Autograph Collection.- Theatre, Music, Art & Architecture, and Literature

Autograph Collection.- Theatre, Music, Art & Architecture, and Literature

A very large collection of autographs, manuscript letters, clipped autographs, comprising:

Music, Ballet & Opera: a small assortment of letters, notes, signed photographs and clipped signatures etc of the c19th and c20th, including: letter to prof. WK Stanton (composer, 1891-1978) from Lady Dorothy Macmillan (1900-1966) at 10, Downing Street; four postcards to Benno Moiseiwitsch (pianist, 1890 - 1963); Herbert Rodwell (composer, 1800-1852) John Francis Barnett (composer, 1837-1916); Artur Schnabel (pianist, 1882-1951); Sir John Barbirolli (conductor, 1899-1970); Sir Adrian Boult (conductor, 1889-1983); Harriet Cohen (pianist. 1895-1967); some signed pages of guests at events including Dame Myra Hess (pianist 1890-1965) and Max Jaffa (violinist, 1911-1991);

Art, Artists and Architects: a small assortment of letters, notes and clipped signatures etc of the c18th, c19th and c20th, including; Charles Voysey (architect, 1857-1941); Benjamin Wyatt (architect, 1775-1852); George Romney (painter, 1734-1802); Harry Furniss (illustrator, 1854-1925); Felix Moscheles (painter, 1833-1917); Leslie Ward (damaged) (artist 1851-1922);

Sport: a very small assortment of letters, notes etc of the c19th and c20th, including: Phyllis Colson (Pioneer in Physical Recreation 1904-1972); letter to George Roland, fencing master (fl. 1809-1862); William Senior, editor of The Field (1838 -1920);

Writers, poets, novelists and journalists: a good assortment of letters, signed photographs, notes and clipped signatures of the c18th, c19th and c20th etc, including: Ethel Brilliana Tweedie (1862-1940); Clara Lucas Balfour (1808-1878); Edward Morton (1858-1922); Charles Reade (1814-1844); George Jacob Holyoake (1817-1906); Wolf Mankowitz (signed photo, 1924-1998); Sir Sidney Lee (1859-1926); Mrs JH Riddell (Charlotte Riddell), 1832-1906); Henry Arthur Jones (1851-1929); Cecil Reginald Grundy (1870-1944), Mark Ambient (Harold Harley, 1860-1937) Arthur William à Beckett (1844 - 1909); cache of letters to Francis Rutter (art critic 1876-1937)(qty) EF Benson (1867-1940) Ursula Bloom (1892-1984) and many others;

Theatre and the Stage: a large assortment of letters, notes, signed photographs, sketches and clipped signatures etc, etc of the c18th, c19th and c20th etc, including: Dame Sybil Thorndike (qty) (1882-1976); Sir John Martin Harvey (qty)(1863-1944); Alfred C Calmour (qty) (1857-1912); various members of the Forbes-Robertson family (qty); Oscar & Lily Asche (qty) (1871-1936); Clement Scott (qty) (critic; 1841-1904); Sir Nigel Playfair (qty) (1874-1934); Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree (qty) (1852-1917); Constance Collier (1878-1955); Lilian Baylis (1874-1937); Frank Benson (1858-1939); Dorothy Tutin (1930-2001); Lilah McCarthy (1875-1960); Squire Bancroft (1841-1926); George Grossmith (1847-1912) Irene Vanbrugh (1872-1949); Violet Vanbrugh Bourchier (1867-1942); Godfrey Tearle (1884-1953); Marion Terry (1853-1930).

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