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CA 36 - Handwritten postcard from Schenker to Cotta, dated August 29, 1906

{recto}
⇧ Korrespondenz-Karte

Absender: ⇧ H. Schenker
Wien, III., Reisnerstr. 38

⇧ An: ⇧ J. G. Cotta'sche Buchhandlung Nfg
⇧ in ⇧ Stuttgart
Deutschland

[postmark:] || WIEN 49 | 29 VIII [illeg] | * a * ||

{verso}
Wien, 29. Aug. 06.

Sehr geehrter Herr! 1

Ich bitte höfl., mir wieder mehrere Schleifen 2 schicken zu wollen


Mit bestem Dank
u. hochachtungsvoll ergb.
[signed:] H Schenker.

⇧ erl. 30/8 06

© Transcription Ian Bent, 2005, 2017
{recto}
⇧ Postcard

From: ⇧ H. Schenker
Vienna III, Reisnerstraße 38

⇧ To: ⇧ Successors to Messrs J. G. Cotta's Book Dealership
⇧ in ⇧ Stuttgart
Germany

[postmark:] || VIENNA 49 | 29 VIII [illeg] | * a * ||

{verso}
Vienna, August 29, 1906

Dear Sir, 1

Please would you very kindly again send me some ties? 2


With many thanks,
and kind regards, Your devoted
[signed:] H. Schenker

⇧ dealt with 30/8 06

© Translation Ian Bent, 2005, 2017
{recto}
⇧ Korrespondenz-Karte

Absender: ⇧ H. Schenker
Wien, III., Reisnerstr. 38

⇧ An: ⇧ J. G. Cotta'sche Buchhandlung Nfg
⇧ in ⇧ Stuttgart
Deutschland

[postmark:] || WIEN 49 | 29 VIII [illeg] | * a * ||

{verso}
Wien, 29. Aug. 06.

Sehr geehrter Herr! 1

Ich bitte höfl., mir wieder mehrere Schleifen 2 schicken zu wollen


Mit bestem Dank
u. hochachtungsvoll ergb.
[signed:] H Schenker.

⇧ erl. 30/8 06

© Transcription Ian Bent, 2005, 2017
{recto}
⇧ Postcard

From: ⇧ H. Schenker
Vienna III, Reisnerstraße 38

⇧ To: ⇧ Successors to Messrs J. G. Cotta's Book Dealership
⇧ in ⇧ Stuttgart
Germany

[postmark:] || VIENNA 49 | 29 VIII [illeg] | * a * ||

{verso}
Vienna, August 29, 1906

Dear Sir, 1

Please would you very kindly again send me some ties? 2


With many thanks,
and kind regards, Your devoted
[signed:] H. Schenker

⇧ dealt with 30/8 06

© Translation Ian Bent, 2005, 2017

Footnotes

1 Writing of this postcard is not recorded in Schenker's diary.

2 "Schleifer": presumably either for tying proofs together or for tying round a postal packet.

Commentary

Rights Holder
Heirs of Henrich Schenker, deemed to be in the public domain.
License
All reasonable steps have been taken to locate the heirs of Heinrich Schenker. Any claim to intellectual rights on this document should be addressed to the Schenker Correspondence Project, Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge, at schenkercorrespondence [at] mus (dot) cam (dot) ac (dot) uk.
Format
Printed postcard, holograph addresses recto, holograph salutation, message, valediction and signature verso, receipt-dated in another hand
Provenance
J.G. Cotta’sche Nachfolger/Stuttgarter Zeitung (document date-c.1954); Cotta-Archiv (Stiftung der Stuttgarter Zeitung), Schiller-Nationalmuseum, Marbach am Neckar, Germany (c.1954-)

Digital version created: 2017-06-27
Last updated: 2012-11-02