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- Oskar Kokoschka 1886–1980
- Recipient
- Dr J. P. Hodin
- Title
- Letter from Oskar Kokoschka to J.P. Hodin
- Date
- 10 May 1948
- 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 20062/4/199/1/23
Description
[Translation/transcription]
Abinger, Surrey
10 May 1948
My dear Master Hodinus,
I hope everyone is well where you are! I was disappointed that the two of you weren't in London in April as you had planned to be.
Until Whitmonday we'll be here at Edward's place while he's in Switzerland, then we're staying in London until the 21st of the month. Then we fly to Zurich, and on the 29th we're in Venice for the opening.
Please do me a huge favour and send your photographic materials to Walter Neurath of 7 Chesterford Gardens, London NW3, as soon as possible. It would just be for a few days. He needs them for the catalogue for the American exhibitions and he's obliged to collate them on behalf of the museum directors. Please send him all your photos by express post. You'll have them back just as quickly. Send drawings too, because he wants to print one or two of these between Dr Plaut's short introduction. I'd promised to write to you about this, or rather I'd [illegible], but I wasn't well, so I was late!
I spoke to Knize in person in London and was able to clear up the matter with the photos so that you don't owe him anything.
Send my best wishes to your dear wife again, and every happiness afterwards.
Sincerely yours,
OK
Archive context
- Papers of Josef Paul Hodin TGA 20062 (407)
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- Correspondence by sender TGA 20062/4 (275)
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- Correspondence between Oskar Kokoschka and J.P. Hodin TGA 20062/4/199 (112)
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- Correspondence from Oskar Kokoschka to J.P. Hodin, 1938-48 TGA 20062/4/199/1 (25)
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- Letter from Oskar Kokoschka to J.P. Hodin TGA 20062/4/199/1/23