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ELGAR, Edward (1857-1934). One autograph letter and one Letter signed ("Edward Elgar") both to T.E. Lawrence (one addressed to A.C. Shaw), 29 September 1932 and 28 December 1933. Together 3 pages, 4to, the first on personal stationery.
29 September 1932: Elgar expresses pleasure "to know that you were a listener to my music," and adds that "I have read about you with something akin to awe..." 28 December 1933: Lawrence wrote the composer to tell him that "we have just been playing your Second Symphony...and agreed that you must be written to and told...that this symphony gets further under our skins than anything else in the record library at Clouds Hill...Generally we play the Symphony last of all, towards the middle of the night because nothing comes off very well after it..." (Letters, no.465). Elgar, who is unwell, writes: "...I am glad the Second Symphony wears so well with you and your friends, but mark you the 3rd, if ever I am well enough to finish it, will make it look small...Last year I recorded the little Serenade for strings, written nearly fifty years ago, which I love very much--it is as simple and pellucid as spring water..." Elgar died not quite two months later, leaving his Third Symphony unfinished. (2)
29 September 1932: Elgar expresses pleasure "to know that you were a listener to my music," and adds that "I have read about you with something akin to awe..." 28 December 1933: Lawrence wrote the composer to tell him that "we have just been playing your Second Symphony...and agreed that you must be written to and told...that this symphony gets further under our skins than anything else in the record library at Clouds Hill...Generally we play the Symphony last of all, towards the middle of the night because nothing comes off very well after it..." (Letters, no.465). Elgar, who is unwell, writes: "...I am glad the Second Symphony wears so well with you and your friends, but mark you the 3rd, if ever I am well enough to finish it, will make it look small...Last year I recorded the little Serenade for strings, written nearly fifty years ago, which I love very much--it is as simple and pellucid as spring water..." Elgar died not quite two months later, leaving his Third Symphony unfinished. (2)