hastings conveying thanks from the Hastings Working Men’s Club to the Wandering Minstrels for their concert on 7 April 1866.

f. 151. Programme for the Wandering Minstrels’ concert at the Music Hall, Hastings on Saturday 7 April 1866, in aid of the Hastings Working Men’s Club. Sum raised: £76.15 net.

f. 151v. Letter, dated 16 June 1866, apologizing for not having written to thank the Wandering Minstrels sooner for their concert given in April on behalf of Oatlands Schools. With press cuttings relating to the concert at Oatlands Park Hotel on 9 April 1866.

f. 152. Programme for the Wandering Minstrels’ concert at Oatlands Park Hotel, Weybridge in aid of the building fund of the Oatlands Schools, Monday 9 April 1866. Sum raised: £103 net.

f. 152v Programme for a smoking concert given by the Wandering Minstrels and the Moray Minstrels, 47 Sloane Street, 17 January 1867.

f. 153 Six photographs: Sir Frederick A. Gore Ouseley, Hon. Member, W.M.; G.A. Ames; T. Villiers Lister (with euphonium); ‘W.M. Smoking Concert at No. XLVII Sloane St’; ‘Woolmer, 1860’; ‘Canterbury, 1861’. With a press cutting from Pall Mall, 9 April 1889, recording the death of Sir Frederick Gore Ouseley.

f. 153v. Pen and ink drawing by T.G. Cooper captioned ‘I wish girls would take an answer! I kept telling my pretty cousins that I had given away all my Tickets for our Private Concert. And the result _ [illustration shows girl on her knees, tugging at man’s leg]’

f. 154. Decorative programme for a concert given by the Wandering Minstrels and Moray Minstrels at the Queens Concert Rooms, Hanover Square, Saturday 14 April 1866. No details of the music performed are visible.

f. 154v. Letter, dated 23 April 1866, quoting a resolution of thanks from the Committee of St. Jude’s Industrial Home & Ragged Schools to the Wandering Minstrels for their highly successful concert on 16 April 1866. It add that the Wandering Minstrels would be pleased to know that the debt of £75.7.7 would be liquidated and probably a small sum left in hand. Gross receipts: £102.3.6. Whole expenses, with exception of printer’s account (not yet received): £16.11.6.

f. 155. Programme for the Wandering Minstrels’ concert at the Vestry Hall, Chelsea, in aid of the St. Jude’s Ragged Schools and Industrial Home, Monday 16 April 1866. Sum raised: £85.12

f. 155v. Letter from the Building Committee of Christchurch National Schools, Battersea, dated 3 May 1866, to the Wandering Minstrels, thanking them for their concert at Wandsworth on 24 April.

f. 156. Programme of the Wandering Minstrels’ concert at the Assembly Rooms, Wandsworth on Tuesday 24 April 1866, in aid of the Building Fund of the Christchurch National Schools, Battersea. With a printed illustration of the schools. Sum raised: £176.9.9. net.

f. 157. Six photographs of Hastings.

f. 157v. Illustration by H.S.M. [later amended to H.S. Marks] of Old King Cole. The words are pasted in below; the original lyric has been amended, in ink, from ‘fiddlers three’ to ‘fiddlers twenty and three’. Printed.

f. 158. Programme for the West London School of Art’s ‘Conversazione and Concert’ at the South Kensington Museum on Wednesday 18 July 1866, for which the Wandering Minstrels provided the concert. With a letter to Lord Gerald FitzGerald from the Committee of the West London School of Art expressing their thanks to the Wandering Minstrels for the ‘important aid rendered to them by means of the Concert’ and to Lord Gerald himself for ‘the personal trouble you have taken in this behalf’. Also included is a press cutting containing a review of the concert. Sum raised: £166.

f. 158v. Menu for the Wandering Minstrels’ dinner, 19 July 1866. Bertram & Roberts, Refreshment Department, Crystal Palace.

f. 159. Extracts from the playbill for Amateur Theatricals, Theatre Royal, Canterbury, during Canterbury Cricket Week, 1866. ‘The “Old Stagers” on the Musical Foundation, with able assistance, will perform in the Orchestra, under the direction of Professor Sim, R.S.V.P.’ With a group photograph showing members of the Wandering Minstrels with their instruments. Captioned: H. Curtis, T. Cooper, Mendez, Arnes, Gerard, Egerton, Butcher, FitzGerald, de Bathe, Le Patourel, Selby, Breedon, Stone, Sanderson.

f. 159v. Two photographs: the Wandering Minstrels, without instruments, captioned: Gerard, FitzGerald, Breedon, Egerton, Sanderson, T. Cooper, Butcher, H. Curtis, Stone; and the Wandering Minstrels with horses and coach, labelled ‘Sir H. de Bathe’s Coach’, ‘Canterbury, 1866’.

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f. 160v. Press cutting containing a review of the ‘Grand Evening Concert’ by the Wandering Minstrels at Farnham on Tuesday [3 July 1866], in aid of the funds of the Surrey County Hospital.

f. 161. Programme for the Wandering Minstrels’ concert at the Town Hall, Farnham, Tuesday 3 July 1866. The printed programme describes it as in aid of the Church Restoration Fund, but the newspaper review states that funds were being raised for the Surrey County Hospital. Sum raised: £21.

f. 161v. Letter, dated 12 March 1867, from the Bath United Hospital, stating that at the annual meeting of subscribers to the hospital, a vote of grateful thanks was carried by acclamation to the Wandering Minstrels. With a press cutting containing a review of the concert.

f. 162. Programme for the Wandering Minstrels’ concert at The Queen’s Concert Rooms, Bath on Friday 22 Feb 1867, in aid of the fund of the Bath United Hospital. Sum raised: £159.

f. 162v. Letter from the Female School of Art, dated 7 June 1867, thanking the Wandering Minstrels for their concert on Saturday 2 March 1867, at which a net sum of £200 was raised on behalf of the Building Fund of the School.

f. 163. Programme for the Wandering Minstrels’ concert at the Queen’s Concert Rooms, Hanover Square on Saturday 2 March 1867, in aid of the Building Fund of the Female School of Art. Sum raised: £203.8.8. net.

f. 163v. Press cuttings for the Wandering Minstrels’ concert on 2 March 1867.

f. 164. Remainder of the programme for the concert on 2 March 1867, containing lists of the patrons and the management committee. The Countess of Wilton, Viscountess Grey de Wilton, Lady Katherine Coke and Lady Alice Des Voeux were patrons. One page of the programme features an illustration ‘Drawn and engraved by Miss Jane Chapman, Student of the “Wood Engraving Class”, Female School of Art’.

f. 164v. Letter from the Committee of the Walthamstow National Schools thanking the Wandering Minstrels for going to Walthamstow and giving a concert in aid of the building fund for the new school room.

f. 165. Programme for the Wandering Minstrels’ concert on Monday 4 March 1867 in Walthamstow in aid of the building fund of the National School, Walthamstow. Sum raised: £70 net.

f. 166. Programme for the Wandering Minstrels’ concert at Dudley House, Park Lane, by the kind permission of the Right Hon. the Earl of Dudley and Ward, on Tuesday 19 March 1867, in aid of the funds of the Society for Help to Needlewomen, ‘Clothes for the Poor made by the Poor’. Tickets one guinea each, from Sams’ Royal Library. Sum raised: £200.

f. 167. Programme for the Wandering Minstrels’ concert at the Assembly Rooms, Walthamstow on Monday 3 June 1867, in aid of the building fund of the Upper Tooting National Schools. Sum raised: £43.

f. 167v. Invitation card to the Wandering Minstrels, in the style of an ancient Greek illustration, bearing the words ‘The Moray Minstrels 1867, Saturdays Feb 23, March 30, April 27’ ‘Arthur J. Lewis at home, Moray Lodge, Campden Hill, Kensington’. ‘Music 9 Oysters 11’

f. 168. Programme for a concert by the Wandering Minstrels and Moray Minstrels, 27 May 1867. Names of the performers are shown, but no details of the music performed are given.

f. 169. Programme for a concert by the Wandering Minstrels and Moray Minstrels, 14 June 1867. Names of the performers are shown, but no details of the music performed are given.

f. 170. Coloured poster designed by R. Hughes and lithographed by M. & N. Hanhart for the Wandering Minstrels’ concert at the Queens’ [sic] Concert Rooms, Hanover Square, Wednesday 3 July 1867, for the benefit of the Royal Caledonian Asylum for the Children of Soldiers, Sailors & Marines. Sum raised: £200.

f. 171. Pages from the programme for the concert on 3 July 1867 containing information about the Royal Caledonian Asylum.

f. 172. Extract from the programme for the Wandering Minstrels’ concert on 3 July 1867 giving details of the lady patronesses, who included the Queen, Her Royal Highness the Princess Christian, His Serene Highness the Prince of Teck, Her Royal Highness the Princess Mary Adelaide of Teck.

f. 172v. Programme for a ‘Grand Concert’ in aid of the Funds of St. Mary’s Schools, at the Mechanics’ Institute, Burnley on Monday 18 November 1867, together with a photograph of Towneley Hall. Principal vocalists were Miss Evelyn Towneley and Mr. Whitworth Jones. At the pianoforte: - Mr. Frederic Clay. Pianist: - Mr. Charles Halle. Conductor: - Honourable Seymour Egerton.

f. 173-4. Manuscript list detailing ‘The Result of Seven Years Wanders & Concerts’, with names of places visited, charities supported and sums raised. Total sum raised: £6244.8.9 [amended in pencil to £6308.6.3.

f. 175. Bill of fare for the Wandering Minstrels’ dinner, 15 July 1867. Bertram & Roberts, Refreshment Department, Crystal Palace, and Exposition Universelle, Paris.