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MS Mus. 1841/3/2
- Record Id:
- 040-003434379
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001965160
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100071255121.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- MS Mus. 1841/3/2
- Title:
- Elisabeth Lutyens: Material for projected book on Edward Clark
- Scope & Content:
- 1. 61 folios of plans and drafts: - [ff** 19 total]: Lutyens ‘Book on Edward Clark’ – ‘draft chapter synopsis’; drafts of the Introduction and chapter 1 (‘Recontres’). Typed.- [ff** 12 total]: copy of Introduction and ‘Recontres’ draft, with annotations in pencil (EL’s hand) and black ink (possibly not EL’s hand).- [ff** 7 total]: Draft titled ‘Contact Extraordinary ‘The man who cared’ – chapter 1, ‘Recontres’. Handwritten in blue ink and pencil. Also includes chapter draft of EL’s autobiography, showing where this would fit in (possibly dating from later?).- [ff** 5 total]: Various notes and short draft passages for Edward Clark book under the title ‘Contact Extraordinary’. Loose leaves from foolscap spiral-bound notebook (see below); handwritten in pencil, blue and red ink.- [ff** 9 total]: Red foolscap spiral-bound notebook containing ‘summary / rough draft’ for ‘Contact Extraordinary’. Handwritten in pencil, blue and red ink. Further loose leaves listed from this book listed above.- [ff** 26 total]: Red foolscap spiral-bound notebook containing draft for Introduction and ‘Recontres’ (Ch. 1) for ‘The Man who Cared’ (also titled ‘Who is this young man?’); at back of book there are 2 folios of a chapter plan for ‘Book on E.C.’. In the middle of the book, there are also 6 folios relating to ‘A Goldfish Bowl’ chapter 14; 5 folios listing EL’s published works up to 1969; and 2 folios of miscellaneous notes. - [f* 1 total]: Very brief 8-chapter plan; handwritten in black ink and pencil.- [f* 1 total]: List of possible illustrations. Typed, red pen annotations.- [ff** 2 total] 2 handwritten versions, slightly varying in content, of plans for a 3-episode [radio?] tribute ‘The Man Who Cared: A Tribute to Edward Clark’. William Glock mentioned. One pencil, one blue ink.- [ff** 5 total]: Chapter outline of ‘Edward Clark – A Memoir’ by R. L. Henderson. Typed.2. 66 folios of assorted notes and material:- [ff** 8 total]: notes on Clark’s life (headed ‘E.C.’), likely copied from Clark’s own notes (perhaps those now held in the Moldenhauer archive). Loose leaves from spiral-bound notebook, handwritten in pencil and ink.- [ff** 5 total]: Draft writing concerning the acquisition of Clark’s letters and papers by the Moldenhauer archive, and other passing topics. Loose leaves from reporter-style spiral-bound notebooks, handwritten in black and blue ink.- [ff** 20 total]: notes and plans over 2 spiral-bound notebooks, particularly relating to the BBC and Kenneth A. Wright. One contains 16 annotated folios, the other 4; pencil and ink.- [ff** 9 total]: Tributes to, and quotes about Clark from the following: Roberto Gerhard, Adrian Boult, John Warrack, William Alwyn, Eddie Walker, Richard Howgill, William Montagu-Pollock, Lady Jessie Wood, Howard Hartog, Peter Heyworth, John Pritchard, Oda Slobodskaya, Iris Lemare, Henry Boys, Alan Bush, Hanns Eisler, Alan Hawsthorne, Margaret Kitchin, Robert Craft, John Davenport, Malcolm Williamson, Igor Stravinsky. Loose leaves, typed; single ink addition to Alan Bush entry.- [ff** 5 total]: letters from EL to the following concerning the book’s progress and synopsis: Tommy [W. W. Thompson], John Colder, Elias Canetti, Luigi Dallapiccola, and Ernest Ansermet. All typed.- [ff** 4 total]: Several paragraphs, typed and handwritten, on contemporary works performed c. 1927-32, and about the ‘excessively puritan atmosphere of Reith’s regime’. Loose leaves.- [ff** 2 total]: Letters received in 1954 from Charles Fry (13th May) and Arnold Gyde (1st October), both publishers (?), relating to a ‘Chapter 1’ that both had been sent. - [ff** 7 total]: Annotated copy of ‘A scheme for the formation of a permanent Orchestra in the North East of England’: 4 folios, typed with pencil annotations. Further 3 leaves of NERO-headed plain paper.- [ ff** 3 total]: Document about the formation of Corno & Co, along with a letter to Pamela Henn Collins, dated June 1940.- [ff** 2 total]: 2 photocopies of notice titled ‘Hitler attacks London art exhibition’ (the Exhibition of German Contemporary Art at Burlington Gardens). Brief pencil marks on both.- [f* 1 total]: miscellaneous notes, pencil.
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Music Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001965160
036-003434137
040-003434379 - Is part of:
- MS Mus. 1841 : Elisabeth Lutyens Papers
MS Mus. 1841/3 : Elisabeth Lutyens: Material relating to autobiography, 'A Goldfish Bowl'
MS Mus. 1841/3/2 : Elisabeth Lutyens: Material for projected book on Edward Clark - Hierarchy:
- 032-001965160[0004]/036-003434137[0002]/040-003434379
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: MS Mus. 1841
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1940
- End Date:
- 1970
- Date Range:
- 1940-1970
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
- Various sizes. Loose leaves and notebooks.
- Arrangement:
- British Library arrangement.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)