Editing Frederick Delius (section)

===Illegitimate son===
During his time in Florida, Delius is alleged to have fathered a son with a local African-American woman named Chloe.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Webber |first=Julian Lloyd |date=5 January 2012 |title=Delius: beauty in the ear of the beholder |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2012/jan/05/delius-fenby-julian-lloyd-webber |access-date=24 March 2024 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> Upon Delius's return to Florida some years later to sell the plantation, it was suggested that Chloe, fearing that he had come to take her son away from her, fled with the child and disappeared.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/classicalmusic/9376787/Tamsin-Little-on-Delius-regrets-of-a-lost-composer.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/classicalmusic/9376787/Tamsin-Little-on-Delius-regrets-of-a-lost-composer.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Tamsin (sic) Little on Delius: regrets of a lost composer|first=Ivan|last=Hewett|date=4 July 2012|via=www.telegraph.co.uk}}{{cbignore}}</ref> In the 1990s the violinist [[Tasmin Little]] embarked on a search for descendants of Delius's alleged love-child.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Hughes |first=Meirion |url=https://books.google.com.au/books?id=g-FzJC-B51EC&pg=PA249&dq=Delius+love+child+black+girl&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjYmpXbr4yFAxX9oK8BHXedCqAQ6AF6BAgKEAI#v=onepage&q=Delius%20love%20child%20black%20girl&f=false |title=English Musical Renaissance, 1840-1940 |last2=Stradling |first2=R. A. |date=7 December 2001 |publisher=Manchester University Press |isbn=978-0-7190-5830-1 |language=en}}</ref> Little believes that his failure to track down his son had been a significant influence in the tone of his works thereafter.<ref>{{Cite web |date=4 July 2012 |title=Tamsin Little on Delius: regrets of a lost composer |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/classicalmusic/9376787/Tamsin-Little-on-Delius-regrets-of-a-lost-composer.html |access-date=24 March 2024 |website=The Telegraph |language=en}}</ref>