TLS, one page, 7.25 x 10.5, personal letterhead, November 7, 1950. Letter to Mr. H. Bittner of New York, in part: "I have received your letter of November 3 which has not been an unexpected one since you had promised to give me credit for the first edition of the Three Quartets by Mozart, dedicated to Joseph Haydn, which I returned to you last April. I received the latter as a present from Eugene Berman who bought it from you. But, to be true, I had no use for it and I preferred to exchange it for something else from your catalogue. In order to let me make a choice, will you please kindly send me your catalogue and at the same time let me know what amount I am being credited by you." In fine condition, with staple holes to the upper left, and light show-through at upper corners from two small pieces of tape on the reverse. Accompanied by Bittner's retained carbon copy of his November 3rd letter to Stravinsky, inquiring about the disposition of the Mozart book.
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