One contained a quantity of 19th century and later theatre and concert bills, flyers, etc, along with many newspaper cuttings, while the other offered some 80 or so letters addressed to a H Hill.
The latter bore the signatures of Louis Spohr, Hector Berlioz, Vincent Novello and many other figures in the musical world.
A third, very mixed lot that sold for £470 at the March 17 sale included the printed portrait of HW Hill shown here, which he has inscribed at the base to a Francis Paule.