'The RCO Library has had its periods of expansion and neglect - of fortuitous acquisition and deliberate pillage,' writes Robin Langley, in this article from the RCO Journal in 1994 - when the the Library was based at St Andrews, Holborn, and not Birmingham as now.  Robin (College Librarian from 1990-2003) describes how some major collections arrived at the library and quotes some of the shorter acquisitions in full, including a tirade by SS Wesley illustrating the trials of a cathedral musician in the early nineteenth century, and one of several letters from Elgar dealing with the coronation of Edward…