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Collection Summary

Collection Title
Howells, Herbert Norman (1892-1983)
Papers of Herbert Howells, 1899-1978, including notes, manuscript drafts and typescripts of BBC talks and broadcasts; manuscript notes for Royal College of Music (RCM) and University of London lectures 19400s-1950s; notes and transcripts for his speeches to various organisations; cuttings of articles by Howells in newspapers and journals, and by others on Howells' music and performances; papers relating to the Sir James Caird Travelling Scholarships, and notebooks containing Howell's adjudications with draft reports; appointment diaries, address books of Herbert and Dorothy Howells, and printed concert programmes with notes written by Howells, RCM student essays; letters received by Howells from over 260 correspondents, 1915-1978; correspondence relating to his medical condition (1917), with Oxford colleges, with publishers and commissioning bodies, on his Cambridge Doctorate; photocopies of letters from Howells to 30 correspondents, and to the Carnegie UK Trust; family correspondence.
Format
  • Private papers/diaries/letters
  • Corporate/business records
  • Archival material
  • Press cuttings
  • Concert programmes
  • Ephemera
  • Photographs
Strength(s)
Many letters from famous musicians and figures in the arts
Date range of collection
1899 - 1978
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Details also available
http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cgi-bin/frames/fulldesc?inst_id=25&coll_id=5687&full=1
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Location Details

Royal College of Music, Library
Prince Consort Road London SW7 2BS United Kingdom
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Website
http://www.rcm.ac.uk
Email
pthompson@rcm.ac.uk
Telephone
020 7591 4323
Fax
020 7589 7740 
Visiting Information
Loans of performance sets to individual societies or persons; binding; reprographics; photocopying; microform printing
Collections Overview
Founded in 1883, the RCM Library primarily supports the performance, study and research of RCM members. It is also open to the public for reference and research. It contains some 300,000 items, including significant collections of early printed and manuscript material from the 16th to 19th centuries, given to the College upon its foundation, specifically the Libraries of the Sacred Harmonic Society and of the Concerts of Ancient Music. Donations since have included autographs of composers of international renown, amongst them Beethoven, Chopin, Haydn, Mozart and Schubert, as well as manuscripts and archives of major British composers. Although a British bias is apparent, the collection also has significant German and Italian manuscripts and early printed holdings. Later acquisitions of printed music include large quantities of out-of-print material, and sizeable collections of performance sets. Audio-visual holdings and the RCM's own sound archive's are also extensive.
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Additional Collection Information

Custodial History
Deposited by Howells' estate, 1999.
Related Publications
  • Paul Andrews 'Herbert Howells: a documentary and bibliographical study'. Diss. Univ of Wales, Aberystwyth, 1999; Paul Spicer, Herbert Howells. Bridgend: Seren, 1998; Chistopher Palmer, Herbert Howells: A Celebration. London: Thames, 1996.
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