Audrey Christie Correspondence, Correspondence between Audrey Christie and Ian Hunter, 1947 - 1952

Reference code

G/CC/2/2/3

Level

File

Title

Audrey Christie Correspondence, Correspondence between Audrey Christie and Ian Hunter, 1947 - 1952

Date

1947 - 1952

Quantity & Format

107 letters and documents

Repository

Glyndebourne Archive

Creator(s)

Mildmay, Audrey
Hunter, Ian

Scope and content

Re: The Edinburgh Festival

1947 (11 letters)

1948 (26 letters)
Also includes -
Letter from Jean Fergusson, 18 May 1948

1949 (35 letters)
Also includes a copy of a 1949 article by Charles Stuart entitled 'Un Ballo in Maschera and Glyndebourne', which is attached to a letter dated 26 July 1949 from Heather Carr on behalf of Ian Hunter.

1950 (21 letters)
Preliminary copy of the Edinburgh Festival programme, 1950, attached to a letter from Ian Hunter 23 March 1950.

1951 (06 letters)
In a letter from Audrey Christie to Ian Hunter, 11 October 1951, she writes “Busch’s death was indeed a great shock. It is still hard to believe…He did such an enormous amount for us here, particularly in the marvellous way in which he (who bought Ebert) succeeded in establishing Glyndebourne in those early years. I think, as we have always said, it took all the legs of a centipede to really carry the thing through, but had Busch not been the man he was it could so easily have failed.”

1952 (07 letters, 01 document)
Document = Preliminary information for the Edinburgh Festival, 1953

Also includes -
Copy letter from Rudolf Bing to the Lord Provost of Edinburgh, 1952

Drafts of an 'In memoriam' article about Fritz Busch by Audrey Mildmay, 1952, attached to letters of 06 March 1952 and 01 May 1952