Box MS Add.8812/1-239: Box 1
Contains 291 Results:
From Francis Jenkinson to Marian Wetton, 12 Feb. 1885
Dinner at the Horts, with Professor Creighton; Mrs Luard's friendliness to him; he will send her Hall's 'Decades' if should would like them; Mrs Pelham's visit; his lectures on 'The history of sonata' by Hubert Parry have been 'disgracefully attended'; he is to visit Parry at Rustington
From Francis Jenkinson to Marian Jenkinson, 3 June 1887
Health; college news; summer arrangements for their house; the 'Oxford Magazine' on the fight for borrowing from the Bodleian; Madan made a successful speech [ending lost]
From Francis Jenkinson to [?]
[Opening and ending lost] On the method of folding paper to produce quarto, octavo, etc. and gathering into a quire
From Nelly Jenkinson (sister) to Hugh [Stewart], 2 Nov. 1943
She is looking through letters, including Jenkinson's to Marion Iconig... and hers to him; she encloses a few 'bits of long ago life in Trinity'
Letter from Francis J.H. Jenkinson to E.O. Barrett, 8 Nov. 1893
He sent the book Barrett needed; directions for packing it; he does not usually send books to members of the Senate; Barrett should apply to a Cambridge bookseller who will borrow and send them
Letter from Frank Plumpton Ramsey to Charles K. Ogden (1889-1957), 1923 (Circa)
Postcard from Puchberg am Schneeberg, Austria, where Ramsay went to visit Wittgenstein and to work on translation of 'Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus'; 'LW explains his book to me from 2-7 every day. It is most illuminating... we seem to get on at about a page an hour... he says that his mind is no longer flexible and he can never write another book'; he teaches in a village school, is very poor, and 'regarded by most of his colleagues as a little mad.'
William Gerhardie: Correspondence to C.E. Askew, 1923 (Circa)
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From William Gerhardie to C.E. Askew, 12 Mar. 1923
Glad Askew liked his book: the only one he has published so far; a critical study of 'Anton Chekhov' soon to appear; he is writing a novel 'A house of polyglots'; assessment of Russian writers - Manin, Schiriak, Nikolai Leshkov, Kuprin, Andreiev, Bunin, Remizov, etc.
From William Gerhardie to C.E. Askew, 14 Apr. 1923
Newscutting: Photograph of Gerhardie, 1923 (Circa, undated)
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Herbert Howells: Correspondence to Herbert Badgett, 1952-1956
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From Herbert Howells to Herbert Badgett, 17 Mar. 1952
Thanks for Huddersfield Choral Society for a performance of 'Hymnus Paradisi'; a difficult work, well sung
From Herbert Howells to Herbert Badgett, 11 Jan. 1953
Thanks for Hallé Choral Society and Orchestra for performance of 'Hymnus Paradisi'
From Herbert Howells to Herbert Badgett, 16 Sep. 1953
Twenty years since their son died 'and it still tugs our hears'; reprint of Mass will be identical with score which Badgett has; 'It's a work to saturate a choir with, rather, that merely know the notes.'
From Herbert Howells to Herbert Badgett, 11 Mar. 1956
Wide praise for Huddersfield Choral Society's performance of 'Missa Sabrinensis'; 'I realize how greatly a composer always stands in debt to a man like yourself and such a choir.'; sorry that the Exeter Festival prevented his hearing it
Robert Thurston Dart: Correspondence, 1962-1964
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