Item 4 - Autograph letter signed to Beaton.

Is thrilled at the thought of Beaton doing "Traviata". Has doubts about his own capabilities - "it's the damned chorus that gets me down". Is going to Mexico in December for a couple of months. Violetta is the only character that really matters in the opera. On her depends the success of the whole performance "and the eye and ear must never leave her". Beaton must do what he thinks the most ravishing and romantic. Letter was put aside by mistake when the house was disrupted by illness. Will write from Mexico.