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OJ 9/31, [16] - Stenographically handwritten letter from Cotta to Schenker, dated September 16, 1907


⇧ J. G. COTTA’SCHE BUCHHANDLUNG NACHFOLGER
STUTTGART UND BERLIN


STUTTGART, den ⇧ 16. September ⇧ 190⇧ 7.

Herrn Dr. Heinrich Schenker
Wien.

Sehr geehrter Herr! 1

Wir sind im Besitz Ihres gef. Schreibens vom 13. ds. 2 und haben von Ihren freundlichen Ausführungen mit Interesse Kenntnis genommen. Es freut uns, daß wir das Manuskript der Fortsetzung in nicht zu ferner Zeit erwarten können; den Verlag 3 würden wir, lt. Vertrag vom December 1905, wiederum unter denselben Bedingungen, wie sie für den ersten Band gegolten haben, übernehmen.


Mit vorzüglicher Hochachtung
[signed:] ⇧ J.G. Cotta’sche Buchhandlg. Nachf.

© Transcription Ian Bent, 2005, 2017

⇧ SUCCESSORS TO J. G. COTTA'S BOOK DEALERSHIP
STUTTGART AND BERLIN


STUTTGART, ⇧ September 16, ⇧ 190⇧ 7

Dr. Heinrich Schenker
Vienna

Dear Sir, 1

We are in receipt of your esteemed letter of the 13th of the month, 2 and have taken note with interest of your kind remarks. We are happy to learn that we can expect the manuscript of the continuation in the not too distant future. We would undertake publication 3 in accordance with the contract of December 1905, once again under the same conditions as applied to the first volume.


With kind regards
[signed:] ⇧ Successors to J. G. Cotta's Book Dealership

© Translation Ian Bent, 2005, 2017

⇧ J. G. COTTA’SCHE BUCHHANDLUNG NACHFOLGER
STUTTGART UND BERLIN


STUTTGART, den ⇧ 16. September ⇧ 190⇧ 7.

Herrn Dr. Heinrich Schenker
Wien.

Sehr geehrter Herr! 1

Wir sind im Besitz Ihres gef. Schreibens vom 13. ds. 2 und haben von Ihren freundlichen Ausführungen mit Interesse Kenntnis genommen. Es freut uns, daß wir das Manuskript der Fortsetzung in nicht zu ferner Zeit erwarten können; den Verlag 3 würden wir, lt. Vertrag vom December 1905, wiederum unter denselben Bedingungen, wie sie für den ersten Band gegolten haben, übernehmen.


Mit vorzüglicher Hochachtung
[signed:] ⇧ J.G. Cotta’sche Buchhandlg. Nachf.

© Transcription Ian Bent, 2005, 2017

⇧ SUCCESSORS TO J. G. COTTA'S BOOK DEALERSHIP
STUTTGART AND BERLIN


STUTTGART, ⇧ September 16, ⇧ 190⇧ 7

Dr. Heinrich Schenker
Vienna

Dear Sir, 1

We are in receipt of your esteemed letter of the 13th of the month, 2 and have taken note with interest of your kind remarks. We are happy to learn that we can expect the manuscript of the continuation in the not too distant future. We would undertake publication 3 in accordance with the contract of December 1905, once again under the same conditions as applied to the first volume.


With kind regards
[signed:] ⇧ Successors to J. G. Cotta's Book Dealership

© Translation Ian Bent, 2005, 2017

Footnotes

1 Receipt of this letter is not recorded in Schenker's diary. Cotta's carbon copy survives as CA 69: it has "491" written in crayon and canceled.

2 = CA 68.

3 Of what was at the time thought of as Kontrapunkt , and would eventually be the first half-volume of that work.

Commentary

Format
1p letter, printed letterhead, stenographic salutation, message, and valediction, holograph signature
Provenance
Schenker, Heinrich (document date-1935)--Schenker, Jeanette (1935-c.1942)--Ratz, Erwin (c.1942-c.1955)--Jonas, Oswald (c.1955-1978)--University of California, Riverside (1978--)
Rights Holder
Schiller-Nationalmuseum/Deutsches Literaturarchiv, Cotta Archiv (Stiftung der Stuttgarter Zeitung), Marbach am Neckar, Germany as representatives of J. G. Cotta'sche Buchhandlung; in the public domain. Published here by kind permission.
License
Permission granted by the Cotta Archiv (Stiftung der Stuttgarter Zeitung) of the Schiller-Nationalmuseum/Deutsches Literaturarchiv, Marbach am Neckar, Germany, on July 20, 2005. 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: 2017-07-04
Last updated: 2012-11-02