Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: Treble part book, 3rd quarter of 17th century, of seven dance pieces by 'Mr Simpsone' (Christopher Simpson?) (MS.9453);Seventy-seven pieces of music, dances, songs, and Scots airs, for violin, [circa 1675] (MS.9454);First treble part book, 3rd quarter of 17th century, of pieces of music, chiefly dances, for viols (MS.9455);Second treble part book, 3rd quarter of 17th century, of pieces of music, chiefly dances, for viols...

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As well as material of inherent literary or intellectual interest, the papers in this section, deriving from various members of the family, provide a record of entertainment and leisure in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

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Folios 12, 21 verso, 70-77 contain a few songs in a later hand, or hands.

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The music book is inscribed (folio i) 'Leonora M H Grant from James Thomason. Calcutta. 1842'.

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A scrap album with tunes, chiefly for keyboard, and chiefly from published collections, pasted in. The music is in several hands, some earlier than the album as a whole.

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Apart from the film music, which is datable to 1947-1948 from the accompanying correspondence and papers (MSS.22085-22086), almost all the music is undated; but from the ink used, some of it may be dated to about the same period.

Except where otherwise stated the music is written as for keyboard.