Correspondence and papers of Edmund Rubbra (1901-86)

An important and hitherto unavailable collection of letters, programmes, talks, lectures and signed presentation copies of scores, including a substantial two-way correspondence between Rubbra and his publishers Lengnick,1946 - 64. There are also many letters from friends and colleagues, including Vaughan Williams, Gerald Finzi, Herbert Howells, Sir Arthur Bliss, Sir Henry Wood, Ernest Moeran, Lennox Berkeley, Arnold Bax, Zoltán Kodály, Jean Sibelius and many others. Most of these are unknown and unpublished and the letters from Vaughan Williams are especially revealing.