Three humorous autograph letters framed together, each signed 'Morgan', each 2 pages, 4to, on folded blue Airmail paper, King’s College, Cambridge, 1953-1954, to Lincoln and Fidelma Kirstein in New York, all three thanking them for sending cheese, one humorously listing all of the friends (‘mice’) who ate it, <‘…The cheese – of enormous proportions and great deliciousness – was vigorously attacked from all sides by mice (see list opposite)… Mouse List: / Self / Nick Furbank who went with me to Portugal / Tim’s Neighbour…/ Bob / May / Bob’s Mum…But NOT young Jim's young lady she having had too much to drink the night before though knowing she had a weak head and not accustomed to it for the second time...>, another letter mentioning several operas that debuted in 1954 and discussing life at King’s College: <‘…First, the superb cheese. Then the exquisite jams. I do nothing but eat the things. What’s more, our “Hall Lunch” has become so filthy that not the proximity of even the most charming undergraduates can induce me to attend it. So I feast in my room…Now of the great world of Opera and of Art… I much liked Dickie Buckle’s show [likely Richard Buckle’s 1954 show on the life of Diaghilev] – also the Bavarian stuff at the V and A [Victorian & Albert museum]. And The Turn of the Screw [opera by Benjamin Britten]. I did not enjoy Nelson [opera by Lennox Berkeley] and only partly enjoyed Troilus and Cressida [opera by William Walton]. Tippett awaits me [likely Michael Tippett’s 1952 opera The Midsummer Marriage]… Loving and hungry / Morgan / ….It is so nice and comfortable here – coal fire, flowers in room, and not more than three pianos playing Beethoven at once. I do assure you I live in luxury.’>, framed
h. 8 w. 9-1/2 in. (sight of each)
overall: 29 x 13 in. (frame)