Album
MS. Odling Sterndale Bennett 84
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Album
Shelfmark
MS. Odling Sterndale Bennett 84
Summary
An album bound in dark-brown leather with golden tooling on both covers: borders and labels (the top one with with the initials 'W.S.B.'). Golden lettering 'Album' appears on spine. 341 pages are numbered, last 6 pages unnumbered. Inside are: pasted-in or loosely inserted letters to Bennett and others (some as photographic or photocopied reproductions); musical quotations (original and reproductions); pencil, ink and watercolour drawings (some signed and/or described).
Date
1818-1920, n.d.
Language
English
Physical extent
1 volume
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Collection contents
Archive of William Sterndale Bennett acquired from the Odling family
Albums, lists and other non-music material
Manuscript material
Album
