ELGAR (Sir Edward, 1857-1934, Composer)

Fine Autograph Letter Signed on a postcard to Frederick DELIUS (1862-1934, Composer) thanking him and "Mrs Delius for your telegram sending good wishes, it gave me ... to know that you thought of me in this distressful time. I am supposed to be improving & want to share (?) a few more years with ... 'your brave transluminary thing & to see & talk once more with the poets mind in the poets body ... Best regards to Mrs Delius & my love to you ...", 1 side postcard with Autograph address on the verso, 'Nursing home' written by hand over his printed address, Marl Bank, Worcester, 13th OCtober

Inoperable colorectal cancer was discovered during an operation on 8th October 1933. He told his consulting doctor, Arthur Thomson, that he had no faith in an afterlife: "I believe there is nothing but complete oblivion." Elgar died on 23rd February 1934 at the age of seventy-six and was buried next to his wife at St Wulstan's Roman Catholic Church in Little Malvern.

Item Date:  1933

Stock No:  40974     

                


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