Letter from Saul Holiff to Barbara Robinson, 11 July 1963

Letter from Saul Holiff to Barbara Robinson (his future wife) telling her that Johnny Cash has fired him as manager but wants him to keep booking shows. Writes that he is upset by the suddenness of Cash's decision and believes Cash has never trusted him. Mentions trying to overcome loneliness and self-pity and acknowledges that Barbara is right in saying he is "preoccupied with death."

In Collection:

• Saul Holiff Collection

Creator

• Holiff, Saul, 1925-2005

Subject

• Holiff, Barbara
• Holiff, Saul, 1925-2005
• Death
• Interpersonal relations
• Cash, Johnny
• Music trade--Management

Language

• eng

Date created

• July 11, 1963

Resource type

• Text

Rights statement

• Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial

Extent

• 3 leaves

Additional physical characteristics

• Typescript letter. Date is circled and underlined with blue ink. Checkmark in blue ink in top-right corner of first page. Several words in first paragraph on first page underlined in blue ink.

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

• letters (correspondence)
• correspondence

Archival item identifier

• Accession Number: 2016-018
• File: 1.10

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/cbgw-pq36

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