General information
Type of the document Letter
SenderMartinů, Bohuslav
Sender (corporation)
Sender‘s locationMiddlebury, Vermont
Send date26.06.1942
RecipientPosselt, Ruth
Recipient (corporation)
LanguageFrench
Acquiredcopy from Ruth Posselt estate (from Diana L. Burgin, Posselt daughter)
Owner of the source- Soukromý vlastník, Private owner
Former call number at IBM86/1
Call number at IBMPosR 1942-06-26
Content and physical description
ContentMartinů informs Ruth of coming to Tanglewood for composition school, arriving [presumably with Charlotte] on July 1 or rather 2. Asks for her help in finding lodging, preferably in a small house with a garden and kitchen. BM has already written to the Zighers [brothers Bernard Zighera and Alfred Zighera], but they are apparently not in Tanglewood. He also contacted [Boaz] Piller, but he is not coming this year. He asks Ruth to write back to him at 51 Washington Street, Middlebury - Vermont. He looks forward to seeing Ruth and Mr. [Richard] Burgin again.

[A translation of the letter into English is available].
Total number of leaves2
Number of pages bearing text3
Fixationhandwriting
Digitisation
Quality of digitisationNot professional black-and-white
Digitized atDiana Burgin
Date of digitisation07/2018

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Location as subject
Berkshire
Lenox, Massachusetts
Middlebury, Vermont
Tanglewood, Massachusetts
Person as subject
Burgin, Richard
Piller, Boaz
Zighera, Bernard
Zighera, Alfred
Corporation as subject
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Tanglewood Music Center
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