Crash guitar course and letters of Donald Francis Tovey

1 x envelope postmarked 22 September 1937, addressed to Mrs. Bruce Dickins / Sir Herbert Grierson / 12 Regent Terrace / Edinburgh, containing:

• 1 x letter dated 20 September 1937, headed Hedenham Lodge, Bungay, Suffolk, to 'Dear Molly', signed 'Donald Francis Tovey, lamenting the 'shadow that is over you' and recommending that the 'guitar [...] is a delightful instrument'. the letter is in effect a crash course in guitar
• 1 x enclosure to the above, being crash course in guitar
• 1 x letter dated 6 October 1937, headed 39 Royal Terrace, Edinburgh, to 'Dear Molly', signed D.F.T.

Mary Geraldine Grierson was born in 1898 and was the daughter of Professor Herbert John Clifford Grierson (1866-1960) and his wife Mary Letitia (1868-1937). In 1923, Mary (or Molly) married Bruce Dickins (1889-1978), Reader in English Language at Edinburgh University, and from 1931 Professor of English Language at Leeds.

Professor Donald Francis Tovey (1875-1940) was a close friend of Professor Grierson.

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Items acquired by purchase. Accession no: E2015.14.

Catalogued by Graeme D. Eddie 23 April 2015