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Dreyfus, Alfred, 1859-1935. Correspondence and documents concerning the Dreyfus Affair, 1889-1931.

Title: Dreyfus, Alfred, 1859-1935. Correspondence and documents concerning the Dreyfus Affair, 1889-1931.

Correspondence of Captain Alfred Dreyfus and his lawyer, Fernand Labori, as well as photographs and other documents concerning the controversy over Dreyfus' treason conviction.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes (1 linear foot)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01274/catalog View

Weldon, Georgina, 1837-1914. Letters, 1878-1885.

Title: Letters, 1878-1885.

Six letters, three to "Mr. Purnell," concerning her speeches on the Lunacy Laws and related court cases.

ArchivalResource: 6 sheets (11 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/235173513 View

Sullivan, Arthur, Sir, 1842-1900. Autograph letter signed : 47 Claverton Terrace, St. George's Road, S.W., [London], to Georgina Weldon, 1867 Jan. 9.

Title: Autograph letter signed : 47 Claverton Terrace, St. George's Road, S.W., [London], to Georgina Weldon, 1867 Jan. 9.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (3 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270127128 View

Gounod, Charles, 1818-1893. Letters received, 1792-1905.

Title: Letters received, 1792-1905.

About 300 letters mostly to Charles Gounod or Georgina Weldon.

ArchivalResource: 15 folders in 1 box ; 40 x 27 x 8 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122485989 View

Album of letters of acknowledgement for "Friend of Sloper" certificates, 1885-circa 1900.

Title: Album of letters of acknowledgement for "Friend of Sloper" certificates, 1885-circa 1900.

Album containing well over 100 autograph letters of thanks for "Friends of Sloper" certificates, addressed to the comic book character Ally Sloper by Victorian celebrities, including artists, playwrights and producers, actors and actresses, dancers, and music hall entertainers. The letters are humorous and often elaborate expressions of thanks, and their authors include John Singer Sargent, John Everett Millais, Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Richard D'Oyly Carte, Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Annie Oakley, Connie Gilchrist the rope-dancer, Okita "the Japanese enchanter," Georgina Weldon, and Viscount Wolseley. The actress Leonora Braham, who played Yum-Yum in the first production of The Mikado, wrote in character. Accompanied by George Moore's "Friend of Sloper" certificate, signed by "Ally Sloper;" a pen-and-ink sketch of Sloper as a muezzin, by W. F. Thomas; and several proof covers for Ally Sloper issues.

ArchivalResource: 1 v . (circa 200 p.) ; + 1 broadside.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702197667 View

Mina Curtiss collection, ca. 1950-ca. 1958

Title: Mina Curtiss collection ca. 1950-ca. 1958

This collection contains Mina Curtiss's working papers for her book (New York: Alfred Knopf, 1958). Bizet and His World

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http://archives.nypl.org/mus/20214 View

Annie Schletter papers, 1757-1937

Title: Annie Schletter papers 1757-1937

Correspondence, writings, printed ephemera, and photographs related to Annie Schletter and her family. Correspondence consists of letters to Annie Schletter, Pauline Schletter, Percy Schletter, and others, including Adrian Boult and Rosetta Phillips. Letters to Annie Schletter, many brief notes, largely relate to theater in London. Her correspondents include Margot Asquith, Adrian Boult, Ernest Coquelin, F. Paolo Tosti, Oscar Wilde, and Charles Wyndham. Correspondence also includes two letters from Georgina Weldon to Pauline Schletter, one written from Halloway Gaol and another enclosing 12 photographs taken in South Africa. Writings include several manuscript poems addressed to Rosetta Phillips, a typescript poem, "National Rat Week," by Osbert Sitwell, and a typescript essay by Margot Asquith describing a visit to Spain. Printed ephemera includes theater programs for performances at the Reform Club, Savoy Theatre, Windsor Castle, and other venues, as well as an invitation and prayer from "Her Majesty's Jubilee Thanksgiving Service." Photographs include portraits of Anthony Asquith, H. H. Asquith, Margot Asquith, Pamela Lytton, and F. Paolo Tosti.

ArchivalResource: Total Boxes: 3 (incl. 1 oversize box); Linear Feet: 1.97

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.schlette View

Gabriel, Virginia, 1825-1877. Autograph letters signed as Virginia March (2) : [London, n.d., ca. 1875?], to Mr. [Joseph] Bennett, [n.d., ca. 1875?].

Title: Autograph letters signed as Virginia March (2) : [London, n.d., ca. 1875?], to Mr. [Joseph] Bennett, [n.d., ca. 1875?].

Inviting him to dine with Mr. Arditi, mentioning [Georgina] Weldon's "most disgraceful pamphlet which would I should think put a good many nails in poor Gounod's coffin," etc.

ArchivalResource: 2 items (7 p.) ; (12mo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270577586 View

Correspondence and other papers of Arthur Sullivan, W. S. (William Schwenck) Gilbert, and related persons, 1834-1979.

Title: Correspondence and other papers of Arthur Sullivan, W. S. (William Schwenck) Gilbert, and related persons, 1834-1979.

19th and 20th century correspondence and papers of Arthur Sullivan, W. S. (William Schwenck) Gilbert, and other related persons.

ArchivalResource: 4 boxes and 1 portfolio box (1.25 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou02273/catalog View

Gilbert, W. S. (William Schwenck), 1836-1911. Autograph letter signed : 8 Essex Villas, Kensington, W., [London], to Georgina Weldon, 1873 Sept. 24.

Title: Autograph letter signed : 8 Essex Villas, Kensington, W., [London], to Georgina Weldon, 1873 Sept. 24.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270126512 View

Weldon, Georgina, 1837-1914. Autograph letter signed, dated : [London], 30 January 1871, to Mr. [Henry F.?] Chorley, 1871 Jan. 30.

Title: Autograph letter signed, dated : [London], 30 January 1871, to Mr. [Henry F.?] Chorley, 1871 Jan. 30.

Saying that Visetti is looking for an English poet to set the Italian texts (in translation) of his songs to English words, asking if Chorley will do so, noting that she sings Gounod's "Berceuse" with Chorley's words "in preference to Victor Hugo's," adding that "We now consider ourselves citizens of London, having bought Tavistock Hse (Dickens old house)," etc.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (3 p.) ; (8vo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270679107 View

Harding, Charles Alvar, 1915-. Charles Alvar Harding collection, ca. 1850-ca. 1970.

Title: Charles Alvar Harding collection, ca. 1850-ca. 1970.

The collection comprises autograph letters of musicians and literary figures, a few musical album leaves, some printed books, and many photographs. Most of the letters are written to Mr. Harding's great-uncle Richard Peyton, his grandfather Charles Harding, or his parents, Charles Copeley and Louise Alvar Harding (using the name Louise Alvar for her singing career). Some of the letters are written to Charles Alvar Harding himself. Among the musician letters in the Harding Collection are those of Georges Auric, Granville Bantock, Johannes Brahms, Max Bruch, Alfredo Casella, Alfred Cortot, Claude Debussy, Paul Dukas, Louis Durey, Edward Elgar, Manuel de Falla, Louis Fleury, Eugene Goossens, Charles Gounod, Edvard Grieg, Ernesto Halffter, George Henschel, Constant Lambert, Gian Francesco Malipiero, Joaquín Nin, Adelina Patti, Maurice Ravel, Carl Rosa, Albert Roussel, Camille Saint-Saëns, Adolfo Salazar, Florent Schmitt, Andrés Segovia, Arthur Sullivan, Germaine Tailleferre, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Georgina Weldon, and Henry J. Wood. Letters of non-musicians include those of Arnold Bennett, T.J. Cobden-Sanderson, Joseph Conrad, T.S. Eliot, G. Jean-Aubry, Salvador de Madariaga, André Maurois, Nancy Mitford, George Moore, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell, Freya Stark, and Paul Valéry.

ArchivalResource: ca. 750 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270107179 View

Gounod, Charles, 1818-1893. Autograph letter signed, dated : [n.p., Paris?], 14 May 1884, to [the editor of the Gaulois?], 1884 May 14.

Title: Autograph letter signed, dated : [n.p., Paris?], 14 May 1884, to [the editor of the Gaulois?], 1884 May 14.

Saying that an article was published in the Gaulois linking his name with Mme Weldon's, that the article infuriated him, asking that the present letter be published the next day, adding that it is shameful that French newspapers should be the carriers of such unkindness toward him, etc.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (3 p.) ; (12mo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270578166 View

Weldon, Georgina, 1837-1914,. Autograph letter signed from Georgina Weldon, London, to unidentified recipient [manuscript], 1879 October 20.

Title: Autograph letter signed from Georgina Weldon, London, to unidentified recipient [manuscript], 1879 October 20.

Letter addressed to "My dear Daddy," but Weldon's father died in 1867. Letter mentions rehearsals of The tempest and her benefit. On illustrated letterhead of Tavistock House, Tavistock Square. The letterhead is printed with a partial map of Bloomsbury.

ArchivalResource: 2 leaves ; 18 x 12 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/417075251 View

Gounod, Charles, 1818-1893. Autograph letter signed, dated : St. Leonard's on Sea, 23 April 1874, to Richard Peyton in Birmingham, 1874 Apr. 23.

Title: Autograph letter signed, dated : St. Leonard's on Sea, 23 April 1874, to Richard Peyton in Birmingham, 1874 Apr. 23.

Explaining his position with regard to soloists, observing that the principal English singers do no sing music for which they get no royalty, stating his objection to that system, noting his "natural desire" to choose, for the performance of his music, singers from Mrs. Weldon's school "(which, I firmly believe, will be acknowledged, by 1879, as the only thorough one)," expressing regret that so much time has been wasted but adding that "I cannot feel in any way to blame for the miscarriage of the negotiations," etc.; with an envelope in Gounod's hand addressed to Peyton, postmarked [Paris] Apr. 13 1877.

ArchivalResource: 2 items (4 p.) ; (8vo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270578123 View

Letters received, 1792-1905

Title: Letters received 1792-1905

During his London sojourn, 1870-75, French composer Charles Gounod lived at the residence of English soprano Georgina Weldon. About 300 letters mostly to Charles Gounod or Georgina Weldon.

ArchivalResource: 15 folders in 1 box

http://archives.nypl.org/mus/20071 View