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Box MS Add.8812/1-239: Box 1

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Contains 291 Results:

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Correspondence to E.J. Moeran and Peers Coetmore [Ernest J. Moeran (1894-1950), composer; married Kathleen Peers Coetmore in 1945], 1930-1948

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/109-113
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

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

Dates: 1930-1948
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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From Herbert Nichols to Moeran, 10 Dec. 1930

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/109
Scope and Contents He has found copies of A & E and 'Aurelia'; nowadays, he understands, he is 'a poseur and backnumber' but has 'not given up hope of being among the English poets when I die'; he hopes to amend and republish 'a selection of my early work' and get fairer treatment; a few among his war poems that he still likes - examples; how they could be set to music; hopes the selection will rank with Darley's 'Nepeuthe' and pastorals of 'some of the lesser but still glorious Elizabethans'; encloses...
Dates: 10 Dec. 1930
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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From Sir Henry J. Wood to Moeran, 18 Mar. 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/110
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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'

Dates: 18 Mar. 1942
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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From Samuel Barber to Mrs Moeran, 22 Feb. 1947

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/111
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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

Dates: 22 Feb. 1947
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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From Sir Henry J. Wood to Miss Coetmore, 24 Sep. 1930

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/112
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He does not have score and parts of Bloch's 'Schelemo': can only get them from publishers on hire

Dates: 24 Sep. 1930
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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From John Ireland to [Kathleen] Peers Coetmore, 11 May 1948

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/113
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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'

Dates: 11 May 1948
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Sir James Frazer: Correspondence to Peter Giles (1860-1935), 1900-1927 (Circa)

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/114-117
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

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

Dates: 1900-1927 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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From Sir James Frazer to Peter Giles, 2 June 1900 (Circa)

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/114
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Question on Ridgeway's stipend, as discussed by General Board

Dates: 2 June 1900 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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From Sir James Frazer to Peter Giles, 29 Apr. 1919

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/115
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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

Dates: 29 Apr. 1919
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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From Sir James Frazer to Peter Giles, 22 May 1919

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/116
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Thanks for information about Whitney's book; he had an unfavourable opinion of Wundt's 'Völkerpsychologie', but will look at it again

Dates: 22 May 1919
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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From Sir James Frazer to Peter Giles, 6 Mar. 1927

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/117
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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

Dates: 6 Mar. 1927
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Francis J.H. Jenkinson: Correspondence, 1884-1943

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/118-122
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

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

Dates: 1884-1943
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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From Francis Jenkinson to Marian Wetton, 7 Sep. 1884

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/118
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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

Dates: 7 Sep. 1884
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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From Francis Jenkinson to Marian Wetton, 12 Feb. 1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/119
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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

Dates: 12 Feb. 1885
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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From Francis Jenkinson to Marian Jenkinson, 3 June 1887

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/120
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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]

Dates: 3 June 1887
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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From Francis Jenkinson to [?]

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/121
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[Opening and ending lost] On the method of folding paper to produce quarto, octavo, etc. and gathering into a quire

Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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From Nelly Jenkinson (sister) to Hugh [Stewart], 2 Nov. 1943

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/122
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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'

Dates: 2 Nov. 1943
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Letter from Francis J.H. Jenkinson to E.O. Barrett, 8 Nov. 1893

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/123
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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

Dates: 8 Nov. 1893
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Letter from Frank Plumpton Ramsey to Charles K. Ogden (1889-1957), 1923 (Circa)

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/124
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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.'

Dates: 1923 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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William Gerhardie: Correspondence to C.E. Askew, 1923 (Circa)

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/125-127
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

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

Dates: 1923 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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From William Gerhardie to C.E. Askew, 12 Mar. 1923

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/125
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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.

Dates: 12 Mar. 1923
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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From William Gerhardie to C.E. Askew, 14 Apr. 1923

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/126
Scope and Contents A good market for short stories in America; Gerhardie has written some, but all have been rejected in England; he cannot send a copy of his book on Chekhov 'since you have got his letters you probably know as much about the man as I do'; hopes to settle in Tyrol: very cheap, very delightful; 'Bolton is atrociously damp and dull.'; he suggests Curtis Brown Ltd. as good literary agent; he uses them: a branch in New York; he hears that short stories are most difficult to publishe; comparison of...
Dates: 14 Apr. 1923
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Newscutting: Photograph of Gerhardie, 1923 (Circa, undated)

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/127
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

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

Dates: 1923 (Circa, undated)
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Herbert Howells: Correspondence to Herbert Badgett, 1952-1956

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/128-131
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

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

Dates: 1952-1956
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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From Herbert Howells to Herbert Badgett, 17 Mar. 1952

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/128
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Thanks for Huddersfield Choral Society for a performance of 'Hymnus Paradisi'; a difficult work, well sung

Dates: 17 Mar. 1952
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).