Letter to Sir Donald Francis Tovey from John Christie

• Reference:GB 237 Coll-411/1/1/L1006
• Dates of Creation:18 March 1936
• Language of Material:English
• Physical Description:
  [2]p. 26 x 20cm 1 Letter
  [2]p. 26 x 20cm

• Scope and Content

  Letter, 18 March 1936, Sussex, John Christie to Donald Tovey. Explaining that Christie is looking for an opera written by a British composer ' which will be the greatest opera of our generation'. Typescript signed.

• Archivist's Note

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  27 July 1995

• Subjects

  Opera

• Personal Names

  Christie, John 1882-1962, 1882-1962 (founder of Glyndebourne Opera)

  Tovey, Sir Donald Francis, 1875-1940 (Reid Professor of Music, University of Edinburgh)

• Geographical Names

  Lewes, England