Photocopy of an autograph letter signed from Adolph Brodsky to Edward Elgar

Adolph Brodsky is very keen to go to the private performance of Elgar's Quartet and Quintet and wonders if he and his wife could gain admission to it. Brodsky will play Elgar's sonata at a Brodsky Quartet Concert next season. Brodsky writes that he is not a record hunter and hearing Elgar's works played by others saves him a great deal of brain work. When Brodsky heard Kreisler play Elgar's Concerto he used the experience for teaching purposes. Brodsky taught it to Anton Maaskoff, Naum Blinder, Alfred Barker and Helena Kontorovitch. Brodsky mentions that he never tires of the concerto which has almost become "his dayly prayer". Brodsky asks Elgar to reply by return of post so that he can arrange for a room in London. He ends with Easter greetings to the Elgars. The original letter is dated 18 Apr 1919, and it is unclear when this photocopy was made.