The Well-Tempered Clavichord. By John Sebastian Bach. (Czerny).
371 Vierstimmige Choralgesänge von Johann Sebastian Bach.
Lieder Ohne Worte. 6 books, by Mendelssohn.
A Musical MS. Scrap-book, containing Notes of Rockstro’s lessons; also pieces copied by Butler, including some composed by him for Alfred to learn.
VIII. MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS
FORMERLY THE PROPERTY OF OR RELATING TO SAMUEL BUTLER
Thomas Harris, of Shrewsbury.
Butler when a boy was amused by the advertisement put up over his shop by this man, who was a baker. He copied or invented the two pictures showing Harris (1) making bride cakes, (2) making funeral cakes, and composed the music. Miss Butler showed it to me at Shrewsbury in June or July, 1902, and I copied it.
MS. copies of “The New Scriptures,” according to Darwin, Tyndall, Huxley and Spencer.
The first twenty-four verses of this appeared in an American paper (the Index, if I remember right) many years ago. They were given to me by Herbert Phipson; I showed them to Butler; he copied them and composed verses 25 to 33.
Testimonials by Eyre Crowe, A.R.A.; G. K. Fortescue; R. Garnett, LL.D.; A. C. Gow, A.R.A.; T. Heatherley; the Rev. B. H. Kennedy, D.D.; Henry Stacy Marks, R.A.; and W. T. Marriott, M.P., submitted by Butler in 1886 when a Candidate for the Slade Professorship of Fine Art at Cambridge.