THE STUDIO,
1^A, ABERCORN PLACE,
LONDON, N.W.3.

October 20th, 1934.

Dear Mr. van Thal,

Many thanks for your letter. I shall be very pleased to receive the book on Schubert, and feel sure it will prove very "innocent" and charming. If you like to give me a copy for my friend Herr Schnabel who is the interpreter par excellence of Schubert, I shall be pleased to give it to him.

With regard to my Approach to Music", I have not done anything at all about it, as I have been so busy moving house, and touring all over Europe. Who is the man you had in mind? It is very nice of you to bother. The book ought to go down well in the United States, and I am thinking of offering it to Knopf or Doubleday Doran. You see, my Gramophone "ecords are in all the Universities and Colleges there.

With Kind Regards,

Yours Very Sincerely,

B. van Thal Esq.

30 Henrietta St.

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