Author: Menuhin, Moshe.

Format: Typed letter signed to “Dear friends” and dated Nov. 3, 1949”, signed and annotated in ink below text.

Printed letterhead “PO Box 157, Los Gatos, California”, 1p, 27.6 x 21.5cm.

Yehudi Menuhin’s father Moshe writes to request tickets and car spaces for Yehudi’s upcoming concert in San Jose. He remarks on the American tour thus far: “sold out houses with overflow on stage” and in a postscript requests “three (3) more, good seats, for our friends. Kindly charge the account of Yehudi for all the tickets. M.M.”

Accompanied by four copies of enclosed typescript:- press releases about Yehudi’s current tour of America following his success in Europe. Each with slightly different wording.

Yehudi Menuhin, (1916–1999) was an American-born violinist and conductor who spent most of his performing career in Britain. He is widely considered one of the greatest violinists of the 20th century. Ref: Wiki.

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