See headnote to previous letter.

The copy-text is a facsimile of the manuscript in the sale catalogue of The Library of Jerome Kern, New York City, Part 1, A–J (1929), 198. A copy of the catalogue is housed at the Rosenbach of the Free Library of Philadelphia. Balderston accessed this letter in the private collection of A. S. W. Rosenbach, then of New York. The catalogue records, as does Balderston, that the letter is endorsed on the reverse ‘To Mrs. Johnson’. Balderston also notes that, along with the endorsement, there is a partially illegible memorandum in an eighteenth-century hand: ‘There is a 3 or 400 pds worth of things brought in to the House which [ ] no person.’