JANÁCEK LEOŠ Autograph Letter Signed Dr ph Leoš Janácek to M

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JANÁCEK, LEOŠ. Autograph Letter Signed, "Dr. ph. Leoš Janácek," to Mrs. M[arie] L[ouise] Kretschmer, in Czech, on a photograph postcard, explaining why he came to the mountains, noting that his opera The Makropulos Affair went to Brünn [where it premiered in the National Theater on December 18], adding that there is no lack of deer hunters in his woods, and sending regards to her husband [Otto Kretschmer (1875-1945)]. The verso is a photograph showing Hukvaldy Park with a group of deer standing in the snow. 1 page, oblong 12mo; faint scattered staining, cancelled 50-haléru stamp at upper right. Hukvaldy, 13 February 1927

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"This is what it looks like now, snow up to the belt. I believe it is nicer up here in the mountains than in the rain down South where you are. That's why I came her for 14 days. . . ."