Typewritten letter signed, dated : New York, 18 June 1998, to James J. Fuld, 1998 June 18.

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Typewritten letter signed, dated : New York, 18 June 1998, to James J. Fuld, 1998 June 18.

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Expressing regret that Fuld was not at the Gershwin Festival at the Library of Congress--"The highlight was the presence of Anne Brown from Porgy and Bess, who has been living in Norway for about fifty years"--, declining to part with any of his early [Cole] Porter songs, referring to Fuld's Porter holdings as "a definitve collection," etc.

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Pierpont Morgan Library.

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