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OJ 15/26, [3] - Handwritten picture postcard from Hans Wolf to Jeanette Schenker, postmarked May 18, 1935

{recto}
⇧ harbor scene, captioned: “Blick von den Landungsbrücken auf den Hamburger Hafen”

{verso}
[An:] ⇧ Frau Prof. Lilly Schenker
Wien III.
Keilgasse 8

[postmark:] || HAMBURG | 18 [illeg] 35 | 17-10 | b ||

[stamp, part-obscured by postage stamp and handwriting: "deine[n] / Muttert[a]g, / deutscher, / halt' in Ehren!"]


Sehr geehrte Frau Prf. Schenker, 1

Ich möchte Ihnen von meinen Hamburger Ferien sehr herzliche Grüße senden.


Ergebenst
[signed:] Hans Wolf

[in right margin, sideways:] Meine Eltern lassen herzlichst grüßen.

© Transcription Ian Bent, 2006, 2022
{recto}
⇧ harbor scene, captioned: “View of the landing stages in Hamburg Harbor”

{verso}
[To:] ⇧ Mrs Lilly Schenker
Vienna III
Keilgasse 8

[postmark:] || HAMBURG | 18 [illeg] 35 | 17-10 | b ||

[stamp, part obscured by postage stamp and handwriting: "Your... / Mother's Day / German / ..olt..in threu!"]


Dear Mrs Schenker, 1

I should like to send you cordial greetings from my Hamburg holidays.


Most devotedly
[signed:] Hans Wolf

[in right margin, sideways:] My parents send their most heartfelt greetings.

© Translation Ian Bent, 2006, 2022
{recto}
⇧ harbor scene, captioned: “Blick von den Landungsbrücken auf den Hamburger Hafen”

{verso}
[An:] ⇧ Frau Prof. Lilly Schenker
Wien III.
Keilgasse 8

[postmark:] || HAMBURG | 18 [illeg] 35 | 17-10 | b ||

[stamp, part-obscured by postage stamp and handwriting: "deine[n] / Muttert[a]g, / deutscher, / halt' in Ehren!"]


Sehr geehrte Frau Prf. Schenker, 1

Ich möchte Ihnen von meinen Hamburger Ferien sehr herzliche Grüße senden.


Ergebenst
[signed:] Hans Wolf

[in right margin, sideways:] Meine Eltern lassen herzlichst grüßen.

© Transcription Ian Bent, 2006, 2022
{recto}
⇧ harbor scene, captioned: “View of the landing stages in Hamburg Harbor”

{verso}
[To:] ⇧ Mrs Lilly Schenker
Vienna III
Keilgasse 8

[postmark:] || HAMBURG | 18 [illeg] 35 | 17-10 | b ||

[stamp, part obscured by postage stamp and handwriting: "Your... / Mother's Day / German / ..olt..in threu!"]


Dear Mrs Schenker, 1

I should like to send you cordial greetings from my Hamburg holidays.


Most devotedly
[signed:] Hans Wolf

[in right margin, sideways:] My parents send their most heartfelt greetings.

© Translation Ian Bent, 2006, 2022

Footnotes

1 In the postmark, the month is obscured by a postage stamp. However, the stamp beside the postage stamps on the recto proclaiming Mother’s Day establishes the month of the card as May, since Mother’s Day in Germany from 1934 on was set as the third Sunday in May, which in 1935 was May 19.

Commentary

Format
Printed picture postcard: photograph, recto; holograph recipient address, salutation, message, valediction, signature, and postscript, with stamp, verso
Provenance
Schenker, Heinrich (document date-1935)--Schenker, Jeanette (1935-c.1942)--Ratz, Erwin (c.1942-c.1955)--Jonas, Oswald (c.1955-1978)--University of California, Riverside (1978-)
Rights Holder
Heirs to Hans Wolf, published here by kind permission
License
Permission to publish kindly granted by the sister of Hans Wolf on December 3, 2006. Any claim to intellectual rights on this document should be addressed to the Schenker Correspondence Project, Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge, at schenkercorrespondence[at]mus(dot)cam(dot)ac(dot)uk

Digital version created: 2022-04-18
Last updated: 2011-06-09