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Letter to Clara Wallace from Sir Donald Francis Tovey, c1890

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Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L216
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Letter, [n.d], [London], Donald Tovey to Clara Wallace. Apologising for not visiting and accepting an invitation. Holograph signed.

Dates: c1890
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to Dr Mary Gardner Grierson from E. d' Arba, 06 July 1952

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Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L2008
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Letter, 6 July 1952, London, E. d' Arba to Mary Grierson. Praising Grierson's biography on Tovey and attempting to arrange a meeting. Holograph signed, with stamped envelope.

Dates: 06 July 1952
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to Dr Mary Gardner Grierson from Fanny Davies, 22 April 1931

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Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L2116
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Letter, 22 April 1931, London, Fanny Davies to Mary Grierson. News of Davies cats illness, memories of Bohemia and greetings. Holograph signed, in pencil.

Dates: 22 April 1931
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to Dr Mary Gardner Grierson from Fanny Davies, 30 October 1930

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Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L2120
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Letter, 30 October 1930, London, Fanny Davies to Mary Grierson. Thanking Grierson for her hospitality in Edinburgh, and news of Davies. Holograph signed.

Dates: 30 October 1930
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to Dr Mary Gardner Grierson from Fanny Davies, c1940

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Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L2122
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Letter, [n.d], London, Fanny Davies to Mary Grierson. Details of Davies' travels, attempting to organise a meeting. Holograph signed.

Dates: c1940
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to Dr Mary Gardner Grierson from Hubert James Foss, 12 February 1952

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Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L2157
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Letter, 12 February 1952, London, Hubert Foss to Mary Grierson. Praising Grierson's biography of Tovey. Holograph signed.

Dates: 12 February 1952
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to Dr Mary Gardner Grierson from L. Zwingli, 02 March 1952

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Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L2657
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Letter, 2 March 1952, London, L. Zwingli to Mary Grierson. Congratulating Grierson on her biography of Tovey and enclosing some articles on Tovey. Holograph signed, with stamped envelope.

Dates: 02 March 1952
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to Dr Mary Gardner Grierson from Roger Oliver, 04 March 1952

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Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L2335
Scope and Contents

Letter, 4 March 1952, London, Roger Oliver to Mary Grierson. Praising Grierson's biography of Tovey and Tovey himself. Holograph signed.

Dates: 04 March 1952
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to Dr Mary Gardner Grierson from Sir Arthur Somervall, 05 January 1933

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Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L2470
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Letter, 5 January 1933, London, Arthur Somervall to Mary Grierson. Describing Somervall's symphony, the slow movement of which was written in memory of Scott the explorer, and asking how Tovey was. Holograph signed.

Dates: 05 January 1933
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to Dr Mary Gardner Grierson from Sophie Weisse, 15 June 1932

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Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L2584
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Letter, 15 June 1932, London, Sophie Weisse to Mary Grierson. Asking Grierson how Tovey is and expressing concern about his health. Holograph signed.

Dates: 15 June 1932
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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Names
Tovey, Sir Donald Francis, 1875-1940 (Reid Professor of Music, University of Edinburgh) 115
Weisse, Sophie, 1852-1945 (Scottish music teacher) 49
Parry, Charles Hubert Hastings, 1st Baronet, Sir (composer and historian of music) 18
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Arányi, Jelly d', 1893-1966 (violinist) 5
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Davies, Fanny, 1861-1934 (pianist) 5
Foss, Hubert James (music publisher and composer) 5
Strecker, Wilhelm, b. 1877 5
Trevelyan, Robert Calverley, 1872-1951 5
Allen, Hugh Percy, 1869?1946 (university professor and conductor) 4
Fachiri, Adila Adrienne Adalbertina Maria, 1886-1962 (violinist) 4
Henschel, George, 1850-1934 (English composer and baritone of German birth) 3
Ricketts, Charles, 1866?1931 (artist and art collector) 3
Schweitzer, Albert 1875-1965, 1875-1965 (medical missionary) 3
Barger, Florence Emily (Florence Emily) 2
Borwick, Leonard, 1868-1925 (pianist) 2
Casals, Pablo, 1876-1973 (cellist) 2
Corbett-Smith, A (A) 2
Fachiri, Alexander P, d.1939 (American lawyer, husband of Adila Adrienne Adalbertina Maria Fachiri) 2
Godley, Hugh (Hugh) 2
Halle, Lady Wilma Maria Francisca 1839-1911, 1838-1911 2
Hess, Myra, 1890?1965 (pianist) 2
Joachim, Ellen, fl 1900s 2
Joachim, Joseph, 1831-1907 (violinist) 2
Liddell, Cecil, barrister, brother of Guy Liddell also of MI5 2
Middleton, A (A) 2
Parratt, Walter, 1841?1924 (organist) 2
Ritchie, Emily (Emily) 2
Spring-Rice, Thomas, 2nd Baron Monteagle of Brandon 2
Such, Percy, 1878-1959 2
Aschberg, Aped and Crew Ltd. 1
Balfour, Arthur James, 1st Earl of Balfour, 1848-1930 (politician and statesman) 1
Beecham, Sir Thomas, 1879?1961 (conductor) 1
Best, Edward, fl1861-1884 1
Bottomley, Gordon, 1874?1948 (poet and playwright) 1
Boult, Adrian Cedric, 1889?1983 (conductor) 1
Busch, Adolf, 1891-1952 (violinist and composer) 1
Christie, John 1882-1962, 1882-1962 (founder of Glyndebourne Opera) 1
Cobbett, Walter Wilson, 1847-1937 (amateur violinist, patron, and lexicographer) 1
Coffin, C, 1862-1935 (English actor and singer) 1
Craig, Gordon, Edward Henry Gordon |1872-1966 (English stage designer) 1
Craxton, Harold, 1885?1971 (pianist and teacher) 1
Dale, BJ, 1885-1943 (English composer and administrator) 1
Davidson, Randall, 1848-1930 (archbishop of Canterbury) 1
Davis, Walford, 1869-1941 1
Denecke, Margo (Margo) 1
Elgar, Edward, 1857?1934 (composer and conductor) 1
Ewart nee Muir, Edith Fairlie, 1878-1953 (third wife of James Cossar Ewart) 1
Fleury, Louis, 1878-1926 (French flautist and musical scholar) 1
Foulds, Maud, 1880-1939 (violinist, wife of John Herbert Foulds) 1
Freshfield, Auguste (Auguste) 1
Geikie, Archibald, Sir, 28 December 1835 – 10 November 1924 (Professor of Geology, University of Edinburgh) 1
Hal ([Goodheart]) 1
Haydn Brown, fl 1900 1
Herberts, WP, fl 1931 1
Hillckson, S (S) 1
Hindemith, Paul, 1895-1963 (composer and theorist) 1
Hipkins, Alfred James, Alfred James |1826?1903 (writer on musical instruments) 1
Holst, Gustav, 1874?1934 (composer and teacher of music) 1
Hudson, Edward, 1854?1936 (magazine printer and publisher) 1
Isaacs, Edward, 1881-1953 (English pianist, lecturer and concert director; author; composer) 1
Kelly, FS, 1881-1916 (composer and pianist) 1
Kelly, Mary, fl 1920 1
Korngold, Julius, 1860-1945 (music critic.) 1
Kruse, Johann Secundus, Johann Secundus |1859-1927 (violinist) 1
Liddell, Guy, 1892?1958 (intelligence officer) 1
Listless | Frank (Frank) 1
Mackinnon, Helen (Helen) 1
Marsh, Eddie (Eddie) 1
McCormick, Lady, d. in or after 1930 1
McCormick, Sir William Symington, 1859?1930 ( trustee of the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust, and chairman of its music committee.) 1
Murray, Lord, 1866-1936 1
Oliver, Roger (Roger) 1
Orloff, Nicholas (Nicholas) 1
Pollock, Sir Frederick, 1845?1937 (jurist) 1
Reeves, Jonathon ( Royal Academy of Music and Royal College of Music) 1
Samuel, Harold, 1879?1937 (pianist) 1
Sanger, Dora, fl 1920 1
Sayers, Dorothy L, 1893?1957 (writer and scholar) 1
Schweitzer, Helene (wife of Albert Schweitzer) 1
Scott, HA, Cobbet's Cyclopeadia of Chamber Music 1
Scott, RF, 1868?1912 (naval officer and Antarctic explorer) 1
Shannon, Charles Haslewood, 1863?1937 (lithographer and painter) 1
Somervell, Arthur, 1863-1937 (English composer and educationist) 1
Speyer, Edward 1839-1934, 1839-1934 (music collector and entrepreneur) 1
Stonely, Susanne (Susanne) 1
Strauss, Richard, 1864-1949 (composer and conductor) 1
Suggia, Guilhermina, 1888-1950 (Portuguese cellist) 1
Tertis, Lionel, 1876-1975 (English viola player) 1
Tovey, Duncan, -1912 (Eton master and father of Sir Donald Francis Tovey) 1
Trevelyan, Elizabeth (wife of Robert Trevelyan) 1
University of Oxford, Balliol College. Balliol College (1263-:) 1
Wallace, Clara (wife of Sir Donald Francis Tovey) 1
Wallace, Elizabeth (Elizabeth) 1
Warre Cornish, BN (BN) 1
Warre Cornish, F (F) 1
Weingartner, Felix, Edler von Münzberg 1863-1942 (Austrian conductor) 1
Wittgenstein, Paul, 1887-1961 (pianist) 1
Zwingli, L (L) 1
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