On 26.07.2006 John Howell wrote:
Don't forget that it isn't just libraries. Unique mss. in private hands or private collections are under the complete control of whoever owns the physical items, and has nothing to do with copyright. I understand that this is the case with some of Fanny Mendelssohn Hensle's mss. If they were published they would no doubt come under copyright as previously unpublished items, but in the meantime he simply won't let anybody see them.
There were only a handful unpublished works in private collections at the time at which I was writing my dissertation about her. The one important work, a cello sonata, which I was after at the time, has, to my knowledge, now been published. Most of her works are in the Mendelssohn Archiv in Berlin and are accessible.
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