Data: 18/6/1951



Luogo: Londra, Regno Unito

ID: LLET022323




Studio 4,

59, Edwardes Square,

London, W. 8.

Western 0561.

 

18th June 1951.

 

Dr. Eugenio Clausetti,

Ricordi & Co.

Milano.

 

Dear Dr Clausetti,

 

I hope you still remember me and our conversation we had when you were still in London and when we used to talk about Puccini on whom I was going to write a book. Alas, the war obliged me to put it quietly to rest but I published a number of articles on him in a collection of essays, press reviews of which you will find in the enclosed leaflet.

I have now restarted the book and finished more than half of it. It is to be published next year both in England and America.

As I intend it to be the standard work in English, I feel that I want to study the Puccini material which is in the archives of your firm, of La Scala and also at the Puccini Museum at Torre del Lago. For that purpose I contemplate coming especially to your beautiful country in the first week of September and wonder whether you will be in Milano at that time, as I am sure that your advice and assistance in this matter would be invaluable to me.

I am chiefly interested in the unpublished juvenilia and the sketches to the libretti and the music of the operas. I have, I think, all the important literature, except Marotti’s recent book which so far I have been unable to obtain.

 

Could you perhaps give me some rough idea of how long in your opinion it would take me to get through the material. I have earmarked for it a fortnight’s hard work and hope that it would not take me more as I shall have to be back in London for my other work.

 

I would be most grateful for your reply in good time and very much hope that we shall meet again and renew our acquaintance after so many years.

 

So as to tell you what I have been doing during that time, I enclose also “Literature” about myself.

With my kindest regards,

Yours very sincerely,

Mosco Carner

 

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Lettera titolo LLET022323