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Letter to Dizzy Gillespie from Edward R. Murrow regarding an African tour

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A typewritten letter on United States Information Agency letterhead. The letter starts, "Dear Mr. Gillespie: / Your letter of congratulations was most welcome, / and I appreciate your good wishes as I begin my work / with USIA." It is signed "Edward R. Murrow" in the bottom right corner.
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Ink On Paper
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Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Paxton and Rachel Baker
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National Museum of African American History and Culture

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Smithsonian Institution

Keywords

  1. Africa
  2. African American
  3. African Americans
  4. Correspondence
  5. Gillespie, Dizzy
  6. International Affairs
  7. Jazz (Music)
  8. Local And Regional
  9. Murrow, Edward R

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