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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 album owned by pianist Diana Ashton with inscriptions by fellow students at Leipzig Conservatoire. It contains a page inscribed by Arthur Sullivan with an autograph musical quote from his own string quartet, "A Romance."

Autograph letter urging the Mendelsohn Scholarship Committee to extent Arthur Sullivan's grant for a third year of study at Leipzig.

Autograph letter to Mrs. [Helen] D'Oyly Carte regarding the writing and staging of the comic opera Jane Annie.

Autograph letter regarding arrangements for the upcoming performance of Sullivan’s music for Shakespeare’s The Tempest at the Crystal Palace, London.

Letter to soprano Geraldine Ulmar explaining the decision to cast Courtice Pounds as Colonel Fairfax, principal tenor in The Yeomen of the Guard.

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…

Letter on behalf of W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan grants Mr Stevens permission to perform Trial by Jury at a reduced fee which will go to the Victoria Hospital for Children.

Letter written in pencil to a Mrs Trevor thanking her for her well wishes and describing his illness on the opening night of Princess Ida.

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.