General information
Type of the document Letter
SenderKaprálová, Vítězslava
Sender (corporation)
Sender‘s locationParis
Send date08.04.1938
Send date noteaccording to Karla Hartl [April 8, 1938]
RecipientKaprálová, Vítězslava st.
Recipient (corporation)
Note on Recipient‘s location[Brno?]
LanguageCzech
Acquiredcopy from Karla Hartl edition: Vítězslava Kaprálová, Dopisy domů. Korespondence rodičům z let 1935-1940; 2019
Call number at IBMKapV 1938-04-08
Content and physical description
ContentVítězslava Kapralová is already healthy. Bohuslav Martinů recommended an excellent syrup to her and the doctor found only slight anaemia. Today she sent them photos from the ball and the Office. She is hesitating about England [a tour with rehearsed choruses of Czech songs]. The Helferts have arrived [It is not clear which Helferts they are. Perhaps Vladimír Helfert and Blažena Helfert, but maybe Renata Helfertová-Trtílková and her husband Josef Trtílek are meant] and so she took care of them in Paris. Yesterday and today she got home only with a pass because her entire street is closed and guarded by the police because of its proximity to the Senate. Yesterday at six o'clock in the evening, however, the ban was broken by the Communists, so she watched everything from the window. It's quiet now, but still BM is worried about getting into some kind of trouble and "would prefer not to let her near the window". She finished [the Partita] yesterday, but BM is still redoing it for her. [Edgar] Hauner has heard from Prague that [Rudolf] Kopec is applying for her, so he telephoned her today with a marriage proposal. However, she refused it, which was approved by BM, who does not wish her to marry. Did they read "the terrible flapping in Rhythm and Smetana about JULIET"?
Notepublished 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. 156-157
Markingsautographical greeting by Bohuslav Martinů
Digitisation
Quality of digitisationNot professional black-and-white
Date of digitisation2019

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Location as subject
Prague
United Kingdom
Person as subject
Hauner, Edgar Stanislav
Helfert, Vladimír
Kaprál, Václav
Kopec, Rudolf
Martinů, Bohuslav
Osuská, Pavla
Osuský, Štefan
Schaefer, Theodor
Trtílková, Renata
Corporation as subject
Office du Tourisme de Tchécoslovaquie à Paris
Rytmus
Smetana
Composition as subject
Juliette (The Key to Dreams), H 253
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