| Description | The file contains correspondence and autographs from well-known people including, among others, members of the royal family and prominent people from the world of music; collected by Ivor Guest [husband of Ann Hutchinson Guest].
Includes correspondence from Pauline Viardot, Clara Schumann, [Giacommo] Meyerbeer, Charles Gounod, Felix Mendelssohn, Richard Wagner, Georges Auric, Adelina Patti, and others. Some of the correspondence and documents are in French and German.
The correspondence and autographs date to 1826-1956. They were collected together by Ivor Guest in the 20th Century. Some of the documents in the file have been annotated with the name of the person they relate to; annotations added 20th Century. |