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Virginia Calhoun letter to George H. Barrow

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The author of the letter, Virginia Calhoun writes to George H. Barron of her sorrow at the death of her mother in April [1915], but despite this she intends to go on with almost completed plans for a "Ramona" production. She says that all the joy has gone out of the venture since her mother, her "never-failing friend is not with one to hear about it." She only continues out of a sense of duty and obligation. She is currently getting contracts from copyright owners made over and is pleased that in this latest document the rates of royalties are better. She is anxious to know if he has hear a good word from Seville about the dances, and if he has not, to please let her have a card to the Spanish Consul in San Francisco. Her return address at the foot of the letter is: 1334 Van Ness Ave, Vooheis Building, San Francisco.
Type
Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date
1915, April.
Call number
mssHM 998
Creator
Calhoun, Virginia Catherine(Opens in new tab)
Provenance
Part of the Macdonald collection, December 19, 1968.
Dimensions
18 cm :
Associated people
Barron, George H. (1870-1942,)
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