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- Else Meidner 1901–1987
- Recipient
- Dr J. P. Hodin
- Title
- Letter from Else Meidner to J.P. Hodin
- Date
- 30 July 1975
- 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 20062/7/128/1/2
Description
[Transcription/translation]
30 July 1975
Dear Dr Hodin,
I’ve always told myself that if I must be the fool, I shall be the good fool and not the bad fool! I refuse to accept that I wrote too soon, for you suggested the monograph a year ago, when I didn’t dare undertake anything because it was too expensive. I should have liked to have had back the letters from Ludwig that I lent you for your book; you forgot to give them back to me. It seems I was right to have buried all hope years ago. I did not deserve the very unkind letter you wrote. But what does it matter what one deserves? Mozart himself had to take a kicking from Papst! Still, we must never lose respect for one another, or at least not for the art.
Kind regards from your good fool,
EM
Archive context
- Papers of Josef Paul Hodin TGA 20062 (407)
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- Working papers relating to artistic, cultural and historic figures TGA 20062/7 (106)
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- Else Meidner TGA 20062/7/128 (29)
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- Correspondence from Else Meidner to J.P. Hodin TGA 20062/7/128/1 (8)
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- Letter from Else Meidner to J.P. Hodin TGA 20062/7/128/1/2