Library and Archive Reading Rooms
View by appointment- Created by
- Else Meidner 1901–1987
- Recipient
- Dr J. P. Hodin
- Title
- Letter from Else Meidner to J.P. Hodin
- Date
- 21 September 1970
- 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 20062/7/128/2/7
Description
[Transcription/translation]
21 September 1970
To be sung to the tune of ‘Ännchen von Tharau’:
O, Hodin of Swiss Cottage,
If he were mine how I would boast,
Of all the people in the world
It’s him I love the most.
I sang this down the telephone, but they’d put me through to the wrong number. Someone said: ‘You have a lovely voice.’ Unfortunately it wasn’t you. I promptly hung up. It was your number I dialled though.
The enclosed card shows that you meant to come and see me in September. I waited, then I telephoned again because I have some interesting news for you, news that I’d like to tell you in person. It’s quite remarkable. Hopefully you don’t know about it already. I also want to sing you my serenade. Mrs Hodin is charming!! You’re very fortunate. I don’t wish to compare you, but you’re the greater bon vivant.
Yours sincerely,
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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- Numbered correspondence from Else Meidner to J.P. Hodin TGA 20062/7/128/2 (17)
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- Letter from Else Meidner to J.P. Hodin TGA 20062/7/128/2/7