Slightly tetchy typed letter from Damrosch [1862-1950] dated February 25 1935 to Lawrence Gilman, music critic of the New York Herald Tribune in response to a request for 250 words on Damrosch's version of 'Ein Feste Burg'. The request has taken a roundabout route to get to him 'why in thunder didn't you write to me direct...?' 'The proof of the pudding is in the setting, and if my transcription proves in the performance that it is done in the Bach spirit, even though translated into another tongue, that is the only essential.' Some pencil annotations on both Gilman and Damrosch in a leter hand. A tidy letter, mild creasing but good.