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.
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