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OJ 11/10, [3a] - Handwritten picture postcard from Frimmel to Schenker, postmarked [January?] 18, 1903?

{recto}

⇧ CARTE POSTALE. ‒ UNION POSTALE UNIVERSELLE. ‒ DOPISNICE ‒ POSTKARTE. [etc.]

[An] ⇧ Hochwgb. Herrn Dr. Heinrich Schenker
Tonkünstler, Schriftsteller etc etc etc
Wien
III. Reisnerstr. 38.

[postmark:] || PRAHA | 18 | [illeg] | 03 ||
[postmark:] || WIEN | 30 | [?18] [illeg] [?03] | 8 [illeg] ||

{verso}
[photograph of Hradčany, captioned: "Gruss aus Prag!"]

⇧ und eine leider sehr verspätete Danksagung für Ihre freundliche Karte vom Anfg. Jan.


Herzl[iche] Gr[üsse]
[signed:] Frimmel

© Transcription Heribert Esser, 2019
{recto}

⇧ POSTCARD

[To: ] ⇧ Dr. Heinrich Schenker, Esq.
Musician, Writer on Music, etc., etc., etc.
Vienna III
Reisnerstrasse 38

[postmark:] || PRAGUE | 18 | [illeg] | 03 ||
[postmark:] || VIENNA | 30 | [?18] [illeg] [?03] | 8 [illeg] ||

{verso}
[photograph of Hradčany, captioned: "Greetings from Prague!"]

⇧ and an unfortunately much-delayed expression of gratitude for your kind postcard from the beginning of January


Cordial greetings,
[signed:] Frimmel

© Translation William Drabkin, 2020
{recto}

⇧ CARTE POSTALE. ‒ UNION POSTALE UNIVERSELLE. ‒ DOPISNICE ‒ POSTKARTE. [etc.]

[An] ⇧ Hochwgb. Herrn Dr. Heinrich Schenker
Tonkünstler, Schriftsteller etc etc etc
Wien
III. Reisnerstr. 38.

[postmark:] || PRAHA | 18 | [illeg] | 03 ||
[postmark:] || WIEN | 30 | [?18] [illeg] [?03] | 8 [illeg] ||

{verso}
[photograph of Hradčany, captioned: "Gruss aus Prag!"]

⇧ und eine leider sehr verspätete Danksagung für Ihre freundliche Karte vom Anfg. Jan.


Herzl[iche] Gr[üsse]
[signed:] Frimmel

© Transcription Heribert Esser, 2019
{recto}

⇧ POSTCARD

[To: ] ⇧ Dr. Heinrich Schenker, Esq.
Musician, Writer on Music, etc., etc., etc.
Vienna III
Reisnerstrasse 38

[postmark:] || PRAGUE | 18 | [illeg] | 03 ||
[postmark:] || VIENNA | 30 | [?18] [illeg] [?03] | 8 [illeg] ||

{verso}
[photograph of Hradčany, captioned: "Greetings from Prague!"]

⇧ and an unfortunately much-delayed expression of gratitude for your kind postcard from the beginning of January


Cordial greetings,
[signed:] Frimmel

© Translation William Drabkin, 2020

Commentary

Format
printed picture postcard: holograph recipient address, recto; holograph message, valediction, and signature, verso
Provenance
Schenker, Heinrich (document date-1935)--Schenker, Jeanette (1935-c.1942)--Ratz, Erwin (c.1942-c.1945)--Jonas, Oswald (c.1945-1978)--University of California, Riverside (1978--)
Rights Holder
Beethoven-Haus, Bonn, reproduced here by kind permission
License
Beethoven-Haus, Bonn, permission kindly granted on July 4, 2019. 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.

Digital version created: 2020-07-30
Last updated: 2013-08-29