General information
Type of the document Letter
SenderSprague-Coolidge, Elisabeth
Sender (corporation)
Sender‘s locationWashington, D.C.
Note on Sender‘s location[Washington, D.C.?]
Send date note[after 17.7.1946]
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
Call number at IBMSpr 0000-00-00c
Content and physical description
ContentElisabeth Sprague-Coolidge informs Arthur Tillman Merritt that Benjamin Britten has declined the offer due to the amount of other work. The ESC will meet with him the following week, but is not hopeful that this will change. William Schuman has not yet replied to Harold Spivacke, so they can't do much before the holidays. She also thought about Bohuslav Martinů, but he is hospitalized for injuries from a fall. Martha [Graham?] is in California. She thinks they will eventually choose Carlos Chávez, from whom she commissioned the piece "Dark Meadow." She gives Schuman's address. Regrets that ATM was not at the last concert. Malipiero's work is beautiful.
Total number of leaves2
Number of pages bearing text2
Fixationhandwriting
Digitisation
Quality of digitisationNot professional colour
Digitized atIsham Memorial Library, Cambridge, USA
Date of digitisation11/2016

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Person as subject
Britten, Benjamin
Chávez, Carlos
Graham, Martha
Malipiero, Gian Francesco
Martinů, Bohuslav
Schuman, William
Spivacke, Harold
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