Ethel Smyth collection, 1910-1962.

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Ethel Smyth collection, 1910-1962.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/68804796

Collection includes: manuscripts and diaries by Ethel Smyth, printed material, and research notes about her. Included in the manuscripts are several items of outgoing correspondence, primarily addressed to Scottish composer and conductor, Donald Tovey. Other addressees include Gordon Bryan, Philip Heseltine (aka Peter Warlock), Lady Constance Lytton, and Herbert Van Thal. The collection also includes three typescripts: three chapters of Smyth's unpublished last autobiographical work; a draft of a 1938 BBC radio speech given on Smyth's 80th birthday; and the annotated lyrics to her opera, The Prison. A small fragment of Smyth's Concerto for Violin, Horn, and Orchestra holds a portion of a composition by Frederic H. Cowen on the verso. Printed material includes programs, clippings, and a pamphlet containing the lyrics of March of the Women. Smyth's diaries are heavily annotated and provide a descriptive narrative of her life and work. The diaries mention members of her social circle, such as Sir Thomas Beecham, Pablo Casals, Empress Eugenie, Edith Somerville, Lady Ponsonby, Maurice Baring, Betty Balfour, and Virginia Woolf. Two notebooks of research notes taken by Smyth's biographer, Christopher St. John, round out the collection.

1 linear ft.

University of Michigan

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SNAC Resource ID: 7973822

University of Michigan

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Casals, Pablo, 1876-1973

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Warlock, Peter, 1894-1930

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Lytton, Constance, Lady, 1869-1923

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Beecham, Thomas, 1879-1961

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Bryan, Gordon, 1895-

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Van Thal, Herbert, 1904-1983

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Brewster, H. B. (Henry Bennet), 1850-1908

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Tovey, Donald Francis, 1875-1940

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Epithet: musician British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000206.0x000035 ...

Balfour, Betty, Lady, 1867-

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Smyth, Ethel, 1858-1944

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Cowen, Frederic H.

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Somerville, E. Œ. (Edith Œnone), 1858-1949

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Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941

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St. John, Christopher (Christopher Marie)

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Pankhurst, Emmeline, 1858-1929

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Ponsonby, Mary, 1832-1916

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