| Description | Correspondence concerning Ronald Duncan's memoir 'Working with Britten'. Primarily concerns the whereabouts of missing Benajmin Britten manuscripts, letters to publishers, notes on factual errors, editorial corrections, the use of Britten Estate copyright material and contractual issues with W. H. Allen. The missing manuscripts concern 'The Pacifist March', The waltz for the Punch Revue, 'Stratton', a folk song known as 'The Glow Worm', 'The Eagle has Two Heads', the Kyrie for his mass and 'The Rape of Lucretia'. Includes some passages from the draft typescript, photocopies of corrected proof pages, press cuttings on Britten's estate, a timeline and notes on Benjamin Britten's life, a photocopy of part of the score of 'The Rape of Lucretia', and photographic copies of Britten's Kyrie and the annotated front page of 'Peter Grimes'.
Correspondents include:
Boosey and Hawkes (Celia Springate)
Del Mar, Norman
Eric Glass Ltd
Faber Music Ltd (Donald Mitchell)
Forsyte Kerman (Isador Caplan)
Harbottle and Lewis (M.H.D. Bowler)
Harper and Row (Ann Harris)
Lascelles, George (Lord Harewood)
Lewnstein , Oscar
The Observer
Opera Magazine (Harold Rosenthal)
Oxford University Press (Marjorie Mueller)
Random House
Strode, Rosamund
Sunday Times (Magnus Linklater, Mark Boxer)
Theatre Museum (Jennifer Aylmer)
Weston-Smith, Miranda
W.H.Allen & Co (Francis Allen, Aubrey Davis) |