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Signing off the blog... Heseltine to Sorabji (1927 and 1929)

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No letters from Sorabji to Heseltine survive from after July 1922. From Heseltine, just two Christmas postcards survive, from 1927 and 1929 (texts and images below). For the full edited and annotated texts of all Sorabji's letters to Heseltine, and more, see Barry's and my Routledge publication: https://www.routledge.com/Kaikhosru-Sorabjis-Letters-to-Philip-Heseltine-Peter-Warlock/Inglis-Smith/p/book/9780367728243         [38c: Philip Heseltine to Kaikoshru Sorabj (dedication added to a woodcut portrait of Warlock by Hal Collins)]   Au Grand Bouc Sabbatique                                     Mes sentiments cordialement dévoués   Pierre le Sorcier                                                                                       Noël 1927.         [38d: Philip Heseltine to Kaikhoshru Sorabji (postcard with ‘ Egyptian’ design)]   To my superhircine Goat – Greetings and a cavalcade                                      (if wishes were horses)

Kaikhosru Sorabji to Philip Heseltine 38 (28 July 1922)

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  THE BOSCOMBE PIER HOTEL, BOURNEMOUTH.   Date 28 th July [1922]                                                Tel. 981   --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   Belovedest:   (1.) Have the copies marked “Copyright for all Countries by the Composer” (1922) The agent will see to the copyrighting for U.S.A. which is done by sending a copy or two (I’m not sure) to the Library of Congress at Washington when the thing in question is published here.   Do the refills fit all right? If not tell me, and I’ll go and slang the whore who sold them to me with the assurance that though “Eversharps” they would fit a “Finepoint” (your pencil).   From what I know of the sale of Goossens & Berner’s stuff (Willie [Walton] told me that Berners told

Kaikhosru Sorabji to Philip Heseltine 37 (24 June 1922)

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  Saturday [24 June 1922]   175, CLARENCE GATE GARDENS. REGENTS PARK, N.W.1.   Belovedest Prosdoscimus:-   By all means choose my paper if you like it. You don’t say what you think of the songs you Sod! And I wrote a swete dedication on them for you – Blast you!   Yes exactly! Who to turn to as agents? As far as I’m concerned I’ll be my own. The sale of my works is not so overpowering in size that I can’t cope with it and it ought to be rather amusing. But I’m concerned about you and Orr. Try Goodwin & Tabb why don’t you? I have nothing whatever to do with Robber BLion Kling-Klux-Klang.   I’m going away on July 24 th or 25 th for my holiday and right glad of it shall I be after nearly two years incessant writing Sonata II – Symphony – Sonata III.   Yes, Salvarsan is a good name for him [Aleister Crowley]: for he’s as much a fraud as that much boomed “remedy”. I’ve been reading a perfectly appalling dynamiting of it by a nature therapist who

Kaikhosru Sorabji to Philip Heseltine 36 (19 June 1922)

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  175, CLARENCE GATE GARDENS. REGENTS PARK, N.W.1. London.   19. June 22. My dear Phee:   I have already told you once that Waldheim gives me no separate estimate for covers. It is always an inclusive estimate. I have no samples of cover paper by me now but the copy of the songs I send you will show you the sort of thing that looks very nice and suitable.   You must remember that printers require to be instructed down to the smallest details of title page & cover printing: size of type: distribution – Spacing and so on. My covers are the result of my own very careful and detailed instructions and if you want anything as well done, you must do the same.   The particular fount used I got from Waldheim Eberle bill-head: it took my fancy & I told them to use it. The best thing is to plan out on a piece of paper the size of your cover the exact position & wording you want as I always do with numbered references to the size of type you want.   Wald