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Autograph Letter signed to Milton Mesirow "Mezz

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Autograph Letter signed to Milton Mesirow "Mezz

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(Louis, "Satchmo", jazz trumpeter and singer, 1901-71) Autograph Letter signed to Milton Mesirow "Mezz Mezzrow", 3pp., sm. 4to, on personal letterhead, Grafton Hotel, Tottenham Court Road, London, 22nd August 1932, recounting that he has just returned from playing in Glasgow, "a wonderful engagement at the Empire Theatre the finest theatre in Glasgow and believe me kid we killed em up there", his band, "consisted of nothing but the best white musicians that England could afford. And they singing their A-off. Oh yess", mentioning a money order, and asking for music orchestration in return, folds, slightly creased, housed in a modern morocco-backed cloth portfolio.