DLA016-0070  Translation

Schloss Stumm

Kaltenbach i. Zillertal

21. June [1925]

Dear Friend,

Your kind letter reached me only three days ago here in the Tirol where I am on holiday. I immediately sent you a message to Budapest in which I asked you to tell me the exact route of your travels and the timing. I also proposed to you that we could meet in Innsbruck which is not far from here on your way back to England. But until today there has been no reply. I intend to return to Vienna towards the end of the week by which time I hope to have received your reply. Please accept my belated but warmest wishes on your Silver Wedding for yourself and the Signora.^[1] You have every right to review that quarter of a century with the greatest satisfaction. Your plucky wife has without a doubt made an enormous contribution to shaping your existence so auspiciously.

Of course, I saw your Rothschild portrait [4616] at the Künstlerhaus.^[2] As I knew you were going to show it, I went as soon as it opened at the Künstlerhaus

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and admired it not only for its vitality and colourful splendour but also bore witness to the wonder of the public, in particular the Baroness you portrayed who was there with her husband^[3] and the painter Mehofer.^[4] I regret not being able to visit your exhibition in Budapest – doubtless also hugely successful.

I don’t want to lose all hope of seeing you somewhere on the Continent this summer. Although I am in the dark where you are aiming for: Karlsbad – Marienbad – Gastein – Kissingen? In any case, I urgently recommend that you go for serious relaxation in order to become less [the following word in English in the original] “restless”. I imagine the Signora is with you. Please send her my regards, also to your brother,^[5] and yourself in great friendship

Your devoted,

S. Münz

[Handwritten across the top of page 1] Replied the 24.6. sent the promised journals and all the news

Editorial Note:

Sigmund Münz (1859-1934), Austrian journalist and writer; for biographical notes see [6377].

AG (summary)

03/2009

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LV (translation)

19/04/2021