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John Christie Correspondence, General Correspondence, A Correspondents

Reference code: G/CC/1/2/2
Level: File
Title: John Christie Correspondence, General Correspondence, A Correspondents
Quantity & Format: 40 letters
Repository: Glyndebourne Archive
Creator(s): Christie, John
Scope and content: Contains correspondence to and from -
Paul Abbot, 1959 (1 letter)
“On behalf of the Cambridge University Opera Group, may I thank you for your very generous contribution towards our deficit, and also for your continued interest in our activities.”

Elisabeth Abercrombie, 1959 (1 letter)

Sir Ronald Adam, The British Council, 1952 (4 letters)

C.H.H. Adams, Solicitors, 1957, 1958 and 1960 (3 letters)

James Agate, 1938 (6 letters, including 2 related letters to the Editor of The Sunday Times + an envelope addressed to Wilfrid Blunt marked Agate)

R Aisher, The Marley Tile Company, 1957 (1 letter)

James Akers, 1959 (2 letters)

Donald Albery, New Theatre St Martin’s Lane, 1958 (4 letters)

The Albermarles, 1962 (1 letter)

Marjorie Alcock, 1959 (1 letter)

Samuel Allsopp, 1954 (1 photocopied letter)
John Christie writes, 7 January 1954, "We accepted the invitation to be recommended for this honour on behalf of Glyndebourne to help our work. The work is what matters. We are intensely grateful that the work should receive such approval and we are encouraged to continue our purpose with more enthusiasm and, if that is possible, with more support."

John Amis, The Scotsman, 1958 (1 letter + newspaper clipping from The Scotsman 26 July 1958 'A Good Year for Glyndebourne')

Sir John Anderson, The House of Commons, 1943, 1946 and 1948 (4 letters)
Allen Andrews, 1960 (1 letter)

Cecil Armstrong Gibbs, 1947 and 1948 (5 letters + words of opinion about the composition Twelfth Night)

Sir Thomas Armstrong, Royal Academy of Music, 1959 (2 letters, Armstrong’s letter is in response to John Christie's letter sent to every member of the first night audience following a unfavourable review in The Times of Der Rosenkavalier)

Miss Ash, Glyndebourne Estate Office, 1962 (2 letters)

ASP?, Southover Manor School Ltd, 1959 (1 letter)

David Astor, Editor of The Observer, 1950 (1 letter)

Beatrice Atkinson, 1959 (1 letter + a newspaper clipping from a Canadian newspaper 19 April 1959)
John Christie writes, “The report, like most foreign quotations, contains a number of errors. The opera house is described as the world’s smallest, which of course is not true. It has the largest stage area in the British Empire, and covers much more ground than any other opera house in the world, but all the bad seats have been cut from the design, whereas in many opera houses you see or sit with difficulty.”

Jean Atkinson, 1959 (1 letter)

Unknown A correspondent, USA, 09 July 1957 (1 letter)

Unknown A correspondent, Treasury Chambers SW1, 26 February 1958 (1 letter)

Unknown A correspondent, 1962 (1 letter)