Although your last letter signed by Mr. Hoffmann misinterpreted my previous state-
ments and was therefore offending to me, your letter from November 25 was certainly
insulting. “History“ will show that during our correspondence during the last year, I
always tried to accomodate you with your specific wishes, although your letters cer-
tainly made it very difficult for me. Nevertheless, I regarded it as a pleasure and an
honor to correspond with you; however, this is to notify you that your letter dated No-
vember 25 was so insulting that I prefer not to correspond with you any more in the fu-
ture. The Schoenberg Fantasy has already been engraved, and the costs involved for
engraving and making several proofs as requested by you are already an investment of
$ 400.00 for me. From your last letter, I noticed that you intended to send these proofs
to three violinists for correcting same. As an experienced composer, you should have re-
alized that this should have been done before you sent me the manuscript for engraving;
anyhow, I will go ahead with the publishing of this work of yours; however, only corres-
pondence referring to the publication of this work and continuing to pay royalty to you
and your family will be my reason for corresponding with you.

You know my family much too well and you should have immediately protested the rum-
ors you heard about the Universal Edition. Nevertheless, I want to askanswer you at least one
question which refers to my person, although should you have reread one of my answers
which I sent to you on a previous insulting letter from you, you should have remembered
that I am in the United States since 1936, in the United States Army since 1942, a member
of the Intelligence Corps of the United States Army since 1943, attached to the 106th In-
fantry Division of the United States Army during combat in 1944 inside of Germany.

There is no necessity for you to answer this letter, with the exception that I must
insist on hearing from you immediately in reference to the name and the address of the
person who has informed you about the facts you mentioned in your letter, and I will im-
mediately start a Libel Suit against this person. Referring to the Universal Edition
problem, please note that the Restitution Commission has already verified the fact that
Universal Edition was bought through the Nazi who has confiscated my Leipzig firm, and
the Restitutional Commission is also convinced that the Nazi used exclusively my confis-
cated money of my confiscated firm to buy Universal Edition. Nevertheless, I am asking
now ✎ for a refund in America of the exact amount which was taken away from me, so that I
can return the Universal Edition to anybody who wants it. When Universal Edition was
bought, the reason was not the one which you mentioned but that Universal Edition was
completely bankrupt.

Although men who are responsible at the present time for Universal Edition rea-
lized the generosity of my terms in conversations during the past two years, they
always did something behind my back, and now I finally got so sick and tired of this
Universal Edition problem that I made a final offer, which is so generous it would
even surprise you. However, considering your statement in your last letter, that
“history“ will show from our correspondence various facts, I do hope that you will
add, too, your letter dated November 25 and this answer of mine to your correspondence
file, so that later generations can realize that it was you in this case who forced
Walter Hinrichsen to break up this correspondence with Arnold Schoenberg.