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The material in Direct Testimony is excerpted from the DVD-ROM, From the New World, A Celebrated Composer's American Odyssey, created by Robert Winter and Peter Bogdanoff and published by ArtsInteractive.


This is the famous telegram that launched the relationship between Dvorák and Mrs. Thurber. It is confusing because there is no question mark and the reader may not understand that “twenty words prepaid” is like a receipt and not part of the actual message.

Mrs. Thurber Telegram (in Paris) to Dvorak in Prague (June, 1891). Courtesy of Robert Aborn.

would you accept position director national conservatory of music New York October 1892 also lead six concerts of your works twenty words prepaid