Havlasa odpovídá jistému "drahému příteli" [zřejmě Miloslavu Haluzovi] na různé otázky z předchozí korespondence týkající se osobních záležitostí. Jeden bod se týká Bohuslava Martinů. BM prý chtěl v roce 1920 po Havlasovi, aby pro něj udělal libreto z "Oken do mlhy", což Havlasa pro nedostatek času prý odmítl. BM si však s jeho svolením sám napsal libreto prvního jednání a prý jej i zhudebnil, prosil však Havlasu, aby mu z Paříže poslal notový papír na celou operu. Což Havlasa udělal (viz dopis Havlasa: BM z 2.5.1920), nedočkal se však od BM ani poděkování. Dále se Havlase dotklo, že při náhodném setkání v Paříži před operou (asi v r. 1931) dělal prý BM, jakoby Havlasu neznal. Přesto prý dal Havlasa hrát v Santiagu de Chile Druhou symfonii BM, kterou pořídil Šimek od BM z USA. Ani za tento čin BM Havlasovi nepoděkoval. Nové skladby BM Havlasovi "nejdou pod nos a do ucha".

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Havlasa replies to a "dear friend" [presumably Miloslav Haluza] to various questions from previous correspondence concerning personal matters. One point concerns Bohuslav Martinů. In 1920, BM reportedly asked Havlasa to do the libretto from 'Windows into the Fog' for him, which Havlasa refused due to lack of time. BM, however, wrote the libretto for the first act himself with his permission and is said to have set it to music, but he asked Havlasa to send him the sheet music for the whole opera from Paris. Havlasa did so (see letter from Havlasa: BM, 2 May 1920), but he did not receive a thank-you from BM. Furthermore, Havlasa was offended that during a chance meeting in Paris before the opera (probably in 1931), he allegedly made BM look as if he did not know Havlasa. Nevertheless, Havlas is said to have had BM's Second Symphony, which Šimek had acquired from BM in the USA, played in Santiago de Chile. BM did not thank Havlas for this act either. BM Havlas's new compositions "do not go under his nose and into his ear".

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