10 May 1945: "I've been meaning to write you to congratulate you on winning the War in Italy! Now what happens? . . .
". . . I gave the Professor's greetings to [Serge] Koussevitzky the day it arrived. By chance we met at the Soviet Consulate where [Vladimir] Horowitz was playing Prokofieff's 8th Piano Sonata for a hand-picked audience. Kouss was obviously delighted to have word of his old friend.
"For a while I thought I was going to be in Paris this spring. The O[ffice of] W[ar] I[nformation] had plans for a major American music festival in June, and I was asked to go as musical ambassador with Lenny Bernstein to do the conducting. It all fell through at the last moment . . . .
". . . I'm still working on my Symphony [No. 3] which didn't progress much during the hectic winter months in N.Y. . . . On the side I've been preparing a Suite from the ballet I wrote for Martha Graham. She called it 'Appalachian Spring' after a poem of Hart Crane. Only 2 days ago it won me a Pulitzer Prize. Isn't that nice? . . ."
28 December 1945: ". . . I've been made ass't director of the Berkshire Music Center up in Stockbridge. . . .
"I've been reading lots of Henry James recently--and there are large chunks of Italy in his work. Tell me a little more in detail what life is like over there."
18 February 1946: ". . . I have a house and a Swedish lady cook out here and am still fussing with the Symphony. . . . In July I go to the Berkshire Music Center for six weeks. . . . Lenny Bernstein will be there, conducting a new British opera: [the June 7th premiere of Benjamin Britten's] 'Peter Grimes'. . . ."
With--Aaron Copland. Greeting card Signed and Inscribed, to "Dear Drew," sending New Year wishes, with an autograph postscript: "Got your card & letter sent to Mexico--but I'm back at the Empire Hotel. Will write soon." With a photograph of the Santario de Ocotlán in Mexico mounted to a page, with a holograph caption: "I lived opposite this church for 2 summers." 6x4 inches, folded sheet. [New York], circa 1946.