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View by appointment- Created by
- Edward Renouf 1906 – 1999
- Recipient
- Anny Schey von Koromla 1886 – 1948
- Title
- Letter from Edward Renouf to Anny Schey von Koromla
- Date
- 30 September [1930]
- Format
- Document - correspondence
- Collection
- Tate Archive
- Acquisition
- Presented to Tate Archive by David Mayor, December 2007; 2015; 2016.
- Reference
- TGA 200730/2/1/35/16
Description
30 September
Dear Baroness Schey!
The sun is out again today, and the trees are shining like green lanterns. The fields are alive with young and old farmers loading the hay into stacks. The Inn is a metallic ribbon of greenish blue. The mountains are Chinese again, the slopes and gullies obscured by a white haze, and only the hard, black ridges, stacked one behind the other, are showing themselves today. In spite of everything I know in my head, my heart can’t comprehend why you’re not here. The future is enriched by the riches of the present. The days when you’re absent are Lazarus days. With you I’m Croesus, and then I can let myself believe that my lonely Lazarus days have not been entirely wasted.
Until I see you again!
– Edl –
PS The postman came just as I was about to seal this letter. You ask if you should come. What on earth can I say to that? I shall have to think it through first and give you an answer later!
Archive context
- Additional papers of David Mayor TGA 200730 (79)
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- Material relating to David Mayor’s Austrian ancestry TGA 200730/2 (79)
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- Correspondence of Anny Schey von Koromla TGA 200730/2/1 (78)
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- Letters from Edward Renouf to Anny Schey von Koromla TGA 200730/2/1/35 (78)
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- Letter from Edward Renouf to Anny Schey von Koromla TGA 200730/2/1/35/16