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Autograph letter concerning the terms for the first professional production of Cox and Box. It ultimately took place at Reed's Gallery of Illustration on 29 March 1869.

Program for the second public performance of Cox and Box; or, The Long Lost Brothers, at the Theatre Royal, Manchester. Performance was part of a benefit program in aid of the widow and children of Punch artist C. H. Bennett. Sullivan conducted. …

First edition of W. S. Gilbert's Songs of a Savoyard, inscribed on front title by Gilbert (to actress Agnes Wyatt) "With the author's kind regard and sincere thanks. Graemes Dyke, Harrow Weald, 30th Oct 1890." Dedicated to Sir Arthur Sullivan.

Order of Service for the funeral of Sir Arthur Sullivan at the Chapel Royal, St. James's Palace. Last page deals with interment at St. Paul’s Cathedral and includes four stanzas of Sullivan’s anthem “Brother, thou art gone before us,” from The…

Portrait photograph of Arthur Sullivan, on photographer's card mount by Chancellor, Dublin

Four pages of facsimile music manuscript for the song "The Absent-Minded Beggar" in decorative cover, with photographs of Arthur Sullivan and Rudyard Kipling.

Two-color engraved program for command performance concert at Buckingham Palace, conducted by Arthur Sullivan. Program featured four scenes from Sullivan's dramatic cantata The Golden Legend.

Small calling printed in script letters "Sir Arthur Sullivan" (center) and "1 Queen's Mansions | Victoria Street S.W." (lower left). Signed by Sullivan on reverse "With best wishes for 1889, A. S."

Binoculars made by Carl Zeiss, Germany, with leather case. The binoculars are engraved with Sullivan’s name and address: 1, Queen’s Mansions, Victoria Street, London, S.W.

Autograph letter regarding the writing and composition of the cantata The Golden Legend, an adaptation of the poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The work was first performed at the Leeds Musical Festival on October 16, 1886. Sullivan’s suggestion…