‘Guillaume Tell’, opera in four acts by Gioachino Rossini. Libretto by Etienne de Jouy, Hippolyte Bis and others after Schiller. Full score with French words, in the hand of 3 French copyists, c 1829. Not copied from the printed edition (Paris, Troupenas, 1829). Pencil markings throughout are apparently in the hand of Sir Henry Bishop, who was responsible for the two early London Drury Lane productions, the radically altered one in 1830 under the title 'Hofer, the Tell of the Tyrol' in a translation by J. R. Planché, and one in 1838 under the original title, with a translation by Alfred Bunn. Only a few phrases of English translation have been pencilled in, but the occasional remark 'stet 1838' over cut bars points to a connection with the latter production, and it seemingly played some part in the earlier one. At MS. Mus. c. 562, fols. 79-80 are two loosely inserted leaves of score with English words.