BIB_ID
440914
Accession number
MA 13112.23
Creator
Cohen-Portheim, Paul, -1932, sender.
Display Date
Paris, France, 1932 September 26
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray 1987.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 22.9 x 17.5 cm
Notes
Year of writing based on internal evidence: Cohen-Portheim died in Paris at the age of 53 on October 6, 1932, following the developement of an acute illness during a trip to Spain and Portugal.
Written from: Clinique Piccini, 6 rue Piccini, Paris 16e.
Forms part of a collection chiefly composed of letters received from friends and associates of the English publisher Thomas Balston (1883-1967); see MA 13112.
Written from: Clinique Piccini, 6 rue Piccini, Paris 16e.
Forms part of a collection chiefly composed of letters received from friends and associates of the English publisher Thomas Balston (1883-1967); see MA 13112.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Giving an account of his recent illness, acknowledging that he was too ill to leave London when he did, but that he ignored his symptoms in the hopes that he would "get well on the way", instead, he got much worse and was "finally laid up in a hotel at Vidago without being able to move" and "surrounded by people who can't or won't understand a word you say!", relating how he was eventually moved to Paris at the insistence of the doctor in Vidago with the assistance of a servant who carried him in and out of the trains over the course of the journey, noting that "Specialists play about with 'samples' no definite verdict for a week or so" and that he so ill that, at best he will be an invalid for a long time to come, and "at the worst(?) well for a short time."; asking Balston for his assistance in sending money to him in France so that he can pay for his care at the clinic, and concluding, " Do write very soon please. Feel a bit desperate you know."
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