Correspondence and papers of Ethel Fiedler

Papers of Ethel Fiedler comprising:

• letters to Ethel Fiedler and members of her family, 1891-1945, including (fol. 13) a letter from Edward Elgar to Richard Peyton, 1920
• printed items relating to music in Birmingham, 1905-8.
• newscuttings concerning the Peyton chair of Music at Birmingham University, 1904-5.

Ethel Mary Harding, later Fiedler, (1891-1945) was the mother of Herma Fiedler.

Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card (for admissions procedures see http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk).

Given to the Library by the executors of Herma Fiedler in 1976.

Collection level description created by Susan Thomas, Department of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts.

A description is available in the Library, where there is also a card index to unpublished catalogues.

Travel Diaries of Ethel Mary Harding (later Fiedler) and Herma Fiedler (MSS. Eng. misc. c. 652, fols. 12-68, d. 989-93, e. 951-6, f. 559-60).