Felix Cherniavsky - Etienne Amyot

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Felix Cherniavsky - Etienne Amyot

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Hotel Biederstein , Keferstr 18 , 8000 MUNICH 40 , West Germany . Dear Felix , Enfin , I have just read yr book . It had been in the safe at Woolley until a week ago when my niece Caralyn Wroughton brought it over to me . I cldn't have read it before as I've been a little out of existence.But am , thank God , myself - more or less - again . So much for explanation for not having read the MSS before . I liked it very much . There is so much in it that is moving , dramatic , at times almost un believable - just imagine two incidents alone , e.g. a brother who is a murderer and then that ghastly Black Book - and great chunks of really . compulsive reading . Of course you shd find a publisher for it.And no doubt you will . The trouble with publishing to - day ( I have a nephew who has just started as a publisher ) is that sex , four - letter words , and highly magnified sex acts have to be included in almost everything before someone will risk many thousands to bring out a book . But again , I repeat , you are sure one fine day to find a publisher - and success . Yes , I shd like to see copies of Verna's letters where either my wife Robin or I are spoken of . She lived in a totally dream world and whatever we might have done for her was of course really done for Maud to whom - like yr own parents - We were much attached , also fully realising by the end that she lived in an even greater ( but less lying ) dream world . I wonder wh the Sutro you mention was the father of the Edwardian playwright - or even the writer himself ? Interesting to know.It is not a common name . I knew Gerda Busoni fairly well in her last years meeting her originally at Schloss Berg , the Music Centre of Madame Langenhan , in Switzerland . She never said an ill word against Maud . I had the impression that she believed Maud and Busoni had at one time had an affair . ( The reason Maud took to me when she first heard me at some London recital was because she thought I played Bach ' like Busoni ' - an absurd exaggeration of course for he was not one of the greatest pianists of this century but THE greatest . ( Correct please . ) As I originally wrote to you Maud told me the first time she danced was to Busoni , Gerda , AND Richard Strauss wb was the