MS Mus 1841/2/3

25 notebooks, most of which numbered; 3 sets of loose notebook leaves.

60. Instrumentation notes for unidentified piece; list of points to mention to Bill [Colleran?]; medical notes; personal and professional notes. 1979?

62. Notes for ‘Seven Preludes’, Op. 126: quotations, movement titles; 1 side structural plan for unknown piece; financial calculations; various professional and personal notes. 1978?

63. Notes for birthday tribute (presumably 70th); doodles; fraught personal notes. 1976?

64. Notes for 'spin offs' (potentially planned further written work?), lists writers/painters EL knew. Mid-later 1970s?

65. List of 3 Robert Saxton performances (two of which of pieces written in 1977); brief accounts of medical symptoms. 1977-8.

66. Notes for the structure of a piece, titled 'Centuries', with quotations written out; notes for a lecture on 'language and climate of new music'; various personal and professional notes. c.1973?

67. Draft personal and professional letters; medical notes; financial calculations; various personal and professional notes. Shaky handwriting almost consistently. ?1980.

68. Long letter draft to 'Peter' concerning Edward's contributions to BBC; draft letters of complaint about hospital treatment and noisy neighbours; mentions of a 1980 commission; instrumentation notes; assorted other personal and professional notes. Shaky handwriting throughout. 1979.

70. Extensive notes about power of attorney, house contents, etc; appears to have been written while EL was in hospital. Later 1970s/1980s.

72. Draft letter objecting to an article by a critic; extensive instrumentation notes for an unidentified piece; list of quotations, possibly relating to the same piece.

73. Many leaves in shorthand (not EL's hand); draft personal letter; various personal and professional notes; draft complain about her appearance in Radio Times 'Fasion / Gossip' column. 1973?

74. Draft complaint letter about her appearance in Radio Times 'Fashion / Gossip' column; draft notes to 'Dennis'; numerous doodles; personal notes. 1973?

76. Draft letter to Michael Vyner; various personal and professional notes; financial calculations.

78. Brief notes for a stage work after William Faulkner; 35 leaves of character, libretto, and instrumentation notes titled 'Mother, who am I?'; various personal and professional notes. c.1971-2.

79. Draft for a talk (?) on 'influence'; writing about her memories of India; various personal and professional notes.

80. Ideas for a project 'The climate for the arts'; medical notes referring to York; various personal and professional notes. 1975?

81. Long draft piece of writing about composers and composing; long draft letter to Leon Lovett concerning N.O.C. handling of ‘The Numbered’ and ‘Time Off’; various personal and professional notes. c.1972-3.

Un-numbered notebooks primarily containing notes for lectures/talks:

- On analysing her own music (also includes brief notated sketch).

- On Englishness and music ('Contemporary English Music')

- On Englishness and music (on English music after Purcell)

- On 'The present day musical situation'.

- On folk songs in composition; draft for another music history lecture.

- Draft for a long written piece on various topics (professionalism, amateurs, critics…).

- Notes for a Dartington course (presumably 1965 or 1966); long draft letter to William Glock concerning financial conditions for commissioning composers (likely later 1960s?); personal and professional notes.

Loose leaves:

- Paper-clipped notes on 'style and integrity'.

- Paper-clipped notes on Stravinsky, Schumann, and others.

-14 leaves of assorted draft letters, medical notes, written-out Wordsworth poem.