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Letters from Japan, July 1967
Three letters Leonid Yakobson wrote from Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto in July 1967, with their envelopes.
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On Work in the Theatre. From the 1953 Autobiography
An excerpt from the autobiography: theatre and teaching work, Shurale, wartime evacuation and productions of the early 1950s.
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Letterhead, handwriting, envelope
Hotel letterheads, green ink and a date on the back: three letters from Japan.
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Rehearsing The Seagull
Two newspaper cuttings from a folder labelled “Irina Yakobson at rehearsals of The Seagull with Maya Plisetskaya”.
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Copies of letters to Leonid Yakobson: Shostakovich, Plisetskaya and Shchedrin, Lopukhov, Ruchkan
Apart from the labels, every sheet is a colour print of a scan of the original letter or envelope. The originals were donated to Stanford University. Each sheet carries a pencil mark, such as «27.1».
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