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- Jean Bucher
- Recipient
- Jacques Lipchitz 1891–1973
- Title
- Letter from Jeanne Bucher to Jacques Lipchitz
- Date
- 4 April 1928
- 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 897/1/1/69/14
Description
Full text in translation:
'Dear Jacques,
I am writing you a few words this evening, having thought of this terrible trip you must have taken. Oh my God! that I remember the one I did for my dead brother: at least I thought I couldn't live any longer, perhaps out of an instinct for self-preservation. It's too ... too ... for you.
I do not have the courage to say to you: ''take care of yourself'', but I believe that there is an intelligence greater than yourself in you which will delay the evils that we are redeeming for you, because you must be hard and strong and good for our joy.
Your friend Jeanne who tries to be with you to support you '.
This was a very difficult time for Lipchitz. He had to travel to his hometown because his father had died. At the same time his sister Evguenia was in a Swiss hospital in a very bad condition, and he could not leave her or tell her why he is leaving.
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 between Jeanne Bucher and Jacques Lipchitz TGA 897/1/1/69 (30)
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- Letter from Jeanne Bucher to Jacques Lipchitz TGA 897/1/1/69/14