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OJ 10/3, [220] - Typewritten letter (carbon copy) from Deutsch to Jeanette Schenker, dated May 3, 1939


⇧ Wien, 3. Mai 39

Liebe gnädige Frau![1]

Um Ihren Brief sofort zu erledigen, sende ich Ihnen die beiliegende Erklärung 1 Ich wage nicht, Ihnen zu raten, weil ich die Verhältnisse nicht überblicke. 2 Aber ich wünsche vom Herzen, dass alles nach Ihren Wünschen ausgehen soll. Hoffentlich noch auf Wiedersehen! Ich bleibe sicher den Mai über in Wien.


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[signed:] ⇧ O E Deutsch

Nb. Ich soll im Juni nach London gehen (Adresse: Verlag Duckworth, 3 Henrietta Street, W. C. 2) und im Herbst nach New York (Public Library, Music Division, Fifth Avenue & 42 Street). 3

© Transcription William Drabkin, 2023

⇧ Vienna, May 3, 1939

Dear gracious lady,

To reply to your letter immediately, I am sending you the enclosed explanation. 1 I dare not advise you since I do not have a good overview of your circumstances. 2 But wish with all my heart that everything turns out in accordance with your wishes. I hope we shall see each other. I shall certainly stay here until the end of May.


With best regards,
Your genuinely devoted
[signed:] ⇧ O. E. Deutsch

NB. I expect to go to London in June (address: Duckworth publishing house, 3 Henrietta Street, WC 2) and to New York in the autumn (Public Library, Music Division, Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street). 3

© Translation William Drabkin, 2023

⇧ Wien, 3. Mai 39

Liebe gnädige Frau![1]

Um Ihren Brief sofort zu erledigen, sende ich Ihnen die beiliegende Erklärung 1 Ich wage nicht, Ihnen zu raten, weil ich die Verhältnisse nicht überblicke. 2 Aber ich wünsche vom Herzen, dass alles nach Ihren Wünschen ausgehen soll. Hoffentlich noch auf Wiedersehen! Ich bleibe sicher den Mai über in Wien.


Mit besten Empfehlungen
Ihr aufrichtig ergebener
[signed:] ⇧ O E Deutsch

Nb. Ich soll im Juni nach London gehen (Adresse: Verlag Duckworth, 3 Henrietta Street, W. C. 2) und im Herbst nach New York (Public Library, Music Division, Fifth Avenue & 42 Street). 3

© Transcription William Drabkin, 2023

⇧ Vienna, May 3, 1939

Dear gracious lady,

To reply to your letter immediately, I am sending you the enclosed explanation. 1 I dare not advise you since I do not have a good overview of your circumstances. 2 But wish with all my heart that everything turns out in accordance with your wishes. I hope we shall see each other. I shall certainly stay here until the end of May.


With best regards,
Your genuinely devoted
[signed:] ⇧ O. E. Deutsch

NB. I expect to go to London in June (address: Duckworth publishing house, 3 Henrietta Street, WC 2) and to New York in the autumn (Public Library, Music Division, Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street). 3

© Translation William Drabkin, 2023

Footnotes

1 Not preserved with this letter: possibly a printed explanation of his reasons for emigrating from Austria.

2 On this date, Jeanette Schenker was resident at Pension Homolka, in Küb am Semmering, near Payerbach in Lower Austria, remaining there until July, when she returned to Vienna and entered the Sanatorium Perchtoldsdorf, returning to Küb in October. Her whereabouts thereafter are unknown. She may by this time already be being pursued by the National Socialists, who deported her in 1941.

3 As the last surviving letter from Deutsch to Jeanette Schenker, this is the final item in the thirty-seven-year correspondence between the Schenkers and Otto Erich and Hanna Deutsch. — Deutsch settled in Cambridge, U.K., becoming a British citizen in 1947 but returning to Vienna in 1951.

Commentary

Format
1p letter (carbon copy), typewritten salutation, message, valediction, and postscript, holograph signature
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: 2023-09-20
Last updated: 2015-09-18