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OJ 10/3, [136] - Handwritten picture postcard from Hannah Deutsch to Schenker, dated December 30, 1930

{recto}
[printed:] ⇧ Postkarte
[picture: city, with river and bridge, mountains in background: captioned: “Steyr, Oberösterreich”]

[An:] Herrn Dr Heinrich Schenker
Wien III.
Keilgasse 8 {verso}
30. XII. 1930

Lieber verehrter Herr Professor! 1

Wir würden uns sehr freuen, wenn Sie Sonntag, den 4. d. nachmittags zu uns kommen würden.

Mit den besten Neujahrswünschen für Sie und Ihre liebe Frau, und vielen Grüssen von meinem Mann und mir,


Ihre ergebene
[signed:] Hannah Deutsch

© Transcription William Drabkin, 2023
{recto}
[printed:] ⇧ Postcard
[picture: city, with river and bridge, mountains in background: captioned: “Steyr, Upper Austria”]

[To:] Dr Heinrich Schenker
Keilgasse 8
Vienna III {verso}
December 30, 1930

Dear revered Professor, 1

We would be very much delighted if you would come to our place in the afternoon of Sunday the 4th.

With best wishes for the New Year to you and your dear wife, and many greetings from my husband and me,


Your devoted
[signed:] Hannah Deutsch

© Translation William Drabkin, 2023
{recto}
[printed:] ⇧ Postkarte
[picture: city, with river and bridge, mountains in background: captioned: “Steyr, Oberösterreich”]

[An:] Herrn Dr Heinrich Schenker
Wien III.
Keilgasse 8 {verso}
30. XII. 1930

Lieber verehrter Herr Professor! 1

Wir würden uns sehr freuen, wenn Sie Sonntag, den 4. d. nachmittags zu uns kommen würden.

Mit den besten Neujahrswünschen für Sie und Ihre liebe Frau, und vielen Grüssen von meinem Mann und mir,


Ihre ergebene
[signed:] Hannah Deutsch

© Transcription William Drabkin, 2023
{recto}
[printed:] ⇧ Postcard
[picture: city, with river and bridge, mountains in background: captioned: “Steyr, Upper Austria”]

[To:] Dr Heinrich Schenker
Keilgasse 8
Vienna III {verso}
December 30, 1930

Dear revered Professor, 1

We would be very much delighted if you would come to our place in the afternoon of Sunday the 4th.

With best wishes for the New Year to you and your dear wife, and many greetings from my husband and me,


Your devoted
[signed:] Hannah Deutsch

© Translation William Drabkin, 2023

Footnotes

1 Receipt of this postcard is recorded in Schenker’s diary for December 30, 1930: “Von Frau Hanna Deutsch (K.): Einladung für Sonntag, den 4. I.” (“from Mrs Hanna Deutsch (postcard): invitation for Sunday, January 4.”).

Commentary

Format
printed picture postcard: printed picture, holograph (Hanna Deutsch) recipient address, postmark, and postage stamp, recto; holograph (Hanna Deutsch) salutation, message, valediction, and signature, verso
Rights Holder
Heirs of Otto Erich Deutsch, published here by kind permission
License
Permission to publish granted by the heirs of Otto Erich Deutsch February 12, 2008. Any claim to intellectual rights should be addressed to the Schenker Correspondence Project, Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge, at schenkercorrespondence[at]mus(dot)cam(dot)ac(dot)uk
Provenance
Schenker, Heinrich (document date-1935)--Schenker, Jeanette (1935-c.1942)--Ratz, Erwin (c.1942-c.1956)--Jonas, Oswald (c.1956-1978)--University of California, Riverside (1978--)
Rights Holder
Heirs of Otto Erich and Hanna Deutsch, published by kind permission
License
Permission to publish granted by the heirs of Otto Erich and Hanna Deutsch on February 12, 2008. Any claim to intellectual rights should be addressed to the Schenker Correspondence Project, Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge, at schenkercorrespondence[at]mus(dot)cam(dot)ac(dot)uk

Digital version created: 2023-06-01
Last updated: 2015-09-19