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Sender: Adam, Patrick William
Recipient: Thompson, Herbert
Letters: 1
Date(s): 23 Oct 1919
Location: SC MS 361/6
Note: About a proposed painting.
Sender: Airy, Anna
Recipient: Thompson, Herbert
Letters: 1
Date(s): 14 Jun 1934
Location: SC MS 361/1
Note: About a portrait in pastel; her new studio at Playford.
Sender: Albani, Marie Louise Cecile Emma, Dame (formerly Lajeunesse)
Recipient: Thompson, Herbert
Letters: 1
Date(s): 29 Sep 1901
Location: SC MS 361/366
Note: Encloses the words of a song from Spontini's "Vestale" for a
programme note. Addresses "Dear Sir".
Sender: Allen, Sir Hugh Percy
Recipient: Thompson, Herbert
Letters: 1
Date(s): 13 Nov 1936
Location: SC MS 361/2
Note: Requests Thompson to give a talk on 50 years of art and music at
the annual conference of the Incorporated Society of Musicians
at Harrogate. 2 ff.
Sender: d'Aranyi, Jelly
Recipient: Thompson, Herbert
Letters: 1
Date(s): 4 Nov [1925]
Location: SC MS 361/375
Note: A proposed programme for a private concert. 3 ff. Dated from
Thompson's diary.
Sender: Armes, Philip
Recipient: Thompson, Herbert
Letters: 1
Date(s): 15 Apr 1891
Location: SC MS 361/367
Note: Delay in printing score of his cantata "St Barnabas"; sends
parts of it. Addressed "Dear Sir".
Sender: Atkins, Sir Ivor Algernon
Recipient: Thompson, Herbert
Letters: 3
Date(s): 19 Aug 1897 - 5 Jul 1941
Location: SC MS 361/3-5
Note: 1) Thanks for a letter of congratulation; reference to Emma
Albani, soprani; Three Choirs Festival at Hereford. 2) Thanks
for letter of congratulation upon his knighthood; balance sheets
of the Three Choirs Festival. 2 ff. 3) Thanks for the gift of
the "Mozart Verzeichnis" (i.e. Ludwig Kochel, "Chronologisch-thematisches Verzeichnis samtliche Tonwerk Mozarts) to Worcester Cathedral Music Library.
Sender: Bacon, Sir Hickman Beckett
Recipient: Thompson, Herbert
Letters: 1
Date(s): 24 Nov 1939
Location: SC MS 361/7
Note: On Lincoln Art Gallery and pictures there from Leeds.
Sender: Bairstow, Sir Edward Cuthbert
Recipient: Thompson, Herbert
Letters: 1
Date(s): 25 Aug 1944; 30 Sep [n.y.]
Location: SC MS 361/8-9
Note: 1) Acknowledges Thompson's earlier influence on his career;
York Minster Choir. In original envelope. 2) Thanks for
scores of "Don Giovanni" and "Mass in D" (= ? Beethoven, "Missa solemnis"). Initialled "E C B.".
Sender: Bantock, Granville
Recipient: Thompson, Herbert
Letters: 6
Date(s): 5 Jun 1902 - 12 Mar 1927
Location: SC MS 361/11-14, 341, 368
Note: 1) Promises to send particulars and score of a composition;
Richard Strauss concert in London. 2) Thanks for criticism of
his "Omar Khayyam" and his "Gloucester work" (= ? "Christ in the
wilderness"). 3) Acknowledges a sketch; remarks on the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. 4) Explanation of his seranade for strings "From the far west". Signed under the pseudonym "George Washington". 5) About his "Dante and Beatrice", referred to by
him as "David and Bathsheba" (sic). Signed under the pseudonym
"Abominablech, the Hittite". 6) Thanks for criticism of his
"Song of songs".
Sender: Barry, Charles Ainslie
Recipient: Thompson, Herbert
Letters: 1
Date(s): 18 Sep 1898
Location: SC MS 361/15
Note: On writing programme notes; Richard Wagner's "Huldingungsmarsch"; spelling of the word "Leitmotif".