Typed letter signed ('Artie Shaw') to Barry Mishon on personalised stationery, thanking the recipient for the invitation to the Centennial Gala for Cole Porter and adding "There is really nothing I or anyone else can do about 'conducting' my recorded version of Begin the Beguine. All you need is someone in a dinner jacket (or whatever the appropriate uniform-of-the-day is) who can stand up long enough to give a downbeat, and then walk off stage and let the band do the rest. It might also be helpful if he (or someone) could play clarinet well enough to handle my part, but at this late date that shouldn't present a formidable problem", one page, mailing folds, 4to , 2127 W. Park Court, Newbury Park, California, 5 May 1991.