Microfilms of letters written by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy and his sister Fanny to their parents, and to each other

This material is held atBodleian Library, University of Oxford

  • Reference
    • GB 161 MSS. Film 1805-6
  • Dates of Creation
    • 20th century (microfilms of originals, 1821-47)
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
    • German.
  • Physical Description
    • 2 shelfmarks

Scope and Content

Microfilms of 740 letters written by Felix Mendelssohn and his sister Fanny to their parents and to each other, 1821-47.

Administrative / Biographical History

Jacob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809-47) was a composer. See the Grove Dictionary of Music for further details.

Access Information

Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card (for admissions procedures see http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk).

Note

Collection level description created by Susan Thomas, Department of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts.

Other Finding Aids

A description is available in the Library, where there is also a card index to unpublished catalogues.

Related Material

For related material see Peter Ward Jones, Catalogue of the Mendelssohn papers in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, III (Tutzing, 1989), pp. 308-11.

Additional Information

The originals are located at the New York Public Library.