Mar 21, 2024 - Sale 2663

Sale 2663 - Lot 198

Price Realized: $ 562
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Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(ENTERTAINMENT--MUSIC.) Collection of 4 autographs by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. 4 signed manuscript items plus one blank postcard; various sizes and conditions. London and elsewhere, circa 1903-1911
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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912) was a biracial English composer and conductor. His father's family had been enslaved in America, were relocated to Nova Scotia as British Loyalists after the Revolution, and were then resettled in the British colony of Sierra Leone. He was particularly well-known for his composition "Hiawatha's Wedding Feast," and he toured extensively in the United States, where he was invited to meet President Theodore Roosevelt at the White House. Offered here are:

Autograph Letter Signed to a Mr. Williams. One page, on verso of a printed flier for Coleridge-Taylor Orchestral Concerts, trimmed to 8¼ x 7¾ inches; folds, mount remnants on verso. "I am forming a new orchestra to give a series of first-class concerts in Croydon during the coming season. I think I have got hold of all the best Croydon strings there are, and I am anxious to get you to belong if you can, to make my list complete. We start rehearsing next Tuesday evening. . . . Dots, do come, I am sure you'll be pleased with the people." 10 Upper Grove [London], circa 1903.

Autograph Letter Signed to Mrs. Colwell, on letterhead of the String-Players' Club. 2 pages on one sheet, 9 x 7 inches; folds, minimal foxing. "I am sending the cello part of my Variations by same post. The publishers want the piano part for a few days, so I cannot send that at the same time." Hill Crest, Norbury [London], 15 December [no year].

Musical Quotation Signed, 3¼ x 4¾ inches, clipped from a notebook leaf, March 1911.

Clipped signature from a letter, 3 x 4 inches.

German postcard of Coleridge-Taylor with facsimile signature, undated.