[Sheena Tennant, Margot Asquith's cousin.] Autograph 'Concert & Theatre Book 1902-1904', recording her attendance at events while studying music in Munich.

91pp., 12mo. In good condition, lightly aged, in aged and worn notebook with cloth spine and brown marbled covers, with label on front cover. Carefully and neatly written, with date, venue, title and musicians and actors names. The volume begins with concerts at St Andrew's Hall, Glasgow, with other performances in London, Cambridge and Liverpool, but 29 September 1904 on p.32, the performances are seen in Munich. Among the artistes are Leonard Borwick, Bernard Stavenhagen, Felix Weingartner, Berthe Marx-Goldschmidt, Theresa Carreno. The volume ends with an eight-page index of the names of the composers of 'Music heard between November 1902 & January 1905'. This is followed by a two-page 'Index to Operas & Concerts'. Sheena Lilian Grant Tennant came from a privileged Scottish family, being the youngest of the six children (five daughters and a son) of the wealthy Scottish 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). She was educated at Cheltenham Ladies' College, studied music composition in Munich (1904-1908) and then in Paris (1910-1912) under Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979), published eight piano pieces (including songs by W. E. Henley and W. B. Yeats) between 1908 and 1929, 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 Infantry.