Barnet, Miguel: Brief an Henze, Hans Werner. undatiert
author: Barnet, Miguel
language: en
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After 16 January 1985[^1]
Dear brother:

[^1: Barnet probably wrote this postcard after receiving Henze's letter of 16 January 1985, since Barnet seems to be responding to Henze's complaint that he was unwilling to meet Henze during his trip to Europe.]

This is just a fast and urgent note to express to you my eternal love and admiration and to announce a letter explaining things. [This letter of explanation has yet to be located.] Your letter was beautiful but it upset me because you can not have any single doubt about my feelings towards you. This is only an SOS.

A big hug and love to Fausto
Miguelito.

Hans Werner Henze
La Leprara
0047 Marino
Roma
Italia

[Engraving of a 19th-century sugar mill. Red-roof houses with a smoking chimney, palm trees, bush-lined avenues, a few workers in the field, lying by the (gray) sea.]