ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. Bartholomew (William). Oedipus at Colonos; June 1847. Autograph and signed. The translation into English of Sophocles’s tragedy, for Mendelssohn’s music. The words only, with the copy of a letter of thanks from Mendelssohn to ... Jun 1847

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ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. Bartholomew (William). Oedipus at Colonos; June 1847. Autograph and signed. The translation into English of Sophocles’s tragedy, for Mendelssohn’s music. The words only, with the copy of a letter of thanks from Mendelssohn to ... Jun 1847

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