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TRER/3/82
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Letter from E. M. Forster to R. C. Trevelyan
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- 24 Dec 1949 (Creation)
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4 Crabbe Street, Aldeburgh. - Thanks Trevelyan for his translation of the [Homeric] "Hymn to Demeter". Has not answered Bessie's letter about the "Picture Post" article: the libretto [for "Billy Budd"] has reached its final form. Reads to Forster more like a play, but Britten and [Eric] Crozier are satisfied. Asks if Trevelyan can suggest anyone to do the scenery: that for the "Bride of Dionysus" was lovely. Has to have another prostate operation next month; wanted to finish the libretto and have his picture painted for King's. Likes the surgeon, [Alexander] Roche, who is confident; May Buckingham has offered to nurse him after the operation. Is having a pleasant party with Ben [Britten], Peter Pears etc.
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- Forster, Edward Morgan (1879-1970), novelist and essayist (Subject)
- Trevelyan, Elizabeth (1875-1957), musician (Subject)
- Britten, Edward Benjamin (1913-1976), Baron Britten, composer, conductor and pianist (Subject)
- Crozier, Eric John (1914-1994), theatrical director and librettist (Subject)
- Tovey, Sir Donald Francis (1875-1940), knight, music scholar and composer (Subject)
- Roche, Alexander Ernest (1896-1963) surgeon, urologist (Subject)
- Buckingham, May (1908-) nurse, wife of Bob Buckingham (Subject)
- Pears, Sir Peter Neville Luard (1910-1986) Knight, tenor (Subject)