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OJ 6/4, [] (Excpt) : 9-18-06

Handwritten letter from Schenker to Moriz Violin, dated September 15 or 18, 1906

[ Excerpt from a 1-page letter, of which this is the final paragraph, concerning Schenker's financial difficulties and inability to pay Violin the money he either owes or has promised him. ]

Und für die Katastrophe – Stritzko-Dobl. kann ich auch nichts. Niemals wäre es mir auch nur möglich geschienen, daß xxx ^xxx^ 55[ corr ] Exemplare verkauft sein [müßten], u. Dob. daran 25 fl (u. Stritzt. etwas weniger) zuvor verdient haben müsse, bevor ich 10 fl verdiene, also so viel, als ein Copist für diese minutiöse Arbeit sicher verlangt hätte. Jedenfalls hast du, wie[ corr ] du denken kannst, die erste Hypothek auf das Geld, das kommt. Ich bin ganz am Rande —

dein Untercopist.

© Heirs of Heinrich Schenker.
© Transcription Ian D. Bent, with the assistance of John Rothgeb, 2005.

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Handwritten letter from Schenker to Moriz Violin, dated September 15 or 18, 1906

[ Excerpt from a 1-page letter, of which this is the final paragraph, concerning Schenker's financial difficulties and inability to pay Violin the money he either owes or has promised him. ]

Nor is there anything I can do about the catastrophe—Stritzko–Doblinger. I had never for a moment dreamt that 55 copies would have to be sold and Doblinger would have to earn 25 Florins on the deal (and Stritzko a little less) before ever I might earn 10 Florins, i.e. as much as a copyist might surely have demanded for work as precise and detailed as this. At any rate, you can take it that you have first claim on the money that comes. I’m on the brink—
Your assistant copyist.

© Translation Ian D. Bent, with the assistance of John Rothgeb, 2005.

COMMENTARY:
Format: holograph letter and signature, single sheet recto
Sender address: --
Recipient address: Vienna XIV, Sechshausertraße 128

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