1883.07.06 English

Anders Petersen, 1827-1914. Photo: The Royal Library

  THE ROYAL                              Letter from the collections of Otto Lind[1]

 

INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF- MUTE 

IN COPENHAGEN

 

 

 

6 – 7 – 83

 

 

 

                                   Dear friend!

 

 

Your daughter can very well apply for the post you mention, and for which very good recommendations for teaching skills will be considered in particular. Undoubtedly, it will also be very helpful for the recommendations if the person in question has a degree, _______  I don’t think I can get much information about the gentlemen in question  (?????? ilegible) C vH (?), but I will check and let you shortly.

 

 

Thank you very much for your kind invitation; in case I am in Valløe or Egense, I will certainly take advantage of it. ________

 

 

 

Very best regards from your devoted

 

 

R  Malling-Hansen

 

 

[1] CB: Everything in this letter was written by hand. We have 3 letters written by RMH from the Otto Lind collection – I don’t know who he was, but possibly a fellow student from the Jonstrup teacher training college. The word ‘collections’ (in Danish: ‘samlinger’) was written with the initial letter in lower case, showing that this comment was made after 1948 (before that year, all nouns were written with the initial letter in the upper case) SA: I have recently discovered that all the letters from Otto Lind’s collection, was originally written to a teacher named Anders Petersen. A large collection of his correspondance can be found in the Danish National Private Archive. How the letters came in the possession of Otto Lind, I don’t know. The letters are dated between 1856 and 1913, and Anders Petersen lived from 1827 to 1914.