Autograph letter signed, dated : Los Angeles, 24 October [1991], to Joan Peyser, 1991 Oct. 24.

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Autograph letter signed, dated : Los Angeles, 24 October [1991], to Joan Peyser, 1991 Oct. 24.

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Enclosing [not present] a copy of a program "which led to our late supper with George Gershwin & Benita Hume at the Beverley Hills Brown Derby," saying that the event is briefly mentioned in Oscar's [i.e. Oscar Levant's] Memoirs--"George seemed in such good spirits that night & was highly amused by Oscar's repartee"--, etc.

1 item (1 p., with envelope) ; 18 cm.

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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