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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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