Howells, Herbert Norman Papers in the Royal College of Music Library Box A HANDLIST TO BOXES A I Letters from HH to members of his family with some letters from family members to him. Dorothy (wife): 3 files 1. Letters from the period 1911-1917, including several from HH s holiday in Switzerland with Arthur Benjamin (1913) and a few later examples 2. Letters written from South Africa in 1921 3. Letters and postcards (some addressed to Ursula) written from Canada in 1923 Ursula (daughter) & Michael (son): 1 letter each Richard (brother): 1 letter Mother: Letters from South Africa, and other letters HH s earliest autograph document - a picture postcard of Clifton Suspension Bridge, postmarked 1899 Correspondence with Diana Awdry (later Mrs Oldridge): Letters from both parties 1 letter from Dorothy Howells Letters from Ursula Howells to her parents Letters from other identifiable family members Box B Notes, drafts and typescripts for talks, many for the BBC. Including: Music and the Ordinary Listener: The modern problem Prospectus with ms drafts and typescripts for a series of 6 talks - 1937 Music and Everyday Life Typescripts for 2 series with this title - 1938 Beethoven Archduke Trio - ms & ts, 1943 Beethoven s Pastoral Symphony - ms, 1937
The challenge to goodwill - ms & ts, 1935 Choral singing in England - ts, 1938 Clavichord pieces - ms, nd Elgar and the orchestra - ms & ts, 1944 English keyboard music - ts, 1962 Fifty years ago: Vaughan Williams A Sea Symphony, ts, c.1960 Four Anthems - ts, 1943 The Gloucester Festival of 1910 - ms draft, nd The Hymn of Jesus - ts, 1939 Hymnus Paradisi - ms & ts, 1968 Interval talk - ts, 1944 Introductory talk to Queen s Hall concert - ts, 1937 Introductory talk to symphony concert - ts, 1936 Job [by RVW] - ms, nd Listening to the orchestra - ms & ts, 1942 Mackenzie - Parry - Stanford - ms, nd Mozart s Violin Concerto in D - ms, nd Music in worship - transcript, 1960 The musician s paintbox - ms, nd The overture to Don Giovanni - ms, nd Picture Music: Elgar s Enigma Variations - ms, nd Ralph Vaughan Williams - ms, 1956 Solo and accompaniment - ms, nd The Three Choirs Festival - ts, nd The Three Choirs Festival in Elgar s time - ms & ts, 1960
Tribute to Malcolm Sargent - ts, 1965 Tribute to Sir William Harris - ts, 1973 William Walton - ms, nd Handwritten music examples for a talk on Vaughan Williams 4 notebooks containing pencil drafts for talks Box C Ms notes for talks and RCM or London University lectures (1940s & 50s) Including: The Adventure of listening to music (nd) Chaucer s depiction of character (nd) CVS fifty years after (1974) For the Vaughan Williams Tribute (c.1958) History lecture (1946) Hubert Parry (the Crees Lecture, 1968) Incorporated Society of Musicians Address (1953) Ivor Gurney (c.1939) Ralph Vaughan Williams (1972) Royal College of Organists Address (1959) Sine Nomine (1922) Speech at the Mansion House for the Worshipful Company of Musicians (1957) Speech Day at Lydney Grammar School (1953) Transcripts of talks or broadcasts: Blandford Press Address (1965) Conversation between HH & Arthur Bliss Royal School of Church Music (1978) St Paul s Girls School Concert (1977)
Box D Autograph lists of works (c.1915-1930s) including several in a student notebook Notes for talks and lectures including: Gustav Holst (nd) Hymnus Paradisi (nd) Liverpool Arts Forum (2 drafts, 1952 - one wrongly dated 1951) Northern School of Music (Manchester) (1961) On being British and musical (ISM address, 1952) Some fallacies concerning English music (Gloucester Literary Club, 1956) Some memorable music making in Gloucester (nd) Speech at ISM dinner for Vaughan Williams 80 th birthday (1952) The Three Choirs Festival Exercise book containing 9 literary essays (nd) Exercise book containing poems copied out at the time of the first anniversary of the death of Michael Howells, with originals, and a piece of clover from Michael s grave loosely inserted. Notebooks containing miscellaneous lecture notes etc Box E RCM Director s History Essay Prize essays: Operatic developments in France and Italy... (1913) Music in England during the Commonwealth (nd) Berlioz and Mendelssohn (nd) Schubert and Weber with a side glance at Hummel (1912) A Survey of broadcast performances of orchestral, choral and chamber music made in the first half of 1943. BBC internal report. Typescript with related correspondence including one letter from Lennox Berkeley. Talks: Elgar as I knew him (ts, 1960) Sir William Harris: he being ninety (photocopy of ms, 1973) Vaughan Williams Sea Symphony (ms, nd)
Transcript of a conversation between HH, Richard Walker & Robert Spearing (April, 1971) Draft (or unposted) autograph letters Cuttings of articles by Howells in newspapers and journals Box F Sir James Caird Travelling Scholarships Notebooks containing Howells adjudications with draft reports Box G Photocopies of HH s autograph letters (see separate list) Herbert and Dorothy Howells address books Assorted diaries Concert programmes with notes by Howells Box H Press cuttings and articles on Howells music and performances RCM student essays on Howells music Box I Biographer s notes: Papers of Peter Hodgson, Joan Littlejohn and Christopher Palmer Ms of an anonymous address to Barnes Music Club (nd) Booklets about Lydney Autograph mss of tributes to Stanford by Dyson, Dunhill, Cecil Forsyth, Bainton, Marion Scott and Rebecca Clarke - contributions to the RCM Magazine, 1924 Miscellaneous papers including scripts of radio talks by Lennox Berkeley, Alec Robertson and Michael Tippett. Royal College of Music, London 2009