[Keith Falkner, English bass-baritone, Director of the Royal College of Music, London.] Two Autograph Letters Signed to ‘Miss Scott’ [the musicologist Marion Scott], the first agreeing to sing at an 'At Home', the second while at work for the RAF.

See his entry and hers in the Oxford DNB. The two items are in good condition, lightly aged, and each folded once for postage. Neatly and firmly written. Both addressed to ‘Dear Miss Scott’ and signed ‘Keith Falkner’. ONE: 2pp, 12mo. Eleven lines. He will be ‘pleased to sing in the “Peasant Cantata” at the Union “At Home” on June 28th’ and asks to know ‘which version you will be doing as soon as you decide?’ He ends with thanks for her ‘kind sympathy - I do appreciate it very much’. TWO: 2pp, 8vo. Twenty-three lines of text. Her letter has been redirected, and reached him a couple of days before. He is glad she ‘enjoyed the broadcast’ he gave on 3 August. ‘I am now working in my few spare moments on a programme that will deal with the ‘time of day’ instead of the year. I hope to do it towards the end of September, the Air Ministry permitting.’ (Oxford DNB: ‘During the Second World War Falkner served in an administrative capacity with the Royal Air Force’.) He regrets to inform her that after writing to her last ‘from Orkney that I was posted south before the Male voice choir had given their concert & also I cannot find enough to say that is interesting’. He promises that if in future he does find anything ‘of interest to the Magazine’ he will send it to her. His wife is ‘still working in [Inverness?] & enjoying life as much as is possible’, and they ‘have good news of our girls in Cincinnati’.