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Profiles Person Place Organization Work by Schenker Journal Musical Composition	1938 Documents associated with this date: Correspondence Downloads temporarily removed for testing purposes Correspondence LC ASC 27/45, [3] Handwritten letter from Moriz Violin to Schoenberg, dated April 17, 1938 Violin tells Schoenberg he expects to obtain an affidavit to emigrate to the USA, and ask if Schoenberg could write a letter of recommendation for work in San Francisco, and advise him on possibilities there. LC ASC 27/45, [4] Handwritten letter from Moriz Violin to Schoenberg, dated June 11, 1938 Violin seeks an affidavit to emigrate and asks Schoenberg's help in achieving this. He would like to move to San Francisco. LC ASC 27/45, [5] Handwritten letter from Moriz Violin to Schoenberg, dated August 10, 1938 Violin provides Schenker with details of his wife and himself. LC ASC 7/50, [1] Typewritten letter (carbon copy) from Schoenberg to Moriz Violin, dated May 2, 1938 Schoenberg reflects on his own relationship with Heinrich Schenker. — He is willing to write a recommendation to Hertz for Violin and asks to whom to send it, and warns Violin that it will not be easy to establish himself in San Francisco. LC ASC 7/50, [2] Typewritten letter (carbon copy) from Schoenberg to Moriz Violin and others, dated July 30, 1938 Schoenberg notifies Violin and two others that each may receive an affidavit in the near future [for emigration to the USA]. OJ 10/18, [15] Handwritten letter from Elias to Jeanette Schenker dated February 27, 1938 Mis Elias remarks that theory teachers tend to revert to the teaching of Ludwig Thuille for fear of Schenker. — She is eagerly awaiting issues 8/9 of Der Dreiklang, and recommends a radio relay of the St. Matthew Passion. OJ 10/18, [16] Handwritten postcard from Marianne Kahn and Angi Elias to Jeanette Schenker, dated April ?3, 1938 Kahn and Elias are well and hope to see Jeanette in Vienna soon. OJ 10/18, [17] Handwritten postcard from Angi Elias to Jeanette Schenker, dated October 21, 1938 Elias inquires how Jeanette is, and invites her to visit her in Vienna or meet in the city center. OJ 10/18, [18] Handwritten calling card from Elias to Jeanette Schenker, undated [December c.28, 1938] Miss Elias sends Jeanette Schenker New Year's greetings for 1939. OJ 11/31, [1] Handwritten letter from Sophie Guttmann to Jeanette Schenker, dated January 6, 1938 On her 40th wedding anniversary, Sophie Guttmann reports anxiety about her son Hans and his extravagant wife Edith; she writes also about daughter Frieda and younger son Julien, also Frieda's children, Hilde and Edith Fränkel, and her husband Salo. OJ 11/31, [2] Handwritten letter from Sophie Guttmann to Jeanette Schenker, dated November 24, 1938 Sophie and Salo Guttmann exchanged houses with Frieda and family for a month; Sophie reports on Frieda's two daughters, on Julien, Hans and his difficult wife, and the latters' daughter. OJ 12/17, [11] Handwritten postcard from Komorn to Jeanette Schenker, dated May 10, 1938 Mrs. Komorn is delighted to receive a postcard from Jeanette, she tells her of her current difficulties, and encourages her to come and visit. OJ 12/6, [48] Handwritten postcard from Jonas to Jeanette Schenker, dated February 17, 1938 Jonas reports on a meeting at UE re: the prospects for a proposed Schenker edition series and an English translation, and for prospects in the USA. OJ 14/10, [31] Handwritten postcard from Arnold Weil to Jeanette Schenker, dated February 2, 1938 Arnold Weil acknowledges a postcard and a letter with two inclosures from Jeanette Schenker. – Rosa has not written because she has had to go to her sister Hella, who is ill and whose husband died two days ago. OJ 14/10, [32] Handwritten letter from Rosa Weil to Jeanette Schenker, dated February 11, 1938 Rosa and Arnold Weil are planning to holiday again imminently in Hofgastein. – Jeanette’s last letter was melancholic and complained of eye trouble. – Rosa alludes to their “fears” without enlarging, and later to “troubles." – She reports Lene’s uncertainty as to whether to enter medical practice, and also on a further death in the family and its impact. OJ 14/10, [33] Handwritten envelope from Rosa Weil to Jeanette Schenker, undated [early March 1938] OJ 14/10, [34] Handwritten letter with envelope from Rosa Weil to Jeanette Schenker, dated April 2, 1938 {Rosa Weil replies to a letter from Jeanette in Italy, the content of which cannot be fully understood but must have reflected the German annexation of Austria on March 11–13, and ensuing attacks on Jewish persons.] Rosa (in Czechoslovakia) says only “events of recent times have gripped us.” — Rosa and Arnold have just spent three weeks in Hofgastein taking the cure. She asks Jeanette how long she will stay in Italy and whether she has quit her Vienna apartment and possessions. — Paul Schiff has financial problems. — Hella’s condition is unchanged and her husband has formed another relationship. — Rosa challenges Jeanette’s low opinion of Emma Schiff (Winternitz). — Lene’s husband has been ill. — Hans and Hedl Delmonte have moved to Lisbon. OJ 14/10, [35] Handwritten picture postcard from Arnold & Rosa Weil to Jeanette Schenker, dated November 27, 1938 Rosa and Arnold send greetings from Kutná Hora. OJ 14/1, [3] Handwritten postcard from Felix Salzer to Jeanette Schenker, undated [November 5, 1938] Salzer asks if he can visit Jeanette Schenker on Monday or Tuesday. OJ 14/6, [6] Handwritten letter with envelope from Wilhelm to Jeanette Schenker, dated November 15, 1938 Wilhelm asks Jeanette whether she has received some printed forms. OJ 14/6, [7] Handwritten letter from Wilhelm to Jeanette Schenker, dated November 28, 1938 Wilhelm has found Jeanette’s new address, and he sends her his own new address, together with a summary of where he had lived previously. He and his wife live in a much smaller place, but it is sufficient for them. OJ 14/8, [15] Typewritten and handwritten letter with envelope from Paul & Anna Schiff to Jeanette Schenker, postmarked February 1, 1938 Paul and Anna Schiff have moved from Karlsbad back to Prague. They marvel at Jeanette’s work on her late husband’s papers and on a new edition of one of his books. — They give news about the family and ask her to write before her next travels. OJ 70/26, [1] Handwritten letter from Willem Mengelberg to Eva Violin, dated June 23, 1938 Mengelberg is unable to help Moriz and Eva Violin directly in obtaining positions in America, but encloses a letter of recommendation to Julia Steinway for Moriz. OJ 70/35, [5] Handwritten letter from Schoenberg to Moriz Violin, dated December 23, 1938 Schoenberg has asked a rabbi to produce an affidavit, and offers this to Violin in advance of receiving it.