Letter from Anton Peschka to Egon Schiele, 10th Oct. 1918

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Wednesday, 10th Oct. 1918.

Dear Egon.
Have registered your coals for
the workshop with the magistrate.
Specified 2 large ovens, one small oven,
one tiled Swedish stove!
About 400mO for monthly consumption.
I don’t know if you’ll get that much but
they will set a quantum for you!
Coals from the Western Railway will be
next in the following days – My servant
has yet to find out the exact date!
Please, dear Egon, instruct my servant
on how to get the 3 pictures from the
old studio – because I really want to send the
borrowed picture back to [Carl] Reininghaus
already! –

Yesterday the doctor wanted to send me
for registration – if only this cursed war
were over already! –
The regimental doctor here has been replaced
now I will soon fly! –
The carpenter had to help because of
the doctor’s move and has still only
prepared the materials to build your
drawers! –
Believe me, I have made an effort to get them
finished soon, but so many requests are made
of the man by all the gentlemen (captain,
regimental doctor) that there was no way
he could get it done! –
But I hope it will work out now!
When can I see you in the evening,
I have painted three nudes in the woods, one
picture that would make a worthy
addition to those intended for Wiesbaden! –
If only I had the frame for it.
Best regards, your brother-in-law
Ant.[on] Peschka.