Felix Cherniavsky - Etienne Amyot

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Felix Cherniavsky - Etienne Amyot

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Copy of letter to Manya Cherniavsky from Etienne Amyot , who in 1936 performed with Maud Allan in California ( See program attached . ) Brooks's Club , St. James's Street , London . S , W.I. My dear Manya , This letter mst seem to come to you from another century ! But , going to tea to - day with yr brother Michel and his wife , I cannot resists giving them this note to give to you when they see you in California this month . My wife and I have left England this last su tumn , and are now searching for a permanent home in the sun - either down here , or in Italy . When we have found it , and you should happen to be over this side of the IC meso ocean again , I hope you will come and stay with us , and me et Robin . I sat down and wrote you a long letter sometime after the War - about 1949 , I think - to ask after you all , and also to ask after Maud . I pt no reply , so imagined you had left the old address I had in my address - book , and to where I bad sent my letter . As you probably know , Maud stayéd a good deal with us at our country - house in Hampshire during the War before she left for America . I was very yery sad indeed to read her obituary in The Times & few years ago . I was so fond of her , and admired her greatly as an artist . I was telling yr brother how one night , in 1946 , Robin ( my wife ) Maud and I were in the Regents Park house when about five bombs fell on the other end of the house , and in the garden . There was no gas , no light . So em as it was about four a.me and we were frozen - I walked with a torch to the ball - room , and found it in ruins , with the lovely old ceiling on the floor . I picked up a bundle of laths , brought it back to Maud's music room , m.de a fire with it , put on a kettle , and we had delicious cups of strong tea 1 What a life that was ! We were always very worried about her future , but Rob helped her to America , as she said she had this property in Los Angeles which wo keep her in tolerable comfort . Not yr brother tells me those plans all came to nothing . But he also tells us how extremely good you were to her . And that is a comfort to us . I hear you are married again , and playing the cello once more . A few years ago I decided to give up the professional career , as I was getting this wretched rheumatism in my fingers , and so became instead a director of the BBC in London , writing as much as I could in my spare time . Now I