Audrey Christie Correspondence, General Correspondence, 1951

Reference code

G/CC/2/4/9

Level

File

Title

Audrey Christie Correspondence, General Correspondence, 1951

Date

1951

Quantity & Format

83 letters

Repository

Glyndebourne Archive

Creator(s)

Mildmay, Audrey

Scope and content

Some letters are concerned with the Festival of Sussex

Contains correspondence with -
Elizabeth Abercrombie

Barclays Bank Ltd

Eric Blom

Adrian Boult

Charles Bravery (supervising scenery painter at Ambassadors Studios)

Owen Brannigan

Rhona (Byron?)

The Children’s Family Trust Ltd

Thomas Cook & Son

Jean Hunter Cowan

Dean & Dawson

Frances (Daykns?)

Murray Dickie

Eric Duncannon

Carl (Charles) Ebert
Audrey Christie writes, 04 October 1951, “Ever since the tragic news of Fritz’s death I have wanted to write to you. Somehow this tragic affair has wiped out all the years between the beginning of the war and these last two Seasons and I found that I was thinking so much more about the time when John came back from his original visit to Copenhagen and of all the talk of who should come with him and the final news that you were to come as Producer (and our excitement and speculation!), and the first Season here, and the chaos and confusion and the superb success that came out of it; my own bewilderment both as hostess to these Great Men and my exhaustion as ‘buffer state’ between the Great Men and the existing situation, and my awe and inferiority complex at working under them and the thrill of rehearsals and all I was learning from them. I do hope that you have realized (and that Fritz realized) how conscious we have always been of all that we owed to your combined artistic conception of what we hoped to establish and you, together, so magnificently accomplished.”

Peter Ebert

Irene Eisinger

John Falconer

David Franklin

H.P.Gorst

Hubert Graf

Dr G.T.Harpner, The Anglo-Austrian Society (Re: the Richard Tauber Memorial Scholarship)

Dorothy Hart

F & W Ingham Ltd

James (?)

Joan (Sadler’s Wells)

Sena Jurinac (includes a copy letter from Sena Jurinac to Moran Caplat)

Eleanor Lausch

J. Spedan Lewis

Eric Linklater

Agnes Macdonald

Dorothy Crawford MacNeil

Rosalind Maitland

Mary (?) [Re: Eva Gustavon]

Mary, The Princess Royal

Andrew Mckinley

Aloisia Menner & Ingeborg Apelt, Children’s Family Trust Ltd

James Millar, Lord Provost

Mildred Miller

The Ministry of Labour

John Mortimer (a poem about Glyndebourne)

Ernest Newman (+ envelope addressed to Mrs John Christie)

Olivia (?)

Helena Poell

Robert Ponsonby

Aulikki Rautawaara

Marko Rothmuller

Delia Silveri

Daniel Steen

Theo (?)

Percy Warden

Walburga Wegner (this letter is written in German)

Winifred (?)

Hilde Zadek

Unidentified Correspondents