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John Christie Correspondence, General Correspondence, S Correspondents

Reference code: G/CC/1/2/19
Level: File
Title: John Christie Correspondence, General Correspondence, S Correspondents
Quantity & Format: 86 letters
Repository: Glyndebourne Archive
Creator(s): Christie, John
Scope and content: Contains correspondence to and from -
William Sackville, Earl de la Warr, 1946 (1 letter)

Joanna-May Saloman, 1958 (2 letters)

C.H.Scott, 1959 (2 letters)
Scott’s letter is in response to the unfavourable review of Der Rosenkavalier in The Times in 1959

Diana Scott, 1958 (2 letters)
John Christie writes, “I am afraid I do not go to the Edinburgh Festival now. We started it at our expense, and have had no trace of gratitude.”

Elizabeth Sandeland Scott, 1959 (2 letters)
John Christie writes about the Edinburgh Festival, “The whole idea was my wife’s. She talked about it in Salzburg, and then, with Rudi Bing, waiting for a tram during the war when we took The Beggar’s Opera to Edinburgh.”

George Schuster, 1959 (1 letter)

Johannes Schwazenberg, Austrian Ambassador in London, 1959 (2 letters)
Re: John Christie being awarded Grand Commander Cross of Merit of the Austrian Republic

Miki Sekers, The Silk Mill Whitehaven, 1955, 1956, 1958 and 1959 (7 letters)
Miki Sekers writes, 22 July 1955, “Up to now all our meetings have been in Board-rooms, with all the restrictions of a Board-room atmosphere. But in your drawing room we all felt relaxed, and being in an atmosphere of something which we believed in so much and wanted to fight for, we had energy, and being together for the performance and having dinner with you in the dining room at the lavishly laid table, made us all seem like an enlarged family of John and Audrey Christie.”

Miki Sekers writes, 01 March 1956, “How much you believe in fighting and not giving in, and your great influence on all of us to accept these principles, and not to be satisfied, ever, with the achievements or success of the moment. No work has given me more happiness in my life than my work for Glyndebourne. It is all thanks to you.”

Stevens Sgurovy (?), 1939 (1 letter)

Geoffrey Sharp, The Music Review, 1950 and 1951 (3 letters + 1 handwritten and 2 typed sets of an article written by John Christie about Paul Hirsch)

George Bernard Shaw, 1939, 1940, 1945 and 1946 (12 letters)

T.H.Shearer, 1962 (3 letters)
Re: Making arrangements “to try and avoid aircraft flying over Glyndebourne during the festival."

Nadine, Countess of Shrewsbury, 1957 or 1958 (1 letter)

Grace Simpson, 1958 (2 letters) refers to the bequest of the painting ‘The Death of Mozart’

Sir Archibald Sinclair, 1939 (3 letters)

R.E.Sinfield, British Transport Commission, 1958 (4 letters)

Sacheverell Sitwell (Sachie), 1956 (1 letter)
Sitwell writes, “You have done more than anybody else in your time to help music in this country.”

Dr Hans Sittner, Akademie fur Musik und Darstellende Kunst In Wien, 1959 (1 letter)

A.E.Slim, 1959 (2 letters) includes a firm reply from John Christie with accusations of rudeness

Elsie Smith, Chingford Antiquarian and Historical Society, 1960 (4 letters)

Fred Smith, Rimingtons Records, 1959 (2 letters)

Muriel Smith, 1962 (1 letter)

Leonard Snow, 1959 (2 letters)

Sotheby & Co., 1958 (1 receipt)

Signor Stabile, 1937 (1 letter)

The Editor, The Stage, 1958 (2 letters)
Re: Commercial theatre, John Christie writes, 07 June 1958, “Artists at Glyndebourne work under ideal conditions.”

Jocelyn Stevens, The Queen, 1957 (1 letter)

Lieut Colonel Stevenson, 1942 (4 letters)

Gertrude Sterling, 1959 (2 letters)
John Christie writes, 06 April 1959, “We will have about 50 people staying in the house for three or four months, and we shall take in our box office and from other sources nearly £200,000.”

Lt. Col Jack Stirling, 1939 (1 letter).
Re: The early impact of the War on Glyndebourne.
John Christie writes, “The only thing to do is to take certain precautions and then get on with one’s work.”

Gertrude Stirling, 1960, (2 letters)

A.H.Stokes, The Hintlesham Festival Club, 1958 (2 letters)

Ken Straker, Editor of Ricordiana, 1960 (3 letters)

Jani and Irene Strasser, 1958 (2 letters)
01 letter is a personal, handwritten, reflection on Jani's arrival at Glyndebourne 25 years before

The High Sheriff of Surrey, 1957 and 1958 (2 invitations)

The Sussex Historic Churches Trust, 1958 (1 set of Minutes)

Barbara Swallow (name might be incorrect), 1959 (1 letter)

Tom Swann, Air Ministry, 1957 (1 letter)

Mrs Jack Swatland, Southern Philharmonic Society, 1958 (2 letters)

Unknown S correspondent, 1957 (1 letter)