Box MS Add.8812/1-239: Box 1
Contains 291 Results:
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
Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.
From Robert Thurston Dart to 'Argonauts', 22 Nov. 1962
Illness has knocked him back; promotion came just in time: he is forbidden to tutor and supervise
From Robert Thurston Dart to 'Dadie', 13 Nov. 1963
From Robert Thurston Dart to Harley, 26 July 1964
Moving to Chair of Music, University of London, creating a new Faculty of Music; he would like to play continuo in proposed recordings; declines editing; Charles Cudworth could choose a young scholar; 'Cambridge did not, perhaps, realize that a Professor of Music here has great responsibilities, but is virtually powerless to act on them.'; his successor 'must be given the chance to do things... including helping researchers.'
From Robert Thurston Dart to Harley, 11 Sep. 1964
Postpone meeting until October; until his successor is appointed, he has Cambridge lecture courses to do, and researchers to look after; he must prepare syllabuses, etc., for London
From Charles Bruce Sissons to F. Henry Johnson, 3 Jan. 1965
Impressed with Johnson's interview with Ruth Worth in 'Globe and Mail'; Sissons' 'Memoirs' may be interesting about teacher training in Ontario; 'Intelligence and a sense of humour' are essential for a teacher
From Charles Bruce Sissons to F. Henry Johnson, 12 Jan. 1965
Shortcomings of teacher-training system in Ontario; appreciative comments on teaching ability of A.E. Miller of Revelstoke
Letter from Ludwig F. Ertig to R.C. Paulin, 14 July 1966
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Harry P. Clark: Correspondence to John and Elizabeth Buck, 1980-1986 (Circa)
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From Harry P. Clark to John and Elizabeth Buck, 30 May 1980
Description of his cottage; he left it after suffering a heart attack; living closer to Cambridge, but looking to move from Cambridgeshire
From Harry P. Clark to John and Elizabeth Buck, Mar. 1982
Offers one of six copies of his book, which he typed; has started volume II; with portrait photograph and Christmas card
From Harry P. Clark to John and Elizabeth Buck, 18 Aug. 1985
Great effort to finish second book; doubts whether Oxford or Cambridge would be interested in it; he likes idea of Harvard; how should he go about offering it?; with newscutting, 'Tamworth Herald', 16 August 1985, Harry Clark presenting a model dinosaur to a child
From Harry P. Clark to John and Elizabeth Buck, 7 July 1986
Effort involved in writing books; some extracts were read at Tamworth Literary Society; he is visiting parts of Britain, painting, and writing a book about how he came to Tamworth; writes letters to newspapers, Prince of Wales, Prime Minister, police, 'when I think they need ticking off or congratulating.'
From Harry P. Clark to John and Elizabeth Buck, 21 Aug. 1986
Thanks for their efforts on behalf of his book; sending copies to Cambridge
Lord Kelvin: correspondence; to Mrs H.F. Stewart; photographs of Francis J.H. Jenkinson, 1818-1901 (Circa)
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From Carl Haag to Sir William Thomas (Lord Kelvin), 18 Feb. 1890
He will look carefully at specimen drawings by Thomson's niece; Dobson will propose her, Haag will second it
From G. Higgins to W. Frend (copy, mostly in shorthand), 25 Sep. 1818
Journey through France
From Eleanor M. Sidgwick to Jessie Stewart, 9 Nov. 1901
Pyes promise to return the text in time for the lecture
From Hermann Von Helmholtz to Sir William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), 2 Sep. 1883
He is invited to join a commission to consider building 'a kind of scientific physical observatory' at Berlin, proposed by him and Dr Werner Siemens; he is urged to become director; would be able to concentrate on purely scientific work
From Eliza M. Von Hügel to Jessie Stewart, 1820-1900
She hoped all was settled, with support of Vice-Chancellor and Mayor; but a meeting of Cambridge townspeople arranged by Pryor will consider its own scheme; Anatole's visit to several families caught up in fighting
Photographs
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Francis J.H. Jenkinson as a boy, with father [copy photograph]
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Francis J.H. Jenkinson in procession to Senate House
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Henry Montagu Butler (1833-1918), Master of Trinity
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