Smyth, Ethel, 1858-1944 Ethel Smyth collection Note: Most of the following letters have been used in some way or another in Dame Ethel Smyth’s volumes of autobiography and memoirs: Letters to Ethel Smyth from: Emma Calve 2 pp., [n.d.] (in French), ALS. Pablo Cassals 1 p., 27 December 1905 (in French), ALS. Frederick Delius 8 pp., 15 March 1909, with transcript, ALS. Jelka Delius. 5 July 1935, APcS. Albert Einstein 1 p., 8 June 1931 (in German), TLS. Edmund Gosse 4 pp., 21 July 1902, ALS. Elizabeth von  Herzogenberg 4 pp., 23 August 1878, ALS.; 4 pp., 11 January 1884; 4 pp., [n.d.], ALS. Gustav Holst 1 p., 4 September 1921, ALS. William James 4 pp., 19 July [1877?], ALS. Joseph Joachim 1 p., [n.d.] possibly 1887, ALS.; 2 pp., [n.d.] possibly 1892, 2 pp. [n.d.], ALS. Clara Schumann 1 card, 24 July 1883, APcS. (in German) (with envelope) Tchaikowsky 4 pp., 11 April 1889 (in French), ALS. Milka Ternina 2 pp., [n.d.] (in German), ALS. Cosima Wagner 3 pp., 2 February 1902 (in German), ALS.;4 pp., 9 February 1902 (in German), ALS Letters from Ethel Smyth to: Kenneth Wright 4 pp., 19 Nov. 1929, ALS. Includes 3-page list of musical works proposed for use at a chamber music concert. Other letters: Clara Schumann to Elizabeth von Herzogenberg 2 pp., c. Sept. 1883, ALS (in German), fragment of longer letter not held by archives.
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