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Autobiography, by Herbert Thompson
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Autobiography, by Herbert Thompson

Thompson, Herbert (1856-1945)

c.1940

Contains recollections of the author's life and career, including his Yorkshire ancestry; earliest recollection, of the death of the Prince Consort in 1861; school in Wiesbaden, 1872-73; St John's Col...

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Opera and concert programmes collected by Herbert Thompson

Thompson, Herbert (1856-1945)

1876-1936

This Handlist forms a supplement to Handlist 29 which listed the greater part of the papers, including diaries, press-cuttings and correspondence, of Dr. Herbert Thompson (1856-1945), for fifty years ...

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Herbert Thompson Collection

1876-1945

Collection compiled by Herbert Thompson on music. Correspondence, opera and concert programmes, autograph album, diary, manuscript music, newspaper cuttings on music criticism, photographs and postcar...

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Manuscript music, compiled by Herbert Thompson

Thompson, Herbert (1856-1945)

1880-1885

Miscellaneous pieces of music copied by Herbert Thompson and others. Including: (1) Schumann, Gypsy chorus; (2) Chopin, Valse, Op.64, no.2; (3) Stainer, Amen; (4) Twilight; (5) Shelley, "A widow bird...

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Correspondence, mainly on music, addressed to Herbert Thompson

Thompson, Herbert (1856-1945)

1878-1942

Correspondence, mainly from composers and musicians, with an envelope of press-cuttings, a photograph of Elgar, and other items. 2 Volumes: Vol.1:1 (Airy) - 175 (Paersch), Vol.2:176 (Palmer) - 381 (S...

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Autograph album, compiled by Herbert Thompson

Thompson, Herbert (1856-1945)

c.1878-1900

Contains a collection of signatures of well-known musicians and conductors, letters, postcards, festival-tickets, and a portrait, mounted on separate sheets, with pencil notes by Herbert Thompson iden...

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Diary of Herbert Thompson

Thompson, Herbert (1856-1945)

1876-1945

The diaries include many details of purely personal interest, accounts of domestic events and of social activities, as well as of travels abroad, music criticism, etc. There are 5 entries in the last ...

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Specifications of organs, compiled by Herbert Thompson

Thompson, Herbert (1856-1945)

1876-1877

Notes compiled by Herbert Thompson. Contains specifications of organs in the following places: Chapel of Trinity College, Cambridge; Chapel of King's College, Cambridge; Chapel of St John's College, ...

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Collection of cabinet cards, cartes de visite, postcards, and other photographs, chiefly associated with Western and Central European classical music composers, compiled by Herbert Thompson.

Thompson, Herbert (1856-1945)

c.1860-1936

Comprises: (1) 94 cabinet cards, dated ca. 1860-1903, depicting the portraits, homes, birthplaces, monuments to, and haunts of, the majority of the most famous Western and Central European classical m...

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