Carmichael (Hoagy) Typed letter signed ('Hoagy Carmichael') to Patricia Loch, reading "I surely appreciate your interest in my music, and especially 'Blue Orchids'. It's an interesting story you told me. This song is one in which I wrote I wrote the music first and happened to see the words 'Blue Orchids" in some magazine and decided it would make the song. It was a most difficult lyric to write but I believe I achieved something pretty good", one page, minor creasing and folding marks, light discolouration to left margin, 4to, n.p., 8 November 1978.