I am very sorry that my letter offended you.
It was not intended to do this, and I had heard nothing
about the sad things that happened to your father, and
I would like to know more of it, because, as you have
perhaps sometimes heard, I always mentioned him as a
model of a publisher and as a very noble man with whom
I had the best relationship.

When I complained that Peters Edition did not send extra
copies as long as it was possible. Then you must see
that I had some reason to say a thing like this, though
perhaps it is not quite true in your case. When, in 1933,
I warned everybody to get out of Germany, and even asked,
for instance, Dr Kalmus of the Universal Edition to bring
all his originals of any workvalue to Switzerland. Then I am
very sorry that I did not ask your father to do the same;
But I must say that I was not very successful with my
warnings. I saw at once what would happen, and I knew
we would lose all if we remained in Germany.

Thus my complaint concerns almost all my works which are
published by Universal Edition , and especially what is
so sad, that there are all the parts of orchestral works
entirely lost. I have no idea how this ever can be replaced.

I hope you understand my letter now a little better and
certainly there was no intention of offending you.

As soon as my eyes permit (which make a lot of trouble: I
have a nervous eye trouble). As soon as I am able to work
a little again on paper, I will make you a third version
of the Five Orchestra Pieces. There is only one difficulty:
I possess only one copy of the second version, and I
don't know whether I should dare to give this away, or
rather spoil it if inserting the new version. Therefore
I was thinking, whether I could not send you a microfilm
copy of it, and if you have a Reader, we might be able
to proceed in this manner. (A[R]Reader is a kind of lense
which enables you to read the microfilm as if it were in
book-size.