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Hoyle/Box 23/3/8
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GB 275 Hoyle/Box 23/3/8
Title
Typescript letter, signed, from Alla Massevitch (Astronomicheskii sovet, Moscow) to FH
Date(s)
- 3 Dec 1961 (Creation)
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2p paper
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Hopes FH will be able to accept the formal invitation from the USSR Academy of Sciences to visit the country. Wrote about FH and Leo Smit's opera to Antonio Ghiringhelli at Las Scala, Milan, who seems to be interested, and may write to FH. Asks FH to bring the 'musical part of the opera' with him if he visits the USSR, as has been talking about it to D. Shostakovitch and people at the Bolshoi. Asks about progress with the San Francisco Opera.