Manuscripts
Im Frühling: a song with words and music
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Melodies for the Pianoforte: musical score
Manuscripts
This musical manuscript was published as "Songs without Words," numbered in the manuscript from 1 to 6; on the title page is also a note by Ignaz Moscheles, Mendelssohn's teacher. The manuscript was disbound and the blue morocco gilt binding was retained and kept with the manuscript.
mssHM 1019
The song of Los
Rare Books
Binding: Full red morocco by Riviere (for Halsey?), top edge gilt. Gilt frames on covers and stamped in gilt on spine. Interleaved.
54043
The songs of experience
Rare Books
Plates 34-36, 53 etched 1789; plates 29-33, 37-52 etched 1794. Plates disbound and separately mounted in preservation mats. Former binding preserved: Full maroon morocco, gilt frames on covers, and stamped in gilt on spine. The hand numbering by Blake (in ink in upper right corners), seem to indicate that the plates were separated from a numbered copy of "Songs of Innocence"
54038
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Musical memoranda, anecdotes, and lists
Manuscripts
A music-related volume of autograph text containing an index, titles of works performed, notes on musical events, and lists of singers and musical instruments; there are 99 pages of text with additional blank pages. Please note: the spine is heavily damaged and flaking and both covers are loose; also enclosed: 11 pages of autograph notes previously laid inside front cover and various pages.
mssHM 82869
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Daguerreotype portrait of family group, in case bound in old blue morocco, elaborately gilt tooled and inlaid in colors
Visual Materials
Daguerreotype of unidentified family group consisting of mother, father and small child. There is some hand-coloring, notably in the child's dress and accessories. Bound in a photograph case designed to resemble a book: blue morocco with gilt tooling and colored inlays in a floral pattern on front and back covers. The outer edges are gilt and the covers are secured by gilt clasps. The interior front cover is velvet and has the same embossed floral pattern as the cover. Spine title in gilt: Souvenir.
photPF 26044
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John Adams speech to the King of England :
Manuscripts
Draft of John Adams's speech on the occasion of presenting of his letter of credence to George III on June 1, 1785. With a note by James G. Palfrey dated January 7, 1854, attesting that the manuscript "was given to me on this day by his grandson, Charles Francis Adams." Includes engraved portrait of John Adams, approximately 1830-1833; "drawn & printed by Childs & Inman, Philadelphia" and "Pub'd by Peabody & Co., New York." Speech is hinged to mounting paper; bound in full green Morocco; gilt stamped cover and spine. Cover title: "John Adams. Holograph Manuscript of his Speech on Being Presented to the King of England as American Ambassador. 1785." Spine title: "John Adams. Original Manuscript."
mssHM 783