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[National Broadcasting Company, INC.] [TELEGRAM] [Use this form for all telegrams and radiograms]
April 19, 1939
Mrs. Henry M. Robert Jr. President General Daughters of American Revolution Constitution Hall Washington D.C.
I am herewith requesting that your board be called upon to reconsider its decision which by a ballot vote prohibited Marian Anderson from appearing at Constitution Hall this month despite the fact that your auditorium was available to white artists on April eighth and April tenth STOP In the hope that this democratic action will succeed and as Miss Andersons American manager with sole right to accept concert dates for her I hereby make application for a concert by Marian Anderson at Constitution Hall on any evening from the fifteenth of November 1939 to the twenty seventh of November 1939 inclusive and on the Sunday afternoons of November nineteeth and twenty sixth STOP
This permits of fifteen dates for you to choose from or fifteen separate opportunities to reaffirm a vital principle of American democracy which must be more profoundly regarded than the rules customes or practices to which you have referred to in your public statement of April eighteenth
S HUROK MANAGER MARIAN ANDERSON
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[Mrs. Henry M. Robert, Jr.] [President General] [National Society Daughters of the American Revolution] [Memorial Continental Hall, Washington DC]
April 19, 1939
Mr. S, Hurok, 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York City.
My dear Mr. Hurok:-
The President General wishes me to acknowledge receipt of your telegram of the 19th, and has asked me to send to you a copy of an excerpt taken from her report to the Continental Congress. Mrs. Robert also asks me to explain that she is unable to answer any communications personally just now, since the thepressing [the pressing] duties incidental to the meetings of the week make correspondence impossible.
Sincerely yours, (Mrs.) Marguerite Schondau Secretary to the President General
