Two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning Italian American composer (1911–2007) best known for such popular operas as The Consul, The Saint of Bleecker Street, and Amahl and the Night Visitors. TLS, one page, 8.5 x 11, Festival Foundation, Inc. letterhead, April 4, 1956. Menotti writes to a Miss Straight. In full: "I am forwarding to you a folder describing the project of Festival Foundation in the hope that your Foundation may be able to help us. We are just starting to raise money, and every bit helps." He has added the handwritten postscript: "I am sorry I didn't have a chance to talk to you at Greta Keller's the other day-but you know how cocktail parties are!!" In fine condition, with a horizontal fold, light wrinkling, and the word "may" circled. RRAuction COA.
