Hoagy Carmichael Autograph Letter Signed. [N.d.] On a sheet of staff paper, addressed to a Joe Layton, responding to an autograph request, in part: ?Enclosed is a portrait I am most happy to send you but am sorry to tell you that I am not permitted under certain ASCAP + union rules to send personally written parts of any of my songs. If I were to do this at request, no one would be the sheet music!? Signed, ?Hoagy Carmichael,? with a postscript excusing his penmanship due to a ?sore thumb.? Framed and matted with a publicity photo. Overall, 15 x 21?.