or performers on the
Pianoforte); MELODIES OF ALL NATIONS, ENGLISH AIRS, and various pieces by
Handel, Bach and others.
Two Portfolios containing unbound music by Handel and others, including
the SIX FUGUES, of which no. 6 in C Minor is the "Old Man" Fugue.
THE HANDEL ALBUM FOR THE PIANOFORTE. Arranged by William Hutchins
Callcott.
HANDEL'S CONCERTOS AND ROSEINGRAVE'S SUITES. Walsh's edition. Inscribed,
"To S. Butler, with kind regards from Julian Marshall, June 20, 1873."
THE FITZWILLIAM VIRGINAL BOOK. Ed. by Fuller Maitland and Barclay
Squire. Butler subscribed for this at the instigation of Fuller
Maitland. He had the parts bound and gave the volumes to me.
THE BEAUTIES OF PURCELL (John Clarke), inscribed "S. Butler."
THE WELL-TEMPERED CLAVICHORD. By John Sebastian Bach. (Czerny).
371 VIERSTIMMIGE CHORALGESANGE VON JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH.
LIEDER OHNE WORTE. 6 books, by Mendelssohn.
A MUSICAL MS. SCRAP-BOOK, containing Notes of Rockstro's lessons; also
pieces copied by Butler, including some composed by him for Alfred to
learn.
VIII. MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS
FORMERLY THE PROPERTY OF OR RELATING TO SAMUEL BUTLER
Thomas Harris, of Shrewsbury.
Butler when a boy was amused by the advertisement put up over his shop by
this man, who was a baker. He copied or invented the two pictures
showing Harris (1) making bride cakes, (2) making funeral cakes, and
composed the music. Miss Butler showed it to me at Shrewsbury in June or
July, 1902, and I copied it.
MS. copies of "The New Scriptures," according to Darwin, Tyndall, Huxley
and Spencer.
The first twenty-four verses of this appeared in an American paper (the
_Index_, if I remember right) many years ago. They were given to me by
Herbert Phipson; I showed them to Butler; he copied them and composed
verses 25 to 33.
Testimonials by Eyre Crowe, A.R.A.; G. K. Fortescue; R. Garnett, LL.D.;
A. C. Gow, A.R.A.; T. Heatherley; the Rev. B. H. Kennedy, D.D.; Henry
Stacy Marks, R.A.; and W. T. Marriott, M.P., submitted by Butler in 1886
when a Candidate for the Slade Professorship of Fine Art at Cambridge.
Two numbers of the Parish Magazine of St. Augustine's, Kilburn, Mar. 1887
and April 1887.
Between pp. 80 and 81 of the March number are unsuitable advertisements
of Pears' Soap involving the Bishop Q of Wangaloo and Lillie Langtry.
Their appearance drew from the Editor, pp. 97 and 112 of the April
number, an expression of regret, di
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