Letter to Minnie Nielson Butler [manuscript], 1950 March 14.

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Letter to Minnie Nielson Butler [manuscript], 1950 March 14.

Young, New York, N.Y., praises John Nielson Butler's staging of Gian Carlo Menotti's "The Consul," mentions his work with Martha Graham, and discusses the June pageant to celebrate the founding of Washington D.C. Paul Green has written the pageant and Young hopes Igor Stravinsky will compose the music and Butler do the stage movement.

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University of Virginia. Library

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