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Lot 233
Sale 6417 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
Sep 10, 2025
10:00AM ET
Live / Philadelphia
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$400 -
600
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$256
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Lot Description
[Music] Hammerstein, Oscar, II, and Richard Rodgers, and Joan Roberts. Group of 2 Signed Items
Hammerstein, Oscar, II, and Richard Rodgers
Typed Letter, signed
New York, March 9, 1944. Single sheet, approximately 10 1/4 x 7 1/4 in. (260 x 184 mm) (sight). Typed letter, signed by Hammerstein and Rodgers, to Joan Roberts: "Dear Joan, We are writing to express our deep gratitude for your gracious and effective contribution toward the success of the tribute performance to Larry Hart last Sunday night. All good wishes to you. As ever, Dick Oscar". Creasing from old folds. In mat and unexamined out of frame, 17 1/4 x 23 1/4 in. (438 x 590 mm).
Together with:
Roberts, Joan
Inscribed Photograph
No place, no date. Photograph of Joan Roberts performing in Rodgers & Hammerstein's original 1943 production of Oklahoma!, inscribed by her in bottom right: "To my friend Robert - With love & best wishes Joan Roberts". In same mat and frame as above.


