Autograph document signed (incomplete), dated : [n.p., n.d., ca. 1951], [ca. 1951].

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Autograph document signed (incomplete), dated : [n.p., n.d., ca. 1951], [ca. 1951].

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Concerning The Rake's Progress, explaining how it differs from The Nightingale and Mavra, saying that music drama and opera are "two very, very different things. My life work is a devotion to the latter," mentioning [W.H.] Auden and Chester Kallman, etc.

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Pierpont Morgan Library.

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