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John Christie Correspondence, General Correspondence, W Correspondents

Reference code: G/CC/1/2/22
Level: File
Title: John Christie Correspondence, General Correspondence, W Correspondents
Quantity & Format: 175 letters
Repository: Glyndebourne Archive
Creator(s): Christie, John
Scope and content: Contains correspondence to and from -
Margery Wade, 1959 (1 letter)

Friedelind Wagner, 1953 (1 letter)
Re: The insurmountable difficulties of staging the Bayreuth Parsifal, but possibly doing something “in Glyndebourne quite outside and apart from Bayreuth.”

Wolfgang Wagner, 1952 (1 letter)

G.W.Wakeford, University of Southampton, 1960 (1 letter)

Richard Walker, 1960 (1 letter)

Robert Waller, Producer of a broadcast by John Christie called ‘Dear To My Heart’ on 11 March 1957 (1 script)
John Christie writes that Glyndebourne is “...an ideal, not done for personal glory, but because it was needed….Glyndebourne started the Edinburgh Festival. It was my wife’s idea…”

Bruno Walter, 1942 (1 letter)

John Walter, 1946 and undated (2 letters)

Edmund Ward, 1959 (6 letters)
Richard Ward, 1960 (1 letter)

Edmond Warre, 1960 (4 letters)

George Waters, The Scotsman, 1936 (3 letters)

M. Watkins, John Lewis, 1946 (1 letter)

Helen M.Watson, 1960 (3 letters)

Peter Way, 1959 (1 letter)

A.M.Weedon, 1958 (2 letters)

Arnold Weissberger, 1960 (2 letters)
Re: Sending some photographs taken at Glyndebourne during a production of ‘I Puritani’.

Ljuba Welitsch, 1949 (1 letter)

William A H Welsman, Bath Proms Group, 1944 (1 letter)

C.M.W. Wells, 1936, 1937, 1942 and 1958 (18 letters)

XXX Wemys, 1958 (1 letter)

J Wentworth Day, 1959 and 1960 (19 documents, including letters from The Viscount Halisham, Irene Ward and copies of Hansard related to the Arts Council)

Colonel G.R.Westmacott, 1960 (1 letter)

George Weston, 1958 and 1960 (3 letters)
John Christie writes, 27 August 1958, “We get stronger every year. Next year 68 performances instead of 51, and you will be greeted with a new rehearsal stage, the building of which is about to start. This will make our work more efficient.”

Hugh C White, 1957 (1 letter)

Humphrey Whitbread, 1959 and 1960 (7 letters)
A 1959 letter is in response to John’s letter sent to every member of the first night audience following an unfavourable review in The Times of Der Rosenkavalier.

The 1960 letters are concerned with the Oscar Nemon sculpture.

Geoffrey Whitworth, The British Drama League, 1945 (1 letter)

M Whitehouse, 1934 (1 letter)
Re: The first performance at Glyndebourne

W Whitehouse, 1941 (1 letter)

The Editor, Who’s Who, 1958 (5 letters)
John Christie writes, 02 May 1958, “...it would be more correct to say “Co-founder with Mrs Christie of the Glyndebourne Festival.” It was essentially her work rather than mine.”

A.M.Wilding-White, 1958 (2 letters + 2 letters of support for Wilding-White)

H.R.E Wieck, 1960 (2 letters)

Lorenzo Williams, 1936 (3 letters)

Patrick Williams, Sussex Rural Community Council, 1958 (2 letters)
Williams writes, “Of course, it is a fact also that for those individuals who have no means of transport of their own, getting to and from Glyndebourne, unless they get together and hire a bus, presents them with a problem.”

W.E.Williams, The Arts Council of Great Britain, 1952 (2 letters)

Michael Willis Fleming, 1960 (1 letter)

Eileen Wilson, 1959 (2 letters)

Hamish Wilson, 1960 (1 letter)
This letter is related to letters to and from O.B.Miller of John Lewis in June 1960

S Doves Wilson, 1957 (1 letter)

Steuart Wilson, 1936, 1937, 1945 & 1946 (23 letters)
John Christie writes, 30 June 1936, “Every singer engaged here has to be accepted by three parties….None of us have ever engaged an artist without the agreement of the other two.” (Audrey and John being seen as one, along with Fritz Busch and Carl Ebert)

Alice Winch, 1958 (2 letters)
John Christie writes, 12 August 1958, “Glyndebourne is paying its way, with the help of its supporters, but we have to prepare to face a catastrophe which can always happen in spite of all one does. We can insure up to a point. I am asking for a substantial gift from the Treasury for next year’s 25th Anniversary. I don’t see how they can refuse it.”

Cyril Winn 1935 & 36 (5 letters)

Jeanne Wiseman, Commonwealth-America Week, 1959 (2 letters)

Editor of Wireless Magazine, 1936 (1 letter)

Wilfred XXX Wood, 1958 (1 letter)

Leonard Woolf, 1957 (1 letter)

Humbert Wolfe, Ministry of Labour, 1935-37 (17 letters)
Re: Rudolf Bing’s employment

Woman Magazine, indecipherable correspondent, 1947 (1 letter)

Kenneth Wright, 1960 (3 letters)

K.A Wright, BBC, 1936 (6 letters)

N.D.Wright, The Girl Guides Association, 1958 (2 letters)

Unknown W Correspondents, 1958 and 1959 (4 letters)