Photocopy of an autograph letter signed from Adolph Brodsky to Edvard Grieg

Adolph Brodsky is delighted to have received the score with Edvard's inscription on the title page and thanks Grieg heartily for this Christmas present. He writes in haste as he must pack and go off in a few hours. They are playing in Frankfurt Museum on 21 December and in Muhlhausen on the 22nd . Then Brodsky goes to his nephew [Leon Picard] in Nancy and back via Paris. Brodsky has had only a cursory look at the score and will give it to Richter but study it on his return. For months Brodsky has heard nothing more from Urbanek [who ran a concert agency in Prague] since they wrote and said they were ready to play without a fee, only travelling expenses. Maybe that is too much but he should write to let them know. Brodsky mentions Brahms and the Herzogenbergs whose correspondence Edvard is reading. Brodsky admits that Leipzig was paradise for him but later it was not so pleaasant and he was happy to have come out of the nest of gossip. The original letter is dated 18 Dec 1906, and it is unclear when this photocopy was made.