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Most of the files contain five or more letters. Some files include letters from more than one member of a family, and the larger correspondences occupy two or more files.

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The anthology was printed privately in memoriam 'Michael' [M. H. H. Walters, KC 1928, d. 1934], with contributions by PFR and E. J. Dent.

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1 autograph postcard, signed, to E.M. Forster. 3 Aug. 1907.
32 autograph letters, signed, (1 incomplete) and 5 autograph postcards, signed, from E.M. Forster. 1901-15.
Photocopies of 3 autograph letters, signed, 1 typed letter, signed, and 1 autograph postcard, signed, from E.M. Forster. 1930-55.
To request these documents, please use the following call mark: 18/fascicled/Dent, E.J.

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Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.

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Typescript transcripts of 3 autograph letters, signed and 1 autograph postcard, signed.

Scope and Contents The papers contain little relating to Dent's early life, his family or his work as a music professor. The bulk of the collection concerns his work as a translator of operas and as a music journalist and author. There are a small body of papers relating to his involvement with Sadler's Wells and Covent Garden opera houses, and to his presidency of the International Music Research Society and the International Society for Contemporary Music. Among Dent's own research papers are his transcripts...

Scope and Contents The file contains:- Typescript memoir [by J. B. Trend] written after Dent’s death, 23 Aug. 1957, including reference to Dent's religious beliefs; - Typescript translations of parts of Act II of Mozart's opera 'Die Entfuhrung' [by Edward Dent] for the Royal College of Music, Apr. 1951;- Draft of a letter from Carey to Adrian Boult concerning Dent’s life and lack of honours, and a typescript reply from Boult to Carey, 16 Aug. 1955, referring to a letter not enclosed (presumably...

Scope and Contents The collection consists almost exclusively of letters received by Dent between 1914 and 1918, and probably sorted and weeded by him subsequently. Several letters have been endorsed by Dent with identifications and comments, and he has also supplied biographical notes on most of the correspondents, although these are not always reliable. The letters reflect Dent's heavy involvement in the teaching of music in Cambridge during the First World War, and his work on the translation of hitherto...

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Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.

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1 autograph letter signed.

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1 autograph letter, signed.

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A collection of 1094 letters, postcards and other items known as 'Sassoon's residual correspondence' although it does also include a number of items addressed to other persons particularly to his wife, Hester, and his mother, Theresa Thornycroft.

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407 letters and 13 postcards from Dent to Carey.

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4 autograph letters signed.

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11 autograph letters, signed. 1920-45.
This file also contains 2 autograph letters, signed, from Tom Lancaster to E.J. Dent, [May] and 3 July 1945.

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Items contain typed and manuscript correspondence with, and carbon typescript lists of Kingsmen for, F.L. Lucas, R.E. Balfour, E.J. Dent, Percy Lubbock, G.C. Morris, F.W. Reddaway and G.H.W. Rylands.

Scope and Contents The file contains press cuttings, reviews, articles, photographs, programmes and other printed material relating to productions of Greek plays and operas at Cambridge. It includes the following items, with other material not listed in detail:- Photographs of actors in costume including Rupert Brooke, George Lyttelton and Clive Carey;- Postcard from J. W. Clark to Carey, 31 May 1903;- Letter from Alwyn Scholfield to Carey;- Letter from J. T. Sheppard to Carey, 1915;-...

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10 carbon typed letters.