FERBER EDNA Typed Letter Signed to Duane Garrison

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FERBER, EDNA. Typed Letter Signed, to Duane Garrison, complaining that she herself could not get tickets to the premiere of the 1966 production of Show Boat while someone undeserving was given tickets, and apologizing for the typos due to her being unaccustomed to a new typewriter. 2 pages, small 8vo, personal stationery, written on the first and third pages of a folded sheet; horizontal fold. With the original envelope. Mount Vernon, VT, 20 July 1966

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". . . I was shocked to learn from Y.B. Garden that she had been given house seats for the opening night performance of SHOW Boat [sic] and that my check for two seats had been returned.
". . . Perhaps my check was made out incorrectly. In any case, Miss Garden was not in any way entitled to opening nights seats, though it was characteristically kind of Mr. Rodgers to think of a courtesy so unexpected. . . .
". . . As for Miss Garden's seats, I cannot and will not have these paid for by Mr. Rodgers or anyone else. She showed poor taste in accepting an extraordinary favor such as this . . . ."
The postscript: "This typewriter--a rented one--is one of the new models and I, an old-timers, am baffled by its intricacies. It does everything--makes sandwiches, delivers messages, sews hems, adds and subtracts, but I can't get the knack of making it write. Hence all the errors."
The 1966 production of Show Boat opened on July 19 at the New York State Theater (today, the David H. Koch Theater).