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Type of the document	Letter
Sender	Kaprálová, Vítězslava
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Sender‘s location	Paris
Note on Sender‘s location	[Paris]
Send date	12.02.1939
Send date note	[February 12, 1939]
Recipient	Kaprál, Václav
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Recipient‘s location	Brno
Note on Recipient‘s location	[Brno?]
Language	Czech
Language 2	French
Acquired	copy from Karla Hartl edition: Vítězslava Kaprálová, Dopisy domů. Korespondence rodičům z let 1935-1940; 2019
Call number at IBM	KapV 1939-02-12

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Content	Vítězslava Kaprálová is catching up with neglected duties after her illness and therefore writes late. She picked up her things from the Betzes, enrolled at the Sorbonne and in the "d'Aqueille" [apparently the department for foreign university students], obtained a certificate from the Foreign Ministry [apparently a certificate of study], visited [Viktor] Kripner and rehearsed for the Čapek evening, which is threatened by Jan Šedivka's illness and [Benjamin] Cremeaux's simultaneous event at the PEN Club. She therefore tried to give the violin part to Věrka [Uhlířová]. Yesterday she attended a concert by the conductor Gertrude Herlitzka [Hrdliczka]. VK didn't like it very much. When asked if GH was of Czech origin, she replied that she was not and did not want to talk to VK. VK got a great appetite for conducting and so Bohuslav Martinů promised her that he would take care of something. BM is healthy now, but they lost a lot of time. He is very strict with her and overwhelms her with work. Now VK is reworking the 1st movement of the Partita, which she is also instrumenting. When it is finished, he will send it to "Universal". Before the rejection letter from [Alfred] Kalmus [rejecting the Rustica Suite], she had originally wanted to offer to perform the Rustica Suite, BM's TRE RICERCARI (which have already been accepted and BM has been promised 5,000), Václav Kapral's Lullabies and probably something else by Leoš Janáček in London. But the plan fell through. She was not pleased [with the rescheduling of the radio broadcast of the Rustica Suite]. On Friday she is going to see the Kolisch Quartet. Only now is VK going to the Ecole Normale. She goes on to describe the two birds she got in roulette.
Note	drawing of the small bird; 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. 215-216
Attachments	according to the text the invitation to "Karel Čapek "In memoriam" night was attached

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