Handwritten notes listing Crystal Palace Saturday Concerts from 1856 to 1897 taken from Crystal Palace programmes. The notes detail performances played, concert programmes, the names of band members and members of orchestras as well as the instruments they played. Accompanying the notes is a letter from W.H. Stock (library clerk of the Royal Academy of Music) acknowledging the safe receipt of two bound volumes and a booklet (property of Dr. Shinn) and listing the Crystal Palace Concert programmes in their library collection.
Envelope containing ms note re Crystal Palace Saturday concerts
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