Carte-lettre adressée depuis Bath à Renée Chaine, compagne du pianiste Alfred Cortot : "Nous habitons tranquillement ici presque à la campagne"

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).

"Dear friend,
For a long time I have offered myself
Monkfish Zweig "