Erich Kahn, recipient: Dr J. P. Hodin

Postcard from Erich Kahn to J.P. Hodin

7 August 1958

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Created by: Erich Kahn 1904–1979
Recipient: Dr J. P. Hodin
Title: Postcard from Erich Kahn to J.P. Hodin
Date: 7 August 1958
Description: [Translation/transcription]

1 Albert Studios
4 Albert Street
NW1

Thursday

Thanks for card and greetings.

Never in my life have I licked so many stamps and put so many invitations into envelopes. On Saturday the pictures are being transported to Porchester Place. Before that the frames still have to be made and the retouching done. Then I can dedicate myself to beauty again. Haven’t forgotten it.

Sincerely

Joyce still cries tears of joy when she [illegible] the portrait.
Format: Document - correspondence
Collection: Tate Archive
Acquisition: Accepted by HM Government in lieu of inheritance tax and allocated to Tate, 2006. Accrual presented by Annabel Hodin, 2020
Reference: TGA 20062/4/188/4

Archive context

Papers of Josef Paul Hodin TGA 20062 (407)
- Correspondence by sender TGA 20062/4 (275)
- - Letters and postcards from Erich Kahn to J.P. and Pamela Hodin TGA 20062/4/188 (111)
  - - Postcard from Erich Kahn to J.P. Hodin TGA 20062/4/188/4