Letter from Johnny Cash to Saul Holiff, 21 October 1967

Letter from Johnny Cash to Saul Holiff about the finalization of his divorce and June Carter's refusal to marry him. He tells Holiff that she has decided to leave the show after the present tour ends. Accuses June of emasculating him and Marshall Grant, his bass player, of colluding against him. Tells Holiff that he wants to fire Grant and Anita Carter, June's sister, as a way of testing June. Quoted in Julie Chadwick, The Man Who Carried Cash: Saul Holiff, Johnny Cash, and the Making of an American Icon (2017), pp. 219-220. Referenced in Robert Hilburn, Johnny Cash: The Life (2013), p. 318; Michael Streissguth, Johnny Cash: The Biography (2006), pp. 137-138.

In Collection:

• Saul Holiff Collection

Creator

• Cash, Johnny

Contributor

• Holiff, Saul, 1925-2005

Subject

• Marriage
• Concert tours
• Country musicians
• Divorce
• Music trade--Management
• Grant, Marshall (Bassist)
• Cash, June Carter, 1929-2003
• Carter, Anita
• Cash, Johnny
• Holiff, Saul, 1925-2005

Language

• eng

Date created

• October 21, 1967

Resource type

• Text

Rights statement

• Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial

Extent

• 9 leaves

Additional physical characteristics

• Handwritten letter on lined notebook paper.

Physical repository

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Collection

• Saul Holiff Collection

Provenance

• Acquired from Jonathan Holiff, October 2016.

Provider

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Genre

• correspondence
• letters (correspondence)

Archival item identifier

• Accession Number: 2016-018
• File: 1.9

Fonds title

• Holiff Family fonds

Fonds identifier

• SC510

Is referenced by

• Special Collections fonds: https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/holiff-family-fonds

Date digitized

• 2007 to 2008

Technical note

• Scanning done by Edgeworx Inc. between 2007-2008 for documentary My Father and the Man in Black. Exact dates of scanning and equipment used for scanning unknown. Image resized to 600dpi tiff using Photoshop CS5 by Libraries Digitization. Metadata by SMacFarlane and KD.

Rights

• Material is made available for research and private study; all other uses require permission of the copyright holders.

DOI

•  https://doi.org/10.58066/h21h-gy09

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