Box MS Add.8812/1-239: Box 1
Contains 291 Results:
Correspondence to E.J. Moeran and Peers Coetmore [Ernest J. Moeran (1894-1950), composer; married Kathleen Peers Coetmore in 1945], 1930-1948
Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.
From Herbert Nichols to Moeran, 10 Dec. 1930
From Sir Henry J. Wood to Moeran, 18 Mar. 1942
Glad he is progressing with full score of violin concerto; he should let Arthur Caterall have violin part 'so that he can get himself inside the work'
From Samuel Barber to Mrs Moeran, 22 Feb. 1947
He has not done piano reduction of cello concerto: cannot get it from Raya G. 'who is playing it rather often'; published copy should be ready by summer
From Sir Henry J. Wood to Miss Coetmore, 24 Sep. 1930
He does not have score and parts of Bloch's 'Schelemo': can only get them from publishers on hire
From John Ireland to [Kathleen] Peers Coetmore, 11 May 1948
Cannot come to Wigmore Hall; he liked first broadcast of cello sonata; 'It is a treat nowadays to hear any new work which sounds like music'
Sir James Frazer: Correspondence to Peter Giles (1860-1935), 1900-1927 (Circa)
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From Sir James Frazer to Peter Giles, 2 June 1900 (Circa)
Question on Ridgeway's stipend, as discussed by General Board
From Sir James Frazer to Peter Giles, 29 Apr. 1919
Can Giles recommend a modern book on historical development of language in relation to thought?; he is interested in tracing 'gradual growth of the power of abstraction and generalization as attested by the increase in the creation and use of more and more abstract and general terms'; he has only Max Müller's and Sayce's works; Rouse has got Frazer to do Apollodorus, not Herodotus, for Loeb; death of Frazer's stepdaughter in Paris
From Sir James Frazer to Peter Giles, 22 May 1919
Thanks for information about Whitney's book; he had an unfavourable opinion of Wundt's 'Völkerpsychologie', but will look at it again
From Sir James Frazer to Peter Giles, 6 Mar. 1927
Thanks for Giles's help at lectures; 'We really think that it has done something to promote a friendly feeling among anthropologists'; he hopes the feeling was not marred by 'the controversial tone of my friend Marett's lecture.'; the large number of guests meant that Frazer could not give them all the attention he should have done
Francis J.H. Jenkinson: Correspondence, 1884-1943
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From Francis Jenkinson to Marian Wetton, 7 Sep. 1884
Apologies for obscurity in his last letter; he leaves only business letters unanswered for a long period; he found a book once belonging to Stephen Gardiner in Trinity Library; college very quiet; quotation from Cowley
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)
Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.
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