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OJ 5/38, [82] - Handwritten picture postcard from Heinrich to Wilhelm Schenker, dated August 12, 1932

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[picture: buildings, captioned: “3398. Igls. Grand Hotel Igler Hof”]

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[Absender:] ⇧ Schenker
Igls, Tirol

[An:] H Dr. Wilhelm Schenker
St. Bernhard b/ Horn
Nd: Öst.

[postmark:] || IGLS | 13.[illeg].32 | * o * ||

⇧ Mein lieber Wilhelm! 1

Mein neuester Befund lautet: Eiweiß 0, Zucker 0, Aceton 0. Vor 4 Wochen hatte ich noch 2.09 Zucker, heute 0! (Wie gewonnen, so zerronnen.) – Der Fall Jetty ist unbegreiflich hart, wir haben keinerlei Mitteilung erhalten. Brief folgt. 2


Mit vielen Küssen u. Grüßen
an dich u. die l. Frau Marie
von mir u. LieLiechen
Dein
[signed:] Heinrich

12. 8. 32

© Transcription William Drabkin, 2024
{verso}
[picture: buildings, captioned: “3398. Igls. Grand Hotel Igler Hof”]

{recto}
[From:] ⇧ Schenker
Igls, Tyrol

[To:] Dr. Wilhelm Schenker
St. Bernhard, near Horn
Lower Austria

[postmark:] || IGLS | 13.[illeg].32 | * o * ||

⇧ My dear Wilhelm, 1

My most recent lab results are: albumen 0, sugar 0, acetone 0. Four weeks ago, I still had 2.09 sugar, today 0! (Easy come, easy go.) – The Jetty matter is incomprehensibly difficult. We have received no word of any sort. A letter is forthcoming. 2


With many kisses and greetings
to you and your wife Marie
from me and LieLiechen
Your
[signed:] Heinrich

August 12, 1932

© Translation Lee Rothfarb, 2024
{verso}
[picture: buildings, captioned: “3398. Igls. Grand Hotel Igler Hof”]

{recto}
[Absender:] ⇧ Schenker
Igls, Tirol

[An:] H Dr. Wilhelm Schenker
St. Bernhard b/ Horn
Nd: Öst.

[postmark:] || IGLS | 13.[illeg].32 | * o * ||

⇧ Mein lieber Wilhelm! 1

Mein neuester Befund lautet: Eiweiß 0, Zucker 0, Aceton 0. Vor 4 Wochen hatte ich noch 2.09 Zucker, heute 0! (Wie gewonnen, so zerronnen.) – Der Fall Jetty ist unbegreiflich hart, wir haben keinerlei Mitteilung erhalten. Brief folgt. 2


Mit vielen Küssen u. Grüßen
an dich u. die l. Frau Marie
von mir u. LieLiechen
Dein
[signed:] Heinrich

12. 8. 32

© Transcription William Drabkin, 2024
{verso}
[picture: buildings, captioned: “3398. Igls. Grand Hotel Igler Hof”]

{recto}
[From:] ⇧ Schenker
Igls, Tyrol

[To:] Dr. Wilhelm Schenker
St. Bernhard, near Horn
Lower Austria

[postmark:] || IGLS | 13.[illeg].32 | * o * ||

⇧ My dear Wilhelm, 1

My most recent lab results are: albumen 0, sugar 0, acetone 0. Four weeks ago, I still had 2.09 sugar, today 0! (Easy come, easy go.) – The Jetty matter is incomprehensibly difficult. We have received no word of any sort. A letter is forthcoming. 2


With many kisses and greetings
to you and your wife Marie
from me and LieLiechen
Your
[signed:] Heinrich

August 12, 1932

© Translation Lee Rothfarb, 2024

Footnotes

1 Writing of this postcard is recorded in Schenker’s diary for August 13, 1932: “An Wilhelm (Ansichtsk.): Zucker 0” (“To Wilhelm (picture postcard): sugar 0”).

2 Schenker’s diary entry for August 19 records the writing of a letter to Wilhelm, in which a picture (or photograph) was also enclosed.

Commentary

Format
printed picture postcard: holograph sender and recipient addresses, salutation, message, valediction, and signature, postage stamp and postmark, recto; picture, 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: 2024-11-11
Last updated: 2010-03-11