Finding Aid
Boyd Neel fonds. 1929-1981. - 97 cm of textual records and graphic material.
Box 1
F.1-20 Boyd Neel Orchestra programmes. 1933-1963
Box 2
F.1-10 Programmes and other publications featuring Neel as the conductor. 1932-1980
F.11-13 Hart House Orchestra programmes.1955-1971
F.14 Crescendo (magazine, issued by Robert Mayer, for young concert-goers), 14 issues. 1946-1951.
Box 3
F.1 Correspondence A-B:
The Arts Inquiry (C.C. Martin). 1 letter with enclosure. 1943
Asquith, Anthony. 1 letter to Neel' s father, Louis Anthoine Neel, 1934
Atterberg, Kurt. 1 letter. 1952
Austrian Relief Committee (Jacob Epstein et al.). Mimeographed letter. 1945
Bartlet, Ethel. 1 letter. n.d.
Bax, Arnold. 4 letters. 1943 [3 letters undated]
Beecham, Thomas, Sir. 1 letter plus copy of citation conferring honorary degree on Beecham (1956). 1948
Benjamin, Arthur. 1 letter. 1948
Berkeley, Lennox, Sir. 1 post card. 1940
Blake, Carice Elgar. 1 letter and 2 post cards. 1937-1941
Bliss, Arthur. 3 letters. 1952
Bloch, Ernest. Photograph with inscription on verso. 1934
Boughton, Joy. 1 letter. 1937
Boughton, Rutland. 7 letters. 1937-1952
Boult, Adrian. 1 letter and 1 post card. 1953-1980
British Broadcasting Corporation (George Barnes; T.W. Chalmers). 2 letters. 1948
Britten, Benjamin. 3 letters and 1 post card. 1938-1964. See also F.5 in this box
Britten Estate (Donald Mitchell; Jill Burrows). 2 letters and 1 reply. 1980-1981
F. 2 Correspondence C-F:
[Churchill, Winston, Sir] (D.B. Pitblado). 1 letter and 1 reply. 1952
Cranston, Harold. Photograph of Cranston and Neel. N.d.
Cudsworth, Charles. 1 letter. 1948
Daish, J.R. 1 letter. 1980
Davies, Robertson. 1 letter. 1978
Dent, Edward. 3 letters. 1944-1948
D' Oyly Carte Opera Company (R. D' Oyly Carte). 1 letter. 1948
Einstein, Alfred. 1 letter. 1935
Elkin & Co. Ltd. (William Elkin). 1 letter. 1952
Enesco, Georges. 1 letter. 1953
Finzi, Gerald. 1 letter and 1 post card. 1946
Folwell, Margaret. 1 letter. March 28
F.3 Correspondence G-J:
Gilmour, Clyde. 1 letter. 1980
Godfrey, Dan. 1 letter. N.d.
Goosens, Eugene. 1 letter. 1947
Grainger, Percy. 2 letters. 1952-1953
Hess, Myra. 2 letters. 1942-1947
Hijman, Julius. 1 letter. 1936
Holst, Imogen. 1 letter. 1974
Howells, Herbert. 1 letter. 1939
Ireland, John. 5 letters. 1939-1949
Jacob, Gordon. 2 letters. 1942-1953
Jefferson, Margaret. 1 letter. 1980
F. 4 Correspondence L-N:
Larsson, Lars-Erik. 1 letter. 1935
The Lord Chamberlain. Invitation. 1951
McCallum, Roy. 1 letter. 1950
MacDonagh, Terence. 1 letter. 1946
Mackenzie, Compton. 1 letter. 1940
Mclean, Eric. 1 telegram. 1951
Malipiero, Gian Francesco. 4 letters. 1951-1954
Mayer, Robert. 1 letter. 1949
Neel, Ruby. Transcripts of letters written by Boyd Neel to his mother during his trip to Australia, 4 pp. 1947
Boyd Neel Orchestra Limited. Signed statement with enclosure from members of the orchestra wishing Neel best wishes on the orchestra's tenth anniversary. 1943.
Newman, Ernest. 1 letter. 1929
F.5 Correspondence O-P:
Olivier, Laurence. 1 letter. 1948
Paloheimo [?; daughter of Sibelius], Eva. 1 letter. April17
Pears, Peter, Sir. 3 letters, 1 letter from his secretary (Peggy Henley), and an enclosure (copy of a letter from Pears to Benjamin Britten). 1979
F. 6 Correspondence R-S:
Read, Ernest. 1 letter. 1952
Rodrigo, Joaquin. 1 letter. 1936
Royal Conservatory of Music (Edward Johnson). 1 letter and 1 telegram. 1953
The Royal Philharmonic Society (Keith Douglas). 1 letter. 1946
Rubbra, Edmund. 1 letter. 1950
Sackville West, Edward. 2 letters. 1946-1948
Sargent, Malcolm. 1 letter. 1959
Scott, Marian M. 1 letter. 1934
Shawe-Taylor, Desmond. 1 letter. 1946
Smyth, D.H. 1 letter and an enclosure (photocopy of page from British Medical Journal). 1975
F.7 Correspondence U-W:
University of Toronto (James M. Ham; N.S.C. Dickinson). 2 letters. 1970-1979
Vaughan Williams, Ralph. 8 letters and 1 post card. 1940-1951 (most n.d.).
Walton, W. 2 post cards. 1943
Wagner, Winifred. 1 letter. 1977
Wyss, Sophie. 1 letter. N.d.
Whitehead, Nora. 1 letter. 1979.
F. 8 Two untitled tss. (4 pp., 5 pp.) re Neel's trip to Australia and New Zealand. [1947]
F.9 The Story of an Orchestra. Page proofs. London: Vox Mundi Limited, 1950.
F.10 Published articles or publications listings Neel as lecturer. (Crowestone Social and Literary Society Syllabus, 1948-49; The Lecture Agency 1948-49; Radiostudy: A History of Opera, a Course Outline, CJRT-Stereo-FM-91.1, [197?]; 1975 Hagey lectures; The Royal Academy of Music Magazine no. 214 (summer 1977) with article "Profile No 14: Frederick Grinke"
F.11 News clippings from Daily Mirror, featuring Neel in Ruggles cartoon. March 16-17, 1951; Scrapbooks: brown cloth, 1932-1936; green cloth, 1933-1938.
Unboxed: Scrapbooks: blue cloth, quarter-bound in green cloth, 1937-1946; purple paper over cloth, 1946-1948
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