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Type of the document	Letter
Sender	Kaprálová, Vítězslava
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Sender‘s location	Brussels
Note on Sender‘s location	[Paris] Vítězslava Kaprálová probably purposely wrote different sending address
Send date	21.10.1939
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 1939-10-21

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Vítězslava Kaprálová specifies the correspondence sent [so that her parents would know if they received all the letters] and describes her new residence in Rudolf Kundera's villa, where Jirka Mucha, Aik Slavík [?] Máňa Krausová, and Ruda Čtyřhubý [Firkušný], Stein [?], Bohuslav Martinů and others also live. From 1 November, however, he will again be staying with the Betzes. RF will probably play her April Preludes after all, the Bells [Six Little Variations on the Bells of the Church of St.-Étienne du Mont] he is said to like even less. BM writes the Field Masses on JM's text and VK criticises them. JM proposed to her but she refused. She [together with BM] wrote to Shebas [Karel Šebánek] for material for the [Military] Symphoniette, BM in turn asking him for the CLAVIERNE CONCERT [No. 2] [see letter Sheb 1939-10-05]. My "great friend" [Edvard Beneš] was also in [Paris] and spoke with BM. BM is in pain and looks bad, but he is taking great care of her. BM was strongly moved by the photograph of her mother. She remembers home and loved ones a lot and says hello. VK gives a Brussels address for parents to write to.

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transcription 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. 263-264

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