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[Letter from Pablo Casals to Susan Metcalfe, Paris]

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Title	[Letter from Pablo Casals to Susan Metcalfe, Paris]
Date	1914-02-07
Creator	Casals, Pablo, 1876-1973
Subject headings	Casals, Pablo, 1876-1973
Place	Paris
Description	Metcalfe may be surprised to get this letter from Paris. Casals' concert [of the 7th] in Berlin had to be postponed, so he put off the one scheduled for the 8th as well. He has been tired and wanted to stay a bit longer - not to rest, as he must work late - but he is happy to spare himself the tiring trip and the stress of the two concerts. He will leave for Prague the following day. He will be traveling until he arrives in America on about the 26th of March. He has told (the news of their forthcoming marriage) to some of his friends - including the Joachims, the Piazzas, the Cortots and the Gaveaus - and to some of his closest friends - Horszowski, Rubio, Larapidie [?]. Everyone tells him that he has changed, even those who know nothing. He cannot keep his joy entirely secret. He has received a letter from his mother expressing her happiness at their marriage. Horszowski is leaving that day for Munich for a concert the following day; he has spent time with Casals in Paris because he knows that Casals doesn't like to feel too lonely. "How dear his companionship is to me... if you only knew what a great being this dear Horszowski is, what a heart and what equilibrium, in spite of his age (22 years)..." He will speak with the Salmons that evening, and gradually everyone will know, yet he asks Susan not to speak of it yet. "I will bring you the songs of Moor [?]. You will like them the more you get to know them." He has lost the Pierne trial. He has had some portrait photographs taken and will send them if they are not too bad. Her mother and Lili will find that he has grown older. "It won't be like the time when the little boy in Thailand said when he was 4 or 5 years old, 'Oh Papa, how young Monsieur Casals is!' Papa said, 'Why, my son?' 'Because he doesn't have any hair yet!"' He regrets that this letter is just chit-chat, but it shows how light-hearted he feels.
Type	text
Original format	correspondence
Original publisher	[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified]
Language	fr
Contributing institution	Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries
Source collection	MSS246 Susan Metcalfe Letters, 1902 - 1922
Series/grouping	1: Letters To/From Pablo Casals
Box	1
Folder	17: Pablo Casals to Susan Metcalfe, Paris, 7 February 1914
Finding aid link	https://libapps.uncg.edu/archon/index.php?p=collections/findingaid&id=112
Rights statement	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Additional rights information	IN COPYRIGHT. This item is subject to copyright. Contact the contributing institution for permission to reuse.
Object ID	MSS246.001.017
Digital master format	Image/tiff
Digital publisher	RGB color
Digitized by	300 ppi
Sponsor	The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, PO Box 26170, Greensboro NC 27402-6170, 336.334.5304

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