1956 JOHN STEWART McLENNAN Night Will Never Stay facsimile autograph score RARE

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[JOHN STEWART McLENNAN AMERICAN COMPOSER] THE NIGHT WILL NEVER STAY, for soprano chorus a capella,  music by John Stewart McLennan
, lyrics by Eleanor Farjeon, Dedicated to Holly and Angelica, facsimile autograph score with facsimile signature at end “John Stewart McLennan, 20 April 1956, Tyringham [MA]”, 11” x 14”, 3 pages (on one side of 3-page foldout with reverse sides blank), Circle Blue Print Co., New York, 12-stave music copy sheets,
RARE
composition by this American composer, none found for sale (3/24/21), and none recorded at WorldCat/OCLC (3/24/21), one copy only located at Archives & Research Center, Sharon, MA, in the archive John Stewart McLennan, Jr. Papers, “photocopy of holograph score, spiral bound…At end: ’20 April 1956 – Tyringham’ ”, which is apparently a photocopy of this facsimile autograph score which is not spiral bound ///
JOHN STEWART McLENNAN, JR.,
1915-, 96, born in Tyringham, Massachusetts, on November 26, 1915 to American writer Grace Seeley Henop Tytus McLennan (1875-1928) and Canadian industrialist, newspaper owner, and politician John Stewart McLennan (1853-1939)…he was a composer of contemporary classical music and lifelong resident of Tyringham;
ELEANOR FARJEON
, 1881-1965, English author of children’s stories and plays, poetry, biography, history and satire.
/// CONDITION:
well-preserved, age-toning, all music and lyrics legible.