G - Glyndebourne Archive
- G/CC - Correspondence
  - G/CC/1 - John Christie Correspondence
    - G/CC/1/2 - John Christie Correspondence, General Correspondence A-Z Correspondents, 1934 - 1962

John Christie Correspondence, General Correspondence, C Correspondents

Reference code: G/CC/1/2/4
Level: File
Title: John Christie Correspondence, General Correspondence, C Correspondents
Quantity & Format: 105 letters
Repository: Glyndebourne Archive
Creator(s): Christie, John
Scope and content: Contains correspondence to and from -
Peter Cadogan, 1950 (2 letters)

Paul Camphill, Grand Hotel Brighton, 1962 (1 letter)

Neville Cardus, 1960 (1 letter + a newspaper clipping of an article from The Guardian with a review of Falstaff written by Cardus, 30 May 1960, “Owing to a peculiar arrangement on The Guardian I don’t write as a rule on opera…I think I was the first of them all to write about Glyndebourne.”

William Francis Casey, Editor of The Times, 1948 and 1949 (3 letters + a newspaper clipping from The Times, entitled ‘Opera in English’, 03 December 1948)

Lady Kitty Caroe, 1958 (3 letters)

Graham Carritt, 1958 (1 letter)

David Carter, 1960 (1 letter) “We left feeling we had met someone whose destiny is to give the highest ideals to world leadership…”

S H Carus, Lunch Time Opera Association, 1943 (1 letter + Minutes of a Preliminary Meeting of Lunch Time Opera Association)

Catholic Herald, L.H., 1958 (1 letter + newspaper clipping from Catholic Herald, 11 July 1958)

Terence Cawthorne, President Harveian Society of London, 1960 (2 letters + a photograph taken during a visit of the Harveian Society of London in May 1960 featuring Arthur Dickson Wright, John Christie and Terence Cawthorne. The photograph is now catalogued separately in the photographic collection)

John Christie writes, “Artists seem to do so much better here than they do elsewhere. Here they are not fighting each other all the time, and are joyfully happy. I think this helps a lot."

Celer et Audax Club, 1958 (1 letter)

Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister, 10 Downing Street 1939-40 (5 letters)

Chula Chakrabongse, Prince of Thailand, 1957 (1 letter)

W.C.Chesterman, 1943 (3 letters + a 2 page statement by John Christie entitled ‘The Past and Present’ about England’s “right place on the World’s Musical Stage”)

Rosalie Chichester, Arlington Court nr Barnstaple, 1943 (2 letters)

Mollie and John Christie, Queensland Australia, 1960 (1 letter)

Rosamund Christie, 1959 & 1962 (2 letters)

Jean Christy, Paris, 1962 (2 letters)

E.L.Churchill, 1951 (1 letter)

Randolph Churchill, 1957 (1 letter)

Kenneth Clark, The Arts Council, 1953, 1954 and 1957 (10 letters)
The 1953 letter provides a good overview of the situation of Glyndebourne, The Edinburgh Festival and the Arts Council in 1953

Alex Cohen, American Embassy in San Jose, 1937 and 1951 (4 letters, including a copy of a letter written by Cohen to Lord Wilmot about Glyndebourne)

Margaret Cohen, 1959 (1 letter)

Professor Coghill, Merton College Oxford, 1959 (2 letters)

Gerald Coke, 1946, 1950 and 1958 (6 letters)

XXX Colles, wife of H.C.Colles? 1943 (1 letter)

Dr E Colin-Jones, 1958 (2 letters)

Mrs Geoffrey Colman, 1958 (1 wedding invitation)

Tilly Connely., The Haydn Mozart Society, 1958 (1 letter + 2 sets of Minutes from the Society)

Mr Cooper, Home Office, Aliens Department, 1935 (1 letter) regarding Hans Oppenheim

D. Cooper, Shrewsbury Summer Fesival, 1958 (2 letters)

Kathleen Cooper, Yardley, 1957 (1 letter)

S.M.Cooper, 1957 (1 letter)

The Editor, Co-operative News, 1957 (1 letter)
John Christie writes, “I believe that Glyndebourne is far the best equipped theatre in the country, with its valuable transformer, lighting equipment and control, its overhead mechanism, its stage lifts, and also its size.”

Elizabeth Costley-White, 1959 (2 letters)
John Christie writes, “We did the work because it wanted doing, and was not being done, as it was our job to do it. We, too, enjoy it.”

The Rt.Hon.Lord Cottesloe, 1960 (1 letter)

John Coventry, 1958 (2 letters)

Trenchard Cox, Victoria & Albert Museum, 1958 (2 letters)
John Christie writes, “...we were thought to be mad when we started it. We have no state aid, and produce, I think, a good deal of irritation in certain quarters, but what matter? We go on not as before, but ever enlarging.”

Iain Crawford, 1953 (1 letter + a magazine cutting about the Edinburgh Festival from The Sphere, 23 August 1958)

Anthony Crawley, 1957 (1 letter)

Madame Crespin, 1959 (2 letters)
John Christie writes, “Glyndebourne is always happy. So should every place be.”

Ursula Crick, 1944 (2 letters)

K.E.Crickmore, The Halle Concerts Society, 1958 (2 letters)
Crickmore writes “Since then, Glyndebourne and the Halle seem to be the only two artistic bodies in the land prepared to cast doubt on that worthy body!” [the Arts Council]
John Christie writes “I have no respect for the Arts Council - another State jellyfish”

Sir Stafford Cripps, 1948 (1 letter)

Mrs Theodore Crombie, 1958 (2 letters)

Kathleen Cross, 1958 and 1959 (5 letters)

The Rt. Hon Harry Cruikshank, 1942 (1 letter)

Hugh Cunard, 1959 (1 letter)

Edric Cundell, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, 1949 and 1959 (6 documents including an invitation and official information about a luncheon)

Elisabeth Curtis, 1958 (2 letters)

Unknown C correspondent, 31 October 1942 (1 letter)

Unknown C correspondent, 4 September 1958 (1 letter)

Unknown C correspondent, 13 June (1 letter)