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WSLB 27 - Handwritten postcard from Schenker to Hertzka (UE), dated November 27, 1908

{recto}
[Absender:] ⇧ H Schenker
III., Reisnerstr 38

[An:] H Den Director E. Hertzka
I, Wipplingerstr.
32, Universal-Edition

[postmark:] || 3/3 WIEN 49 | 27.XI.08–6 | * 3a * ||

{verso}

⇧ Sehr geehrter Herr Direktor! 1

Wollen Sie die Freundlichkeit haben, mir ein Exemplar der Tabelle zuzuschicken: ich habe nämlich das älteste Ex. ohne Vorrede. 2

Wenn ich noch ein paar Bemerkungen machen soll, 3 muß ich die letztere vor mir haben.


Mit besten dank,
I[h]r ergb
[signed:] H Schenker

[written diagonally above the date: ] ⇧ gesendet 28. XI. 08 4
⇧ 27. 11. 08

[UE receipt stamp: ] ⇧ 9452

© Transcription Ian Bent, 2005, 2016
{recto}
[From:] ⇧ H. Schenker
[Vienna] III, Reisnerstraße 38

[To:] Director E. Hertzka
[Vienna] I, Wipplingerstraße 32
Universal Edition

[postmark:] || 3/3 VIENNA 49 | 27.XI.08–6 | * 3a * ||

{verso}

⇧ Dear Director, 1

Would you be so kind as to send me a copy of the Table ? This is because I have the oldest copy, without Foreword. 2

If I am to make another a few remarks, 3 I need to have the latter.


With many thanks,
Your devoted
[signed:] H. Schenker

[written diagonally above the date: ] ⇧ sent November 28, 1908 4
⇧ November 27, 1908

[UE receipt stamp: ] ⇧ 9452

© Translation Ian Bent, 2005, 2016
{recto}
[Absender:] ⇧ H Schenker
III., Reisnerstr 38

[An:] H Den Director E. Hertzka
I, Wipplingerstr.
32, Universal-Edition

[postmark:] || 3/3 WIEN 49 | 27.XI.08–6 | * 3a * ||

{verso}

⇧ Sehr geehrter Herr Direktor! 1

Wollen Sie die Freundlichkeit haben, mir ein Exemplar der Tabelle zuzuschicken: ich habe nämlich das älteste Ex. ohne Vorrede. 2

Wenn ich noch ein paar Bemerkungen machen soll, 3 muß ich die letztere vor mir haben.


Mit besten dank,
I[h]r ergb
[signed:] H Schenker

[written diagonally above the date: ] ⇧ gesendet 28. XI. 08 4
⇧ 27. 11. 08

[UE receipt stamp: ] ⇧ 9452

© Transcription Ian Bent, 2005, 2016
{recto}
[From:] ⇧ H. Schenker
[Vienna] III, Reisnerstraße 38

[To:] Director E. Hertzka
[Vienna] I, Wipplingerstraße 32
Universal Edition

[postmark:] || 3/3 VIENNA 49 | 27.XI.08–6 | * 3a * ||

{verso}

⇧ Dear Director, 1

Would you be so kind as to send me a copy of the Table ? This is because I have the oldest copy, without Foreword. 2

If I am to make another a few remarks, 3 I need to have the latter.


With many thanks,
Your devoted
[signed:] H. Schenker

[written diagonally above the date: ] ⇧ sent November 28, 1908 4
⇧ November 27, 1908

[UE receipt stamp: ] ⇧ 9452

© Translation Ian Bent, 2005, 2016

Footnotes

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

2 Schenker is presumably speaking of the "small edition," released on or before October 29, 1908 (OC 52/398). On November 23, Hertzka had reported that they were proceeding to a "large edition" (OC 52/29), and Schenker is now evidently responding to the meeting that had happened that morning, November 27 (WSLB 26, November 24).

3 What these "remarks" were is unclear. Since the Foreword itself had been corrected in galley-proofs in early October (OC 52/27), it may be that Hertzka had asked Schenker to provide publicity copy for Universal Edition's next catalog. See the footnoted discussion to WSLB 30, December 18, 1908.

4 This annotation, in an unknown hand, is contradicted by the postmark.