Letter from H. W. Henze to W. H. Auden, December 1958
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- 1956-06-22: to Weil
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- 1959-03-21: to Weil
- 1959-01-06: from Auden
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- 1960-07-07: to Auden
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[December 1958]
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"… December 1958"This letter to which Auden and Kallman refer in the letter of 6 January 1959 cannot be found, but – as Henze recounts in his Autobiography (p. 201-202) – he wrote to Auden in December 1958 asking him with great humility if, possibly, he would be willing to collaborate with him to write an opera (with or without Chester Kallman).
