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Collected Essays, Reviews and Letters

on Music, on Shakespeare, on Cryptography

 

 

ON CRYPTOGRAPHY

 

 

U) Solutions to ciphers, Essays, Articles, Reviews

I'm much obliged to Dr. Joanna Parker, Librarian of the Worcester College Library,

for her valuable help in tracing the solutions to ciphers (t.3, t.4, t.5) and for sending me

the relevant copies and some additional materials.

 

1. Review of David Kahn, The Codebreakers, MT Aug., 1968 [T]
2.

Solutions to unsolved cipher in Thurloe (State Papers) filed in the Bodleian Library with Clarendon MS 94 (1973)

3.

Solutions to Clarke's shorthand filed in Worcester College Library (MS XXII fol 34p) Oxford (1974)

3.1. Leith, Febr. 25, 1561
3.2. Shorthand notebook (shorthand symbols from Clarke's MSS, listed and decrypted) A-K  K-Y

3.3. Letter to Dr. R. A. Sayce, custodian of the Clarke archives in Worcester College Library, 9 Oct. 1976

4.

Solution to the cipher letter of Charles I to Sir Edw. Nicholas (BL Add 18738 fol 73) [.PDF]

5.

Solution to cipher in George Combe's Journal, 18 September 1851 (National Library of Scotland) [.PDF]

6.

Solutions to the cipher letters of Henrietta Maria and Prince Rupert (with Moore, J., 1976)

7. Cryptanalysis and Historical Research (with Moore, J.), TLS 4 Mar. 1977 [.PDF]
8. Review of R. A. Haldane, The Hidden War, New Statesman, May 1978
9. Musical Cryptography, Cryptologia vol. 3, n. 4, Oct., 1979 (see also d.2)
10. Cracking the historical codes, TLS 8 Feb. 1980
11. Cryptanalysis and Historical Research, Archivaria (1985-6) [.PDF]
12. Code and Cipher in Music [Script and presentation for Central TV film, 1989 (with Simon Target)]
(R/1992 as "Code and Cypher: The Secret language of Music"; Princeton, Films for the Humanities & Sciences)

 

 

  

 
 V) Letters on music and other topics (in progress)  
  [see also R (Letters on Shakespeare)]  

 

1. Erik Battaglia (1983-2003; private collection)
2. Maurice J. Brown (1966-1975; letters held at the Leeds University Library for the UK Schubert Institute)
  2.1. 14 selected letters (ES):
  1.   28 May 1966 [Rastlose Liebe; Einstein's Schubert book; Schumann essay on NZfM]
  2.  23 Nov. 1966 [Schumann and Chopin; Carnaval as Clara-music; Clärchen-Theme]
  3.  3 May 1967 [Brown's scholarship; Schumann and Schubert; Schubert and Mozart]
  4.  14 Jan. 1968 [Meine Rose; Hermann und Dorothea- MT essay; ciphers]
  5.  11 March 1968 [Humour in German - German humour; "Schumann as Critic"; Schubert Impromptus]
  6.  8 Nov. 1968 [Book on Schumann; Wandrers Nachtlied; op. 57; Clara-themes; Ur-Forelle]
  7.  6 Jan. 1969 [Motifs in Schubert; Schumann as Wolf's mentor]
  8.    31 Oct. 1969 [Unknown Schubert; nightingales; motivic writing]
  9.  22 July 1970 [Elgar; Coleridge; Deutsch]
  10. 24 Sept. 1972 [Mendelssohn; - and Chopin; Shakespeare Sonnets; Wolf topics]
  11.  22 Jan. 1973 [Nachtgesang; song-preludes; Schubert cycles; Shakespeare and Bacon]
  12. 21 March 1974 [An die Entfernte; Hotter; Peters misprints]
  13. 24 June 1974 [Civil Service; Richard and Jeremy; MT piece on Des Knaben Wunderhorn]
  14. 15 Nov. 1975 [Letter to Mrs. Brown after Dr. Brown's death]
 

 

3. Andrew Lamb (1972-2002; private collection, Croydon)
4. Harry Levin (Harvard, Houghton Library)
5. Nieves Hayat de Madariaga (1987-2003; private collection, Cortona) [see Sams/Shakespeare Archive 2]
6. Charles Wilfred Orr (1961-1976; British Library ADD MS 63842/3, 72072)
7. Andrew Porter (private collection)
8. Alan Walker (McMaster University, Ontario; A.W. Fonds, William Ready Division)
8.1. The "Freudian" querelle (Letters 1967-68) [see also c.6] 
  1. 2 May 1967 (ES)
  2. 23 May 1967 (ES)
  3. 26 May 1967 (AW)
  4. 27 May 1967 (ES)
  5. 1 Sept. 1968 (ES)
8.2. Schumann: The Making of an Essay (Letters 1969-71) [see also b.1 and b.2 ] 
  1. 7 Febr. 1969 (AW) 15. 20 Nov. 1970 (ES)
  2. 11 March 1969 (ES) 16. 23 Nov. 1970 (AW)
  3. 27 Apr. 1969 (ES) 17. 25 Nov. 1970 (ES)
  4. 5 July 1970 (ES) 18. 27 Nov. 1970 (AW)
  5. 7 July 1970 (AW) 19. 29 March 1971 (ES)
  6. 18 July 1970 (ES) 20. 2 Apr. 1971 (AW)
  7. 21 July 1970 (AW) 21. 3 Apr. 1971 (ES)
  8. 16 Aug. 1970 (ES) 22. 9 May 1971 (AW)
  9. 26 Oct. 1970 (ES) 23. 16 May 1971 (ES)
  10. 29 Oct. 1970 (ES) 24 18 May 1971 (ES)
  11. 14 Nov. 1970 (ES) 25. 1 June 1971 (ES)
  12. 16 Nov. 1970 (AW) 26. 5 Aug. 1971 (ES)
  13. 17 Nov. 1970 (ES) 27. 7 Aug. 1971 (AW)
  14. 19 Nov. 1970 (AW)
     
9. Nancy Wansbrough (Letters to an Atheist, Worthing, Churchman, 1988)
  [Letters on theology to and from Eric Sams, 1984-7] ISBN 1 85093 085 6
  9.1. 25 selected letters on theology, religion, atheism (ES)
  1. 8 Oct. 1984 14. 27 Jan. 1986
  2. 26 Oct. 1984 15. 1 Feb. 1986
  3. 23 Nov. 1984 16. 15 Feb. 1986
  4. 9 Dec. 1984 17. 28 Feb. 1986
  5. 8 Jan. 1985 18. 25 July 1986
  6. 25 Jan. 1985 19. 9 Aug. 1986
  7. 15 March 1985 20. 19 Aug. 1986
  8. Oct. 185 21. 5 Sep. 1986
  9. 19 Oct. 1985 22. 30 Oct. 1986
  10. 25 Oct. 1985 23. 26 Jan. 1986
  11. 6 Nov. 1985 24. 30 Jan. 1987
  12. 12 Nov. 1985 25. 7 Feb. 1987
  13. 23 Jan. 1986    

 

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