Nov 20, 2014 - Sale 2367

Sale 2367 - Lot 249

Price Realized: $ 250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
SOUSA, JOHN PHILIP. Typed Letter Signed, to Albert C. Sherman, Jr., explaining that Sousa had created some instructional materials for trumpet and drum, but that it had gone out of print. 1 page, oblong 8vo, "Sousa and His Band" stationery; vertical folds, staple holes at upper left and upper right. New York, 15 August 1931
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". . . I wrote a method for Trumpet and Drum when I was at the head of the U.S. Marine Band. Carl Fischer published it but we had some difference of opinion and it went out of print. . . ."
with--a retained copy of Sherman's letter to Sousa, inquiring about obtaining a copy of the Sousa Drum Method. Np, 11 August 1931.