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WSLB 17 - Handwritten letter from Schenker to Hertzka (UE), dated August 27, 1908

[UE receipt stamp:] ⇧ 7145

⇧ Sehr geehrter Herr Director! 1

Ich beeile mich, Ihnen für Ihre Liebenswürdigkeiten der letzten Aufträge 2 meinen besten Dank auszusprechen.

Daß aber nicht vergessen werde, das vielgenannte Blatt auch bereits in die zur Absendung an meine Adressen [sic] bestimmten Exemplare einzufügen!


Mit ausgez. Hochachtung
ergebenst
[signed:] H Schenker

[2]7. 8. 08

© Transcription Ian Bent, 2004, 2016
[UE receipt stamp:] ⇧ 7145

⇧ Dear Director, 1

I hasten to express my cordial thanks for all the kindnesses of your latest instructions. 2

Do not, however, forget also to enclose in the copies designated for dispatch to my addresses [sic] the much talked-of [corrigendum] sheet.


With kind regards
Your most devoted
[signed:] H. Schenker

August [2]7, 1908

© Translation Ian Bent, 2004, 2016
[UE receipt stamp:] ⇧ 7145

⇧ Sehr geehrter Herr Director! 1

Ich beeile mich, Ihnen für Ihre Liebenswürdigkeiten der letzten Aufträge 2 meinen besten Dank auszusprechen.

Daß aber nicht vergessen werde, das vielgenannte Blatt auch bereits in die zur Absendung an meine Adressen [sic] bestimmten Exemplare einzufügen!


Mit ausgez. Hochachtung
ergebenst
[signed:] H Schenker

[2]7. 8. 08

© Transcription Ian Bent, 2004, 2016
[UE receipt stamp:] ⇧ 7145

⇧ Dear Director, 1

I hasten to express my cordial thanks for all the kindnesses of your latest instructions. 2

Do not, however, forget also to enclose in the copies designated for dispatch to my addresses [sic] the much talked-of [corrigendum] sheet.


With kind regards
Your most devoted
[signed:] H. Schenker

August [2]7, 1908

© Translation Ian Bent, 2004, 2016

Footnotes

1 Writing of this letter is not recorded in Schenker's diary. The letter concerns the second edition of Schenker's Beitrag zur Ornamentik , which has recently been shipped from the printer.

2 See OC 52/25, August 26,1908.

Commentary

Rights Holder
Heirs of Heinrich Schenker, in the public domain
License
This document is deemed to have been in the public domain as of January 1, 2006. All reasonable steps have been taken to locate the heirs of Heinrich Schenker. 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.
Format
1p letter, holograph salutation, message, valediction, and signature, UE stamp
Provenance
Universal Edition Archive (document date-1976)—on permanent loan to the Wienbibliothek im Rathhaus (1976-)

Digital version created: 2016-06-27
Last updated: 2010-03-01