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- P. A. Pocheron
- Recipient
- Jacques Lipchitz 1891–1973
- Title
- Specal postcard from P.A. Pocheron to Jacques Lipchitz
- Date
- 4 January 1941
- Medium
- Lazarev
- Format
- Document - correspondence
- Collection
- Tate Archive
- Acquisition
- Presented to Tate Archive by Rubin Lipchitz, March 1989; the cataloguing and selective digitisation of this archive collection was supported by Mr Timm Bergold, 2023
- Reference
- TGA 897/1/1/313/5
Description
Special postcard written on the pre-printed form which does not allow much information. The special instructions for filling up this form state: 'After completing this card, strictly applied for the correspondence between the members of one family, cross the words that are not used. Don't write anything beyond the lines. ATTENTION. All the cards, where information is not only of the family manner, will not be delivered and probably will be destroyed'.
The fields on this pre-printed card are:
"...................................le...194...
...en bonne sante [in good health]...fatigue [tired].
......legerement, gravement malade, blesse [lightly, seriously ill, wounded]
...tue [killed].....prisonnier [prisoner].
....decede [died]....sans nouvelles [with no news].
de [of]....La famille [family]...va bien [is well].
...besoin de provisions [in need of food]....d'argent [money].
nouvelles, bagages [news, luggage]....est de retour a [is back in]
...travaille a [works in]....va entrer [going to enter]...
...a l'ecole de [the school/college of]....a ete recu [was received]
....aller a [to go to].....le..
In this postcard Pocheron says that 'Leon is prisoner'.
Archive context
- Personal and professional papers of Jacques Lipchitz TGA 897 (451)
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- Correspondence TGA 897/1 (212)
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- Correspondence to and from Jacques Lipchitz TGA 897/1/1 (183)
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- Correspondence from P.A.Pocheron to Jacques Lipchitz TGA 897/1/1/313 (2)
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- Specal postcard from P.A. Pocheron to Jacques Lipchitz TGA 897/1/1/313/5