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Thanks for Hallé Choral Society and Orchestra for performance of 'Hymnus Paradisi'

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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.'

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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

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Illness has knocked him back; promotion came just in time: he is forbidden to tutor and supervise

Scope and Contents He cannot look for a setting of Orpheus during Term; knows of no contemporary setting; 'I can't produce settings at the drop of a hat when they don't exist.'; much work at Cambridge - Arts Theatre - City help to music - rebuilding Music School - Cambridge University Music Society; could one of the songs which he proposed long ago be used?; neither needs a male voice; 'I want to indulge you, Dadie, but I can't do so at the expense of abandonig the guiding principles used throughout the scheme...

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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.'

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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

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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

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Shortcomings of teacher-training system in Ontario; appreciative comments on teaching ability of A.E. Miller of Revelstoke

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

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

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Description of his cottage; he left it after suffering a heart attack; living closer to Cambridge, but looking to move from Cambridgeshire

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Moved to a block of flats at Tamworth, Staffordshire

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Death of his wife; he has made another start on his life story; volume I almost completed

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Offers one of six copies of his book, which he typed; has started volume II; with portrait photograph and Christmas card

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Their comments on his book; 'Book Two will have some surprises I think, perhaps a shock.'

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Book was finished at end of 1984; he thinks it would make a good TV or radio play

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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

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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.'

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Thanks for their efforts on behalf of his book; sending copies to Cambridge

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Cambridge U.L. has accepted copy of book: wonders whether London Library would like a copy

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Thanks for returning their copy of book; items disposed of in his will; he has finished memoir of the 'Tamworth story'

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