Jabberwocky. Autograph manuscript of a song for voice and piano. Text by Lewis Carroll: Text by Lewis Carroll.

1986. Folio. Stapled. 7 pp. Notated in pencil on various 16-stave papers. A working manuscript, with numerous corrections, deletions, and additions. Variously dated January 4, 5 and 7, 1986. Pages 1 and 7 in photocopy.

Together with:
- A photographic copy of the fair copy of the manuscript with several autograph corrections and additions in blue pencil. "As a composer Hoiby was a modern Romantic from the lineage of Barber and Menotti. The influence of the former is evident in his warm lyricism, while that of the latter is found in a propensity for light, genial humour. Though much of his music is characterized by a disarming diatonic simplicity, his ambitious works tend towards greater harmonic and textural complexity. Interest in his music has centred chiefly around his operatic, choral and vocal works, which seem to stimulate his most deeply felt efforts. Some of these works... achieve an eloquence comparable to the later works of Barber. With greater critical acceptance of more conservative musical styles from the early 1980s onwards, Hoiby's music has been performed and recorded with increasing frequency." Richard Jackson and Walter G. Simmons in Grove Music Online.