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Folio album containing photographs, concert programmes and other memorabilia from the Wandering Minstrels' concerts staged between 1868 and 1881.

Contents:-

f. 1. Dedicatory page bearing the words ‘Presented to the Wandering Minstrels by H.B. Heath.’

f. 1v. Page inscribed with the following names: Lord Gerald FitzGerald, Hon. Librarian; R. Hughes, Hon. Treasurer; Capt. The Hon. Seymour J.G. Egerton (1st Life Guards), Hon. President & Conductor; Val. Morris, Hon. Secretary.

f. 2. Pen and ink humorous title-page bearing the words ‘W.M. Vol. II. 1868’, in a decorative border.

f. 3. Table headed ‘Orchestra of the Wandering Minstrels. January, 1869’, and giving the names of the performers in each section of the orchestra.

f. 3v-4v. Table giving details of charity concerts given in each season and sums raised. At the foot of folio 4v a drawing by Ellis Carr has been pasted, featuring a gravestone bearing the inscription ‘R.I.P. Sacred to the Memory of the W.M. departed this life March 24, 1898.’

f. 5. Engraving of a minstrel carrying a variety of instruments.

f. 5v. Newspaper cuttings relating to the Wandering Minstrels’ concert in Southampton in aid of the West India Hurricane Fund, together with a letter of thanks for the concert from the Ordnance Survey Office, dated 16 January 1868.

f. 6. Programme for the Wandering Minstrels’ concert on Tuesday 7 January 1868 at The Carlton Rooms, Southampton, in aid of the Hurricane Fund. Sum raised = £107.3.4. With a small photograph of a building, presumably in Southampton.

f. 6v. Lithograph of Niccolò Paganini with an orchestra.

f. 7. Set of nine small photographs, captioned ‘Our Conductor and First Fiddles’. Comprises photographs of S. Egerton, L. D’Egville, E. Thesiger, H.B. Heath, A. Mendes, C. Pritchard, J.D. Pawle, B. Cracroft and J.L. Butcher.

f. 7v. Press cuttings relating to the Wandering Minstrels’ concert in Winchester on 14 January 1868, together with a letter of thanks, dated 19 February 1868, for the concert, which raised £100 net.

f. 8. Programme for the Wandering Minstrels’ concert on Tuesday 14 January 1868 at the Queen’s Rooms, Winchester, in aid of the Restoration of the Church of St. Cross.

f. 8v. Press cutting from The Sunday Times, 6 October 1867, headed ‘Aggressive Amateurism’ and referring to the Wandering Minstrels.

[no folio 9]

f. 10. Programme for the Wandering Minstrels’ concert on Saturday 8 February 1868 at the Music Hall, Hastings, in aid of the East Sussex Infirmary. Sum raised: £71 net.

f. 10v. ‘Le Joueur de Violon Hollandais’: etching by Jean Baptiste Fosseyeux after Dietricy (C.W.E. Dietrich).

f. 11. Set of nine photographs captioned ‘Our Second Violins’. Comprises photographs of T.G. Cooper, Edward Banbury, Frederick Dean, F. McClintock, R. Hughes, R. Fuller, G.M. Evans, George A. Ames and E. Knobel.

f. 11v. Programme for the Wandering Minstrels’ concert on 17 March 1868 at the Music Hall, Canterbury. Sum raised: £50 net.

f. 12. Group photograph of members of the Wandering Minstrels, captioned ‘At the Fountain, Canterbury, March 1868’. The individuals are named as G.A. Ames, Graham Browne, Whitworth Jones, H. de Bathe, Davis Cooper, R. Hughes, Selby, Varness, Val. Morris, H. Curtis, J.L. Butcher

f. 12v. Programme for the Wandering Minstrels’ concert on 26 March 1868 at 47, Sloane Street, London in aid of the Newport Market Refuge and Industrial Schools. Sum raised: £150.

f. 13. Letter from the Newport Market Refuge and Industrial School, Soho, London, W.C., dated 27 March 1868, thanking the Wandering Minstrels. ‘Their friends listened with great pleasure to the excellent treat that was provided for them’.

f. 14. Watercolour by Thomas George Cooper featuring a sick violinist, with red nose and rum and lemon, and feet immersed in hot water. Below is written:

‘Fact

W.M. having a cold, stays at home and nurses himself, having previously written as follows.

“Dear Morris

Severe indisposition prevents my attending rehearsal”…’

f. 14v. Lithograph of Niccolò Paganini.

f. 15. Watercolour by Thomas George Cooper featuring a man and woman embracing, with champagne on ice behind them. Below is written:

‘Fiction

“Don’t go out tonight, dear. Write a note and say you cannot go.

x x x

W.M. writes as follows

“Dear Morris

Severe indisposition” &c&c.’

f. 15v. Lithograph by Garvarni of a cornemuse player. French

f. 16. Set of eleven photographs captioned ‘Our Wood’. Comprises photographs of W.H. Stone, T.H. Sanderson, H. Coster, T. Selby, S. Curtis, H. Le Patourel, W. Broadwood, F. Varness, W.F. Dawson, A. Harrison, C.J. Evans

f. 16v. Letter dated 28 April 1868 from the National Orphan Home, thanking the Wandering Minstrels for their concert at Richmond on Wednesday 22 April, where between £90 and £100 was raised for the fund, besides several donations.

f. 17. Reproduction of a leaf in Mozart’s autograph, containing sketches for the opening of the finale of the piano quartet in E flat, K. 493, and eight canons, K. 508a.

f. 18. Etching of a grotesque animal consort, ca. 1600 [?].

f. 18v. Letter dated 16 May 1868 from the Royal School for Daughters of Officers of the Army, with a resolution of thanks to the Wandering Minstrels for their performance on 5 May. With a press cutting from The Musical World containing a review of the concert.

f. 19. Programme for a concert given by the Wandering Minstrels and Moray Minstrels on Tuesday 5 May 1868 at The Hanover Square Rooms, in aid of Funds of the Royal School for the Daughters of Officers of the Army, Lansdown, Bath. Sum raised: £98 net.

f. 19v. Lithograph of Sir Michael Costa, by C. Baugnier, 1853.

f. 20. Set of twelve photographs captioned ‘Tenors, Violoncellos, Double Basses’. Comprises photographs of A.D. Cooper, W.L. Turner, C.E. Sparrow, G. Fitzgerald, W.R.Knobel, A. Hodgson, W. Goodbody, N. Hanhart, V. Morris, P. Paget, A. Macdonald, F. Gerard.

f. 20v. Set of German caricatures by W. Busch headed ‘Der Virtuos’. Printed.

f. 21. Programme for a concert by the Wandering Minstrels and Moray Minstrels on 27 June 1868

f. 21v-22. Programme for the Wandering Minstrels’ ‘Grand Amateur Concert’ on Monday 25 May 1868 in aid of the Royal Cambridge Asylum, Kingston-upon-Thames.

f. 22v. Programme for the Wandering Minstrels’ smoking concert on 3 December 1868, 47 Sloane Street.

f. 23. Set of nine photographs captioned ‘Our Brass and Percussion’. Comprises photographs of H. de Bathe, E. Breedon, W. Eccles, H. Tatham, M. Hanhart, E. Ford, H. Curtis, V. Lister, Grey de Wilton. With cuttings containing verses headed ‘The Horns’ and ‘Trumpets and Trombones’ from Christopher Pearse Cranch’s poem ‘The Orchestra’.

f. 23v. Press cutting containing a light-hearted review of the Wandering Minstrels’ smoking concert on 3 December 1868.

f. 24. Six photographs: Verdi, Auber, Gounod, Meyerbeer, Rossini and Offenbach.

f. 24v. Press cuttings containing reviews of the Wandering Minstrels’ concert at Brighton on 7 January 1869.

f. 25. Programme for the Wandering Minstrels’ concert at the Royal Pavilion, Brighton, on Thursday 7 January 1869, in aid of the Brighton and Sussex Assocation for the Sale of Work done by Gentlewomen of Insufficient Incomes. Sum raised: £78.7.10.

f. 25v. Programme for the Wandering Minstrels’ smoking concert on 14 January 1869, 47 Sloane Street.

f. 26. Pen and ink drawing of Colonel H. P. de Bathe by A. Davis Cooper, 1867.

f. 26v. Programme for the Wandering Minstrels’ smoking concert on 11 March 1869, 47 Sloane Street.

f. 27. Set of eight photographs captioned ‘Hon^y Mems & Vocal Associates’. Comprises photographs of F. Clay, the Second Earl of Wilton, Lady Katharine Coke, the Duke of Leinster, Lady Alice des Voeux, Sir Frederick Gore Ouseley, H. Whitworth Jones and Lionel Benson.

f. 27v. Press cuttings relating to the Wandering Minstrels’ concert in Hastings on 1 April 1869.

f. 28. Programme for the Wandering Minstrels’ concert on Thursday 1 April 1869 in aid of the Working Men’s Club, Hastings. Sum raised: £50.

f. 28v. Set of German caricatures [by W. Busch?] headed ‘Der Virtuos’.

[unnumbered sheet] Decorated certificate of thanks from the Hastings Working Men’s Club

f. 29. Two photographs of Hastings.

f. 29v. Two letters to Val. Morris from Benjamin Webb of 3 Chandos Street, Cavendish Square.

f. 30. Programme for the Wandering Minstrels’ concert at 18 Carlton Terrace, ‘By the kind permssion of His Grace the Duke of Newcastle’, on Thursday 29 April 1869, in aid of the New Schools for the parish of St. Andrew’s, Wells Street. Sum raised: £203 net.

f. 30v. Programmes for the Wandering Minstrels’ smoking concerts on 15 April and 27 May 1869.

f. 31. Press cuttings containing cartoons of instruments

f. 31v. ‘Playing in Parts’: etching, coloured by hand, by Williams Broods junior, after James Gillray.

f. 32. Set of seven photographs captioned ‘Some of our former brethren’. Comprises photographs of C. Fuller, H. Coke, Earl of Mar, Dr. Rowden, T. Fuller, F. Wetherall, H. Robley.

f. 32v. Letter dated 27 June 1869 from W.C. Spring Rice on behalf of the Committee of the Establishment for Gentlewomen during Illness, thanking the Wandering Minstrels for their concert the night before.

f. 33. Programme for the Wandering Minstrels’ concert on Tuesday 15 June 1869, at the Hanover Square Rooms, in aid of the funds of the Establishment for Gentlewomen during Temporary Illness, 90, Harley Street. Sum raised: £375.1.6.

f. 33v. Programme for the Wandering Minstrels’ smoking concert on 8 July 1869, 47 Sloane Street.

f. 34. Pen and ink drawing of ‘An Enthusiastic Steward’, dated ‘Brighton Jan 7. 1869’. Below it is a menu from the Wandering Minstrels’ end of season dinner, 15 July 1869, at the Crystal Palace.

f. 34v. Photograph of a stone monument. Above are the words ‘Season 1869-70’. Below is the programme for the Wandering Minstrels’ smoking concert on 25 November 1869, at 47 Sloane Street.

f. 35. Chalk drawing by Lord Gerald Fitzgerald of a ‘Monster-Concert’, with instruments played by monstrous creatures, conducted by a pterodactyl.

f. 35v. German lithograph, entitled Geistesgegenwart eines Musikanten. Below it is a press cutting from The Surrey Comet, relating to the Wandering Minstrels’ concert on 27 January 1870 at Kingston-upon-Thames.

f. 36. Programme for the Wandering Minstrels’ concert on Thursday 27 January 1870 at the Griffin Hotel, Kingston-upon-Thames, in aid of the funds of New Malden Parochial Schools. Sum raised: £51.10.0 net.

f. 36v. Programme for the Amateur Concert on Tuesday 1 February 1870 at the South Kensington Museum, ‘for the benefit of the Widow and Children of a late Packer employed for fifteen years in the Museum’. Sum raised = £90 net.

f. 37. Printed illustration, captioned ‘Aggravating flippancy’, below which is a printed card from the Committee for the Amateur Concert given at the South Kensington Museum on 1 February 1870, thanking Lord Gerald FitzGerald for his assistance on the occasion.

f. 37v. A concert ticket engraved by Hogarth, below which is a letter of thanks, dated 2 April 1870, from Francis Molyneux to Seymour Egerton, for the concert for the benefit of the Tunbridge Wells Infirmary. The sum of £103 was raised. Also included is a press cutting relating to the concert.

f. 38. Programme for the Wandering Minstrels’ concert on Thursday 17 March 1870 at the Royal Sussex Hotel, Tunbridge Wells, in aid of the funds of the Tunbridge Wells Infirmary. Sum raised: £103 net.

f. 38v. Set of German caricatures, headed ‘Das Dilettanten-Quartett’. Printed.

f. 39. Programmes for the Wandering Minstrels’ smoking concerts at 47 Sloane Street on 20 January, 3 March and 21 April 1870.

f. 39v. Postcard addressed to R. Hughes Esq., postmarked 1867. Below is a letter dated 27 May 1870 from the Richmond Infirmary, noting that the Wandering Minstrels’ concert was a great success. The receipts were £168.17.6. and expenses £62.5.9. leaving a balance of £117.10.9. for the Infirmary.

f. 40. Programme for the Wandering Minstrels’ concert on Thursday 28 April 1870 at the Castle Hotel, Richmond, in aid of the Purchase Fund of the Richmond Infirmary. Sum raised: £117.10.9 net.

f. 40v. Lithograph entitled ‘Concert d’Amateurs’ (a concert of cats), from Souvenirs d’artistes.

f. 41. Programme for the Wandering Minstrels’ concert on Thursday 5 May 1870 at The Guards’ Institute, Vauxhall Bridge Road, in aid of the funds of the All Saints’ Convalescent Hospital, Eastbourne. Sum raised: £276 net.

f. 41v. Lithograph entitled ‘Tartini’s Dream’.

f. 42. Programme for the Wandering Minstrels’ concert on Thursday 12 May 1870 at the Streatham Hill Institute.

f. 42v. Lithograph of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart as a child, with his father and sister, by A. Schieferdecker after L.C. de Carmontelle.

f. 43. Lithograph of Giacomo Meyerbeer. Below is the programme for the Wandering Minstrels’ smoking concert at 47 Sloane Street on 23 June 1870.

f. 43v. Cuttings comprising a poem, ‘A Letter from Miss Mary M’Gee’, by ‘Zozimus’, together with an article on the Wandering Minstrels from The Graphic, 25 June 1870.

f. 44. Cutting from The Graphic, 25 June 1870, containing a woodcut by Hubert Herkomer captioned ‘A “Smoking Concert” by the Wandering Minstrels’.

f. 44v. Lithograph of George Frideric Handel by Hanhart, from an engraving in possession of the Sacred Harmonic Society, after the picture by Hudson of 1749.

f. 45. Photograph of Hampton Court Palace. About it is written: ‘June 30 1870. Dinner at the Mitre Hotel, Hampton Court’, and below is a list of those who attended.

f. 45v. Two photographs, under the caption ‘Canterbury’. One is of Edward A. Breedon, smoking a pipe; the other shows the Wandering Minstrels with horses and carriage and is captioned ‘Our Timpani’s Drag’.

[unnumbered sheet] Lithograph by M. & N. Hanhart of Seymour Egerton, Lord Gerald FitzGerald, Edward A. Breedon and Colonel H.P. de Bathe.

f. 46. Extract from a bill for Amateur Theatricals (29th Season) at the Theatre Royal, Canterbury, during Cricket Week, 1870. ‘The “Old Stagers,” on the Musical Foundaton, will perform in the Orchestra, under the direction of Professor Sim, R.S.V.P.’ Named, in manuscript, are those who attended: Egerton, Butcher, Cooper, T., Fitzgerald, Curtis, H., Le Patourel, Breedon, Eccles, De Bathe, Sullivan. Also included is a brief review of the Old Stagers’ Theatricals, and a photograph of the tomb of Edward the Black Prince, Canterbury Cathedral.

f. 46v. Lithograph of Josef Gung’l, above which is a list, in manuscript, of the waltzes of Gung’l performed by the Wandering Minstrels.

f. 47. Programmes for the Wandering Minstrels’ smoking concerts at 47 Sloane Street on 24 November and 22 December 1870.

f. 47v. Lithograph depicting the young Mozart, below which is the programme for the Wandering Minstrels’ smoking concert at 47 Sloane Street on 19 January 1871.

f. 48. Programme for the Wandering Minstrels’ concert on Thursday 26 January 1871 at 47 Sloane Street, in aid of the Refugees’ Benevolent Fund. Sum raised: £56.4.6 net.

f. 48v. Letter, dated 27 February 1871, from The National Hospital for Consumption on the Separate or Cottage Principle, thanking the Wandering Minstrels for their concert at the Hanover Square Rooms on 23 February. Below it is a letter from the Refugees’ Benevolent Fund, dated 30 January 1871, thanking the Wandering Minstrels for their concert on 26 January.

f. 49. Programme for the Wandering Minstrels’ concert on Thursday 23 February 1871 at the Hanover Square Rooms, in aid of ‘the National Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest, the Separate or Cottage Principle, recently erected near Ventnor, Undercliff, Isle of Wight’. Sum raised: £126.18.6 net.

f. 49v. Series of German cartoons. Printed.

f. 50. Programme for the Wandering Minstrels’ concert on Saturday 25 February 1871 at the Royal Albert Hall, ‘to Messrs. Lucas Brothers’ Workmen’. With printed illustrations of the interior and exterior of the hall. The following has been added in manuscript: ‘This, the first concert ever given at the R^l Albert Hall, was for the purpose of trying the effect of an orchestra in the building previous to its being opened. The resonance was found to be excessive, and in order to remedy this defect it was determined to hang a velarium under the glass roof.’

f. 50v. Printed illustration of the Royal Albert Hall, together with a letter of thanks from Lucas Brothers, dated 27 February 1871. In it they ‘beg to express the warmest obligations & thanks of their workmen & themselves for the excellent entertainment afforded them by himself & friends on Saturday last, at the Royal Albert Hall, which was most thoroughly and heartily appreciated by all present.’

f. 51. Programme for the Wandering Minstrels’ smoking concert at 47 Sloane Street on 16 March 1871, repeated, according to a pencil annotation, on 28 March.

f. 51v. Caricatures of musicians by A. Thompson. Printed.

f. 52. Programme for the Wandering Minstrels’ concert on Thursday 20 April 1871 at Northumberland House, ‘by permission of His Grace the Duke of Northumberland’, in aid of the funds of the Friend of the Clergy Corporation. With a photograph of Trafalgar Square. Sum raised: £302.7.2.

f. 52v Watercolour and pen and ink drawing, labelled ‘A trifle from Kensington’, by ‘T.V.L’ [T. V. Lister], of a shepherd piping, in a rondel with the words Sinfonia Pastorale dal Onorevole Maestro Simegertone 1871’. Above and below are press cuttings containing reviews of compositions by Frederic Clay and Seymour Egerton, performed at a concert at St. James’s, at which Sullivan played the organ.

f. 53. Lithograph captioned ‘Beethoven’s dream’, below which is a programme for the Wandering Minstrels’ smoking concert at 47 Sloane Street on 25 May 1871, repeated on 1 June.

f. 53v. Photolithographs [?] entitled ‘Young Mozart’ and ‘Mozart playing before the Court at Vienna’. Between them is a letter from the Richmond Infirmary [no date], thanking the Wandering Minstrels for a concert on their behalf.

f. 54. Two illustrations of a flute player. Below is the programme for the Wandering Minstrels’ concert on Thursday 15 June 1871 at the Castle Hotel, Richmond, in aid of the Richmond Infirmary. Sum raised: £53 net.

f. 54v. Lithograph of Palestrina. Below is the programme for the Fourth Great Triennal Handel Festival at the Crystal Palace in June 1871. A note in manuscript reads: ‘Thes W.M.s played in the Orchestra: Egerton, Mendes, Butcher, Sparrow, Dean, Boyd, D’Egville jun., Hughes, Knobel, Fitzgerald, Gates, N. Hanhart, Morris, Gerard, Billson, Le Patourel, Stone, Selby, M. Hanhart.

f. 55. Four photographs: Arthur C. Haden, R.N. Boyd, A.P. Billson, G.E. Gates.

f. 55v. Lace-bordered Christmas card, ‘Wishing You a Happy New Year’, together with a decorated bill for the London International Exhibition, Kensington, 1871. Above the latter is written, in manuscript: The Wandering Minstrels. Annual Dinner. July 1871, and below, ‘Here we dined’. The names of those present are given. They were Billson, Boyd, Breedon, Clay, T. Cooper, Cracroft, H. Curtis, S. Curtis, De Bathe, De Wette, Eccles, Egerton, FitzGerald, Gates, Gerard, Goodbody, Haden, Hughes, Knobel, Le Patourel, F.B. Morris, V. Morris, Sanderson, Selby, Sparrow and Tatham.

f. 56. Printed orchestral list for 1871, in a decorative border and with the Wandering Minstrels’ monogram above.

f. 56v. Photograph of Canterbury Cathedral.

f. 57. Extract from a poster for Canterbury Cricket Week, 1871, which notes that ‘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. Below it is a photograph of members of the Wandering Minstrels, with their instruments. They are named as J. Butcher, Cracroft, Egerton, C.V. Eccles, H. Curtis, W. Knobel, E. Breedon, W.H. Eccles, T. Selby and G. Fitzgerald.

f. 57v. Programmes for the Wandering Minstrels’ smoking concerts at 47 Sloane Street on 30 November 1871 and 18 January 1872.

f. 58. ‘The Enraged Musician’: engraving by Hogarth.

f. 58v. Letter of thanks, dated 3 February 1872, from the Building Committee of Croydon General Hospital to the Wandering Minstrels for their concert at the Public Hall, Croydon on 25 January 1872. With press cuttings containing reviews of the concert. Sum raised: £76.6.6.

f. 59. Lithograph depicting a family musical ensemble, with the programme for the Wandering Minstrels’ concert on Thursday 25 January at the Town Hall, Croydon, in aid of the funds of the Croydon General Hospital.

f. 59v. Programmes for the Wandering Minstrels’ smoking concerts at 47 Sloane Street on 22 February and 21 March 1872.

f. 60. Two photographs by N. Boyd, with the caption ‘Minstrels of the Carpathian Mountains’. Below is the programme for ‘A Concert, Vocal and Instrumental’, given in the New National Schools, Mortlake, on Friday 12 April 1872, in aid of the Parish Organ Fund.

f. 60v. Lithograph entitled ‘Procession of Lady Godiva, at Coventry Fair’. Below is a press cutting from the Coventry Herald & Free Press, containing a review of the Wandering Minstrels’ concert in Coventry.

f. 61. Photographs of ‘Peeping Tom’ in Coventry, together with a programme for the Wandering Minstrels’ concert in aid of the funds of the Coventry Soup Kitchen & Crêche, at the Corn Exchange, Coventry on Thursday 11 April 1872.

f. 61v. A handbill for a Garden Fête on Whit-Monday, 20 May 1872 at Savernake Forest House, to mark the opening of the new Savernake Cottage Hospital. Two ‘Grand Concerts of Vocal and Instrumental Music’ were to be given by the Wandering Minstrels in the Orangery. Other highlights were ‘Athletic Sports’, including high-jump and hurdle racing, and ‘Old English Pastimes’, including wheelbarrow races, jumping in sacks and three-legged races. Above is a newspaper illustration entitled ‘Festival at Savernake, Wiltshire: the Hurdle-leaping’.

f. 62. Programmes for two concerts given by the Wandering Minstrels at the Savernake Garden Fête on 20 May 1872, together with press cuttings describing the event.

f. 62v. Set of seven photographs: F.B. Morris, E. Hamilton, L. D’Egville jun., W. Paris, R. Benjamin, J. Mills, T. A. Romer.

f. 63. Programme for the Wandering Minstrels’ concert on Thursday 6 June 1872 at the Queen’s Concert Rooms, Hanover Square, in aid of the building fund of The Grosvenor Club for Workmen. Sum raised: £403.10.0.

f. 63v. Programmes for the Wandering Minstrels’ smoking concerts at 47 Sloane Street on 2 May and 13 June 1872.

f. 64. Italian illustrations captioned ‘Dell Origine dell’Uomo di Darwin’. Printed.

f. 64v. Lithograph of musicians by J. Gauchard. Below is the programme for ‘The Fifth of the New Series of People’s Concerts, at the Royal Albert Hall’ on Tuesday 2 July 1872. The Wandering Minstrels are not named on the programme.

f. 65. Drawing, by G.F. [Lord Gerald Fitzgerald?] of the Wandering Minstrels’ Annual Dinner, 1872. Captioned ‘“Chair” speaks under hydraulic difficulties - Crystal Palace’, it depicts the Minstrels trying to escape a downpour and is dated 12 June 1872. Below is the menu for the dinner on 11 June.

f. 65v. German cartoon strip featuring a musician and an alligator. Printed.

f. 66. Photograph of Canterbury Cathedral, with a notice of Amateur Theatricals at the Theatre Royal, Canterbury, during Canterbury Cricket Week 1872. ‘The “Old Stagers” on the Musical Foundation, with able assistance, will perform in the Orchestra, under the direction of Herr Meerschaum and Professor Sim, R.S.V.P.’

f. 66v. Two photographs: Walter Paus and W.R. Knobel.

f. 67. Photograph of Wagner, below which are a programme for the Wandering Minstrels’ concert at the Literary Institution in aid of Croydon General Hospital and press cuttings relating to the event [no date]. Sum raised: £74.3.7.

f. 67v. ‘“A Little Music” or the Delights of Harmony’ by James Gillray. Coloured print.

f. 68. Programmes for the Wandering Minstrels’ smoking concerts at 47 Sloane Street on 12 December 1872 and 13 February 1873.

f. 68v. Programmes for the Wandering Minstrels’ smoking concerts at 47 Sloane Street on 20 March and 1 May 1873.

f. 69. Programme for a ‘Grand Concert’ on Wednesday 16 April 1873 at Shoreditch Town Hall, in aid of the North-Eastern Hospital for Children, given under the immediate patronage of Her Royal Highness the Princess Louise. The band are named, in manuscript, as D’Egville, Butcher, Heath, McClintock, D. Cooper, Fitzgerald, H. Curtis, S. Curtis, Selby and Baillie. On the same folio are photographs of J. Spooner Hardy [?] and C. Kelvey, a programme for the Wandering Minstrels’ concert in aid of the Upper Tooting National Schools, at the New Lecture Hall, Clapham, on Thursday 24 April 1873, and associated press cuttings.

f. 69v. Programme for the Wandering Minstrels’ concert on 29 May 1873 at Grosvenor House, by permission of the Marquis of Westminster, for the benefit of the Belgrave Hospital for Children, with a press cutting relating to the event. Sum raised = £477.17.0 net.

[unnumbered sheet] Resolution, dated 14 July 1873, from the Royal Hospital for Diseases of the Chest, thanking the Wandering Minstrels for their concert on 23 June at the Hanover Square Rooms.

f. 70. Programme for the Wandering Minstrels’ concert on Monday 23 June 1873 at the Queen’s Concert Rooms, Hanover Square, in aid of the Royal Hospital for Diseases of the Chest. Sum raised: £170. On the same page are a photograph of a cat and violin, captioned ‘Hey diddle diddle…’ and a Christmas card featuring musicians.

f. 70v. Programmes for the Wandering Minstrels’ smoking concerts at 47 Sloane Street on 5 June and 10 July 1873.

f. 71. Envelope bearing the address of Henry Curtis Esq., and a drawing, by T.G. Cooper, of a man and woman relaxing on the grass. Underneath is written ‘Tom Cooper’s Excuse’. On the same page are photographs of Richard G. Bellamy and Hugh Baillie, a list of those present at the dinner at Hampton Court on 17 July 1873, and some press cuttings relating to the Wandering Minstrels’ last smoking concert of the season.

f. 71v. Engraving entitled ‘The Irish Fiddler’.

f. 72. Programmes for the Wandering Minstrels’ smoking concerts at 47 Sloane Street on 20 November and 18 December 1873.

f. 72v. ‘Design for a “Sgrafilo” Panel for the Cole-Hole or National Cave of Harmony, South Kensington’ by T. Villiers Lister, W.M.

f. 73. Bill and programme for an Amateur Concert at the Concert Room, Store Street, Bedford Square, in aid of the Repairing Fund of St. John’s Church and Schools, on Thursday 15 January 1874, together with photographs of Alfred P. Billson and Henry Cosier.

f. 73v. Three photographs of Aylesbury: the Corn Exchange, the George, and the Buckinghamshire General Infirmary, together with press cuttings relating to the Wandering Minstrels’ concert in Aylesbury.

f. 74. Programme for the Wandering Minstrels’ concert at the Corn Exchange, Aylesbury on Thursday 29 January 1874, in aid of the Buckinghamshire General Infirmary, together with a press cutting from the Bucks Herald relating to the event. Sum raised: £100.

f. 74v. Photograph of H. de Bathe, captioned ‘Our (Drum) Major-General’ together with a Greek-style painting.

f. 75. Programmes for the Wandering Minstrels’ smoking concerts at 47 Sloane Street on 26 February and 26 March 1874.

f. 75v. Programme for the Wandering Minstrels’ smoking concert at 47 Sloane Street on 23 April 1874, together with a pen and ink drawing of a woman, captioned ‘She wants to go to the Concert at Grosvenor House. I tell her I don’t know how tickets are to be purchased, but I will enquire’.

f. 76. Programme for the Wandering Minstrels’ concert at Grosvenor House on Thursday 7 May 1874, ‘by kind permission of His Grace the Duke of Westminster, K.G.’, for the benefit of the Association in Aid of the Deaf and Dumb, St. Saviour’s, 272 Oxford Street. The programme cover features an illustration of St. Saviour’s Church. Sum raised: £267.17.6.

f. 76v. Programme for the Wandering Minstrels’ concert at Grosvenor House on Thursday 21 May 1874, ‘by kind permission of His Grace the Duke of Westminster, K.G.’, for the benefit of the Discharged Prisoners’ Aid Society, 30 Charing Cross. Sum raised: £300 net.

f. 77. Press cutting comprising a drawing captioned ‘The Gamut’. Below is a printed list of orchestra members as of January 1875. Captain the Hon. Seymour Egerton is described as President and Conductor, ‘on leave’, and Lord Gerald Fitzgerald as ‘Conductor (pro. tem.).

f. 77v. Programmes for the Wandering Minstrels’ smoking concerts at 47 Sloane Street on 17 December 1874 and 21 January 1875, together with a printed caricature.

f. 78. Programme for the Wandering Minstrels’ concert on Thursday 28 January 1875 at the Drill Hall, Kingston-on-Thames, in aid of the funds of the Volunteer Steam Fire Brigade, together with press cuttings relating to the event. Sum raised: £65.17.2.

f. 78v. Programmes for the Wandering Minstrels’ smoking concerts at 47 Sloane Street on 25 February and 18 March 1875.

f. 79. Two letters, the first dated 15 August 1874, from the Royal Association in Aid of the Deaf and Dumb, St. Saviour’s Church, thanking the Wandering Minstrels for their concert at Grosvenor House in aid of the association, which raised £267.17.6. and enabled the trustees to pay off the debt upon the Church, the second, dated 1 February 1875, from the Kingston Volunteer Fire Brigade, thanking the Wandering Minstrels for their concert on 28 January. A pencil note on the latter records that gross receipts were £119.14, expenses £53.16.10 and the net result £65.17.2. Between the two letters is an etching, dated 1524, by Lucas van Leyden of a man playing the lute and a woman playing the fiddle.

f. 79v. Two printed postcards of the Oatlands Park Hotel, Walton-on-Thames, together with a press cutting relating to the Wandering Minstrels’ concert there on 8 April 1875, and a second cutting relating to the smoking concerts.

f. 80. Programme for the Wandering Minstrels’ concert at the Oatlands Park Hotel, Walton-on-Thames on Thursday 8 April 1875, in aid of the Oatlands Schools’ Building Fund. Sum raised: £82 net.

f. 80v. Printed poem entitled ‘That Amateur Flute’, from the New York Arcadian, together with an autograph leaf of music by Auber, comprising part of a three-part textless Allegro, dated July 1852.

f. 81. Lithograph by Hanhart of Felix Mendelssohn, from a drawing dated Frankfurt 15 September 1842, together with a coloured lithograph of St. Thomas’s School, Leipzig, from a watercolour drawing by Mendelssohn.

f. 81v. Programme for the Wandering Minstrels’ concert on Thursday 22 April 1875 at the Public Hall, Croydon, in aid of the General Hospital. Sum raised: £112.10.0. net.

f. 82. Programmes for the Wandering Minstrels’ smoking concerts at 47 Sloane Street on 13 May and 17 June 1875.

f. 82v. Japanese drawing on mulberry paper by Sukenobu of a man playing the flute, below which is written ‘Original Japanese drawing pres^d. by A.B. Mitford, W.M.’

f. 83. Programme for the Wandering Minstrels’ smoking concert at 47 Sloane Street on 16 December 1875, above which is a press cutting about this first smoking concert of the season. The page is headed ‘Season 1875-6’.

f. 83v. Programmes for the Wandering Minstrels’ smoking concerts at 47 Sloane Street on 3 February and 9 March 1876.

f. 84. Illustration depicting monkeys as musicians, together with a programme for an Amateur Concert on Thursday 27 April 1876 at the Hall, Store Street, Russell Square, in aid of the St. Thomas’s Liberty of the Rolls Youths’ Institute and Schools. The Wandering Minstrels are not mentioned. Instead, the programme records that ‘The Orchestra will be composed of Distinguished Amateurs under the Direction of Lord Gerald FitzGerald’.

f. 84v. Letter dated 10 May 1876 from the Infirmary, Richmond, Surrey, thanking the Wandering Minstrels for their concert on 4 May and noting that the net receipts would be something over £80. Below the letter is the programme for the Wandering Minstrels’ smoking concert at 47 Sloane Street on 6 April 1876.

f. 85. Programme for the Wandering Minstrels’ concert at the Castle Hotel, Richmond, on Thursday 4 May 1876, in aid of the Infirmary ‘New Building’ Fund, together with related press cuttings.

f. 85v. Programme for the Wandering Minstrels’ concert on Thursday 11 May 1876 at St. George’s Hall, Langham Place, in aid of the North London or University College Hospital. Sum raised: £85.7.2. net.

f. 86. Handbill for an ‘Amateur Dramatic Performance’ on Saturday 20 May 1876 at St. George’s Hall, Langham Place, in aid of the Ladies’ Work Society. It notes that ‘An Amateur Band will perform a selection of Music during the evening, under the direction of Lord Gerald Fitzgerald’. Details of the music performed have been added in manuscript. The words ‘of 25 performers’ have also been added to the bill, after ‘An Amateur Band’. Below it are two letters. In the first, dated 29 May 1876, to Lord FitzGerald from Herbert Praed, the writer notes that the Wandering Minstrels gave a concert at his request in the Hanover Square Rooms some years earlier, to raise funds for a large hall in connection with the Grosvenor Club for Artisans and others. They raised over £400, and the hall, accommodating between 500 and 700 people had been completed. He writes to offer the use of it to the Wandering Minstrels for a charitable concert, ‘or in fact any purpose that they may find convenient’ as a small token of gratitude for the concert. The second letter, dated 21 May [1876], is a letter of thanks from Mrs Monckton to the Wandering Minstrels for their concert.

f. 86v. Programme for the Wandering Minstrels’ concert on Thursday 1 June 1876 at the Surrey Masonic Hall, Camberwell, in aid of the Building Fund of the St. Giles’ Girls’ and Infants’ School. Sum raised: £63.15.0. net.

f. 87. Two printed illustrations of musicians, a press cutting relating to the Wandering Minstrels’ concert at the Surrey Masonic Hall, Camberwell, and resolution of thanks from the Committee of University College Hospital to the Wandering Minstrels for the concert on their behalf.

f. 87v. Programme for an amateur concert at No. 6, Carlton House Terrace, on 27 June 1876. The orchestra is not named but its members are those of the Wandering Minstrels.

f. 88. Programme for the Wandering Minstrels’ smoking concert at 47 Sloane Street on 22 June 1876. The words ‘The 100th’ have been added in ink. Below it is the programme for ‘Jone, or the last days of Pompeii. Music by Petrella’ [Jone, o L’ultimo giorno di Pompei], in which members of the Wandering Minstrels participated. Above are the words ‘Albert Hall’, but at the foot is written ‘June 28 & 30. July 30th. 1876. Bijou Theatre’.

f. 88v. Menu for the Wandering Minstrels’ annual dinner, 1876, at the Royal Aquarium and Summer and Winter Gardens, Westminsters. Names of those attending have been added in manuscript.

f. 89. Poster for Amateur Theatricals at the Theatre Royal, Canterbury, during Canterbury Cricket Week, 1876. ‘The following “Old Stagers” on the Musical Foundation, with able assistants, will perform in the Orchestra, under the direction of Signor X. Plosione, T.T.L.’ Underneath, the names of Wandering Minstrels who participated are given in ink. No details of the music performed are given.

f. 89v. Caricature by ‘Spy’ entitled ‘Henry’, lithographed by Vincent Brooks Day & Son Ltd. Published in Vanity Fair, 18 November 1876. Labelled ‘Lieut. Gen. Sir H.P. de Bathe, W.M.’ in ink.

f. 90. Pen and ink drawing of L.W. Beddome, clarinettist, by Thomas Williamson.

f. 90v. Set of printed caricatures of musicians.

f. 91. Programmes for the Wandering Minstrels’ smoking concerts at 47 Sloane Street on 7 December 1876 and 18 January 1877.

f. 91v. Lithograph portraits of composers, by Hanhart. The composers are Beethoven, Handel, Mendelssohn, Haydn, Mozart and Weber.

f. 92. Lithograph portraits of composers, presumably by Hanhart. The composers are J.S. Bach, Cherubini, Gluck, Meyerbeer, Rossini and Spohr.

f. 92v. Programmes for the Wandering Minstrels’ smoking concerts at 47 Sloane Street on 15 February and 8 March 1877.

f. 93. Manuscript transcription of the text of ‘Mynstralsye’ by John Ludgate, 1420. Below is a lithographed formal portait of Major-Gen. Sir H.P. de Bathe, in uniform.

f. 93v. Photographs of Brighton Pavilion, with press cuttings relating to the Wandering Minstrels’ concert there on Thursday 3 May 1877.

f. 94. Programme for the Wandering Minstrels’ concert at Brighton Pavilion on Thursday 3 May 1877, in aid of the Bedford Street Workmen’s Club, and a press cutting relating to the event. Sum raised: £55.19.2.

f. 94v. Programme for the Wandering Minstrels’ concert on Thursday 17 May 1877 in aid of the Ladies’ Charity School, Queen Square, W.C. Sum raised: £113.18.9. net. Above it is a letter of thanks for the concert.

f. 95. Lithograph of Nicholas Hanhart by A. Ring, 1877.

f. 95v. Pen and ink drawing of Richard Wagner, ‘The Flying Dutchman’, by Thomas Williamson, 1877.

f. 96 Photographs of Southampton, together with a programme for the Wandering Minstrels’ concert on Thursday 7 June 1877 at Hartley Hall, in aid of the fund for Mrs. Black’s Cottage Hospital, 14 West Front, Southampton, and press cuttings relating to the event. Sum raised: £50 net.

f. 96v. Programmes for the Wandering Minstrels’ smoking concerts at 47 Sloane Street on 12 April and 14 June 1877.

f. 97. Lithograph of a group of musicians, entitled ‘A Trio’.

f. 97v. Programme for the Wandering Minstrels’ concert on Thursday 7 February 1878 at the Public Hall, Reigate, in aid of the Redhill and Reigate Cottage Hospital. Sum raised = £80 net. With a resolution of thanks from the sub-committee of Redhill and Reigate Cottage Hospital.

f. 98. Photographs of Reigate, including of the Redhill and Reigate Cottage Hospital, together with press cuttings relating to the Wandering Minstrels’ concert on 7 February 1878.

f. 98v. Programmes for the Wandering Minstrels’ smoking concerts at 47 Sloane Street on 6 December 1877 and 17 January 1878.

f. 99. Programme for the Wandering Minstrels’ concert on Thursday 14 February 1878 at the Oatlands Park Hotel, in aid of the funds of the Oatlands National Schools. Sum raised: £50 net.

f. 99v. Programmes for the Wandering Minstrels’ 108th smoking concert, at 47 Sloane Street, on 14 March 1878, and the concert there on 21 March 1878, the latter not described as a smoking concert.

f. 100. Programme for the Wandering Minstrels’ concert in aid of the funds of the Victoria Hospital for Children and the National Orphan Home, at Mrs. Freake’s, Cromwell House, on Thursday 14 April 1878. Sum raised: £200 net. Below it is a press cutting about the Civil Service Band.

f. 100v-f. 101. Engraving of a Venetian carnival scene by Pieter de Jode I after Ludovicus Pozzorato (Toeput), printed by the widow of Gerard de Jode.

f. 101v. Programmes for the Wandering Minstrels’ 109th and 110th smoking concerts, at 47 Sloane Street, on 16 May and 20 June 1878.

f. 102. Programme for the Wandering Minstrels’ ‘Grand Concert’ at The “Horns,” Kennington Park, on Thursday 6 June 1878, in aid of the St. Mary-le-Less, Lambeth, Club and Mission Room Fund. Sum raised: £53.3.1.

f. 102v. An etching of aged musicians, under which the date 1700, and ‘A. Tempesta’ are written in ink. Above and below are three photographs, one of the string players Charles Kelvey, Louis D’Egville and Davis Cooper, and two of Leonard W. Beddome (in one, with a dog).

f. 103. Decorative design featuring the words ‘W.M. Concerts, Season 1878-9’, ‘18th Season’.

f. 103v. Photographs of St. Peter’s Church, Bournemouth and of the sea-front at Bournemout. The photograph of the church was taken before the addition of the spire.

f. 104. Programme for the Wandering Minstrels’ concert on Thursday 28 November 1878 at the Town Hall, Bournemouth, in aid of the funds of the Bournemouth Central Workmen’s Club & Institute, together with related press cuttings. Sum raised: £81.16.3.

f. 104v. Programmes for the Wandering Minstrels’ 111th and 112th smoking concerts at 47 Sloane Street on 12 December 1878 and 30 January 1879.

f. 105. Programmes for the Wandering Minstrels’ 113th and 114th smoking concerts at 47 Sloane Street on 6 March and 3 April 1879.

f. 105v. Programmes for the Wandering Minstrels’ 115th and 116th smoking concerts at 47 Sloane Street on 1 May and 5 June 1879.

f. 106. Series of German caricatures, headed ‘Der Carneval von Venedig’. Printed.

f. 106v. Drawing of a man and woman at the piano, and lithograph of a cellist.

f. 107. Programme for the Wandering Minstrels’ ‘Grand Evening Concert’ on Thursday 20 November 1879 at Horns’ Assembly Rooms, Kennington, in aid of the Repairing Fund of the Bolton Street National Schools. Sum raised: £50.2.2 net.

f. 107v. Programmes for the Wandering Minstrels’ 117th and 118th smoking concerts at 47 Sloane Street on 11 December 1879 and 22 January 1880.

f. 108. Christmas card featuring musicians, and a programme for the Wandering Minstrels’ concert on Thursday 18 December 1879 at the Public Hall, Reigate, in aid of the Brockham Orphan Industrial Home. Sum raised: £50 net.

f. 108v. Programmes for the Wandering Minstrels’ 119th to 122nd smoking concerts at 47 Sloane Street on 19 February, 18 March, 22 April and 13 May 1880.

f. 109. Press cutting from The Whitehall Review, reviewing the Wandering Minstrels’ smoking concert in April 1880. Below is a lithograph of two monkeys playing violins.

f. 109v. Programme for the Wandering Minstrels’ concert on 20 May 1880 at the Corn Exchange, Hertford, in aid of the funds of the Herts Convalescent Home, together with related press cuttings. Sum raised: £50 net.

f. 110. Programme for the Wandering Minstrels’ concert on Saturday 5 June 1880 at Grosvenor House (by kind permission of His Grace the Duke of Westminster, K.G.), ‘for the Chelsea Branch of the Metropolitan Association for Befriending Young Servants’. Sum raised: £97.6.2.

f. 110v. Newspaper cutting comprising a cartoon entitled ‘De Minimis’, and cuttings announcing the disbanding of the Wandering Minstrels.

f. 111. Programme for the Wandering Minstrels’ concert on Thursday 9 December 1880 at the Brighton Pavilion, in aid of the funds of the Home for Orphan Boys, Brighton, with associated press cuttings. Sum raised: £80. The programme was printed by boys at the home.

f. 111v. Programmes for the Wandering Minstrels’ 123rd and 124th smoking concerts, at 77 Pavilion Road, on 25 November 1880 and 13 January 1881, with a printed list of orchestral members and their addresses.

f. 112. Series of German caricatures, headed ‘Das Orchester’. Printed.

f. 112v. Programmes for the Wandering Minstrels’ 125th and 126th smoking concerts, at 77 Pavilion Road, on 10 February and 10 March 1881, with a photograph of Evelyn D’Egville.

f. 113. Programme for the Wandering Minstrels’ concert on Thursday 17 March 1881 at Grosvenor Hall, in aid of the Building Fund for the New Hospital of St. Peter’s, with associated press cuttings. Sum raised: £70 net.

f. 113v. Series of German cariactures, headed ‘Macht der Töne’. Printed.

f. 114 Printed card depicting ‘A Musical Soiree in Baltimore’, by Henry Clay Wysham and dated June 1872. Below it is a programme for the Wandering Minstrels’ 127th smoking concert, at 77 Pavilion Road, on 28 April 1881.

f. 114v. Two photographs of Richmond.

f. 115. Programme for the Wandering Minstrels’ concert on Thursday 12 May 1881 at the Star and Garter Hotel, Richmond, in aid of the building fund of Richmond Hospital, with associated press cuttings. Sum raised: £72.3.3. net.

f. 115v. ‘A Pastoral Symphony’: illustration by T.W. Couldery. Printed.

f. 116. Programmes for the Wandering Minstrels’ 128th and 129th smoking concerts, at 77 Pavilion Road, on 9 June and 23 June 1881, with press cuttings about Lord FitzGerald’s resignation from the Wandering Minstrels on health grounds.

f. 116v. Ticket, priced one guinea, for the R.A.H. A.O.S. Smoking Concert at the New Concert Hall, Newman Street, on 22 December 1879. With a penk and ink drawing by Thomas Williamson, captioned, ‘The Hon. Sec.’, ‘T. Ramsay Dow, Esq., R.A.H.A.O.S.’

f. 117. Pen and ink drawing by Thomas Williamson, captioned ‘Very “piano”, gentlemen’, ‘George Mount, Esq., R.A.H.A.O.S.’

f. 117v. Pen and ink drawing by Thomas Williamson, captioned ‘125 bars rest’, ‘Rev. E. Orr Gray, R.A.H.A.O.S.’

f. 118. A photograph of a group of musicians, including members of the Wandering Minstrels, by F.H. Butler. Present are Parry (W.M.), T. Romer (W.M.), P. Evans (W.M.), Bovet, Kitcat, d’Egville (W.M.), Scott, Clarke (W.M.), E. Romer (W.M.), Archer (W.M.), Renwick (W.M.).

f. 118v-119. Table headed ‘Nett result of the Fourteen Years’ Concerts, 1867-1881’, showing places visited by the Wandering Minstrels, charities supported at each and sums raised.