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Mrs. Leon Kolb
1814 Pacific Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94109

July 25, 1989.

Dear Mr. Stern:

This is mainly to thank you for the wonderful work you have
done, establishing the award in the name of our mutual friend
Marian Anderson.

Great as this is for her to see and be present at it's in-
auguration, I still feel a biography, something written down,
would be very important for posterity.

For several years now I had been urging her every week to
speak into her recorder when-ever she remembers interesting
incidents during her long and interesting years.

I also found an editor (retired as such from the universi-
ty in Berkeley) willing to do the work and urged her nephew,
Jimmy de Preist, to do something about it. He is her execu-
tor, but so busy with his own career that he can not spare
a minute.

Yet time is running out for her as well as for me.
I hope you do not feel it presumptuous on my part to appeal
to you. I realize how busy you are. But it is usual people
like you, who care, can find the time always for important
things.

If you could interest a publisher in the East and have one of his editors take on this vital job.
Marian was the trailblazer for her people. But she also ser-
ved this country well.

Eisenhower sent her to the Orient as an abassador of good-will
at a time when it was badly needed. She also served a term
at the United Nations.

I am sure you know all this and, I hope, you feel the impor-
tance that this be done, as I do.

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