General information
Type of the document Letter
SenderMartinů, Bohuslav
Sender (corporation)
Sender‘s locationNew York, NY
Send date13.01.1947
Send date note13 [January] 1947, the date of the letter erroneously "13. Dec. 1947"
RecipientMerritt, Arthur Tillman
Recipient (corporation)
Recipient‘s locationCambridge, Massachusetts
Note on Recipient‘s location[Cambridge, Massachusetts]
LanguageEnglish
AcquiredIsham Memorial Library, Cambridge, USA
Owner of the sourceHarvard University, Cambridge MA
Owner‘s call numberMs. Coll. 100, box 1
Former call number at IBM31/23
Call number at IBMMer 1947-01-13
Content and physical description
ContentBohuslav Martinů sent the score of the SMITH QUARTET No.6 after Speyer, Arthur Tillman Merritt should already have it. BM has notes for the copyist with regard to turning pages when breaking up parts. The copyist is not to use abbreviations when writing parts, but is to write out all the notes as they appear in the score, as the rhythm is quite complicated.
Total number of leaves1
Number of pages bearing text1
Notethe date on the letter by Martinů is "13 Dec. 1974", but the context of the correspondence reveals a mistake in the date (see the letter reffering to this one in Mer 1947-01-21)
Fixationtypescript, handwritten signature
Digitisation
Quality of digitisationNot professional black-and-white
Digitized atBohuslav Martinů's Institute
Date of digitisation2017

Preview only available at the Institute.

Person as subject
Speyer, Louis
Composition as subject
String Quartet No. 6, H 312
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