Autograph letter signed.
Townfoot House, West Linton, Peeblesshire, 27. X. 1866.
4to. 1 page.
€ 450,00
To his "dear Colin", i. e. Colin Scott-Sutherland (1930-2012), citing a limerick on the composer Ernest John Moeran: "A footnote to my last. I have just found, in an old music magazine, this limerick by Tom Pitfield: There was a composer called Moeran / Who Iacked MS. paper to score on; / But sly and alert, / He tore up his shirt, / Which he scribbled 'conshirtos' galore on [...] P.S. Have just received an offer of publication of my Prelude, Fugue & Fantasy [on Busoni's Faust] from Novello [...]".
The addressee was a bank manager who wrote a number of remarkable books and articles on music and other artistic subjects, starting with his pioneering biography of Arnold Bax in 1973.
Slightly wrinkled.
