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Australia photograph album
NCA/1/3/3 · File · 1946-1947
Part of Neville Cardus Papers

Photo album by Edith Cardus labelled 'Memories Australia'.

Includes photographs of Neville and Edith Cardus and photographs of key sights in Australia with captions.

Cardus; Edith Honorine Watten ([1881]-1968); art teacher and amateur actress
NCA/1/3/2 · File · 1920-1929
Part of Neville Cardus Papers

A small photograph album that includes photographs of Neville Cardus and his wife Edith Cardus in the 1920s

Cardus; Sir; Neville John Frederick (1889-1975); knight, journalist
Cardus press photographs
NCA/1/3/1 · File · 1960-1971
Part of Neville Cardus Papers

Press photographs of Neville Cardus. Includes photographs taken by Peter Dozier, John A Brancher, Gabor Denes and Brian Duff.

Also includes programme for The Halle Orchestra with an introduction by Neville Cardus, 26 February 1954.

Cardus; Sir; Neville John Frederick (1889-1975); knight, journalist
Correspondence
NCA/1/1 · File · 1969
Part of Neville Cardus Papers

Letters of thanks sent to Neville Cardus from readers and other journalists, mainly in response to his piece The Most Beautiful Woman I Know, Guardian, 25 February 1969.

Includes correspondence from Mary Stott, editor of The Guardian's women's page, and various readers.

Also includes a leaflet for a talk by Cardus in aid of The Mayer-Lismann Opera Workshop on 8 February 1970, and an interview with Cardus on cricket and music, The Illustrated London News, 5 April 1969.

Cardus; Sir; Neville John Frederick (1889-1975); knight, journalist
Correspondence
NCA/2/1 · Sub-series · c1950s-1970s
Part of Neville Cardus Papers

Correspondence and enclosures accumulated by Else Mayer-Lismann.

Cardus; Sir; Neville John Frederick (1889-1975); knight, journalist
Cricket Cuttings Albums
NCA/1/2/1 · File · 1925-1940
Part of Neville Cardus Papers

Three albums containing various cricket related photographs, cartoons and newspaper cuttings of Neville Cardus' articles as 'Cricketer' (his cricket byline at the Manchester Guardian).

Album 1 was made for Cardus by Kathleen Higenbottam in 1925.

The creator is unknown for album 2 and 3 and the date range is potentially the early 1930s for both albums.

Album 3 also includes a poem written in the same hand as the annotations in the two albums.
Creator: Higenbottam; Kathleen (fl.1925)

NCA/3/1 · File · 1953-1972
Part of Neville Cardus Papers

Sample of Neville Cardus' concert-going ephemera with relevant cuttings and tickets, as arranged by Donald Wright. Includes:

File 1: Copy of The Gramophone Record Review 1953; draft copy of an article on Klemperer by Cardus; article on Cardus by Andrew Porter marked up for quotation in Donald Wright's book introduction; list of articles by Cardus in Wright's hand; handwritten draft text on Cardus by Donald Wright; letter in German to Cardus from Hans Walter Wild; invitation and letter to Donald Wright regarding Robin Daniels book on Cardus (2009) and a press release leaflet of Robin Daniels book on Cardus.

File 2: Cardus' cuttings on music from British and German newspapers, along with Royal Festival Hall programmes and tickets, mounted on paper and dated by Donald Wright.

File 3: Concert programmes booklets relating to the Gustav Mahler anniversary in 1960; typescript of an article on Mahler in German.

Cardus; Sir; Neville John Frederick (1889-1975); knight, journalist
Draft speeches
NCA/2/3 · File · c1950s
Part of Neville Cardus Papers

Draft speeches on Mozart and opera presumed to be by Lismann, but including an annotated typescript entitled Reflections on Mozart, possibly by Neville Cardus.*

Also includes a manuscript score for Cardus' song Love Me.

Cardus; Sir; Neville John Frederick (1889-1975); knight, journalist
Draft Typescript
NCA/3/2 · File · c2009
Part of Neville Cardus Papers

Draft of an unpublished second book of Neville Cardus' music criticism by Donald Wright.

Includes typed up versions of Cardus' Manchester Guardian articles and essays on music as well as newspaper clippings of these (c1920-1960) arranged by Donald Wright.

Cardus; Sir; Neville John Frederick (1889-1975); knight, journalist