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Sheila Middlebrooke archive (RNCM)

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Audio Files

RNCM / Sheila Middlebrooke archive / SM/01
Level: Series / Extent: Single cassette with 2 sides
Dates: Undated
Description: List of audio from the collection, have not been able to listen to the file due to incompatability with the audio file and cannot ascertain the exact scope and content of the media. No date known or available for this series.

Diaries

RNCM / Sheila Middlebrooke archive / SM/02
Level: Series / Extent: Five volumes of diaries
Dates: 1967-1986
Description: 5 Large cloth bound diaries from Sheila Middlebrooke over the course of 9 years detailing the happenings within her life and the historical events of importance to her

Original Songs By Sheila Middle Brook and Terry Pearson

RNCM / Sheila Middlebrooke archive / SM/03
Level: Series / Extent: Papers and sheet music, collection of songs, 13 copies
Dates: 1966'
Description: Arrangement of sheet music both handwritten and printed by Sheila Middlebrooke and Terry Pearson. Many of the sheets exist as individual scores and two are self contained books or bound pieces of music. Only sure of the date of one of the items in this series, 'Folk Song from Tibet'.

Works by Others

RNCM / Sheila Middlebrooke archive / SM/04
Level: Series / Extent: Papers and shee music, 3 sheets
Dates: Undated
Description: Writings and pages from creators that are not specifically Sheila Middlebrook but were included in her own personal collection and given to the RNCM, items are assumed to be of note.No date known or available for this series.

Collection of Letters

RNCM / Sheila Middlebrooke archive / SM/05
Level: Series / Extent: Folder of letters and bound collection of cutouts curated by Terry Pearson
Dates: 1993-1995
Description: Letters and writings written by and for Terry Pearson, mostly regarding the 'Sheila Middlebrooke Mozart Collection' owned by the RNCM and gifted, prusumably, posthumously on behalf of Sheila Middlebrooke. Other items included detail the death of Sheila Middlebrooke and her declining health leading up to it. Dates only known in the letters regarding the 'Sheila Middlebrooke Mozart Collection', otherwise no date available or known.

Notes and other

RNCM / Sheila Middlebrooke archive / SM/06
Level: Series / Extent: Loose documents from Sheila Middlebrooke
Dates: Undated
Description: Assortments of notes writen by Shiela Middlebrook not contained with her diaries in the collection, loose papers from her time as a teacher and her travels. No date known or available for this series.