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Postkarte

Absender: Schenker, Wien III.
Keilgasse 8/12

Herrn Dr Wilhelm Schenker
St. Bernhard b/ Horn
N. Österr

[postmark:] || 3 WIEN 40 | 23.IX.30 10 |* 4b * ||

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Mein lieber Wilhelm! 1

herzlichsten Dank für Deinen lieben Brief! 2 Unserem teueren Patienten geht es, Gott sei Dank, schon viel besser, er ist schon um die Mittagszeit 3 Stunden außer Bett u. nascht sogar schon wieder an der Arbeit. Hoffentlich geht es weiter so vorwärts u. aufwärts.


Wir grüßen allseits recht herzlich!
In Liebe
[signed:] Heinrich u. Lie-Lie

22. IX. 30

© Transcription William Drabkin, 2024

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Postcard

From: Schenker, Vienna III
Keilgasse 8/12

Dr. Wilhelm Schenker
St. Bernhard near Horn
Lower Austria

[postmark:] || 3 VIENNA 40 | 23.IX.30 10 |* 4b * ||

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My dear Wilhelm, 1

Most cordial thanks for your letter! 2 Our precious patient is, thank God, already much better. Around midday, he has already been out of bed for three hours and is even noshing on work. Hopefully, it will continue that way, forward and upward.


We greet you all very heartily!
With love,
[signed:] Heinrich and Lie-Lie

September 22, 1930

© Translation Lee Rothfarb, 2024

{recto}
Postkarte

Absender: Schenker, Wien III.
Keilgasse 8/12

Herrn Dr Wilhelm Schenker
St. Bernhard b/ Horn
N. Österr

[postmark:] || 3 WIEN 40 | 23.IX.30 10 |* 4b * ||

{verso}

Mein lieber Wilhelm! 1

herzlichsten Dank für Deinen lieben Brief! 2 Unserem teueren Patienten geht es, Gott sei Dank, schon viel besser, er ist schon um die Mittagszeit 3 Stunden außer Bett u. nascht sogar schon wieder an der Arbeit. Hoffentlich geht es weiter so vorwärts u. aufwärts.


Wir grüßen allseits recht herzlich!
In Liebe
[signed:] Heinrich u. Lie-Lie

22. IX. 30

© Transcription William Drabkin, 2024

{recto}
Postcard

From: Schenker, Vienna III
Keilgasse 8/12

Dr. Wilhelm Schenker
St. Bernhard near Horn
Lower Austria

[postmark:] || 3 VIENNA 40 | 23.IX.30 10 |* 4b * ||

{verso}

My dear Wilhelm, 1

Most cordial thanks for your letter! 2 Our precious patient is, thank God, already much better. Around midday, he has already been out of bed for three hours and is even noshing on work. Hopefully, it will continue that way, forward and upward.


We greet you all very heartily!
With love,
[signed:] Heinrich and Lie-Lie

September 22, 1930

© Translation Lee Rothfarb, 2024

Footnotes

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

2 Schenker’s diary records the receipt of a letter from Wilhelm on September 18.

Commentary

Format
printed postcard: holograph (Jeanette Schenker) sender and recipient addresses, postage stamp and postmark, recto; holograph salutation, message, valediction, and signature, verso
Provenance
Wilhelm Schenker (document date-1938?)—Jeanette Schenker (1938?-c.1942)--Ratz, Erwin (c.1942-c.1955)--Jonas, Oswald (c.1955-1978)--University of California, Riverside (1978--)
Rights Holder
Heirs of Heinrich Schenker; deemed to be in the public domain
License
This document is deemed to be in the public domain as of January 1, 2006. 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: 2024-10-09
Last updated: 2010-03-11