[Sheena Tennant, Scottish composer and Margot Asquith's niece.] Collection of six items of printed sheet music, all piano pieces by her, including arrangements of poems by W. B. Yeats; Alfred, Lord Tennyson; W. E. Henley; David Doyle.

Collection of six items of printed sheet music of piano pieces. In good overall condition, on lightly aged and worn paper. All published by The Frederick Harris Company, London (Item One at 89 Newman Street, Oxford Street; Items Two to Four at 89 Newman Street; and Items Five and Six at 40 Berners Street). All items excessively scarce, with COPAC only recording one copy (at the British Library) of Items One, Two, Three and Five; two copies (British Library and Trinity College Dublin) of Item Four; and no copies of Item Six. ONE: 'Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal. Song . Words by Alfred, Lord Tennyson'. [1912.] 5 + [1]pp., folio. Back cover carries advertisements for works by Carrie Jacobs-Bond. TWO: 'An Irish Cradle Song. Words by W. B. Yeats. From Poems by W. B. Yeats, published by T. Fisher Unwin'. [1914.] 5 + [1]pp., folio. Title page carries the gaelic motto: 'Goth yani me von gilli beg," | "'N heur ve thu more a creena"'. Back cover carries the first page of music of Item One above. THREE: 'An Echo. Song. Words by W. E. Henley'. [1914.] 6 + [1]pp., folio. Cover printed in red. Back cover carries the first page of music of Item Two above. FOUR: 'A Song of Friendship. Song. Words by David Boyle'. 5 + [1]pp., folio. Dedicated 'To D.H.M.B.' Back cover carries the first page of music of Item Three above. FIVE: 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree. Words by W. B. Yeats'. [1917.] 5 + [1]pp., folio. Illustration of tree on bank of lake on cover. Back cover carries the first page of music of Item One above. SIX: 'Two Capriccios for Piano'. 11pp., folio. In blue covers, with list of 'Other Compositions by Sheena Tennant' on the back cover. According to Tennant's son Hugh Kendall, his mother saw herself as 'one of the first women composers'. She studied under Nadia Boulanger in Paris, and subsequently in Munich (1904-1907).' Sheena Lilian Grant Tennant (hereafter ST) came from a privileged Scottish family, being the youngest of the six children (five daughters and a son) of the wealthy industrialist James Tennant of Fairlieburne, Fairlie, Argyllshire, a nephew of Sir Charles Tennant of the Glen (father of Margot Asquith, wife of British Prime Minister H. H. Asquith, who was hence James Tennant's cousin). Beginning as a partner in the Glasgow chemical manufacturers Charles Tennant & Co., James Tennant became director of companies including United Alkali Co, North Eastern Electric Supply Co, and Eastern Paper Mills Co. ST was educated at Cheltenham Ladies' College, studied music composition in Paris under Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979), and at the Royal Academy of Music, Munich (1904-1907). She worked during the war and until her marriage as assistant to Major William Byam (1882-1963), Royal Army Medical Corps, at the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Euston, and in Hampstead. On 31 July 1919 she married Herbert Moorhouse Kendall (1881-1941) of the P & O, previously of the 3rd Duke of Cornwall's Light Infrantry.