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Beaton/A/A4/36
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- 1936 (Creation)
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4 pages paper
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Autograph letter signed to Daddy and Mummie from the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York. Originally undated, but pencil date in a different hand suggests 27/3/36, which would fit with content. Work is taking a long time. Has been to an art school which is improving his work. Most exciting of the jobs he hopes to get is that Colonel de Basil wants him to do the decor for the Russian ballet. He would be the first Englishman to do so, though it may not happen. He has seen the new Lunt play against war [presumably 'The Idiot's Delight' by Robert Sherwood, which opened in March 1936] and has been to the ice carnival. Has had a long and pathetic letter from Sibyl Colefax. In a postscript notes that the cheque from R. Vreeland for 10 guineas is for cheque exchange.