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Letter Four – The Rainer Maria Rilke Archive

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Worpswede, near Bremen, 16th July, 1903. I left Paris about ten days ago, thoroughly unwell and tired, and travelled to a great northerly plain, whose expanse, quiet and sky are to return me to hea…

Worpswede, near Bremen, 16th July, 1903. I left Paris about ten days ago, thoroughly unwell and tired, and travelled to a great northerly plain, whose expanse, quiet and sky are to return me to health again. But I met with a long period of rain, which is trying to-day for the first time to clear up over the restlessly storm-driven land. I make use of this first moment of brightness to greet you, dear Sir. My very dear Herr Kappus, I have left a letter of yours long unanswered —not that I had forgotten it; on the contrary it was of the kind which one reads again, when one finds it among…

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