Carte-lettre adressée depuis Bath à Renée Chaine, compagne du pianiste Alfred Cortot : "M. Zweig a retrouvé assez de repos pour travailler. Nous sommes très heureux ici"

Autograph letter signed by Lotte Zweig addressed to Renée Chaine, companion of pianist Alfred Cortot, a page written in purple ink on a letterhead "" Rosmount Lycombe Hill, Bath ".
Lotte Zweig, newly married to Stefan Zweig who had left his first wife Friderike, gives news of their lives in the English countryside to Renée Chaine, companion of a great friend of her friend, Alfred Cortot. The relationships between Zweig and Cortot, renowned pianist and specialist in Chopin, are rarely mentioned by biographers - the correspondence between the two couples and their numerous meetings across Europe nevertheless testify to the strong bond that united them. Zweig, who wished to write a biography of the composer, had also declared: "When Cortot's hands no longer exist, Chopin will die a second time. He is the only one who can express tenderness in greatness." Cortot, for his part, also held Zweig in great esteem: “The days when we meet a Zweig are to be marked with a white stone in the lives of beings who have respect for ideas or curiosity of intelligence. "(Letter of October 13, 1937).
Definitely leaving Germany in 1934, Stefan Zweig moved to England with his new wife Lotte: "Zweig's new existence, with a few details, seems to reproduce identically its existence. If the site of Bath immediately seduced him because it irresistibly reminded him of Salzburg and its surroundings. Likewise, the house with which he fell in love, Rosemount House (the Mount of Roses), is located on a hill whose the name (Lyncombe Hill) evokes to be mistaken that of Kapuzinerberg (mount or hill of the Capuchins "[...] Beyond even these toponymic and geographic similarities, the natural environment of Bath, its status as a cultural city , reveal his nostalgia for lost paradise "( Stefan Zweig - autopsy of a suicide, Dominique Frischer).

"Dear friend,
I have been proposing to write to you for a long time, and I take the good opportunity to add a few words to Stefan's letter. I hope you are well and that there will still be an opportunity to meet again soon.
We live quietly here almost in the countryside, see few people but are almost never without visitors. Two little nieces of me [sic] live with us here, and that gives us pleasure.
Friendly
Monkfish Zweig "