BC 212 BELL COLLECTION

Manuscripts & Archives

University of Cape Town Libraries

A

LETTERS

A1.1

1900-1962  Letters from Percy Grainger, 1912;  WE Henley, 1902;  AC MacKenzie, 1900, 1912;  August Manns 1900, 1901;  Herbert Trench, 1907? Newsclips - tributes after his death in 1946 Photograph of Bell, Hely-Hutchinson and Colin Taylor in Cape Town, October 1922

Invitation to the opening of the College of Music, 1914

Letter and broadcast talk in Bell's handwriting, 1945, 1943

Letter from Pam Stevens to Gerald Quinn 1962

A1.2 

1920-1950 Letters from Bell to various people, newsclip re Little Theatre 1952

Catalogue of the Music Manuscripts of WH Bell, compiled by LE Taylor, 1948 (Letter from RFM Immelman to Mrs J Reitz attached)

A1.3

1942,1945  Letters to Hubert du Plessis (photocopies)

1956  In Memory of WH Bell - speech at Rhodes University by Hubert du Plessis

B

LECTURES

B1

Six Lectures  Lecture series on sound and the principles involved in the production of musical sound in instruments

B2

B2.1

Mozart's Figaro

B2.2

Sonata Recitals

B2.3

Bach's Goldberg Variations

B2.4

5 Lectures on the 19th and 20th Centuries

B2.5

History of the SA College of Music

B2.6

Scope and aims of an academy of music

B2.7

Report on Opera

B2.8

and 10  UCT and SA College of Music - Summer School and Fragments on Art (incomplete)

B2.9

The teaching of music in SA

B3

Notes of Lectures on Music

Rough draft for his Inaugural Address, Jan 1924 (published in SACM Quarterly Magazine, May 1924)

C

TALKS AND PAPERS

C1

William Blake

C2

Keats and Music

C3

Notes on Scriabin

C4

Talks:

C4.1

 On a saying of John Clarke - one time Professor of English at the University of Cape Town (2 versions) August Manns and August Jaeger

C4.2

 Presidential Address to the Musical Society, 28 March 1939

D

SOUTH AFRICAN COLLEGE OF MUSIC STAFF

D1

Contracts with staff  1914-1921

E

PERSONAL

E1

Autograph Book presented to Miss G Lister by the Teaching Staff of the SACM, 1914

E2

Programme - Coronation Gala Performance, 27 June 1911

E3

Autobiographical notes, 1873-1893

E4

Diary of a Motoring Tour through the Continent of Europe, 1933

E5

Photographs of WH Bell