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Sender: Greene, Harry Plunket
Recipient: Thompson, Herbert
Letters: 20
Date(s): 24 Oct 1918 - 12 Jul 1935
Location: SC MS 361/119-136, 349-350
Note: 1) Appreciation of Hubert Parry; Parry's funeral at St Paul's
Cathedral. 2) Thanks for information; Rawlinson Ford. 3)
Letters to Barclay Squire; Irish music; an untoward experience
on the concert platform. Misdated by the writer as 4 January
1903. 4) Refers to a letter from Thompson; portrait of
Stanford by Orpen and of his wife by Herkomer. 5) Describes an
argument between Stanford and John Coates in Paris, arising from
a rehearsal of Beethoven's 9th symphony. 6) Further about the
incident between Stanford and John Coates in Paris. 7) Seeks
facts about Elgar's membership of the Athenaeum; requires
Atkinson's address. Attached: notes on Elgar by Thompson, taken
from B Maine, "Elgar; an appraisement" "The Nineteenth Century
and After", vol cxv (1934), pp 466-474. 8) Asks for accounts
of incidents at Leeds Festival and Birmingham involving Elgar.
9) Details of Stanford's career, arising from letters from
Stanford which Thompson had lent to him; Elgar's behaviour.
2ff. 10) Thanks for an article which he will use in his book about Stanford. 11) Asks for dates of performance of some
works by Elgar. 12) Asks for details of Stanford and Elgar,
mainly in connection with festivals. 2 ff. 13) Thanks for
Thompson's help in supplying details about Stanford; reminiscence of first performance of "The Dream of Gerontius".
14) On who persuaded Richter to give the first performance of
the "Enigma Variations". 15) Congratulates Thompson on an
article; progress of his own book. 16) Thanks for review of
his biography of Stanford; other reactions to the book. Printed
letter-head of Musicians' Benevolent Fund (of which Greene was
chairman) crossed out. 17) Thanks for help with the biography
of Stanford; further reactions to it. 18) Social attitude of
the Elgars. 19) On Elgar and Stanford. 2 ff. Formerly
inserted in Thompson's copy of H P Greene, "Charles Villiers
Stanford" (1935). 20) Thanks for information; Elgar. Formerly
inserted in Thompson's copy of H P Greene, "Charles Villiers
Stanford" (1935).