ABSTRACT
In a letter dated 1 October 1990 to Colin Davis, Tippett wrote:
The day after you rang I fell into one of my bouts of ‘exhaustion,’ triggered off by heart fibrillation induced by a viral cold. Can seem at times like delayed reaction from a decade of perhaps over-intense creativity. It’s gone now, so I can contemplate the Qt again. I need lots of breaks home or away these days. 1
