MS Mus. 1841/2/1

30 notebooks containing assorted professional and personal notes.

1. Sums; personal notes; brief medical notes. Probably 1962.

2. Financial sums; personal notes; brief plan for ‘EC Memorial Foundation Concerts’. 1963.

3. Note for Edward Clark memorial; personal notes; miscellaneous professional notes. Probably 1963.

4. Notes about visit to Sudan, for wedding of Rose and Mo [Abbaro]; short musical sketch. c.1964-5.

5. Notes about ‘The Numbered’; long, frustrated personal letter to 'Katie' [assumed Katharina Wolpe based on letter received by EL incorrespondence folder] about artistry and character; includes thoughts on the 'younger generation'; notes for part alterations for ‘Quincunx’; various other brief notes. c.1964.

6. Draft letter enquiring about pension for Priaulx Rainier; Draft letter to Wilfrid Mellers; various sums; assorted professional and music-related notes including instrumentation sketches; personal notes. 1965.

7. Plans for talks and students' concert at Dartington; draft letter to Richard Rodney Bennett; detailed movement outline sketch for 'The Dog Beneath The Skin'; various personal notes; doodles. 1965.

8. Quotations about generations [of composers, musicians] and their energies; various personal and professional notes; jottings of links between twentieth-century composers; draft of biographical note. 1964.

9. Drafts of personal and professional letters (including long letter to publisher); lists of works and draft programme notes; assorted personal notes. 1967.

10. Notes for ‘The Numbered’; assorted personal and professional notes. c.1963-5.

11. Draft letter to Richard Rodney Bennett; doodles; short music list. 1965.

12. Long draft piece of writing about the differences between her generation and later ones; breakdown of money received from selling Edward Clark's musical estate; draft telegram to Sudan; telephone and correspondence lists; personal notes. c.1965.

13. Notes for ‘The Numbered’ (scene descriptions); brief note about the String Trio Op. 59; letter to Celia Bizony and draft of attached programme note (with information on revisions) for performance of ‘In the Temple of a Bird's Wing’; draft reply to letter [recipient unknown] refuting claims about serialism and EL's professional relationship with Glock; notes for film score composition (scenes / timings / instrumentation). 1965.

14. Financial calculations; brief scene description for theatre work?; various personal notes. c.1965.

15. Extensive notes for 'film with Eduardo' (Paolozzi – ‘Kakafon Kakkoon’, 1965); extensive notes on house works; personal and professional notes and draft letters .Draft letter in support of Priaulx Rainier; notes for ‘Hymn of Man’, Op. 63a; brief personal notes. c.1965.

16. Draft letters to Cyril Gee; draft letter to the Composers' Guild; of Great Britain; short musical doodle; teaching notes; instrumentation notes; financial calculations; list of pieces published by Mills and Schotts, and 'free' works; party invite list. 1965-6.

17. Work schedule April - July [1965 - mentions ‘The Skull’, Paolozzi film (‘Kakafon Kakkoon’) and ‘The Valley of Hatsu-se’]; personal notes; draft letter about recording studio availability; programme notes for String Quartet No. 6, Wind Quintet, 5 Bagatelles. 1965.

18. Draft letter to Mills and notes on works they have; draft personal and professional letters; assorted notes. 1967-8.

19. Publicity strategies and notes for catalogue of works; short programme note on ‘Scrolls for Li-Ho’; abstract musical jottings; financial calculations; further notes on promoting music; various personal and professional notes. 1967.

20. Extensive libretto sketches for ‘Time Off’; extensive notes on process of writing ‘And Suddenly It's Evening’, for a talk (pages titled 'Old Age'); assorted other professional notes. c.1967-8.

21. Draft running order for concert of music by EL's pupils; list of correspondents; various personal notes; orchestral layout; draft letters to / cc Mills, Schotts, Sheridan regarding terms and withdrawing works from catalogues; brief notes for book chapters and for photographs to include; '2 Cautionary Tales [To middle-aged women]'; note about her new press (Olivan); brief notes for ‘Isis and Osiris’ op. 74, and programme note; some sketches for earlier book chapters. c.1969.

22. Draft letter to Michael [Vyner] regarding dissatisfaction with promotion of her music by Schotts; notes for editing instrumental parts for ‘Islands’ Op. 80; various professional and personal notes; brief musical sketch; list of forthcoming performances and BBC concert series. c.1970.

23(2). Notes for a talk; notes for Dartington; notes on writing for films; various personal and professional notes.

23. Draft letter to Michael [Vyner] regarding dissatisfaction with promotion of her music by Schotts; notes for editing instrumental parts for’ Islands Op. 80’; various professional and personal notes; brief musical sketch; list of forthcoming performances and BBC concert series. c.1970.

24. Drafts of personal and professional letters; list of operas to send to Glock; 5 leaves of a sketch for a notational system based on parts of the female body (crossed-out title 'cherchez la femme', title 'PRISMS'); 2 written-out poems of unknown origin (one appears to use lines resembling Buddhist philosophy); loose newspaper cutting (dated 4/7/1982) with music-related notes. c.1970.

25. Assorted musical notes including stage layouts; letter concerning ‘In the Direction of the Beginning’, Op. 76; short draft biography (1 leaf) mentioning activity up until 1970; various personal and professional notes. 1970.

26. Various personal and professional notes, especially for contents of publicity brochure; draft personal letter (to landlord/agents); Notes for book on EC, including draft synopsis and covering letter to Tony [?]; short rhythmic sketch. Late 1960s.

27. Notes for draft of book chapter (titled 'Chapter 7'); long draft letter to Glock concerning rehearsal / cast conditions for Proms commission, threatening to withdraw work from 1970 Proms (‘The Essence of our Happiness’, Op. 69); notes on Moldenhauer collection / EC; draft letter concerning ‘The Tears of Night’; various personal and professional notes. 1969-1971?

28. Draft biographical note; long draft piece of writing about her friendship with Dylan Thomas (to be incorporated in book); list of movements for ‘Driving out the Death’, Op. 81; various thank-you notes to friends; various personal and professional notes.

29. Brief percussion queries; Note on composer letter restrictions (Stravinsky and Dallapiccola); brief personal and professional notes. c.1971.