Press cuttings of musical interest: Cardiff Times Commemoration Hymn Tune Prize, 1878, the winning composition by James Peters ('Alaw Afan'); biographical sketches of Frederick Corder, E[dmund] H[art] Turpin, C[harles] Villiers Stanford, Sir G[eorge] A[lexander] Macfarren and Sir Arthur Sullivan; 'A Derbyshire Labourer's View of Disestablishment and Disendowment'; a facsimile of a letter by George Frideric Handel, June 1730; and Welsh music notes.

A volume of magazine articles on the lives of the great composers.