Karajan, Herbert von (1908-1989). Eigh. Letter from the U.S. "Herbert". 4 pp. (copy pen). With letterhead "General Music Director Herbert von Karajan. Berlin State Opera (Aachen, after 1937). To his parents. "... I laughed a lot about Mama's letter. I'm still the stupid boy for you who leaves everything, loses everything, and everyone can do anything better than him. Hopeless, I'll never grow up. Be that as it may, thank you a thousand times for the show. Money goes off today. The picture of me was taken in front of the Paris Opera, it belonged to me, I just borrowed it from Olga and I am glad that it has now come to the right address ... I have the Missa tomorrow and Friday here in Aachen, next week she will be repeated in Berlin with the Staatskapelle and the choir from here. Then I still have to work in Berlin in February. At the beginning of March I go to Italy for the preliminary rehearsals for Florence ...". - Since the letter was apparently written in Aachen, the letterhead is crossed out.