| Description | Papers of Frank Merrick and Hope Squire relating to their musical careers as pianists, composers, and teachers including concert programmes, manuscript and printed compositions, and gramophone records, with correspondence and articles reflecting their political interests in vegetarianism, women's suffrage, and Esperanto. Frank Merrick was imprisoned as a conscientious objector during the First World War; the collection includes a group of 78 letters that he and Hope Squire exchanged during his imprisonment, with a file of official papers relating to his trial, imprisonment, and release, including correspondence between Hope Squire and the prison governors.
Personal papers include correspondence, scrapbooks, diaries, and a large collection of photographs of family and friends, among them photographs of musicians and actors such as Robert Donat and Dame Clara Butt.
There is also a diary, scrapbook, and poems by Hope Squire's father, John Barret Squire, an engineer and poet. |