This page contains a list of 215 persons or bodies who (mostly) wrote to Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji or to whom the composer sent letters. They represent the bulk of the Sorabji Archive collection, where they exist either in autograph (in the case of letters to Sorabji) or in copy (in the case of letters from him).

This compilation is based on a working list prepared when I worked at the (then called) Sorabji Music Archive in 1992 and 1993. It was extensively revised in 2021 to include correspondents whose letters are held in various public collections (as listed on the page devoted to archival collections), and converted into a table by adding the numbers of letters where known. In no case should this list be considered exhaustive, nor does it represent the current holdings of the Archive and of other repositories.

Some collections may include copies of open letters to various newspapers or magazines that Sorabji liked to append to his letters to friends. They may or may not be included in the number of letters. All the open letters found so far, and the list of periodicals and newspapers to which they were sent, are listed on separate pages.

Contents of columns

• Name: Name of the correspondent, given in parentheses when writing on behalf of a corporate body. Many people are not public figures with entries in reference sources; they are often admirers who wrote to express their interest in the music after hearing a performance or reading an open letter.
• Date: Year or range of years, rarely representing a continuous correspondence, but rather extremes between which dates may be far apart. Some dates are currently unknown, hence the blank entries.
• From: Number of letters, if known, from the person named in the first column to Sorabji.
• To: Number of letters, if known, from Sorabji to the person named in the first column.
• Coll.: Presence of one or more letters in a public library or archive, for which as much as could be found in online catalogues is given on a separate page. The number and dates of letters are often not known, which explains the occasional blank entries for numbers. Copies may be held in the Sorabji Archive.
• Comments: Additional relevant information.

Due to their exceptional number, the entries for the correspondence between Sorabji and his friends Frank Holliday and Norman Gentieu give the numbers of the items in the Sorabji Archive and at McMaster University on separate lines. Further details are given on a separate page.