Francis POULENC. L.A.S., [June 1958], to the conductor Désiré-Émile Inghelbrecht; 1 page oblong in-12 on the back of a postcard from Cannes. About Les Mamelles de Tirésias (this opéra-bouffe on Apollinaire's poem was first performed on June 3, 1947 at the Opéra-Comique; it was staged by Benjamin Britten in June 1958 for his Aldeburgh Festival, in a version for two pianos played by Poulenc and Britten). "Alas, dear Inghelbrecht, on 19 June I shall be at the Britten Festival in Albrugh, where I shall be holding a piano with Ben in a chamber version of Les Mamelles. Let's postpone it until next year, but let's really postpone it"...