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Singers

 Subject

Staff Only
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = Tovey

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Autograph letter from Herbert Stanley Oakeley to Thérèse Tietjens, 21 March 1868

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1848/25-0058
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...
Dates: 21 March 1868
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Smaller acquisitions collection

Letter to Edward Speyer from Sir Donald Francis Tovey, c1911

 Item
Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L182
Scope and Contents

Letter, [1911], Surrey, Donald Tovey to Edward Speyer. Description and evaluation of unnamed singer. Holograph signed, L177 - L185 sewn together.

Dates: c1911
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Tovey Collection / Papers of Donald Francis Tovey / Correspondence

List of names, probably informants, c1893

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW126g/39
Scope and Contents

List of names, probably informants comprising Duncan MacLellan, Neill MacNeil 'mac Iain bhain', Isobel Chisholm and 'Barbal Drimsdale'.

Dates: c1893
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael