Identity area
Reference code
Beaton/A/A1/297/8
Unique identifier
GB 275 Beaton/A/A1/297/8
Title
Typescript letter signed to Beaton
Date(s)
- 20 Nov. 1956 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
1p paper
Context area
Name of creator
(1907-1996)
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Was sad not to see Beaton when he was in New York. Encloses news about the Barber opera. Is going to be on hand as production adviser. Wants Beaton to work on it. Tanny Le Cleroq's polio is tragic. Suggests Beaton speak to Balanchine. He stays at the hospital all day. This is Kirstein's first season since 1935 without Balanchine. Is arranging a memorial show of George Platt Lyne's photographs, nudes, portraits and theatre work. Asks Beaton's permission to use his portrait of George smoking a cigarette as a frontispiece. Suggests Beaton write a word for the album. Encloses what Marianne Moore wrote and a list of others who are including paragraphs.