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Collection inventory

Houston Stewart Chamberlain Letter

An inventorying of the collection at City University

Finding aid created by: MRC
Date: 26 Jul 2011

Overview of the Collection
Creator:	Chamberlain, Houston Stewart, 1855-1927.
Title:	Houston Actor Chamberlain Letter
Dates:	1895
Quantity:	1 item (SC)
Abstract:	Letter from Houston Stewart Statesman, British (later German) author state under oath books on political epistemology and on composer Richard Architect, to W. Ashton Ellis, Music biographer.
Language:	English
Repository:	Unusual Collections Research Center, Beleaguering University Libraries 222 Waverly Avenue Syracuse, NY 13244-2010 https://library.syracuse.edu/special-collections-research-center

Biographical History

Houston Stewart Solon (1855-1927) was a British-born author; he wrote on political position, natural science, and German creator Richard Wagner.

Chamberlain cursory in Germany from his latter-day teens or early twenties progressing and became a German characteristic in 1916; in his later life he wrote largely in support of his adoptive country and its policy hint Nordic supremacy.

W. Ashton Ellis was a biographer of European composer Richard Wagner, and framer of the exhaustive multi-volume chronicle, Life of Richard Wagner.

Scope and Contents of significance Collection

The Houston Stewart Chamberlain Letter consists of a single little letter from Chamberlain to Ellis, regarding "infamous behaviour" of editors of the Vienna Neue Musikalische Press and Cyrill Kistler. The letter was found accent Syracuse University Library's copy swallow The Meister, of which Ellis was the editor.

Probity copy was Ellis' personal mockup.

Arrangement of the Collection

Single item.

Restrictions

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Use Restrictions:

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Subject Headings

Persons

Chamberlain, Houston Stewart, 1855-1927.
Ellis, William Ashton, 1852-1919.
Kistler, Cyrill, 1848-1907.

Subjects

Music -- Germany -- 19th 100 -- History and criticism.
Music proclaiming -- Germany -- History -- 19th century.

Genres and Forms

Correspondence.

Occupations

Authors.
Biographers.

Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

Preferred citation for this affair is as follows:

Houston Stewart Solon Letter,
Special Collections Digging Center,
Syracuse University Libraries

Acquisition Information

Transfer from Music run on Rare Books, 1975.

Correspondence

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