Adrian BOULT (1889-1983)

Typed Letter Signed (“Adrian C. Boult”) to Francis Reed at the BBC, thanking him for the return of a book which Boult had given to his father.
1 page 8vo on letterhead of the BBC [but with the typed address of Box No. 7, G.P.O., Bedford], 11 November 1942.        
“So many thanks for sending me the little book. No, I have not wanted it, in fact though I put my name in it when I bought it I am almost certain I told your father to keep it on his shelves as he would be more likely to want it for reference that [sic] I should. It gives it an additional value to me that it has been with him for these years, and I am very grateful to you for sending it back.”
In an autograph postscript he adds: “Please give my love to your mother when you see her.”
Francis Reed’s father, William Henry Reed, composer, conductor and friend and biographer of Edward Elgar, had died the previous July and the book in question evidently surfaced while clearing his belongings. 
The letter has a rusty paperclip mark at the top right of the letterhead, and two spindle holes, one to the left of the letterhead, the other at the left margin affecting two words.

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