THE RAWSTHORNE ARCHIVE

This is housed at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester (UK) and contains the composers manuscripts of most of his published works. In addition there are manuscripts of many unpublished pieces, most from early in the composer's career.

There is a set of recordings on cassette of most of the composer's output, together with the composer's own collection of discs and tapes, many of which are private, historic performances of first performances.

Among other items are to be found correspondence, writings by the composer, including items of juvenilia, and press cuttings collected over the whole of his career.