Typed Letter Signed W. H. Auden to Hilde Spiel 1972-07-19

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  • 1972-07-19T00:00:00+01:00--1972-07-19T23:59:59+01:00
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    • St. Wolfgang im Salzkammergut


    15/B26/5


    3062 KIRCHSTETTEN
    BEZ. ST. PÖLTEN
    HINTERHOLZ 6
    N.-Ö., AUSTRIA
    July I9th


                    Dear Dr Speil Spiel:


        Many thanks for your letter and the translations which seem to
     me excellent. I'm enormously grateful to you for all the trouble
     you have taken.


           As to your queries:
             I) S schrafer scharfer Käse  is right.
             2) lufthoch is fine
             3) geil is better
             4) woner wonder here is Satuanen Staunen
             5) ṽẽndages means wine-harvests. I suppose origniinally a
                French word.


       Now I want your help in another matter. I have been having terrib
       terrible troubles with the Finanzamt. It seems that it will come
       to a court case,but this is unlikely to be before the New Year
       so that I shan't be here. I want to make a personal statement
       of my point of view which my lawyer can read out.


       If I sent you a draft,could you possibly translate it for me?


                     with many thanks


                       Yours ever


    Wystan Auden


                              W.H.Auden

    Finanzamt

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