Sullivan, Sir Arthur.

comprising: autograph letter to Mr Grove, noting some questions during the composition of The Sapphire Necklace ("How many string parts do you require..."), 4 pages, 8vo, 3 Ponsonby Street, 12 February 1862; memorandum between the composer and "G.W." obtaining "the complete Full Score of the MS Opera The False Heiress [The Sapphire Necklace]..." together with publication and performance rights in return for £275, 2 pages, 8vo, 24 May 1880, some loss to spine; autograph letter to Mrs Trevor, describing European travels and cuisine ("we ordered a plain mutton cutlet, a boiled trout and plain boiled cauliflower for dinner and as they were very good... we felt it was wrong, and that we must go somewhere, where the food was absolutely uneatable..."), 6 pages, 8vo, Baden, [1881?]; autograph letter to Mrs Trevor, noting opening night of Princess Ida ("...wasn't I good to get you the stalls for the 1st night of the Princess? I had the most awful job to manage it. I hope you liked it. I was in agony, and half stupified with morphine..."), 2 pages, 8vo, 1 Queen's Mansions, 12 January 1884; autograph letter to Jo[seph Bennett] discussing the composition of The Golden Legend ("I can't make a chorus out of 'Slowly, slowly'... Can't I make it a solo for a woman? 'Ursula' hasn't much to do – why not give it to her?"), 3 pages, 8vo, Stagenhoe Park, 16 August 1886; autograph letter to [Alberto Randegger] offering to conduct a performance of The Golden Legend, 2 pages, 8vo, 1 Queen's Mansions, 11 October 1886, recipient's name obscured; autograph letter to "Lewis" asking about the copying of partsongs, 1 page, 12mo, 18 November 1865, cropped--Benedict, Julius. Autograph letter to Sir George [Smart] "very strongly recommend[ing] young Sullivan being sent to Leipzig and put under Hauptmann's care...", 3 pages, 8vo, 2 Manchester Grove, 19 July 1858--occasional tears and traces of former mounting (8)

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The last Sullivan letter listed, to Arthur Lewis, is dated 18 November 1865.  It concerns the copying of part-songs for the [Moray] Minstrels, who met at Lewis's house; Sullivan's Cox and Box was premiered there on 26 May 1866.