[Schumann, Clara.] Schumann, Elise. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("ELISE SOMMERHOFF"), TO A FRAU BLAESS, ABOUT THE DEATH OF CLARA SCHUMANN describing the beginning of the end, how her mother had suffered a small stroke in her carriage while on her way to visit her, brought on by two hours' of piano teaching and her chronic winter ailments, relating how her condition fluctuated in the following weeks and how she suffered as a result of her inactivity, noting that she had once said that she did not want to live if she was no longer able to work, reporting how she had recovered sufficiently a fortnight before her death for her to be able to go down in to the garden, describing her last hours and her final stroke, how speech became very difficult and how her heart grew ever weaker; in the remaining part of the letter she gives vent to her own feelings of grief and those of her husband, reflects on her mother's character ("Alles an ihr war einfach, groß und liebevoll"), and provides details of the funeral and her moving reaction to it, 12 pages, 8vo, black borders, Baden, 13 June 1896, splitting slightly along central folds
[Schumann, Clara.] Schumann, Elise. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("ELISE SOMMERHOFF"), TO A FRAU BLAESS, ABOUT THE DEATH OF CLARA SCHUMANN describing the beginning of the end, how her mother had suffered a small stroke in her carriage while on her way to visit her, brought on by two hours' of piano teaching and her chronic winter ailments, relating how her condition fluctuated in the following weeks and how she suffered as a result of her inactivity, noting that she had once said that she did not want to live if she was no longer able to work, reporting how she had recovered sufficiently a fortnight before her death for her to be able to go down in to the garden, describing her last hours and her final stroke, how speech became very difficult and how her heart grew ever weaker; in the remaining part of the letter she gives vent to her own feelings of grief and those of her husband, reflects on her mother's character ("Alles an ihr war einfach, groß und liebevoll"), and provides details of the funeral and her moving reaction to it, 12 pages, 8vo, black borders, Baden, 13 June 1896, splitting slightly along central folds
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