Autograph Signature of Phillips ('Montague F. Phillips'), with manuscript of score of musical phrase; autograph signature of Butterworth ('Clara Butterworth').

On the recto of a piece of pink paper, roughly 17.5 x 23.5 cm, removed from an autograph album. Good, on lightly aged paper. Phillips's autograph is in the top left-hand corner, reading 'Montague F. Phillips | March 1927.' Above it are four bars of musical notation, marked 'allegro' and titled 'The Fishermen of England. The Rebel Maid" - both by Phillips).' Beneath this, and divided from it by a diagonal line, is Phillips's wife's autograph: 'Yours sincerely | Clara Butterworth'. The couple met while both students at the Royal Academy of Music. Butterworth outlived her husband by twenty-eight years, becoming, according to Phillips's entry in the New DNB, 'perhaps the longest-lived leading lady of the musical theatre by the time she died on 30 October 1996, at the age of 108'. On the reverse is a six-line quotation from Shakespeare, by 'Harold | Ap. 17. 1929'.