September 1991 Issue Patrick O’Connor Too Many B…s Letters From a Life: The Selected Letters and Diaries of Benjamin Britten Vols One & Two 1923-1945 By Donald Mitchell & Philip Reed (eds) LR
December 2003 Issue Patrick O'Connor The Contrary Contralto Letters and Diaries of Kathleen Ferrier By Christopher Fifield (ed) LR
November 2004 Issue Simon Heffer Another Kind of Corpsing Letters From a Life: The Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten - Volume 3, 1946-1951 By Donald Mitchell, Philip Reed, Mervyn Cooke (edd) LR
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