Elgar (Edward)

Four autograph letters signed ('Ed. Elgar') to his music publisher Alfred Littleton, one reading "The two things (The Apostles and the American premiere of the Kingdom) went fairly well; some points good but usually too assertive for me. All are amiable and mean well. I have read nothing and don't believe what my friends say, so I am not in a position to say much about my work. I am anxious to get home and have a quite summer, it is scarcely restful here but amusing up to a certain point", three pages, small 4to, The Wyoming, New York, 30 March 1907; in another one Elgar writes "I have much to say about the disgraceful way old Carnegie has treated his guests, and the old Fibber put me in quite a false position with Damrosch and the secretary of the Oratorio. He told them he was paying me £600 ($3000) to come. Now he refuses to pay any of his 'guests' more than £16 (lowest possible fare)", three pages, 4to, aboard RMS Campania ('at sea and rolling very much'), 25 April 1907. In a later letter Elgar asks "would it be possible - without any trouble to anyone- for you to give me a sort of idea as to how my royalty account is going on?It will depend upon that, now old Carnegie seems hopeless, how we proceed about our Italian winter arrangements", four pages, 4to, Langham Hotel London, 15 May 1907 (4)