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

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)

                                    for Christmas 1929

 

                                                from his devoted

 

                                    Peter Warlock

 

Brandon (Norfolk

             (Suffolk                      23/12/29.

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