Sorabji, Kaikhosru Shapurji, 1892-
Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji collection. First and second accruals First accrual Box 1 Sorabji/Holliday, 1939-1959 F.1 1939 From K.S.S.: 2 TLs, 1 APc; Also 3 handwritten notes by F.H. F.2 1940 From: 1 ALs,11 TLs,1 APcs; Also 2 handwritten notes by F.H. From: 2 Als, 8 TLS, 7 APcs; Also 6 handwritten notes by F.H. and a carbon copy of a letter - not to K.S.S. F.4 1942 From: 2 Als, 5 TLs, 5 APcs 1 Christmas card [undated] To: 1 telegram Also 3 handwritten notes by F.H. F.5 1943 From: 8 TLs, 4 TPcs F.6 1944 From: 2 ALs, 9 TLs, 2 Pcs; Also 2 handwritten notes by F.H. From: 1 ALs, 2 TLs,1 APcs, 1 TPcs Also 2 handwritten notes by F.H. From: 6 TLs, 1 Tpcs From: 1 ALs, 7 TLs, 3 APcs Also 3 handwritten notes by F.H. From: 3 ALs, 3 TLs Also 1 handwritten note by F.H. From: 4 ALs, 1 Christmas Card Also 4 handwritten notes by F.H. From: 2 ALs, 1 TLs 1 Christmas Card, 1 annotated visitor's card TL(car) of K.S.S. letter to Radio Times Also 3 handwritten notes by F.H. From: 1 ALs, 5 TLs, 2 APcs, 3 TPcs 1 Christmas Card And carbon copies and cuttings of published letters by K.S.S. Also 2 handwritten notes by F.H. F.14 1952 From: 14 TLs, 1 APcs, 3 cuttings To: 4 TL(car.) Also 1 handwritten note by F.H. From: 26 TLs (one with lengthy handwritten addition; some with envelopes) 1 Telegram 3 cuttings (published letters by K.S.S.) To: 10 TL(car) Also 1 handwritten note by F.H. From: 18 TLs, 3 Pcs, 2 telegrams 3 cuttings (2 are published letters by K.S.S.). F.17 1955 From: 15 TLs, 9 TPcs, 1 telegram, 2 Greeting cards, 1 business card 9 cuttings(including articles and letters by K.S.S.) To: 1 TL (extracts only) Also 3 copies [ms., ts., ts(car.)] of "Notes made on visit to K.: August/55". From: 16 TLs, 1 ALs, 4 TPCs, 1 APcs, 12 telegrams 13 cuttings (most of pieces by K.S.S.) To: 1 TLs, 2 TL(car) Also "Rough notes on my visit to Corfe Castle", Sept. 10-12 1956 From: 14 TLs (one to Mrs. H.), 3 ALs, 10 TPcs, 3 APcs 34 Carbon copies of letters and cuttings To: Handwritten notes only, with ms. draft and ts. version (with carbon) of "My visit to K. Sept/57" From: 16 TLs, 1 ALs, 13 TPcs 22 Carbon copies of letters and cuttings To: 3 TL(car.) F.21 1959 Box 2 Sorabji/Holliday,
1960-1969 From: 22 TLs, 3 ALs, 6 TPcs, 2 telegrams 12 carbon copies of letters and cuttings Also copies of letters from Erik Chisholm and Mervyn [Vicars] To: 10 TL(car.) Handwritten notes Also "Notes on My visit to K. May/1962 (First tape recording),ms., ts., and ts(car.) versions. And "Notes on Second Recording - K. - in Oct. 1962", ms. and ts. F.4 1963 From: 28 TLs, 1 ALs, 1 APcs, 1 TPcs, 1 telegram Also 26 carbon copies of letters to the editors of various newspapers To: 5 TL(car.) Also "Notes on visit to K., Sept.9 -11 1963a" in ms., ts. and ts(car.) versions [includes technical data re recording]. From: 24 TLs, 5 ALs, 6 TPcs Also 8 carbon copies of letters sent and 3 cuttings To: 2 TL(car.) Also notes "Visit to K. May 1964" and "Notes on visit to K. Sept. 25/27" with "Notes on Fourth recording", ms. only F.6 1965 From: 33 TLs, 2 ALs, 10 TPcs , 2 telegrams Also 2 carbon copies of letters sent and 6 cuttings To: 6 TL(car.) Also notes on recording "made at Corfe Castle, March 26/65", ms. only. From: 17 TLs, 4 ALs, 5 TPcs To: 5 TL(car.) Also notes on "Visit to K. April 13-15 1966", ms. only. From: 20 TLs, 7 ALs, 2 APcs, 2 TPcs To: 2 TL(car.) Also some notes on recording, undated. From:16 TLs, 2 ALs, 3 APcs, 4 TPcs To: 3 TL(car.) Also 2 carbon copies of letters to the editor and some notes on recording, April 28 1968, ms. only F.10 1969 From: 19 TLs, 2 ALs, 2 APcs, 9 TPcs Also 3 carbon copies of letters and 5 cuttings To: 2 TL(car.) Also "Notes written at Quarr Abbey, 6 April 1969", and "Notes on visit to K., 23/26 May 1969", also notes with estimates of recording costs, December 1969, all ms. Box 3 Sorabji/Holliday, 1970-1978. From: 23 TLs, 6 ALs, 4 TPcs, 1 APcs and 2 enclosed letters from John Dean To:14 TL(car.) Also notes of telephone conversations. From: 16 TLs, 4 ALs, 3 APcs, 4 TPcs And 2 cuttings To: 16 TL(car.) "Notes made since April 1971 beginning with my Easter visit 1971", ms. only. Also other ms. notes. F.3 1972 From: 23 TLs, 3 ALs, 5 APcs, 3 TPcs Also carbon copies of 7 letters to others and 3 cuttings To: 12 TL(car.) Also "rough notes on a visit to K., Oct. 23/26 1972", ms. only, and other notes on broadcasts of K."s works. From: 26 TLs, 7 TPcs, 3 APcs 1 carbon copy of letter, 1 cutting To: 21 TL(car.) "Notes on K's visit to Eastbourne and Hardham Cottage, April/May 1973," ms. & ts. Also "Visit to K. June/73", ts. and notes of telephone calls. From: 26 TLs, 3 ALs, 10 TPcs, and greetings card. Also additional chapter for K.S.S.s book Music and Sex. To: 13 TL(car.), 1 TPcs (returned with annotations) "Notes for my files" "Notes on seeing K. April 27/8" Further notes on 4/5 May meeting. Also number of other ms. notes. F.6 1975 From: 12 TLs, 3 ALs, 10 TPcs, 5 APcs, Greetings card, 1 carbon copy of letter by K. Some copies of letters from others to K. To: 16 TL(car.) "Notes on K. at Stunts Green, 27 April 1975" Notes on meeting 4 May 1975, also notes of telephone calls. From: 15 TLs, 2 ALs, 6 TPcs, 2 APcs 6 cuttings Also copies of letters by K. to others To: 15 TL(car.) Also other notes. F.8 1977 From: 28 TLs, 2 TPcs, 1 APcs Also Christmas card 1 carbon of letter and 2 cuttings To: 23 TL(car.) Notes on visit 12 April 1977 and other notes, including accounts of telephone calls and material relating to Alistair Hinton. F.9 1978 Box 4 Correspondence,
A - Ga F.3 Becket Williams, Christopher, 1952, 2 items F.4 Bernadette, Sister, 1970, 2 items F.5 Best, Reggie, 1952, 1973-1978, 21 items F.6 Bowen, York, 1952-1953, 7 items F.7 British Broadcasting Corporation (Robert Layton), 1977-1980, 6 items F.8 Bromage, Bernard, 1937-1954, 32 items F.9 Byngham, Dion, 1952-1953, 10 items F.11 Chapman, Ernest, 1953, 4 items F.12 Chisholm, Alastair, 1972-1985, 9 items F.13 Chisholm, Erik, 1952-1965, 56 items (includes notes & transcriptions of E.C.'s letters to K.S.S.) F.14 Choveaux, Nicholas, 1952, 1 item F.15 Cooper, Ernest, 1965-1966, 3 items F.16 Cooper, H.J., 1952-1953, 12 items F.17 Cricklade College, 1975, 1 item F.18 Curwell, B., 1983, 2 items F.19 Curwen, J. & Sons Ltd., 1931, 1974, 1975 (publishing agreements with K.S.S.) 3 items D F.21 Derus, Kenneth, 1974-1979, 50 items (includes notes of meetings and letters to/from K.D. and K.S.S.) F.22 Diamond, David, 1974, 2 items F.23 Dover Publications, 1972-1974, 12 items F.25 Evelyn [ ], 1960-1986 [& undated], 5 items F.26 Ewing, Cecil, 1965-1971, 15 items F.28 Garvelmann, Donald, 1968-1970, 53 items (includes letters to K.S.S.& cuttings) F.29 Garvelmann, Donald, 1971-1974, 86 items (includes letters to/from K.S.S., cuttings, cards, some duplicate copies) F.30 Garvelmann, Donald, 1975-1983, 89 items (includes cuttings, cards and photocopies) F.31 Garvelmann, Donald, 1970-1976, 8 items, Publicity relating to broadcasts in U.S. F.2 Gentieu, Norman, 1965-1970, 39 items F.3 Goodall, Reginald, 1952, 1 item F.4 Gray-Fisk, Clinton, 1952-1961, 48 items F.5 Grieve, Christopher (Hugh MacDiarmid), 1952-1977, 7 items (including 2 letters to K.S.S.) F.7 Habermann, Michael, 1977-1979, 12 items (annotated envelopes, reviews and programmes) F.8 Hick, Peter, 1978-1985, 7 items F.9 Hill, C.H., 1953, 4 items F.10 Hinton, Alistair, 1973-1978, 11 items (including one to K.S.S.) F.11 Howard, Paul, 1952-1953, 15 items F.13 Ireland, John, 1952-1953, 12 items F.14 Kemp, Roy, 1971, 1 item F.15 Kindler-van Dieren, Frida, 1952, 6 items L F.16 Library of Congress, 1971, 20 items (includes forms and brochures) F.18 Morland, Harold, 1952-1972, 9 items (includes one to K.S.S.) F.19 Music and Letters, 1961, 3 items (includes copy of F.H.'s article "Splendour upon Splendour") F.20 Music and Musicians, 1972, 1 item (copy of a letter by K.S.S.) F.21 Musical Opinion, 1961, 2 items F.22 The Musical Times, 1961, 2 items F.23 Mysore, The Maharajah, 1952, 2 items F.24 Nairn, Edward & Ian Watson, 1982-1988, 16 items (includes F.H.'s notes of telephone conversations with these two who do business as John Updike) F.25 National Westminster Bank, 198[7?] 2 items F.26 New Yorker (Ved Mehta), 1 item (to K.S.S., with his annotations) F.27 Norton, W.W., 1974, 2 items F.29 Owen, E.R.H. 1964, 1 item F.30 Oxford University Press, 1951-1975, 17 items (includes royalty statements and copy[?] of letter by K.S.S.) F.2 1967, 27 items (including copies of letters to K.S.S. and a small notebook with copies of Peterkin and other letters to K.S.S., 1967) F.3 1968, 44 items F.4 1969, 25 items (includes copy of one to K.S.S. from Ronald Stevenson) F.5 1970, 30 items F.6 1971, 63 items (includes copies of letters to K.S.S. from Ronald Stevenson and Michael Habermann) F.7 1972, 54 items (includes copies of letters from N.P. to Garvelmann and copies of letters to/from K.S.S.) F.8 1973, 40 items (includes copies of N.P.'s letters to Garvelmann and Oxford University Press) F.9 1974, 38 items (includes some news clippings) F.10 1975, 22 items (includes notes of telephone conversations) F.11 1976, 53 items (includes a copy of a letter from N.P. to K.S.S.) F.12 1977, 50 items F.13 1978, 51 items (includes notes of telephone conversations and post cards) F.14 1979, 34 items (includes notes of telephone conversations) F.15 1980-1982, 47 items (includes copy of Michael Habermann letter to F.H.) P Q F.2 Quilter, Roger, 1952-1953, 5 items R F.13 Saurat, Denis, 1951-1953, 10 items F.14 Scott, F.G., 1951-1953, 10 items F.15 Shervashidze, Leonid, 1973, 4 items F.16 Sitwell, Osbert, 1952-1953,18 items (only 2 letters signed by O.S., the rest by secretary) F.17 Sitwell, Sacheveral, 1977, 1 item (letter to K.S.S.) F.18 Smith, Ronald, 1968, 3 items F.19 Soloman, Yonty, 1974-1977, 8 items (all letters are from F.H., also notes and a clipping) F.20 Sound News Productions, 1965-1974, 17 items F.21 Stevens, Bernard, 1952, 8 items F.22 Stevenson, Ronald, 1961-1968, 9 items (includes draft chapter for a monograph on Sorabji and an offprint on Maurice Emmanuel by R.S. Also letter to K.S.S.) F.25 West, Ralph L., 1963, 1 item F.26 W.N.C.N., 1971, 1 item F.27 Woolf, John, 2 items F.28 Ziegler, Dom Paul, 1 item Box 8 F.22 Solomon, Yonty. Programme,
notes and reviews relating to his 1976 Wigmore Hall concert, 11 items. Item #1 Toccata For Piano. Kaikhosru Sorabji. Dated, on the title page, MCMXXVIII. Manuscript score, in brown buckram with scarlet quarter leather binding, 64 pp. With inscription to Frank Holliday, undated, but annotated by F.H. as May 22, 1964. Item #5 Around Music. Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji. [no date].Photocopy of published book in brown paper cover, with inscription to the author by Alistair Hinton, 1972, and note by Frank Holliday on inside cover. 250 pp.The essay "Music and Sex", pp. 227-231 has manuscript corrections and annotations by the author. Boxes 10-13 All the audio reels retain the original numbering given by Frank Holliday who was responsible for creating most of these recordings. All these originals containing works by K.S.S. or programme relating to his work have been copied onto cassette tape for easier use by researchers. Where dates are given thus: [16/9/64?] they have been taken from annotations on the audio reel box but they may or may not refer to the date of recording since Frank Holliday frequently checked and replayed the audio reels and made notes both on the boxes and on slips inserted inside them. All the slips and annotations have been retained with original audio reels. Further information about some of these recordings may be found in Box 8, Notes on Recording. Audio Reel #4 Return track. St. Bertrand de Comminges. Approximately 13 minutes. Quaere Reliqua Hujus Materiei. Approximately 13 minutes. [June 1962?] The forward track contains a recording of a B.B.C. programme of Renaissance choral music which has not been copied onto a cassette. Forward track: Readings by K.S.S.: from his own writings, on Catholicism, the working classes, education and other matters. The items are numbered and read very fast, approximately 10 minutes, on Sicily and the Sicilian spirit [Guercio]. Approximately 15 minutes [Similar readings on tape #7 and tape #47]. Return track: Part of a B.B.C. programme "Music Now", which contained a conversation between John Amis and Harold Rutland about the music of Sorabji, December 3 1976. Approximately 15 minutes. Forward track: Djami .Approximately 22 minutes. [undated] The return track has choral music which has not been copied onto cassette. Audio Reel #18 Box 11 Sorabji Audio Reels
Audio Reel #20 Audio Reel #24 Audio Reel #29 Box 12 Sorabji Audio Reels
Audio Reel #37 Erik Chisholm talking about Sorabji, Part I. Approximately 15 minutes Erik Chisholm talking about Sorabji, Part II. Approximately 22 minutes Talk on Sorabji, with musical excerpts, by Donald Garvelmann. Broadcast in the United States on New York radio station WNCN in December 1970. Part I. Garvelmann WNCN broadcast, Part II. Begins: "Not all of Sorabji's works are long and serious" and ends: "We might now hear Sorabji read". #47 Garvelmann WNCN broadcast, Part III. Begins with K.S.S. reading
and ends with the end of the first movement of Concerto per suonare.
Also includes list of his published works (by F. & B. Goodwin, J.
Curwen and others). Audio Reel #51 Audio Reel #55 [Audio Cassette #57] Cassette, received without numbering. Michael Habermann playing Djami. Undated, but received by F.H. on January 3 1981. The New Age, 1915-1934 The New English Weekly, 1932-1949 The Musical Times, 1916-1965 The Chesterian, 1919 The Sackbut, 1920-1929 [See also the paper copies of some of the New English Weekly articles in Box 8]. Box 14 contains audio cassette duplicates of all of the audio reels described above. Also in Box 14 is F.H.'s annotated copy of a book which contains a section on K.S.S.: Paul Rapoport, Opus Est: Six Composers from Northern Europe. London: Kahn & Averill, 1978. Box 15 Formal
Photographs and Audio Discs (Gramophone Records) F.2 Early photograph of Sorabji with his left hand on his cheek. The photographer wasHoward Coster of London and he has signed the bottom right edge of the photograph. It is inscribed and annotated on the white cardboard mount by Sorabji as follows: "To my dear friend Frank Holliday who combines generosity of heart depth of sensibility and keenness of perception to an extent that is rare indeed in these days of Total Eunuchism: with many affectionate regards from Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji. XIX/VII/MCMXLI." [i.e. 19 July 1941]. To the right of the inscription the composer has transcribed the opening notes of Galistan. Black and white, 20 x 27cm., with mount 34 x 45 cm. F.3 Photograph of Sorabji; head and shoulders in profile with the subject, wearing a darkjacket buttoned at the left side, facing to the right. The photographer is not identified; Frank Holliday refers to this portrait as "The Sicilian One". It is inscribed by Sorabji as follows: "To dear Frank Holliday for whose untiring friendship, support and affection I cannot begin to express what I owe. Bless him in aeternitatem. K. (Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji.)" Frank Holliday has noted on the back of the photograph: "received from K. in January, 1974". Black and white, the image is 16.5 x 21.5 cm., with mount 25 x 36 cm. F.4 Photograph of
Sorabji; head and shoulders in profile with the subject, wearing a shirt,
tie and pin striped jacket, facing to the left. The photographer was
Joan Muspratt of Swanage, Dorset and she has signed the bottom right
corner of the mount.It is inscribed by Sorabji as follows: "To
my dear friend Frank Holliday all good things from Kaikhosru Shapurji
Sorabji VIII VI MCMXLV" [i.e. 8 June1945]. F.5 Photograph of Sorabji in old age; sitting at his desk reading, head and shoulders in profile, with a window behind him. The photographer is unidentified. It is inscribed by Sorabji as follows: "Gord! Aint it oful!!! Much love to you two dears. K. VI. VIII.MCMLXXVII" [i.e. 6 August 1977]. Frank Holliday has noted on the back of the photograph "Received from K. on August 12th. 1977". Black and white, the image is 24.5 x 19cm., with mount 30 x 25cm. F.6 Photograph of Frank
Holliday as a young man, full face, head and shoulders. The photographer,
J. Cecil Gould, has signed the bottom right margin of the photograph.
Frank Holliday has noted on the back of the photograph "Frank Holliday
taken in about 1942". F.7 Snapshot (enlarged)
of Frank Holliday in middle age. He is shown facing the camera with
motor boats on the water behind him. Frank Holliday has noted on the
back of the photograph "Photo of Frank Holliday (Taken by Norman
Peterkin, Apr.5, 1969) at Yarmouth Harbour, Isle of Wight after stay
at Quarr Abbey." Audio Discs F.14 Sorabji, Concerto Per Suonare
Da Me Solo, played by the composer. F.19 Sorabji, Side 1, St. Bertrand
de Comminges, played by the composer F.26 "Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji,
Le Jardin Parfume. World Premiere Recording", Michael Habermann,
Piano. The second accrual (11-1998) consists of 26 letters and 9 cards written by Sorabji to Dr. Cecil Ewing (a disciple of Sorabji) between 1945 and 1983, 1 letter from Ewing to Holliday, and a periodical. Location Box 7. Sorabji also inscribed several books and presented them to Frank Holliday. These have been catalogued for Research Collections and may be found under the appropriate call number: Works by Sorabji: Sorabji, K.S. Around Music, London;
The Unicorn Press, 1932. With Frank Holliday's
signature. Res. Coll. ML 60 .S698 1932 Rehatsek, Edward. The Gulistan or Rose Garden of Sa'di, London; Allen & Unwin, 1964. Inscription: "To dear Frank with love from K." Res. Coll. PK 6541 .G2 R4 1964 Shaw, T.E. The Odyssey of Homer, New York; Oxford University Press, 1940. Inscription: "To friend Frank Holliday all good wishes from Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, 21/vi/41, A.D.(?)." Res. Coll. PA 4025 .A5L3 1940 Robinson, B.W. Persian Miniatures, Oxford; Bruno Cassirer, (1957]. Inscription: "Loving Wishes for Xmas 1959 to F. from K." Res. Coll. ND 3241 .A1R62 1957 Touring Club Italiano Sicilia, Milan; 1940. Inscription: "For my very dear friend Frank (Holliday) to give him the first far idea of the heart breaking bravery of my maternal homeland. ... His very devoted friend, K. 19 November 1955. Res. Coll. DG 862 .T68 1940 Wescher, Paul (ed.) Old Towns and Cities in Drawings of the Fifteenth to the Nineteenth Century, Basle; Holbein Publishing Co., 1946. Inscription: "For Frank from K. Xmas 1951." Res. Coll. N 8213 .A48l3 1946 |
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