Poyser (Arthur) Collection of letters and ephemera, 1094-1938

Scrapbook featuring letters, cards, drawings and ephemera related to Arthur Poyser, International Commissioner for Music, Master of the Lord Mayor's Players and Singers [the Boy Players], and founder in 1908 of the Lord Mayor's Own 1st City of London B.P. Scouts. Highlights include: Lord Howard de Walden (1880-1946), two letters, together with 3pp. (1p., 4to; 2pp., 12mo) of 'Pencil drawings by Lord Howard de Walden, High Warden of the London Boy Players, on back of an Agenda paper, made during a Council meeting!'; the actress Madge Kendal (1848-1935); Sir Alexander Campbell Mackenzie, Director of the Royal Academy of Music ('a great personal friend of my Father's'); E. H. Redford, Reader of Plays in the Lord Chamberlain's Office; two from Sir William Soulsby (1851-1937), Private Secretary to the Lord Mayor of London; one each from Armitage Robinson (1858-1933), Dean of Wells, and his wife; Arthur W. Robinson, Canon of Canterbury Cathedral (two); William Edward Collins (1867-1911), Bishop of Gibraltar (eight letters and four cards; one letter, from 1909, describing his 'wonderful work of rescue, etc., amid the ruins of the earthquake-wrecked Messina and Reggio. Collins told me more of all this when I spent a day with him in London, later in the year'; James Beattie, President of the Educational Institute of Scotland (two letters and one card); Spencer Carpenter (1877-1959), Dean of Exeter; Kenneth Mackenzie (1863-1945), Bishop of Argyll and the Isles; Canon Hensley Henson (1863-1947); Sir Frederick Bridge (1844-1924), organist and Master of the Choristers at Westminster Abbey; Irene Macdonald, with note by her husband the novelist George Macdonald; the journalist Hannen Swaffer ('Swaff') and his wife Helen; Francis Edward Carter, Dean of Grahamstown; the publicist Sydney Walton; William Foxley Norris (1859-1937), Dean of Westminster; Sir Henry Walford Davies (1869-1941), Master of the King's Musick (two letters); Sir George Wyatt Truscott (1857-1941), Lord Mayor of London; Sir Charles Wakefield (1859-1941), Lord Mayor of London; Rose Macaulay (1881-1958); Lilian Bayliss (1874- 1937), Sir Tyrone Guthrie (1900-1971); Sir Seymour Hicks (1871-1949); Sir Gerald du Maurier (1873-1934); the novelist Ernest Raymond (1888-1974); R. J. Streatfield, Private Secretary to the Queen (on Buckingham Palace letterhead); A. Lascelles, Assistant Private Secretary to the Prince of Wales, and others; all items affixed onto album pages and accompanied by handwritten caption in Poyser's hand, 1904-1938.