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Freddie Mercury
Correspondence and ephemera
i) Bundle of autograph notes and memoranda including sketched lettering of 'Queen' , notes of appointments, doodles, calculations, memoranda ("Mick Rock, Chat about sleeve"), and fragments, 12 leaves, various sizes, 1970s-80s
ii) Sheet music of the brass arrangement for 'Staying Power' by Arif Mardin, with cover letter by Mardin, 1981-82
iii) Press cutting of Freddie enclosed with a cover note by Paul of Queen Productions, 1978, in an envelope
iv) Photocopies: 'The Glass: A Lexicon of the Fantastical', c17 pages; music magazines showing the chart position of 'Killer Queen', 4 pages
v) empty envelopes, unused stationery, Performing Rights Society pamphlet and commemorative stamps
vi) Lithographic print with pen and ink revisions, depicting William Wordsworth with 8 lines from 'Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey', the reverse bearing a sticker labelled A.S. Knight with the name 'Bulsara' in manuscript, on coloured paper
Item (vi) presumably dates from Mercury's time at Ealing Art College in the late 1960s.
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