TLS, one page, 8.5 x 11, Handy Brothers Music Co., Inc. letterhead, September 6, 1946. Letter to Daniel E. Lanza, in part: "We belong to the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers in which there are four hundred members and one thousand five hundred writers-that would be alright, but the picture companies, radio companies and the band leaders have gone in the publishing business and they have not time to look at our new numbers because they have so many thousands of their own that they have to plug and the little publisher does not look in or get a chance. Now, if it were not for the old numbers like 'Saint Louis Blues' and 'The Memphis Blues' that I wrote in 1912-'14 we could not remain in business because the new songs do not sell for us." In fine condition.
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