Correspondence This file consists mainly of correspondence (principally to and from Miss Margaret Babington, Festival Director and Steward) about the Canterbury Festival in the early 1930s. Issues include: the withdrawal of the BBC Orchestra conducted by Adrian Boult; the commissioning of a new play (Murder in the Cathedral) from T S Eliot; the moving of the Reculver columns in the crypt; the painting by Nowell of the Aix Tapestries; the gift and commissioning of the bell of HMS Canterbury; the possibility of a great Empire Service; Professor Tristram's painting of the murder of Becket on the west panel of Henry IV's tomb; and the retirement of Margaret Babington in 1958.; The accounts are included for the 1935 Festival, recording the cost of the first production of "Murder in the Cathedral" as £238 4s 11d. 1933-1938