Editore: Place and date not stated. Parkins & Gotto London
Da: Richard M. Ford Ltd, London, Regno Unito
On a piece of paper roughly 3.5 x 9 cm, with embossed details of stationers. Good, with tiny crease to one corner. A clear signature, in pencil.
Editore: Without date or place
Da: Richard M. Ford Ltd, London, Regno Unito
Cut from a letter. On small rectangle of light-grey paper, roughly 2 x 4 cm. Fair, on aged paper with thin light strip of glue staining along top edge. Neat firm signature, underlined and overlined, reading 'John Hullah'.
Editore: Glasgow [Scotland]: Nov. 3., 1848., 1848
Da: Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd., Cadyville, NY, U.S.A.
Copia autografata
Condizione: Very good. - 79 words penned in black ink on 2-1/3 sides of a folded sheet of stock, 7 inches high by 4-3/8 inches wide. Dated "Nov. 3. 1848" and signed "John Hullah". Remnants of gray paper adhere to the 4th [blank] side where the letter has been removed from an album. Folded twice for mailing. Very good. Hullah's letter, addressed to G. L. Craik, is written from Queen's Hotel, Glasgow. His home address in London is printed on the fourth, blank side of what is evidently his personalized letterhead. Hullah urges Craik to purchase a piano in his absence; "Read the enclosed [not present], addressed to a first-rate man at Broadwoods'. If you approve, take it there & ask for him. He will do all that is needed -- quite as well as / Yours Ever Truly / John Hullah".John Pyke Hullahh [1812-1884] was an English composer and music teacher. His compositions, which remained popular for some years after his death, were mainly ballads, though he also composed three operas in the 1830s, including one to words by Dickens, "The Village Coquette". More important perhaps was his commitment to popularizing musical education. He was appointed musical inspector of British training schools in 1872 and in 1878 he went abroad to study the condition of musical education in foreign schools, writing a valuable report on his return. Though his success was limited by his strenuous opposition to the Tonic Sol-Fa system, the value of his work lay in his emphasis on demanding high artistic standards of the music taught and studied.The recipient of the letter was George Lillie Craik, a Scottish writer and literary critic. John Broadwood & Sons, to whom Hullah directs him, is one of the oldest and most prestigious piano companies in the world.
Editore: 18 May ; on letterhead of Grosvenor Mansions Victoria Street S.W. London, 1878
Da: Richard M. Ford Ltd, London, Regno Unito
Manoscritto / Collezionismo cartaceo
See his entry in the Oxford DNB, which quotes Gordon Cox as stating that Hullah was 'the fountain head of music education in the nineteenth century'. 1p, 12mo. In good condition, lightly aged. Handwriting and signature in a bold attractive hand. Reads: 'Dear Mrs. Tail / I have the pleasure to send you a few lines fm Mr. Otto Goldschmidt, about the Bach Choir. / I am, dear Madam / Always Your's [sic] Truly / John Hullah'.
Editore: Stanford Lincolnshire 18 August, 1865
Da: Richard M. Ford Ltd, London, Regno Unito
Manoscritto / Collezionismo cartaceo
4pp., 12mo. Bifolium on grey paper. In good condition, with traces of mount along one edge of verso of last leaf. Being away from home and his papers, he cannot answer all the recipient's questions, but 'it will be enough if I say that I shall not require an Organ, & that the Illustrations to my lecture would (or might be made to) consist exclusively of unaccompanied vocal music, mostly English. The effect of some pieces might be increased by being performed chorally - say with three or four good voices to a part, but they will all admit of performance by one voice to a part'. He assumes that St Andrew's Hall 'can hardly be worse adapted for speaking in than the room in which I lecture sometimes at Edinburgh, which is cruciform, & holds 2,500 people'. He comments on the practice of lecturing, before concluding with the suggestion that 'all the Illustrations might be very safely left to the Cathedral Choir'.