Correspondence

The collection contains a great deal of correspondence to MJEB, with some drafts or copies of letters from MJEB to other people, much of which will be of enormous interest to the scholar. There are also some letters passed onto MJEB by others, particularly Otto Erich Deutsch (OED). It appears that MJEB was quite methodical in filing all his Schubert (and Chopin) oriented correspondence, even down to trivial items (e.g. postcards from OED acknowledging but not replying to a letter, or envelopes from OED with last minute scribbles).

Within the collection are large quantities of correspondence from other Schubert collectors or scholars, including:

Otto Erich Deutsch - 738 letters

Walther Dürr (Neue Schubert Ausgabe) - 34 Letters

Walther Dürr (International Schubert Gesellschaft) - 15 Letters

Reinhardt van Hoorickx - 280 letters

Odd Udbye - 85 Letters, 15 photographs

Ignaz Weinmann - 26 Letters

Alan Tyson - 45 Letters

Gerald Abraham, Alfred Einstein, HC Robbins Landon, John Reed, Stanley Sadie, Eric Sams, Otto Tausig - smaller quantities

There are also several box files containing correspondence from other parties, including, for example:

Publishers and publications:

Dent, Encyclopaedia Brittanica, Groves Dictionary, Macmillan (99 letters), Music and Letters, Music Review, Musical Times, Oxford University Press, Thames and Hudson

Institutions, etc:

British Museum, BBC, Edinburgh International Festival, Financial Times, The Foreign Office, Many embassies, Many libraries including the US Library of congress and those of several universities,

Music Publishers, etc:

Breitkopf & Hürtel, Gesellschaft der Musikfreund, Neue Schubert Ausgabe, Schotts