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- Edward Renouf 1906 – 1999
- Recipient
- Anny Schey von Koromla 1886 – 1948
- Title
- Letter from Edward Renouf to Anny Schey von Koromla
- Date
- 12 March 1931
- Format
- Document - correspondence
- Collection
- Tate Archive
- Acquisition
- Presented to Tate Archive by David Mayor, December 2007; 2015; 2016.
- Reference
- TGA 200730/2/1/35/24
Description
La sauce – Annerl – dear nanny! What decadence! Where’s the reason? It’s lagging behind, only comes in later! But it needs the whip! Gallop! Fly! Eagles looking down! But for now – just miserable manuscripts. No, God says I may not receive anything without giving the equivalent – an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. You’ll give me nothing more until I’ve proven myself, and I’ll work fanatically until I can give you my worldly success!
The box was packed out with the sheets of a song with piano accompaniment. The verses begin:
The hot blood of the south gets many things in turns
The snow’s up to the rafters but Willibrand burns and burns!
On the telephone I could say nothing of what I wanted to say, and I’m not putting any of it in writing here either. But I console myself with the thought that you know now! Am I right? You’re my A – apple, anemone, ambition, amour, all, Annerl!
Archive context
- Additional papers of David Mayor TGA 200730 (79)
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- Material relating to David Mayor’s Austrian ancestry TGA 200730/2 (79)
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- Correspondence of Anny Schey von Koromla TGA 200730/2/1 (78)
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- Letters from Edward Renouf to Anny Schey von Koromla TGA 200730/2/1/35 (78)
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- Letter from Edward Renouf to Anny Schey von Koromla TGA 200730/2/1/35/24