Small archive of manuscript and printed music and ephemera. [Including an 1892 setting of Tennyson's 'Crossing the Bar'.]

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Two of the letters, which all appear to be drafts and copies, are addressed to The Universe, the Catholic newspaper, and concern the composer's entry for a competition to compose the official hymn for the Chicago Eucharistic Congress of 1926: Weeks praises the verses to be set, the work of a Sister Mary: 'Such a wide range! From the very Creation right up to date; and even beyond into Heaven!' It appears that his entry was not selected.In a further letter to The Universe, Weeks comments on the proposed designs for a Catholic flag for the British Empire; and in two letters to his publisher, Paxton, the composer expresses his concerns over paying for the engraving of the title page of Marche Nuptiale.