Thank you for your letter and let me tell you that my regrets not to have seen you while I was in New York, were equal to yours.

I am a little disappointed that the Fantasy is still not available. I would very much like you to give Mr. Rufer, who is an extremely honorable man, and a great disciple of Arnold Schoenberg, all the immediate support you can. Also, I find it extremely important that Rufer's book is available by June for the twelve-tone congress in Salzburg. You musn't be hesitant in allowing him to reprint anything, for he is a person of absolute integrity and I vouch for him. (You know me well enough to know that I don't say this of many persons.)