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Type of the document	Letter
Sender	Kaprálová, Vítězslava
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Sender‘s location	Paris
Send date	04.04.1938
Send date note	according to Karla Hartl [probably April 4, 1938]
Recipient	Kaprálová, Vítězslava st.
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Note on Recipient‘s location	[Brno?]
Language	Czech
Acquired	copy from Karla Hartl edition: Vítězslava Kaprálová, Dopisy domů. Korespondence rodičům z let 1935-1940; 2019
Call number at IBM	KapV 1938-04-04

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Vítězslava Kaprálová comments on the current political situation [annexation of Austria, etc.] and criticises reviews of the performance of her Variations on the Bells of the Church of St-Etienne-du-Mont [27 March 1938, Brno]. She is now in a hurry to be home at 12, as ordered by Bohuslav Martinů. Composing is not going well - what she writes, BM crosses out, but what she crosses out, he likes. BM probably won't go to Three Wells, but it's not certain. He [Václav] Talich wrote to her and enclosed a letter from the Secretary of the Minister of Education, so the scholarship looks promising. She has already sent the application [for the scholarship]. She won two birds in a raffle, which she will go and collect. When is Rena [Helfert-Trtilkova] due to arrive?

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published in: HARTL, Karla (ed.): Vítězslava Kaprálová, Dopisy domů. Korespondence rodičům z let 1935-1940, The Kapralova Society, Toronto 2015, ISBN 978-0-9940425-0-7, pg. 155-156

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