Correspondence Correspondence relating to the Taw and Torridge Festival. Primarily concerns arrangements for the festival, accounts, and possible performances by the English Opera Group. Includes notes on Taw and Torridge Festival 1953-55 by Edward Blacksell and letters to the Arts Council concerning a financial shortfall in 1955. Also includes a letter from John Christie concerning a motoring court case and his determination to do 'nothing for North Devon after this'. Correspondents include: Arts Council of Great Britain Blacksell, J. E. Christie, John Cornford, Katharine David, Frank English Opera Group (Basil Douglas) Fortescue, Hugh William (5th Earl Fortescue) Taw and Torridge Festival Society 11 April 1952-15 May 1958