Correspondence to Benjamin Britten from Boosey and Hawkes

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 1111 BBA/BOOSEY_AND_HAWKES/TO/1940
  • Dates of Creation
      1940
  • Physical Description
      93 items

Scope and Content

Letters from Boosey and Hawkes to Benjamin Britten from 1940 covering topics such as:

- Letter to Peter Pears on 12 Mar 1940 from Heinsheimer about a New York Times interview

- Granting permission for performances such as Bernhard Herman and Erno Rapee with Les Illuminations

|- Letter from Ralph on 22 Oct 1940 telling Britten about London during air raids of WWII

- Britten planning to arrange some Movements of the Mahler Symphonies

- Music Royalty Statements

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