{"id":24262,"date":"2012-09-28T16:39:38","date_gmt":"2012-09-28T14:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hcandersen-homepage.dk\/?page_id=24262"},"modified":"2012-09-28T16:39:38","modified_gmt":"2012-09-28T14:39:38","slug":"brev-fra-den-amerikanske-pige-abigail-tompkins-til-hans-christian-andersen-1874","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.hcandersen-homepage.dk\/?page_id=24262","title":{"rendered":"Brev fra den amerikanske pige Abigail Tompkins til Hans Christian Andersen 1874"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hcandersen-homepage.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/brev-18751.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"brev-1875\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hcandersen-homepage.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/brev-18751.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"509\" height=\"783\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mange i USA fortrinsvis b\u00f8rn havde opfattelsen af, at den danske eventyr digter H.C. Andersen var fattig, syg og alderdomsv\u00e6kket og havde sv\u00e6rt ved at klare sig selv. Derfor modtog Andersen flere breve fra amerikanske b\u00f8rn med penge bel\u00f8b i, s\u00e5 kan kunne f\u00e5 de mest n\u00f8dvendige ting. H.C. Andersen var dog ikke en fattig mand og efterlod ved sin d\u00f8d i 1875 en st\u00f8rre formue.<\/p>\n<p>Ovenfor ses en del af et af de mange breve H.C. Andersen modtog fra amerikanske b\u00f8rn.\u00a0Med brevet er med sendt et udklip fra &#8220;New York Tribune&#8221;. Se mere her!<\/p>\n<p>Brev 20 juni 1874 fra New York<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Newark, New Jersey 20. juni 1874<br \/>\nDear Sir<br \/>\n&#8220;I have cut this article from the &#8220;New York Tribune&#8221; to send to you thinking it will pleasure to know you have true and grateful friends here. Please accept this dollar also and please use it for something you need. I have long thought I would write to you and thank you for pleasure\u00a0you have given me. Every time I read your stories I find something new to admire. They are as pure and fresh as only a real poet&#8217;s can be. Papa says that I am seventeen to day, that the dollar is my&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I fri overs\u00e6ttelse: \u00a0K\u00e6re Hr. Jeg har klippet denne artikel ud \u00a0fra &#8220;New York Tribune&#8221; for at sende den til dig og t\u00e6nker det vil gl\u00e6de dig at vide, at du har sande og taknemmelig venner her. Venligst modtag denne dollar og husk at bruge den til noget du har brug for. Jeg har l\u00e6nge t\u00e6nkt jeg ville skrive til dig og tak for gl\u00e6de du har givet mig. Hver gang jeg l\u00e6ser dine historier kan jeg altid finde noget nyt at beundre. De er \u00e6gte og livsbekr\u00e6ftende, som kun en \u00e6gte digters kan v\u00e6re. Far siger, at jeg er sytten i dag, at dollaren er min &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.. &#8221; \u00a0 \u00a0m\u00e5ske skal der st\u00e5: f\u00f8dselsdagsgave til dig?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hcandersen-homepage.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/04-08-009.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"04-08-009\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hcandersen-homepage.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/04-08-009-600x267.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One dollar seddel fra United States 1866, som H.C. Andersen \u00a0sandsynligvis har modtaget fra den amerikanske pige Abigail Tompkins fra\u00a0Newark, New Jersey i 1874. Dollaren findes p\u00e5 H.C. Andersen\u00a0Museet i Odense.<\/p>\n<p>Se mere om: \u00a0<a title=\"H.C. Andersen og Amerika\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hcandersen-homepage.dk\/?page_id=24241\">Relationerne mellem H.C. Andersen og U.S. A. \u2013 Amerika<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Foto Lars Bj\u00f8rnsten Odense<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mange i USA fortrinsvis b\u00f8rn havde opfattelsen af, at den danske eventyr digter H.C. Andersen var fattig, syg og alderdomsv\u00e6kket og havde sv\u00e6rt ved at klare sig selv. Derfor modtog Andersen flere breve fra amerikanske b\u00f8rn med penge bel\u00f8b i, s\u00e5 kan kunne f\u00e5 de mest n\u00f8dvendige ting. H.C. Andersen var dog ikke en fattig &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hcandersen-homepage.dk\/?page_id=24262\" class=\"more-link\">L\u00e6s mere <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Brev fra den amerikanske pige Abigail Tompkins til Hans Christian Andersen 1874<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":21997,"menu_order":111,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-24262","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hcandersen-homepage.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hcandersen-homepage.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hcandersen-homepage.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hcandersen-homepage.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hcandersen-homepage.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hcandersen-homepage.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24262\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hcandersen-homepage.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hcandersen-homepage.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}