KIRBY, Percival R./: A 17 Line Autograph Letter to Dr. E. M. Sandler, Signed and Dated 1 July 1966,   Together with the Original Envelope Addressed in Kirby's Hand

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KIRBY, Percival R./ : A 17 Line Autograph Letter to Dr. E. M. Sandler, Signed and Dated 1 July 1966, Together with the Original Envelope Addressed in Kirby's Hand

he thanks Sandler for kind remarks, and informs him that he has completed an article on John Centlivres Chase as a cartographer, as well as one on the Grahamstown Military Hospital. . He refgrets that he never has reprints to send. Percival R. Kirby was one of the greatest South African musicologists and ethnomusicologists. He was also a teacher, a conductor, a timpanist, a flautist, a composer, a scientist, and an artist. Born in Scotland in 1887, after completing his studies at the Royal College of Music in London he went to South Africa as the music organizer to the Natal Education Department. In 1920, he moved to Johannesburg as acting professor of music at the University College. He was soon appointed professor of music and stayed at the University of the Witwatersrand for 30 years. He died in 1970.

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