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to Maurice Brown

I’m obliged to Mr. Paul Reid for the present selection (among 70 extant letters) from the Brown archive (property of the Schubert UK Institute, held at the Leeds University Library). 

1. 28 May 1966 (Rastlose Liebe; Einstein's Schubert book; Schumann essay on NZfM)
2. 23 November 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 January 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 January 1968 (Book on Schumann; Wandrers Nachtlied; op. 57; Clara-themes; Ur-Forelle)
7. 6 January 1969 (Motifs in Schubert; Schumann as Wolf's mentor)
8. 31 October 1969 (Unknown Schubert; nightingales; motivic writing)
9. 22 July 1970 (Elgar; Coleridge; Deutsch)
10. 24 September 1972 (Mendelssohn; - and Chopin; Shakespeare Sonnets; Wolf-related topics)
11. 22 January 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 November 1975 (Letter to Mrs. Brown after Dr. Brown's death)
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