signed 'Cecil Beaton' (lower right), and variously inscribed 'MIDAS. a comic opera by Kane O'hara./1st performance Theatre Royale in Convent garden 1764/Arranged for revival at Cambridge by Dennis Arundell-1923' (upper and lower edges), together with an autograph letter signed ("Cecil Beaton") to Dennis Arundell ("Dear Arundell"), asking him to return his design for the cover of Midas as ".I might possibly be having an exhibition & wondered if it was good enough to show. I was fairly pleased with it at the time. Is it lost?.", going on to invite him to see his newest designs and behind the scenes at Hammersmith, two pages, dust-staining and marks, 229 x 177mm, 61 Sussex Gardens, Hyde Park, W., [no date] (2)