Autograph letters signed (3), dated : Vienna July 24 1895, Mödling July 19 1904, and Los Angeles Aug. 1 [1944], to [David Josef Bach], 1895 July 24. and 1944 Aug. 1.

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Autograph letters signed (3), dated : Vienna July 24 1895, Mödling July 19 1904, and Los Angeles Aug. 1 [1944], to [David Josef Bach], 1895 July 24. and 1944 Aug. 1.

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Responding [in 1895] to the recipient's complaint that he is really not a lyric poet, saying that the recipient has too narrow a conception of modern lyric poets, distinguishing between the perceptions [Empfindungen] received from nature and those taken from one own's life, discussing other ideas on aesthetics, saying [in 1904] that he needs the lists urgently since the directorate [Vorstand] must know what sum it has at its disposal, suggesting he come to Mödling for a visit sometime, and thanking Bach [in 1944] for 70th birthday greetings and sending birthday wishes in return, expressing the hope that they will soon "sing the canon which I dedicated [to] you when we both were sixty," etc.

3 items (7 p.) ; (8vo) and 12.̜

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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