Correspondence

Scope and Contents Autograph letter from Herbert Stanley Oakeley, Reid Professor of Music at the University of Edinburgh from 1865 to 1891, to the soprano Thérèse Tietjens. He writes to thank Tietjens for her "photogram", is looking forward to a performance of Fidelio that evening for which he has procured tickets for some of his students: he admires her performance greatly and writes "I wish you could see your own expression of defiance, fury & triumph, when you are following Pizarro with...

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Autograph Letter Signed from Herbert S. Oakeley, Professor of Music at Edinburgh University to Sir Lovelace Stamer, attacking the degraded standard of English hymn tunes. Bristol, 10 June 1875.

Scope and Contents This is an autograph letter in the third person sent by Sir Herbert Stanley Oakeley, Reid Professor of Music at the University of Edinburgh, to George Augustus Selwyn, first Bishop of New Zealand and from 1867 Bishop of Lichfield. 35 Montpellier Villas, Cheltenham, 21 October 1877.In the letter, "in reply to his Lordship's letter just received", Oakeley "begs to say it is not in his power to give the permission for reprintting No. 37 from hymns A[ncient] & M[odern]", a tune...