Typewritten letter signed, dated New York, N.Y., 2 January 1996, to Joan Peyser, 1996 Jan. 2.

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Typewritten letter signed, dated New York, N.Y., 2 January 1996, to Joan Peyser, 1996 Jan. 2.

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Saying that she gasped when she read the enclosed passage [not present] from Peyser's book [on Leonard Bernstein], recalling that not long before Bernstein's death, she and Norman [Podhoretz] were at a party honoring Elie Wiesel and Bernstein "planted a wet, open-mouthed kiss on Norman's mouth," adding that Podhoretz later said that he experienced the kiss "as the most malicious physical assault he had ever experienced," etc.

1 item (1 p., with envelope) ; 28 cm.

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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