Name/Title
AU Harris, Daniel Alfred - 1981-05-08 letter to Richard Lambert HarrisEntry/Object ID
1989.1.59Context
Daniel A. Harris
5840 S. W. 48th Street
Miami, Florida 33155
May 8, 1981
Dear Dick:
Your birthday greeting, with the very generous check, arrived today. I was just on the point of writing to you about my stroke of good luck. Last week I was an invited guest at the Chamber of Commerce banquet, and I won one of the door prizes, - a trip to Düsseldorf, Germany on the new Luft Hansa Miami-Dusseldorf flight to be inaugurated June 24. Eugene Holmes, negro baritone and former member of the faculty here at the U. of Miami, is singing in the opera at Düsseldorf. Bill Ray is at Stuttgart and Ellen Repp will be at Munich. By paying a small extra fee I can visit all those towns. Lee Wolovsky is in Florence and might be able to fly up. Although the ticket is good for three months, I am sure I will be broke after a week or ten days, so I am planning to return by July 1 or 5.
I have said "no" to the University for next year. I don't enjoy working for peanuts with some of the kids who have no motivation. I have been spoiled by these older private pupils who mean business and are willing to work.
Tomorrow I am driving over to Fort Myers to see Eva and spend Mother's Day with Nana, who will have another birthday (105?) July 22. On May 12 I hope to see Carol (Staats) Webber, who is singing with the Miami Symphony. I think you heard her in Carmen. She studied voice with me at Oberlin, and has been living in Seattle for several years. As you can see, I am not bored. My main problem is to sort out my accumulated junk before somebody has to do it for me.
Best greetings to your adopted family, and many thanks for the birthday wishes and the check. I shall probably stay right here, attend Rotary and get fined for having a birthday.
As ever,
Dan