'Letters from Tchaikovsky to Brodsky'

This article was originally broadcast on the Home Service and later published in The Listener pages 683 and 684, dated 19 April 1962. The Tchaikovsky letters were translated by Mrs. Alice Pitfield, wife of the author. Thomas Pitfield mentions how the letters now known at the R.M.C.M. as the Brodsky Collection, came to be discovered many years after the Brodskys' death at their home, 3 Laurel Mount, Bowdon, Cheshire. The house was bequeathed to Anna's sister Olga and after her death when aged over 100 years the house fell to her son, Leon Picard. He died intestate and the packets of correspondence were found and opened by the Principal of the Royal Manchester College of Music.