BC76 THE COLIN TAYLOR COLLECTION Presented to THE UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN LIBRARIES by COLIN TAYLOR A LIST compiled by ETAINE EBERHARD University of Cape Town Libraries 1976 CONTENTS INTRODUCTION Biographical note The Collection A. Letters to and collected by Colin Taylor B. Prof. W.H. Bell - letters and articles C. Peter Warlock Papers D. Miscellaneous articles, newspaper clippings and photographs INTRODUCTION BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE Colin Taylor was born in Oxford in 1851. His father. James Taylor, was organist at New College and a contemporary of Benjamin Jowett, Master of Balliol, (a letter of his is preserved in this collection), and of Canon Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. (see note by Colin Taylor A1.5.2) and Canon Samuel Rolles Driver (A1.5.1 and A1.5.2) who was Colin Taylor's godfather. He received his musical training in Leipzig, Germany, and at the Royal College of Music, London. He taught music at Eton College where Aldous Huxley and Philip Heseltine (Peter Warlock) were among his pupils. In 1922 he joined the staff of the South African College of Music in Cape Town, eventually becoming vice principal. He retired in 1941 after which he travelled widely. He settled first in Durbanville and later in Stellenbosch, where he died, aged 92, in 1973. He was a fellow of the Royal College of Music and composed more than 140 published works, mainly piano pieces. THE COLLECTION Period covered 1900 - 1970 The Colin Taylor Collection was presented to the University of Cape Town Libraries by Colin Taylor, and numbers 322 items. It consists mainly of letters from musicians, artists, poets and actors to Colin Taylor. These include 90 TSS letters from Philip Heseltine (Peter Warlock), 1911- 1929 (the originals of which are in the British Museum). A significant item in the Collection is an album containing letters and autographs collected from ca 1890. The Collection contains many important photographs of staff and students at the South African College of Music from 1922-1927. BC 76 COLIN TAYLOR COLLECTION. A. Letters to Colin Taylor A 1.1 Abbey, Edwin Dustin, [American painter] 18.5.1911 1 Page 1 of 13 A 1.2 Benson, Sir Frank R. [Shakespearian actor, producer and coach], n.d. 1 A 1.3 Cockshott, Gerald [composer and Chairman of the Peter Warlock Society] 1.3.1970 1 A 1.3.1 Copley, Ian (author) 3.5.1965 1 A 1.4 De Selincourt, Irene R., 10.11.1937. 1 A 1.5.1 Driver, Samuel Rolles [of Christ Church, Oxford, great Hebrew Scholar and reviser of the Bible], n.d. 1 A 1.5.2 Note by Colin Taylor on Canon S.R. Driver and Canon Dodgson(Lewis Carroll). 1 A 1.6 Dunhill, Thomas F. (composer, lecturer, adjudicator, examiner], 13.8.1933. 1 A 1.7.1- Dyson, Sir George [composer, conductor and Director of the 3 A 1.7.3 Royal College of Music], 3 letters, 2.7.1941, 28.11.1941; 26.6.1954 A 1.8 Elwes, Gervase Carey [singer], 15.5.1913 1 A 1.9 Falkner, Sir Keith [Director, Royal College of Music], 22.4.71 1 1 A 1.10 Farjeon, Eleanor [poet], 19.6.1937 1 A.1.11.1- Gale, Norman [poet] 2 letters, 24.9.1906 and one undated 2 A 1.11.2 A 1.12 Goodwin, Albert [1844-1932, painter] 29.7.? 1 A 1.13.1-A 1.13.2 Grainger, Percy (Composer] 2 letters, 13.3.1913, and n.d. 2 A 1.14 Haigh, James [General or brigadier] 29.11.[1969?] 1 A 1.15 Hamburg, Mark [pianist], 31.1.1971(?) 1 A 1.16 Housman, Alfred Edward [poet] 25.10.1910 1 A 1.17 Moscovitch, Maurice [Jewish actor], 29.10.1924 1 A 1.18 A 1.19.1-A 1.19.14 Nicholson, William [painter], 24.4.1902 Noyes, Alfred [poet] 4.12.1905; 12.7.1906; 5.3.1907; and a note on their collaboration by Colin Taylor 1 A 1.20 Osbourne, Lloyd (Stepson of Robert Louis Stevenson] n.d. [1903?] 1 A 1.21 Pope, Jessie [Mrs. Babington Lenton; poet?], 21.7.1936 1 A 1.22. - A 1.22.5 Samuel, Harold [1879-1937, English pianist and composer] 4 letters 28.2.1934; 5.4.1934; 14.6.1934; 19.10.1936, and a note by Colin Taylor 5 A 1.23 Swanson, Marjorie [nee Hill], notes on her musical career. n.d.1 A 1.24.1-- A 1.24.2 Swanson, Walter Donald [conductor, composer and organist], notes on his musical education and career and a note by Colin Taylor 2 A 1.25 Thorley, Wilfrid [English writer], n.d. 1 A 1.26 Tidboald, David (Conductor], 11.11.1962 1 A 1.27 Waterlow, Sir Ernest Albert (English painter, 1850-1919] 24.1.1903 1 A 1.28 Woods, M.L. [poet?], 26th January? 1 Letters and Autographs Collected by Colin Taylor A 2.1 Notes by Colin Taylor about some of the people whose letters are listed below 1 A 2.2 Alma-Tadema, Sir Lawrence [1836-1912, artist of Dutch descent who settled in London], 21.8.1893 1 A 2.3 Besant, Sir Walter [1836-1901, founder of the Society of Authors] to John Kirk, 10(?)4.1894 (?) 1 A 2.4 Burdett-Coutts, Rt.Hon. Angela Georgina, Baroness [1814-1906, was made a peeress in 1871 and received the freedom of the city of London in 1874 for her philanthropic and patriotic actions] to Lord Compton, 15.4.1899(?), in which she mentions the Ragged Schools Union 1 A 2.5 Crockett, Samuel Rutherford [1860-1914, novelist], to [Sir Ernest?] Waterlow, 24.12.1894. 1 Page 2 of 13 A 2.6 Dicksee, Frank [Sir Francis Bernard, 1853-1928, painter], 23.9.? 1 A 2.7 Hewlett, Maurice Henry [1861-1923, novelist], 19.10.1910? 1 A 2.8.1- A 2.8.2 Jowett, Benjamin [1817-1893, Master of Balliol College, Oxford, Greek scholar), 27.10.1874, and a note by Colin Taylor 2 A 2.9 Orchardson, Sir William Quiller [1835-1910, English genre painter], 12.1.1898. 1 A 2.10 Peel, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Viscount Peel? [1829--1912, Speaker of the House of Commons] to Lord Morpeth, 28.11.1895 1 A 2.11 Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primose, 5th Earl of [1847-1929, Prime Minister of Britain March 1894 - June 1895], re a meeting of the Ragged School Union, 21.2.1894 1 A 2.12 Riviere, Briton [1840--1920, painter], 18.1.1905 1 A 2.13 Wyndham, Sir Charles [1837-1919, actor-manager; built Wyndham's Theatre in London], 1.11.? 1 MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS To Edward Onslow Ford [1852-1901, sculptor] A 3.1.1 Balfour, Arthur James, 1st Earl of Balfour [1848-1930, Prime Minister of Gt. Britain, 1902-1905], 28.11.1896. 1 A 3.1.2 Lucas, Seymore (or Seymorr?), [painter], 26.1.1900 1 A 3.1.3 Waller, Lewis [1860-1915, English actor-manager], 7.2.1900 1 Letters to Hamish James MacCunn (1868-1916, Scottish composer.] A 3.2.1 Lorne, John Douglas Sutherland Campbell, Marquis of [1845-1914, 9th Duke of Argyll, married Princess Louise, 4th daughter of Queen Victoria; Governor-General of Canada, 1878-83; poet and writer] 4.1.1899 1 A 3.2.2 Black, William [Scottish novelist?], 13.7.? 1 A 3.2.3 Lang, Andrew (?) [1844-1912, poet, folk-lorist, biographer and critic], 14.7,? 1 Letters to John MacWhirter [1839--1911, Scottish Landscape painters] A 3.3.1 Crofts, Ernest [1847 1911, English painter], 25.3.1893 1 A 3.3.2 Millais, Sir John Everett [1329-1896, painter] 1.4.1893, addressed to "Dear Mac" [MacWhirter?] 1 A 3.3.3 Fildes, [Sir] Luke [1844-1927, artist, illustrator], 3.5.1893 1 A 3.3.4 Marks, Henry Stacey, [1829--1398, English painter], 25.3..?, to"My dear Mac.W." [MacWhirter?]. 1 MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS AND FRAGMENTS. SOME WITH INDECIPHERABLE AUTOGRAPHS. A 3.4.1- A 3.4.11 Mainly fragments of letters, including the following autographs: [Sir Johnston?] Forbes--Robertson [actor-manager 1853.-1937]; Sir Henry Irving [1838- 1905, actor];-Lord Frederick Leighton, [1830--1896, painter and sculptor] and John Ruskin [1819-1900]. 11 A 4 Album of musician's autographs collected by Colin Taylor started in 1890, plus an index 1 A5 MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS FROM COLIN TAYLOR. A5.1 To Professor Findlay. 1.1 17.01.1968 1.2 13.02.1968 1.3 10.03.1968 1.4 26.03.1968 1.5 08.07.1968 A5.2 To Dora Orpen. Page 3 of 13 2.1 27.06.1962 2.2 01.01.1963 2.3 17.12.1967 2.4 08.01.1968 2.5 14.12.1968 B. PROF. WILLIAM HENRY BELL Letters to Colin Taylor B 1.1 Professor W.H. Bell, from London, 9.6.1936 1 B 1.2 Explanatory note by Colin Taylor 1 B 1.3 Prof. W.H. Bell, from London, 12.7.1936 1 B 1.4 Prof. W.H. Bell, from London, 7.9.1936 1 B 1.5 Brian Bell, from Sleaford, 11.12.1967 1 B 1.6 Joan Reitz (nee Bell), from Johannesburg, 12.12.1967 1 Articles and Talks B 2.1 Notes of a talk, entitled "W.H. Bell", given by Colin Taylor to music teachers at a Congress in Cape Town., 1963 1 B 2.2 "A South African Symphony, W.H. Bell's new work", by Colin Taylor, published in The Cape, 9.3.1928 1 B 2.3 "College's golden jubilee, Prof.