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‘Burns as a Scots Folksong Collector’, 10 December 1910-20 January 1911
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‘Burns as a Scots Folksong Collector’.
Burns lecture by Marjory Kennedy-Fraser, [20 January 1911], filed together with ‘Scottish National Song Society [...] Lecture by Mrs Kennedy-Fraser on Burns as a Scots Folk-Song Collector’, Edinburgh, 20 January 1911, leaflet, multiple copies, lecture text often on reverses of discarded letters etc., including stencilled letter from James Kyd, Edinburgh District Board of Lunacy, Edinburgh, 9 December 1910, ‘To the Town Clerk,...
Dates:
10 December 1910-20 January 1911
Four bundles of Marjory Kennedy-Fraser arrs. [arrangements] of songs, Part 1, 2, 3, & 4, c 1900-1946
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Four bundles of Marjory Kennedy-Fraser arrs. [arrangements] of songs, Part 1, 2, 3, & 4. Sheets prepared for engraving by Marjory Kennedy-Fraser, music and text sheets generally held together song by song, in no particular order, manuscripts, including songs from the different Songs of the Hebrides, vols., some Scots songs, some arrangements for voice and harp (piano), marked as arranged by Patuffa Kennedy-Fraser, but mainly in Marjory...
Dates:
c 1900-1946
Letters from various Kennedy siblings, 2 March 1879-16 May 1880
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Letters from various Kennedy siblings, Italy, 1879-80, D.19228.
Four bundles of letters addressed to Kennedy family members, mostly in English, some in Italian, 127 letters, in ink, manuscripts: ‘Miscellaneous’, letters from Marjory, James, Robert, and Helen Kennedy, and from Pauline Vaneri Filippi, from 3 March 1879, Milan, until 16 May 1880, Milan, also some undated letters of same...
Dates:
2 March 1879-16 May 1880
‘Loose Leaf M.S.S. [manuscripts] of “Book”’, c 1929
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‘Loose Leaf M.S.S. [manuscripts] of “Book”’. Several loose draft sheets of Marjory Kennedy-Fraser’s autobiography, A Life of Song, incomplete, several smaller pieces of paper attached to the larger sheets, 26 x 20.5cm, 80 pages, manuscript & typescript.
Dates:
c 1929
Marjory Kennedy-Fraser Lectures, Part 1, 2, 3, & 4, 12 August 1895-5 November 1918
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Marjory Kennedy-Fraser Lectures, Part 1, 2, 3, & 4.
‘Schubert Lecture’, 21 November 1903, modified and re-read two years later [1905], also various notes, and Schumann lecture, [23 January 1904], manuscripts. ‘When asked by your secretary to read a paper before you [...]’, lecture, undated, manuscript.
‘On listening to music’, lecture, [Edinburgh] Summer Meeting,...
Dates:
12 August 1895-5 November 1918
Music note book, late 19th-early 20th century
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Music note book. Hardbound, red, paginated, 31 x 25 x 4 cm, 380 pages, manuscript, with handwritten tunes and words, mainly by Marjory-Kennedy Fraser, some by Kenneth Macleod.
Dates:
late 19th-early 20th century
Notes and programmes, c 1903-1917
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Notes and programmes.
‘Songs I propose singing at St. Andrews’, five groups of songs, Monday to Friday, listed, undated, manuscript. ‘The chief purpose of our meeting tonight [...]’, notes for [WFL] [Women's Freedom League] suffrage meeting, [16 February 1909], manuscript.
‘The Meeting’, notes, [after November 1917], manuscript.
‘Greenock...
Dates:
c 1903-1917
Piano arrangements by Marjory Kennedy-Fraser, c 1890-1930
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Piano arrangements by Marjory Kennedy-Fraser.
‘Two Jacobite Airs: I. Jacobite Boat Song, II. Jacobite March, for the piano by Marjory KennedyFraser’.
‘Scotish [sic] Airs, Arranged as Pianoforte Duets by Marjory Kennedy’, with different, later attached title page (on reverse of ‘Mrs Kennedy-Fraser, Teacher of Voice Production and Singing’, undated, leaflet) – ‘Scots...
Dates:
c 1890-1930
Proofs of A Life of Song by Marjory Kennedy-Fraser, c 1929
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Proofs of A Life of Song by Marjory Kennedy-Fraser. Proofs.
Dates:
c 1929
‘Sir Granville Bantock’, 26 April 1912-25 July 1924
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‘Sir Granville Bantock’, D.19228.
Letters addressed to Marjory Kennedy-Fraser, 96 letters, in ink, manuscripts: from Granville Bantock to Marjory Kennedy-Fraser, from 26 April 1912, Birmingham, until 11 June 1924, Birmingham, 92 letters, numbered 1 to 92, two with enclosures, from Helen F. Bantock, from 18 April 1917, Birmingham, until 21 June 1917, Birmingham, two letters, numbered...
Dates:
26 April 1912-25 July 1924