23.11.1840 - The Thorvaldsens Museum Archives


	No. 8677 of 10319

Sender	Date	Recipient
Bertel Thorvaldsen [+] Sender’s Location København	23.11.1840 [+] Dating based on Dateringen skyldes Stampe, op. cit.	Christine Stampe [+] Recipient’s Location Nysø
Abstract Thorvaldsen thanks Christine Stampe for his stay at Nysø. He also tells her a little about his social life in Copenhagen.

...Tak for alt godt som jeg har nydt hos Dem og Deres Familie og hils alle Beboerne paa det yndige Nysøe. Vi ere alle ankomne her til København i godt Befindende men langsom, vi kom først Kl. 9½, vi saae i Kiøge Grev Christian Danneskiold og hans Kone som var taget fra Kiøbenhavn Kl. 1 og var 3½ i Kiøge, det kalder man at fare....
... Jeg sitter her hvor jeg har det godt og bequemt, men jeg mangler dog formeget, som jeg ikke kan have her, og det er min Gamle Mutter, hun er dog den eneste jeg har paa Jorden, Gud velsigne hende! ...
Jeg er budet til Middag hos Pr. Thiele, og derfra gaaer vi i Theatret. Jeg har ikke været ude idag, det er saa slet Veir.

...Thank you for the great kindness I have enjoyed with you and your dear family, and please, give my regards to all people at the lovely Nysoe. We have all arrived here in Copenhagen in good health but slowly, we only arrived at half past nine; in Koege we saw Count Christian Danneskiold and his wife who had left Copenhagen at 1 o’clock and were in Koege at half past three, that is called rushing....
... I am sitting here, where I am well and comfortable, but I miss too much, which I cannot have here, and that is my dear old Mum, she is the only one I have on earth, God bless her!...
I have been invited for dinner at professor Thiele’s and from there we shall go to the theatre. I have not been out of doors all day, the weather is so bad.

[Translated by Karen Husum]

General Comment
The whereabouts of the letter is not known, but the letter is reproduced in Stampe, op. cit., p. 292 and 351. The text is probably just en excerpt of the complete letter.
Archival Reference
Ukendt arkivplacering
Other references
Gengivet hos Rigmor Stampe (ed.), Baronesse Stampes Erindringer om Thorvaldsen, København 1912, p. 88, 292 og 351.

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