General information
Type of the document Letter
SenderJirák, Karel Boleslav
Sender (corporation)
Send date24.09.1947
RecipientMartinů, Bohuslav
Recipient (corporation)
LanguageCzech
Acquiredgift from Blanka Jiráková to Martinů Foundation; returned from K. Maýrová in 08/2018, donated to Martinů Centre in Polička
Owner of the sourceNadace Bohuslava Martinů
Call number at IBMJirK 1947-09-24
Content and physical description
ContentKarel Boleslav Jirák has been in the USA since June and teaches at Roosevelt College in Chicago. When he was in New York in June, he tried to contact Bohuslav Martinů, but failed. Charlotte Martinů told him when they met at the festival in Prague [Prague Spring] that they were already in the country. KBJ would like to talk to BM and clarify matters with him from 1939, when C[elestin] Rypl arranged for KBJ to be dismissed from radio and BM to take his place. KBJ has documents in his hand on this matter and in June after the war he was acquitted by the commission of those malicious charges. Nevertheless, the radio gave him his notice and he now has to teach in the USA because he has no job in Czechoslovakia. KBJ was indeed nominated for a professorship at AMU, but the appointment still did not happen. KBJ would rather teach Czech students at home than black and yellow students in the USA. KBJ would like to get a few lines from BM. KBJ assures BM that nothing has changed in his positive attitude.
Total number of leaves1
Number of pages bearing text2
Notedraft of the sent letter
Fixationhandwriting
Digitisation
Quality of digitisationNot professional colour
Digitized atIBM
Date of digitisation2018

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Location as subject
USA
Person as subject
Martinů, Charlotte
Rypl, Celestin
Corporation as subject
Československý rozhlas
Pražské jaro
Roosevelt University
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