Flint (Sir William Russell, artist, 1880-1969) 27 Autograph Letters to the songwriter and composer Vivian Ellis and his sister Hermione most signed "Willie", 36pp. & 26 envelopes, 4to & oblong 8vo, Peel Cottage, Campden Hill, [London], 8th October 1952 - 23rd April 1969, on a wide variety of topics, including his artistic work, "... I was trained as a lithographic printer but as that was art with a very small "A" it cannot very well be called another profession", painting, "After my May time spell in France... I've been enjoying my peaceful studio, not painting all the time but thoroughly enjoying myself writing & arranging a little book without any illustrations at all", asking them to view his pictures for the RA, discussing a reproduction of one of his drawings in Ellis's autobiography, invitations to various parties, his health, travels, his age, "80! Isn't it awful!" etc., and commenting on Vivian Ellis's work, and Hermione's many gifts to him etc.; and an ALs from his son Francis Russell Flint, 1970, "I have a hard task ahead, but am determined to try to carry on his tradition in watercolour, a task I hope will be easier, as I have inherited his paint box", folds.

⁂ Vivian Ellis (1903-96), a prolific composer of British musicals in the 1930's, and after the war, in collaboration with A.P. Herbert, wrote a series of successful light operas, the most enduring of which was Bless the Bride.