Elgar (Edward) Three autograph letters signed relating to travels in Italy, the first addressed to Alfred Littleton, reading "[...] After much deliberation my wife & myself start to Naples on Friday [...] I don’t in the least know if I deserve any but if possible I should like a fifty-pound cheque sent to my niece (May Grafton) [...]", 3 pp., 4to, Plas Gwyn, Hereford, 26th Dec 1906; with another ALS, reading “[...] I must take my wife to Hereford and I sail by the Carmania March 2 (Cunard). I shall be at home (D. V.) on Tuesday or Wednesday till I sail. If trains fit I shall ‘hop’ out in London [...] If printer wants me had better write home: If a stitched up score of the Kingdom will be ready it might go to the ship. I am ‘seeing’ better but my eyes are not right. At Chicago I do some orchestral things. I forget the date but Gray has arranged it all [...]”, and another discussing a visit to Chicago and the weather, sent from Hotel Quisisana, Capri (3)