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WSLB 64 - Handwritten letter from Schenker to Hertzka (UE), dated October 10, 1910

[UE receipt stamp and accession number too faint to read]

⇧ Sehr geehrter Herr Direktor! 1

Sie würden mich sehr verpflichten, wenn Sie mir statt am 14ten, schon ein oder zwei Tage vorher, ein einziges, sage u. schreibe: 1 2 Exemplar der „chrom-fant.“ zur Verfügung stellen wollten! So dringend habe ich eines nötig.


Mit bestem Dank im Vorhinein.
I[h]r ergeb[ener]
[signed:] H Schenker

10 Oktob. 10.

[faint, illegible handwriting in lower margin]

© Transcription Ian Bent, 2006, 2020
[UE receipt stamp and accession number too faint to read]

⇧ Dear Director, 1

I would be much obliged if, rather than on the 14th, you would make available to me one or two days earlier, one single (I repeat, 1) 2 copy of the Chromatic Fantasy ! That's how urgently I need one.


With grateful thanks in anticipation,
Your devoted
[signed:] H. Schenker

October 10, 1910

[faint, illegible handwriting in lower margin]

© Translation Ian Bent, 2006, 2020
[UE receipt stamp and accession number too faint to read]

⇧ Sehr geehrter Herr Direktor! 1

Sie würden mich sehr verpflichten, wenn Sie mir statt am 14ten, schon ein oder zwei Tage vorher, ein einziges, sage u. schreibe: 1 2 Exemplar der „chrom-fant.“ zur Verfügung stellen wollten! So dringend habe ich eines nötig.


Mit bestem Dank im Vorhinein.
I[h]r ergeb[ener]
[signed:] H Schenker

10 Oktob. 10.

[faint, illegible handwriting in lower margin]

© Transcription Ian Bent, 2006, 2020
[UE receipt stamp and accession number too faint to read]

⇧ Dear Director, 1

I would be much obliged if, rather than on the 14th, you would make available to me one or two days earlier, one single (I repeat, 1) 2 copy of the Chromatic Fantasy ! That's how urgently I need one.


With grateful thanks in anticipation,
Your devoted
[signed:] H. Schenker

October 10, 1910

[faint, illegible handwriting in lower margin]

© Translation Ian Bent, 2006, 2020

Footnotes

1 Writing of this letter is not recorded in Schenker's diary; however, the diary for October 7 records: "II1 wird ausgegeben!" ("The first half-volume of Counterpoint is handed over [i.e. delivered to him following publication on October 4]").

2 "sage und schreibe": form used in contracts and agreements, with numerals given before it then the numbers spelt out as words after it (e.g. "1, in words: one") , as Schenker himself does on occasion.