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Type of the document	Letter, Varia
Sender	Vaněk, Vladimír
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Sender‘s location	Castiglione della Pescaia
Send date	06.07.1964
Recipient	Rechcígl Jr., Miloslav
Recipient (corporation)	Společnost pro vědy a umění
Recipient‘s location	Rockville, Maryland
Language	Czech
Acquired	Copy from V. Vaněk papers at Czech Foreign Affairs Ministry Archive, 2021
Owner of the source	Archiv Ministerstva zahraničních věcí ČR
Call number at IBM	VanV 1964-07-06

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Content	Vladimír Vaněk sends the promised lecture on Bohuslav Martinů [attached]. The conclusion is a bit exacerbated against the self-proclaimed biographies of BM from Prague, VV would hate to see this removed from the lecture. He asks for a translation into English to be sent. VV knows enough English to check the translation. He would also like to know who will be reading his lecture. He does not insist on an honorarium and asks that the $20 be used to pay SVU membership dues and for a subscription to Promenade, so that Ladislav Radimovsky will be happy too. Miloš Šafránek travels around the world claiming to be the only authorized biographer of BM, which is nonsense. At the same time, Charlotte Martinů is suing him for publishing BM's letters against her will and also refusing to return the manuscripts and notes of ChM to other owners. They are now appropriating BM in the name of the Prague government, and it is important to respond to this, as VV does in the lecture.
Total number of leaves	1 + 8
Number of pages bearing text	1 + 8
Note	The document is apparently a carbon copy of the sent letter and the lecture
Fixation	Typescript