London
Found in 1970 Collections and/or Records:
From Geoffrey Scott [Architect], Royal Automobile Club, Pall Mall, 5 Sep. 1914 (Circa, 'Sunday')
Is glad Dent liked 'the book'; with regard to 'the Mozart', 'I am given the detail, but am too ignorant to profit by it.'
From Geoffrey Whitworth, St Martin's Lane, 27 Sep. 1915
Proposing a book on Gilbert and Sullivan - a collaboration between Dent and Frank Swinnerton
From George Bentham, Victoria Street, [London], 1 Apr. 1861
From George Gardner, Kew, 17 May 1842
From Harley Trott, Berners Hotel, London, 7 Jan. 1917
Will be working from tomorrow at 'Heatherley's School'; would like to see Dent
From Harley Trott, Berners Hotel, London, 8 Jan. 1917
Will be delighted to dine with Dent the next evening; has heard from Chester
From Harley Trott, Oxford & Cambridge Musical Club, Bedford Square, 26 Jan. 1917 (circa, no year given)
Concerning a dinner appointment; can be contacted at the Slade; is in 'a horrible state mentally'; encloses photograph with cartoon on verso (T/63a)
From Harley Trott, South Kensington, 25 July 1918 (Circa)
Has dined with Haynes and Geoffrey Garrod at the Tour d'Eiffel; Augustus John and his party; has visited 'Gabriel' [Atkin]; the Musical Club, where Garrod sang Faure
From Hon. Sir Albert Edward Alexander Napier [of New College, Oxford, Lawyer and Civil Servant], Beaumont St, Jan. 1915 (Circa, undated)
Has undergone a small operation, and would welcome a visit
From Hon. Sir Albert Edward Alexander Napier [of New College, Oxford, Lawyer and Civil Servant], The Temple, 29 Jan. 1915
Is still convalescing; Ernest Thesiger has been wounded
From James Mansfield to Edward Mills, asking for his support should a vacancy occur in the parliamentary representation of the University, Temple, 27 Oct. 1777
Includes documents on elections, appointments and statutes.
From James Mansfield to George Paley, asking for his support in the event of an early general election, Temple, 19 Jan. 1784
Enclosure: cover to the letter.
From James Sowerby, Lambeth, No 28, 4 July 1797
Letters to Robson, with the exception of Add. 8190/13, on botanical and other matters.
From J.DeC. Sowerby to William Borrer, Camden Town, 1 Jan. 1835
Some items are accompanied by typescript explanatory notes, apparently made at the Department of Botany.
From John Brande Trend, [London], 6 Dec. 1918
Is distracted by a noisy party; Chester [Purves]; Edgar Matthews; Sheppard; Arnold Foster at a Diaghilev performance of Papillons; the Old Vic to stage Comus and Faustus
From John Brande Trend, Marble Arch, 5 Dec. 1918 (Circa, 'Wednesday', date taken from postmark)
Expresses sympathy [for Dent's attack of 'flu]; work in the War Office; has been to 'Le Donne' once more, the music is ravishing; is there a book Dent would like?
From John Brande Trend, Savile Club, Piccadilly, 22 July 1917
Has heard part of Tristan und Isolde; sends a book of cantatas
From John Brande Trend, Savile Club, Piccadilly, 7 Nov. 1917
A summons to Room 222 in the War Office; has been told to write a confidential book; then may go to Italy; 'What you say of my Dante stuff is most encouraging'; Fanny Davies recitals
From John Francis Toye [of Trinity College, Cambridge, Musicologist and Critic], PoW Camp, Feltham
Wishes to secure musical rights to two [Frances] Cornford poems, and seeks her address; 'I have become an inferior kind of lieutenant at this rather agreeable camp'; hopes to see Dent in London
From John Hunnemann to Jacob Sturm, London, 12 Nov. 1829
From John Smith, Kew, 18 Nov. 1863
From John Townshend to Edward Mills, thanking him for his support in the recent election, Pall Mall, 11 Oct. 1780
Includes documents on elections, appointments and statutes.
From Mona Wilson to E.J. Dent, Kensington, 5 Jan. 1914 (recte 1915)
Steuart has been wounded in the chest
From P.J. Chester J. Laidlaw, Royal Automobile Club, Pall Mall, 2 May 1916
He leaves tonight, would like The Cambridge Magazine forwarded
From P.J. Chester J. Laidlaw, Royal Automobile Club, Pall Mall, 20 Oct. 1915
Returning Dent's spare latch-key