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Else Meidner, recipient: Dr J. P. Hodin

Letter from Else Meidner to J.P. Hodin

28 November 1968

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Else Meidner 1901–1987
Recipient
Dr J. P. Hodin
Title
Letter from Else Meidner to J.P. Hodin
Date
28 November 1968
Description
[Transcription/translation]

28 November 1968

‘Those who forget so much good grace one tends to regard with scornful face.’

This is the second Ludwig Meidner etching, meant for you long ago, for so much good grace.

Your very sad Else Meidner, who thinks you must be cross with her?
Format
Document - correspondence
Collection
Tate Archive
Acquisition
Accepted by HM Government in lieu of inheritance tax and allocated to Tate, 2006. Accrual presented by Annabel Hodin, 2020
Reference
TGA 20062/7/128/2/17

Archive context

  • Papers of Josef Paul Hodin TGA 20062 (407)
    • Working papers relating to artistic, cultural and historic figures TGA 20062/7 (106)
      • Else Meidner TGA 20062/7/128 (29)
        • Numbered correspondence from Else Meidner to J.P. Hodin TGA 20062/7/128/2 (17)
          • Letter from Else Meidner to J.P. Hodin TGA 20062/7/128/2/17
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