Autograph letter signed, dated : New York, 1 December [n.y.], to Breitkopf & Härtel in Berlin, [n.y.] Dec. 1.

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Autograph letter signed, dated : New York, 1 December [n.y.], to Breitkopf & Härtel in Berlin, [n.y.] Dec. 1.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270577728

Asking them to send all of Bartók's songs as soon as they are published, and saying she had been engaged to sing Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire "but after studying it, I decided not to accept."

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Pierpont Morgan Library.

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