| Description | Programme summer festival, Peter Pears, Benjamin Britten. Quantity of correspondence from Benjamin Britten to Peter Cox, Dorothy Elmhirst, including discussion of Elmgrant funding towards productions of Dido and Aeneas, 1951, and Ruth and Boaz (by Lennox Berkeley), 1956; and Aldeburgh Festival Appeal auction, to which the Elmhirsts donated a painting by Duncan Grant. Also bundle of correspondence re London Boy Singers (previously Finchley Boys' Choir) between Imogen Holst, Leonard Elmhirst, Rosamund Strode, London Boy Singers.
Letters from Peter Pears to the Elmhirsts, and from Britten re opening of Music School. Some press cuttings.
Photocopied correspondence between Britten and Leonard and Dorothy Elmhirst, and Ruth Ash (originals in the Britten-Pears Library). Discussion in 1996 about the Rape of Lucretia, and whether it was written for the Barn Theatre at Dartington.
Photocopies of letter to Mr (Charles) White from Prue Fuller (daughter of Christopher Martin) and of photograph of Benjamin Britten, Cicely Martin, Peter Cox and Christopher Martin at Yarner, c1939/1940. |