Abstract
Charles Jennens (1700–73) is best remembered as the friend and protector of Handel who was also the composer's literary collaborator inMessiah, Saul, BelshazzarandL'Allegro.A connoisseur and collector of music, Jennens subscribed to all Handel's published scores from 1725 to 1740 and had a large number of works by his friend especially copied for him. An understandable predilection for Handel's music did not, however, lessen his curiosity about the works of Italian composers, some of whom were Handel's colleagues or rivals in England. This interest is fascinatingly charted in the surviving correspondence, spanning the years 1729–46, between Jennens and the Latin poet and classical scholar Edward Holdsworth (1684–1746), which was acquired by the Gerald Coke Collection in 1973. Jennens's letters – at least, those written from 13 November 1735 onwards – were returned to him after Holdsworth's death, so that the two sides of the correspondence are today united.
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