HESS Dame Myra - ALS 1951 to the Mayor of Colchester Category_History

HESS Dame Myra - ALS 1951 to the Mayor of Colchester Category_HistoryDame Myra HESS (1890 1965) Autograph Letter Signed (Myra Hess) to Dear Mr. Mayor [the Mayor of Colchester], regretting that she cannot accept his invitation to the Oyster Feast. 1 page 4to, 48 Wildwood Road NW11, 5 October 1951. It is again with the deepest regret that I cannot accept your kind invitation for November 9th. I am to receive an honorary degree at Leeds University that day & oh how much would prefer to be at your Oyster Feast! I shall

but furthermore I am persuaded that

when she was eighteen

Massena had left Verona

Perhaps some months hence it may be easier

I am ready to converse with you on the subject

I think it impolitic and I will tell you why

but I think I still have enough to meet your requirements in most of the classes you mention

and (3) he is the only progressive & democratic candidate who has any chance of winning the seat

Anne of Austria

daughter of Christian VII of Denmark (or

on the frontier both geographically & culturally

in which further arguments are set forth for the dismissal of the case against Marshal Ney