Autograph letters signed (53), autograph postcards or postal cards signed (6), telegrams (2), and checks signed (3), dated (or postmarked) : Croydon, London, Chicago, [and other places], 1906-1912, to William Read, 1906 Aug. 4 and 1906 Dec. 5.

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Autograph letters signed (53), autograph postcards or postal cards signed (6), telegrams (2), and checks signed (3), dated (or postmarked) : Croydon, London, Chicago, [and other places], 1906-1912, to William Read, 1906 Aug. 4 and 1906 Dec. 5.

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Mostly concerning concert arrangements, mentioning his African Dances, Concertstück [i.e. Fantasiestück?] for cello and orchestra, Ballade for violin and piano, Gipsy Pieces, Nero Suite, Rhapsody, Hiawatha, Othello, mentioning works by Glazunov, Mozart, Brahms, Vieuxtemps, Wieniawski, Grieg, and Saint-Saëns, mentioning Sainton, Damrosch, Higginson, Miss Johnston, Beecham, Grove's Dictionary, etc.; with a check signed by Read payable to Coleridge-Taylor; and a note to the engraver of the Violin Concerto, received 26 August 1912, making corrections in the piano part.

63 items (ca. 166 p., chiefly with envelopes.) ; various sizes.

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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