LAMBERT Constant - ALS asking for news of Varda Period_1800-1900

LAMBERT Constant - ALS asking for news of Varda Period_1800-1900Constant LAMBERT (1905 1951) Autograph Letter Signed (Constant Lambert) to Dear Michel, sending regrets that he is engaged for Christmas. 1 page 4to, 42 Peel Street, W8, 16 December n. y. So sorry not to have answered your letter before but I have been away in Manchester. I am engaged for Christmas Im afraid but I should love to come down the week end after if that is convenient. Any news of Varda? In a postscript, he adds Please tell Susan that I

I know of no conductor who would care to conduct a rehearsal of it without preparatory study

Replying to the booksellers’ letter of 18 February of that year

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[but annotated in pencil in another hand "13/4/08"]

and both having been laid down for preservation in an album (as well as unfortunately showing glue stains) evidently date from the same period

“I did not go to Cambridge till the other day

It did not succeed

and we could have wished that the future historian of our own great Captain [i

It would appear that Captain Osborne’s ship

a good friend of Joanna Baillie

casino &c &c are British Hospitals & the streets are occupied by continuous streams of ambulances

I am sorry I am such an ass