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SeriesCorrespondence and manuscripts
English translation
4 February 1936 To the City Archive, attention Dr. C. Becker, Halberstadt, Brombergerstraße 4 Because of a prolonged absence from here, I am only today able to attend to your letter of 22 December last year, file 944/35. At the same time I sent you the requested fees today and ask you to excuse the delay. On the matter itself I have the following to note: What further information can be established about Abraham Jacob Reichenbach? He can have died no earlier than 1815. Was he also born in Halberstadt, and when? What were the names of his parents and of the parents of his wife, Therese Frank? That should be ascertainable from any surviving marriage registers; Abraham Jacob R. and Therese Frank must have married around 1810. Can any further information about these parents be found? I await your further findings with interest and thank you in advance for your renewed efforts. [The preserved page is unsigned. Its position in Rudolf Jakob Simonis’s genealogy file, immediately after Paul Reichenbach’s signed 1935 letter, strongly supports identification as Simonis’s outgoing draft or copy, but does not prove authorship absolutely.]
English of the legible text, prepared for the Reichenbach Family Archive.
- Archive reference
- RB-PHO-0158
- Date
- Written date: 4 February 1936
- Digital image
- 1600 × 347 pixels
- Evidence status
- Unsigned primary correspondence; attribution to Rudolf Jakob Simonis is strongly supported by archival placement but remains an inference
- Source and provenance
- Family-held crop; the full unsigned page is preserved in the Leo Baeck Institute’s Rudolf Jakob Simonis Collection, AR 7019 / MF 551, Series II, Box 3, folder 92, ‘Reichenbach’; Stadtarchiv Halberstadt file reference 944/35.
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- Reichenbach Family Archive
- Rights
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- Image treatment
- Publication derivative from the accessioned scan or archive photograph; orientation verified; no generative alteration.
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Reichenbach Family Archive. “An unsigned page continues the search Paul began.” Written date: 4 February 1936. RB-PHO-0158. https://www.reichenbacharchive.org/objects/rb-pho-0158.
Permanent URLhttps://www.reichenbacharchive.org/objects/rb-pho-0158