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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…

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

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."

Sheet music with illustrated cover in blue featuring actors in Troilus and Cressida costumes. Grand Duke Rudolph appears on the Ace of Clubs upper right.

Collection of eleven songs in elaborate bound volume with text by Alfred Tennyson, music by Arthur Sullivan.

Autograph manuscript full score of On Shore and Sea, dramatic cantata for large orchestra, soloists and chorus. The manuscript is displayed open to a portion of the opening chorus "The Windlass ply."

First edition piano vocal score of The Prodigal Son published by Boosey & Co., London. Presentation copy to R. Brown Borthwick "from the Composer, Sept. 8, 1869. Presentation inscription is in the hand of Sullivan's mother, Maria Clementina…

Piano score of Arthur Sullivan's incidental music to Shakespeare's The Tempest, arranged for four hands.

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

Sheet music with illustrated cover in blue and brown tones featuring scenery from The Emerald Isle and a bust image of one female character above left.