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Eric Walter White:

An Inventory of His Papers at the Harry Ransom Center

Creator: White, Eric Walter, 1905-1985
Title: Eric Walter White Papers
Dates: 1913-1985, 1987
Extent: 54 document boxes, 9 oversize boxes, 3 galley folders (gf) (27.76 linear feet)
Abstract: The papers of British musicologist, composer, translator, editor, poet, writer, and arts administrator Eric Walter White date from 1913 to 1987 and consist primarily of manuscripts, correspondence, and research materials related to his works on English opera, including his books on Benjamin Britten, Igor Stravinsky, and Michael Tippett. Also present are manuscripts and clippings of his poetry, short stories, reviews, articles, and lectures; papers related to his involvement with various arts organizations; and his personal correspondence, diaries, notebooks, photographs, and similar material.
Call Number: Manuscript Collection MS-04489
Language: English, French, German, and Italian
Access: Open for research


Administrative Information


Acquisition: Purchase, 1992 (R12571)
Processed by: Katherine Mosley, 2011
Repository:

Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin

Biographical Sketch


Musicologist, composer, translator, editor, poet, writer, and arts administrator Eric Walter White was born in Bristol, England, on September 10, 1905. He was the first of three sons born to Percy Walter White, a doctor, and Ethalind Charlotte Chambers White, a singer before her marriage. He was educated at Clifton College, Bristol (1916-1924) and Balliol College, Oxford (1924-1927). After receiving his B.A. from Oxford in English Language and Literature, with honors, White worked in Berlin and Potsdam as an English tutor for the Louis Hagen family. Through Hagen, White met silhouette artist and filmmaker Lotte Reiniger and collaborated with her on her films Harlequin (1932), for which White arranged and scored the musical accompaniment; The Little Chimney Sweep (1935), for which White arranged the musical accompaniment and wrote the scenario; and Galathea (1935), for which White composed the score. White published the scenario of The Little Chimney Sweep (1936) and wrote Walking Shadows (1931), a book-length essay on Reiniger's silhouette films, which brought her to the attention of the British public. White also published a book on the cinema, Parnassus to Let: An Essay about Rhythm in the Films (1928), and published the first essay in English on filmmaker Bertolt Brecht.
From 1929 to 1933, White worked as a translator and minute-writer at the League of Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, before returning to England. In 1935, he began working as an administrative officer in the Rural Department of the National Council of Social Service. In 1942, White was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts, and he continued in that office when it became the Arts Council of Great Britain in 1945 until his retirement in 1971. From 1966 to 1971, he also served as the Arts Council's first Literature Director. White was awarded the Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1967 and the Queen's Silver Jubilee Medal in 1977.
An expert on English opera, White wrote The Rise of English Opera (1951) and The History of English Opera (1983). In addition, he compiled A Register of First Performances of English Operas and Semi-Operas from the 16th Century to 1980 (1983). White authored three books on Igor Stravinsky, including Stravinsky: The Composer and His Works (1966), as well as works on Benjamin Britten (Benjamin Britten: A Sketch of His Life and Works,1949; later revised edition titled Benjamin Britten: His Life and Operas, 1970) and Michael Tippett (Tippett and His Operas, 1979). He wrote numerous articles, reviews, entries in reference works, program notes for musical performances, and liner notes; lectured widely on topics relating to music and the Arts Council; organized music festivals; and contributed to several radio programs.
White also had an interest in poetry; he served as a founder, first secretary (1954-1971), and chair (1977-1979) of the Poetry Book Society and was involved with festivals such as the Cambridge Poetry Festival and Ilkey Literature Festival. He was a member of the committee for the National Manuscript Collection of Contemporary Poets (later Writers), established in 1963 by the Arts Council to purchase manuscripts of living British writers. White developed friendships with Patricia Beer, Ted Hughes, Stevie Smith, H. D., and other poets, and wrote a book on H. D, Images of H. D. (1976). White's own poetry was published in The Room and Other Poems, 1921-1926 (1927), A Tarot Deal (1962), and Beginnings (1976).
White married Edith Dorothy “Dodo” Swinburne (1909-1977) on December 15,1939, and they had two children: Valentine, who died young, and Sarah Swinburne White. Eric Walter White died in London on September 13, 1985.

Sources:


Contemporary Authors Online, http://galenet.galegroup.com (accessed 26 March 2010).
"EWW", handwritten autobiography in White's 1977-1979 Notebook, folder 41.22, in the Ransom Center's Eric Walter White papers.
"Notes on the White and Chambers Families [for my Canadian nephews and nieces]", handwritten family notes in White's 1969D Notebook, folder 41.7, in the Ransom Center's Eric Walter White papers.

Scope and Contents


Scope and Contents

Eric Walter White's papers, dating from 1913 to 1987, consist primarily of manuscripts, correspondence, and research materials related to his works on English opera, including his books on Benjamin Britten, Igor Stravinsky, and Michael Tippett. Also present are manuscripts and clippings of his poetry, short stories, reviews, articles, and lectures; papers related to his involvement with various arts organizations; and his personal correspondence, diaries, notebooks, photographs, and similar material. The collection is arranged in four series: I. Works and Subject Files (1913-1983 and undated, 30 boxes, 1 oversize box, 3 galley folders); II. Personal and Career-Related Material (1905-1983 and 1987, 18 boxes); Series. III. Correspondence (1923-1985 and undated, 5 boxes); and IV. Music Manuscripts (1920-1974 and undated, 6 oversize boxes).
White's file titles and contents have been maintained, although the files are now arranged alphabetically by title. Within files White usually placed materials in reverse chronological order, with the most recent items at the front. While most of the material is in English, some letters, drafts, and clippings are in French, German, and Italian.
As an arts administrator, a noted musicologist, and a published poet and composer, White came into contact with and developed friendships with notable writers, poets and musicians of the twentieth century, especially in England; these connections are reflected throughout the archive. In particular, White became close friends with German silhouette artist and filmmaker Lotte Reiniger, publisher Bettina Hurlimann, composers Michael Tippett and Benjamin Britten, and poets H. D., Ted Hughes (whom White assisted with an Arts Council grant and with the sale of his manuscripts), and Adrian Stokes. Correspondence and manuscripts by and about these individuals are a highlight of the White papers.
Manuscripts of most of White's own works are present, beginning with a poem written at age eight, “My Brother.” White's books The Arts Council of Great Britain, Benjamin Britten: A Sketch of His Life and Works (later revised and titled Benjamin Britten: His Life and Operas), A History of English Opera, Images of H. D., A Register of First Performances of English Operas, The Rise of English Opera, Poetry Book Society: The First Twenty-Five Years, Stravinsky: A Critical Survey, Stravinsky: The Composer and His Works, and Tippett and His Operas are represented by research notes, handwritten manuscripts, typescripts, proofs, and correspondence; however, only a typescript fragment of White's translation of Robert Siohan's Stravinsky, proofs of illustrations for his published scenario of The Little Chimney Sweep, and proofs of Parnassus to Let, Stravinsky's Sacrifice to Apollo, and Walking Shadows represent those works. Among manuscripts of White's short stories are the published “The Honest Lovers,” “Marie and the Journeyman,” “Mourning Sunshine,” “No Accident,” “Off the Road,” “Opatrnostr!,” “Wander Birds,” and “The Warm Brother.” White's numerous poems and his poetry collections Beginnings, The Room and Other Poems, A Tarot Deal, and the unpublished Poems: After The Room, are present, as are reviews, lectures, essays, liner notes, program notes, and reference entries, including his contributions to The Annual Register. An index of works by White and others provided at the end of this finding aid identifies all locations of a particular work, including the drafts in White's notebooks in Series II.
Files documenting the activities of festivals and organizations with which White was involved, such as the Arvon Foundation, Cambridge Poetry Festival, Consort of Musicke, David Jones Sociey, Ilkey Literature Festival, Little Missenden Festival, and the Society for Theatre Research, contain correspondence, agendas, meeting minutes, reports, and similar material. These are found in White's Personal and Career-Related Material in Series II. Other items located in the series include diaries, notebooks, scrapbooks, photographs, travel files, and files on Ted Hughes, Ninette De Valois, Bettina and Martin Hurlimann, among others. White's notebooks cover the years 1938 to 1980 and contain research notes, journal entries, and drafts of works and correspondence; the drafts and letters are accessible through the index of works and index of corresponents at the end of this finding aid.
Series III is made up of White's correspondence files. Major correspondents in White's papers include Benjamin Britten, H. D., Ted Hughes, Bettina Hurliamann, Lotte Reiniger, Adrian Stokes, Michael Tippett, Denis White, and Dodo White. In addition, there are one or more letters from W. H. Auden, Samuel Beckett, Patricia Beer, Edmund Blunden, Ronald Bottrall, James Bridie, Bryher, Basil Bunting, Charles Causley, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster, Christopher Fry, Roy Fuller, Eric Gill, Robert Graves, Thom Gunn, Hilda Doolittle, Seamus Heaney, Barbara Hepworth, David Jones, James Kirkup, Philip Larkin, Brian Patten, Peter Pears, John Piper, Sylvia Plath, William Plomer, Peter Porter, Peter Redgrove, Edgell Rickword, Siegfried Sassoon, George Bernard Shaw, Stevie Smith, Stephen Spender, Igor Stravinsky, Dylan Thomas, R. S. Thomas, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Vernon Watkins, Egon Wellesz, Johnathan Williams, Angus Wilson, Virginia Woolf, and many other significant poets, artists, and musicians of the twentieth century. While some correspondence is separated in White's correspondence files in Series III., much is scattered throughout his papers. A complete index of correspondents at the end of this finding aid contains locations for all correspondence in the collection, including drafts of White's outgoing letters found in his notebooks in Series II.
Series IV. Music Manuscripts consists of White's own compositions; original scores by Michael Tippett, John B. Cheshire, Julian Fuchs, Hans Gellhorn, John Guthrie, and Kerreth Quinn-Kinney; facsimiles of scores by Alan Stout; and transcriptions made by White of scores by Benjamin Britten, Igor Stravinsky, and Kurt Weill. The music manuscripts are included in the index of works located at the end of this finding aid.

Series Descriptions

Series I. Works and Subject Files, 1913-1983, undated (30 boxes, 1 oversize box, 3 galley folders)
White's works and subject files are arranged alphabetically. White's books The Arts Council of Great Britain, A History of English Opera, A Register of First Performances of English Operas, The Rise of English Opera, and Poetry Book Society: The First Twenty-Five Years are represented by research notes, handwritten manuscripts, typescripts, proofs, and correspondence. A Register of First Performances of English Operas was published separately by the Society for Theatre Research, but because it was intended to be an appendix in A History of English Opera, drafts of the Register are also found with that work.
White's files on Benjamin Britten include his correspondence with Britten from 1946 to 1972; correspondence with others about Britten and his work; and research material, drafts, and publishing information from White's major work on Britten, Benjamin Britten: A Sketch of His Life and Works (later revised and titled Benjamin Britten: His Life and Operas), as well as his essays, reviews, program notes, and reference entries about Britten. Among the files on Britten are photographs, transcripts of radio broadcasts, clippings, tearsheets, and programs, all dating from 1934 to 1983.
Files on Igor Stravinsky include some correspondence with Stravinsky, correspondence about Stravinsky, and handwritten manuscripts of White's books Stravinsky: A Critical Survey and Stravinsky: The Composer and His Works; only page proofs of Stravinsky's Sacrifice to Apollo and a typescript fragment of White's translation of Robert Siohan's Stravinsky are present. The majority of the files contain material relating to White's numerous lectures, reviews, articles and essays, reference entries, and program notes about Stravinsky and his work.
White's files on Michael Tippett contain significant correspondence and manuscripts by Tippett, along with photographs, programs, clippings, and exhibition catalogs. White's book Tippett and His Operas is represented by correspondence, royalty statements, a bound handwritten manuscript, bound proofs, and photographs used as illustrations; typescripts of several of White's essays about Tippett are also present. Correspondence between Tippett and White dates from 1948 to 1981 and chronicles the composer's career; among noteworthy letters are those documenting Tippett's composition of his opera The Midsummer Marriage. Also present are typescript drafts of librettos, some with handwritten revisions, for The Midsummer Marriage, The Ice Break, The Knot Garden, and The Vision of Saint Augustine. Typescript synopses of The Knot Garden and King Priam are included. White arranged the commission of the cantata Crown of the Year for the centenary of Badminton School, and a program, advertising flyers, review clippings, and a printed text of that work are present. Other Tippett manuscripts in White's files include page proofs of Tippett's book Moving into Aquarius and a script of Tippett's 1972 contribution "Poets in a Barren Age" for the BBC's One Pair of Eyes documentary series. White served on the committee for the "Michael Tippett: A Man of Our Time" exhibition at Covent Garden Gallery in 1977, and his files relating to that exhibition include copies of the exhibition catalog.
An inscribed first page of Tippett's handwritten music manuscript of The Midsummer Marriage and his handwritten music manuscripts of Lullaby for Six Voices, Songs for Achilles, and Songs for Dov are located in Series IV. Music Manuscripts.
Files regarding Lotte Reiniger include her correspondence with White; handcut silhouettes, including moving figures; sketches and watercolors of Pygmalion designs and other subjects; watercolor postcards of Carmen and Papageno; film frames and photographs from many of her silhouette films; a handwritten alphabet book of poems and sketches Reiniger made for White when they travelled to Greece in 1936; printed postcards and greeting cards with Reiniger's illustrations; photographs of Reiniger and her husband Carl Koch; clippings about Reiniger; White's correspondence about setting up a trust for Reiniger; and her memorial service program. In addition, there are correspondence and proofs of White's book about Reiniger's work, Walking Shadows, and proofs of illustrations for his published scenario of The Little Chimney Sweep. A handwritten manuscript and a typescript of Arlequino: A commedia dell'art are filed separatedly in the Works series and are accompanied by a handwritten music manuscript and Reinger's summary and introduction.
A “Cinema” file contains correspondence and manuscripts related to film projects, as well as one typescript page of White's book Parnassus to Let, various articles by White about the cinema, and a typescript memoir by Lotte Reiniger about the development of the film industry in Berlin during the early twentieth century. White was originally chosen to compose the musical score for Bertold Bartosch's anti-war film St. Francis, and his notes and draft scenario are also located in this file.
White's friendship with H. D. began in Berlin in 1931; his files include correspondence with her, her companion Bryer, her daughter, Perdita Schaffner, and her literary agent Norman Holmes Pearson, as well as a typescript, proofs, and other material relating to White's book Images of H. D. Partly a literary biography, Images of H. D. also published an extract of her novel The Mystery for the first time; a photocopy typescript of that work is present.
Other subject files contain materials on Bertolt Brecht, Thomas Chatterton, English Farce Jigs, and Moravian Music, specifically John Antes.
White collected manuscripts of his essays and articles together; dating from 1925 to 1980, they are filed in reverse chronological order and are accompanied by his list providing publication citations. Files of “Reviews and Sketches” include typescripts of White's “reviews, notices, reports, programme notes, etc.” written between 1935 and 1960. Individual titles may be accessed via the Index of Works at the end of this finding aid.
White's poetry files include his privately printed greeting cards, memorials, and tributes from 1929 to 1973, some with illustrations by Lotte Reiniger and Terry Durham. A “Register of Poems” consists of his typescript and handwritten drafts of poems, accompanied by a list of the poems and their publication information. Handwritten manuscripts of White's published collection of poems Beginnings and his unpublished collection Poems: After The Room are present, as are proofs of Beginnings and The Room and Other Poems 1921-1926.
Because White compiled his drafts of short stories into a proposed collection titled “Mourning Sunshine and Other Stories,” all of his short stories are filed under that title in the Works series. In addition, a prospectus of Wander Birds is filed under that title, printed copies of the short story Mourning Sunshine are filed separately, and galley proofs of "The Warm Brother" are housed in galley files.
White also gathered proofs and some drafts of various of his published works into a “Proofs and Drafts” file. Larger galley proofs have been removed and housed with the Center's oversize galley files.
In 1979, White wrote several autobiographical essays as a proposed collection titled "Let Me Tell You a Little Story"; notes and handwritten manuscripts may be found under that title.
An index of works and titles provided at the end of this finding aid identifies all locations of a particular work, including the drafts in White's notebooks.
Series II. Personal and Career-Related Material, 1905-1983, 1987 (18 boxes)
White's personal and career-related materials include his account books, address books, commonplace books, datebooks, diaries, and notebooks; files relating to poets such as Ted Hughes and Ninette De Valois; files on Bettina and Martin Hurlimann; files relating to organizations and festivals with which White was involved; and personal files regarding White's wedding, the receipt of his CBE, his retirement from the Arts Council, his 75th birthday celebration, books White read and commented upon, lists of White's compositions and other works, family papers, a guest book, photographs, programs, scrapbooks of press cuttings, and travel files. Dating from 1905 to 1987, all of these materials are filed alphabetically using White's subject titles when present.
White's diaries date from 1921 to 1934 and encompass his time at Oxford University and in Germany, Switzerland, and the U.S.S.R.. His notebooks include drafts of various works as well as some journal entries and drafts of outgoing correspondence; they date from 1938 to 1980 and are filed chronologically.
Among White's “Poets and Poetry” files are those pertaining to Ted Hughes and especially his Cave Birds (White helped arrange its commission by the Ilkley Literature Festival); correspondence with and manuscripts by various poets, such as Martin Booth, Ronald Bottrall, Oliver Bradbury, Zulfikar Ghose, Anthony Smith, Jack Sweeney, and Shirley Toulson; and an autograph notebook containing poems written for White by friends at Oxford from 1926 to 1927. Perhaps of most significance among the Hughes manuscripts, in addition to the numerous and lengthy letters from Hughes (1961 to 1983), are a file relating to the publication of the Scolar Press limited edition of Cave Birds and its performance at the 1975 Ilkley Festival of Literature, a handwritten manuscript of "Wodwo", handwritten and typescript drafts of "Song for a Phallus", and a handwritten early version of "Conjuring in Heaven". Other Hughes manuscripts include photocopy typescripts of Cave Birds, Moortown, Remains of Elmet, and Seneca's Oedipus and photocopy drafts of various poems. General files of poetry-related correspondence also contain notes for the 1974 Stratford Poetry Festival and in particular White's “Personal Anthology” program, with his transcriptions of poems by other poets and photocopies of handwritten poems from what appears to be another autograph notebook used by White for poets he encountered. White and his family vacationed in Scilly, and typescripts of Michel Velmans' Les Iles de Scilly are present, as are poems by Ninette De Valois.
White met and dated Bettina Kiepenheuer while living in Germany in the 1920s; they remained close until her death in 1983, and numerous letters from both Bettina Kiepenheuer-Hurlimann and her husband, Swiss photographer and publisher Martin Hurlimann, are present throughout the archive as well as in White's specific files on the Hurlimanns. The Hurlimanns founded the publishing firm Atlantis Verlag, and publications by that company are present. Of note besides artwork and printed texts by Bettina Hurlimann are a typescript of her "Aladin: In Memory of Berthold Bartosch" and a bound handwritten manuscript of Hermes vom Penthelikon. White wrote the introduction to Martin Hurlimann's book of photographs London, and correspondence about that work is present.
White was involved with numerous festivals and organizations, and files relating to the Arvon Foundation, Cambridge Poetry Festival (including its founding), Consort of Musicke, David Jones Sociey, Ilkey Literature Festival, Little Missenden Festival, and The Society for Theatre Research include correspondence, reports, agendas, meeting minutes, and similar material. White worked with Vivian Ridler to establish the Perpetua Prize, and correspondence between the two men documents that award. White was instrumental in founding and served on the National Manuscript Collection of Contemporary Writers Committee; papers relating to that committee from 1975 to 1978 are filed under the heading of “Manuscripts.” White's interest in preserving the manuscripts of British poets and writers within England is also reflected in his correspondence with and about Ted Hughes, whose Cave Birds manuscripts White arranged for the Arts Council to purchase and then sell to the University of Exeter.
Doodles made by fellow attendees during committee and other organizational meetings were gathered by White in the hope of publishing them. Of special note are doodles by Laurie Lee and John Hayward.
Scrapbooks dating from 1927 to 1973 contain reviews and other clippings relating to White's own writings and musical performances, as well as those of Benjamin Britten and Michael Tippett.
Series III. Correspondence, 1923-1985, undated (5 boxes)
White's correspondence files include general correspondence, bound correspondence (some with explanatory notes by White), family and personal correspondence, correspondence regarding general literary matters, miscellaneous correspondence (both sorted and unsorted), and correspondence with publishers and editors, all dating from 1923 to 1985.
Significant correspondents in these files include Patricia Beer, John Betjeman, Steve Harris Brown, Roy Fuller, Seamus Heaney, David Jones, Andrew Kennedy, James Kirkup, Philip Larkin, Walter Lubar, John Moat, Brian Patten, Sylvia Plath, William Plomer, Stevie Smith, Stephen Spender, Adrian Stokes, Geoffrey Tillotson, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Vernon Watkins, Denis Naldrett White, Dodo (Dorothy) White, and Jonathan Williams, among many other notable literary and music figures.
An index of correspondents at the end of this finding aid contains locations for all correspondence in the collection.
Series IV. Music Manuscripts, 1920-1974, undated (6 oversize boxes)
The final series in the archive is comprised of music manuscripts by Eric Walter White, as well as musical works by Benjamin Britten, John B. Cheshire, Julian Fuchs, Hans Gellhorn, John Guthrie, Kerreth Quinn-Kinney, Alan Stout, Igor Stravinsky, Michael Tippett, and Kurt Weill; while some of these are original works in the hand of the composer, many are transcriptions made by White. Notable original manuscripts by other composers include Tippett's Lullaby, Songs for Achilles, Songs for Dov, and the title page and first page of his The Midsummer Marriage; John B. Cheshire's To My Heart; a full score of Julian Fuchs' 2 Baritone Songs; Hans Gellhorn's music for Lotte Reiniger's film Puss in Boots; and John Guthrie's compositions from the song cycles The Mandrake Heart and Poema de la Saeta. White's manuscripts of his own musical works include his scores for Rieniger's Arlequino, her film Harlekin, and her ballet Pygmalion; scores for puppet shows written with Barry Thatcher; The Charm: A Comic Opera; Eva Dear and Willie; The Japanese Lover; A Kiss, I Begg'd; The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife; Sahara; Le Serment; Three Songs from Cyprus; Toy Suite; and many others. White encountered Gioachino Rossini's last composition, Une Réjouissance, in a library in Rome and edited the piano score for publication by Faber in 1966; while White's original transcription is in his 1966A notebook, two copies of his score are housed with music manuscripts.
White's scrapbooks, located in Series II. Personal and Career-Related Material, provide reviews, programs, and more detailed information about his musical compositions.

Related Material


The following Ransom Center collections also contain Eric Walter White-related materials:
  • Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
  • Blakeston, Oswell
  • Scorpion Press
  • Shaw, George Bernard
  • Sitwell, Edith, Dame
Other institutions with Eric Walter White materials include:
  • McMaster University, William Ready Division of Archives and Research Collections. White fonds.
  • University of Calgary Library, Special Collections. Eric White fonds.
  • University of New Hampshire Library, Milne Special Collections. Sceptre Press Papers.
  • University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections and University Archives. Additional Papers of John Rolph and the Scorpion Press.
  • Washington University in St. Louis Libraries, Department of Special Collections, Olin Library. Erica Marx Papers.
  • Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Bryher Papers and H. D. Papers.

Separated Material


279 books which arrived with the White Papers were removed from the archive and cataloged separately with the Ransom Center's Library.
Two cassettes and two reel-to-reel tapes that arrived with the White Papers were transferred to the Ransom Center's Sound Recordings Collection.
Two embroidered bookmarks were removed from the White Papers and housed in the Center's Personal Effects Collection.

Index Terms


People

Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976.
H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), 1886-1961.
Hughes, Ted, 1930-1998.
Hürlimann, Bettina, 1909-1983.
Hürlimann-Kiepenheuer, Martin.
Reiniger, Lotte.
Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971.
Tippett, Michael, 1905-1998.

Organizations

Arts Council of Great Britain.
Poetry Book Society.

Subjects

Animated films.
Art and state.
Art Festivals.
Arts administrators.
Arts--Finance.
Arts--Management.
Authors, English--20th century.
English poetry--20th century.
Musicologists.
Musicology.
Opera--Biography.
Operas--Anaylysis, appreciation.
Operas--20th century.
Operas--Performances--England.
Poets, English.
Silhouettes.

Document Types

Address books.
Black-and-white photographs.
Commonplace books.
Correspondence.
Diaries.
Doodles.
Drawings.
Galley proofs.
Greeting cards.
Librettos.
Newspaper clippings.
Page proofs.
Photographs.
Postcards.
Programs.
Scores.
Scrapbooks.
Sheet music.
Silhouettes.

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