[Cyril Beaumont, dance historian.] Seven Autograph Letters Signed and seven Typed Letters Signed to publisher Philip Dosse, regarding reviews in ?Dance and Dancers?, payment, ill health, and his memoir ?Bookseller at the Ballet?.

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. The recipient Philip Dosse was proprietor of Hansom Books, publisher of a stable of seven arts magazines including Books and Bookmen and Plays and Players. See ?Death of a Bookman? by the novelist Sally Emerson (editor of ?Books and Bookmen? at the time of Dosse?s suicide), in Standpoint magazine, October 2018. The present material is in good condition, lightly aged. A total of 18pp, 12mo (nine pages apiece in autograph and typed). In the first letter (13 January 1972, typed) he states that he would ?love? to review Richard Buckle?s book on Nijinsky for ?Dance and Dancers?, but that he ?dare not take on any further commitments?, as he is ?already in arrear with literary work?, in addition to visiting his wife in a nursing home every day. On 28 August 1973 he agrees to review Kerensky?s ?Pavlova?, noting that the review of the Buckle book is on his conscience. The correspondence continues with reference to reviews he has undertaken for Dosse, payments and ill health. On 23 September 1975 (typed) he thanks Dosse ?for asking Buckle to review my book for B[ooks]. & B[ookmen], while possibly Peter Williams may review the book for D[ance]. & D[ancers].? He also thanks him for the offer of a free advertisement in both magazines for his forthcoming memoir ?Bookseller at the Ballet?. ?This would be a great help. I should mention that I am publishing the book myself, so I shall have to go cautiously in regard to taking paid space, I have spent so much on the production of the book, which should be ready during November.? In a later letter he states that he is sending a copy of the book?s prospectus, and on 6 November 1975 he sends copies of the book ?for the favour of review?. In the final letter (13 January 1976, autograph) he thanks him for the free advertisements, while expressing worry that Dosse is ?losing advertisement revenue?. He ends by stating that he has ?not been too well lately, but I am now getting back to normal?. Beaumont died four months later, or 24 May 1976.