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GIBBONS, Lucy Jane (b 1887)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 1249 MS 6885

Held at: Royal College of Music

Title: GIBBONS, Lucy Jane (b 1887)

Date(s): 1908-1910, 1963

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 file

Name of creator(s): Gibbons | Lucy Jane | b 1887 | musician

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Lucy Jane Gibbons, of Gosport, Hants, was born on 14 Aug 1887 and was a student at the Royal College of Music, 1908-1909, studying the organ and piano.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of Lucy Jane Gibbons comprising notebook containing manuscript copies of her letters, giving details of her student life at the Royal College of Music, 1908-1909; letters testimonial (5) from her teachers at the RCM, 1909-1910; letter from Yehudi Menuhin to Miss M H Gibbons [sister of Lucy Gibbons], with thanks for her gift to his school, 1963.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English.

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

Usual conditions of the Library of the Royal College of Music apply. See the RCM website or contact the RCM Library for details.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Photocopying is permitted at the discretion of the Archivist for research purposes only.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

The collection is catalogued in the 'Provisional catalogue of letters in the RCM library' by J Kersey, 1997, vol 1; an entry is also given in the supplement to volume 3 of the Manuscripts catalogue in the library of the Royal College of Music.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

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Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Acquired by the RCM, c1963-1973.

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Compiled by Robert Baxter as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Nov 2001


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Music education | Cultural education
Musicians | Performers | Artists
Women students | Students

Personal names
Gibbons | Lucy Jane | b 1887 | musician
Menuhin | Yehudi | 1916-1999 | Baron Menuhin | violinist

Corporate names
Royal College of Music

Places