{"id":24268,"date":"2012-09-28T16:51:19","date_gmt":"2012-09-28T14:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hcandersen-homepage.dk\/?page_id=24268"},"modified":"2012-09-28T16:51:19","modified_gmt":"2012-09-28T14:51:19","slug":"til-hans-christian-andersen-the-childrens-debt-fra-new-york-tribune-1874","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.hcandersen-homepage.dk\/?page_id=24268","title":{"rendered":"Til Hans Christian Andersen “The Children’s Debt” fra “New York Tribune” 1874"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Den amerikanske pige Abigail Tompkins havde skrevet et brev<\/a> til H.C. Andersen dateret den 20. juni 1874. Med brevet var sendt et udklip fra “New York Tribune”. Se ovenfor.<\/p>\n

\u00a0“The Children’s Debt”.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A few weeks ago there was a cable dispatch to the effect that Hans Andersen, the Danish poet, lay dying; whereupon all literary journalists prepared to write sketch of his life, or in som fitting way do honor to th good old man, and a shade of gloom passed into every household in which there had been children to teach the older people to love him.\u00a0However, the obituaries were unwritten and tears unshed, for the next steamer brought word that the immediate danger was over, and the old poet, although an invalid, had, it was hoped, several years of life yet\u00a0before him. Later another story was told, which we have reason to believe to be true, that Andersen had himself stated that, in spite of the enormous sale og his books in foreigh countries, these sales or his wildespread reputation had never been of one dollar’s pecuniary value to him, expect in a single instance, whem an American publisher, unsolicites, lately sent him a copyright percentage on the sale of one edition of this works. Andersen is now an old and feeble man, although not in want, lacks many comforts to make his few remaining years easy and pleasant.. It has been proposed, that instead of waiting until the affection and homage of his friends in this country could evaporate in funeral notices and private sighs and lamentations, they shouldsand hin som solid, practical testimonial in token of gratitude for the pleasure he has given them. If this be done let it be done quickly, while it can be of actual effect and give him actual comfort. Not many departed souls, we fancy trouble themselves to look down, like Alexander Smith’s hero, from the ramparts of heaven to earth to find out wwhat people are saying about them; but nothing could more graceful or beatiful than for the children of this country to send to their friend, now in his old age and need, at token of their love.\u00a0Andersen deserves, as no other man does, that title of the children’s friend, the more because he will never, in all probability he …… \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Udklip fra “New York Tribune”<\/p>\n

I fri overs\u00e6ttelse:<\/p>\n

“B\u00f8rnenes g\u00e6ld”.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“For et par uger siden var der et telegraf besked om, at Hans Andersen, den danske digter, l\u00e5 d\u00f8ende, hvorefter alle litter\u00e6re journalister var parat til at skrive om hans liv, eller p\u00e5 en anden passende m\u00e5de g\u00f8re \u00e6re til den gode gamle mand, og en skygge af dysterhed er g\u00e5et ind i enhver familie, hvor der havde v\u00e6ret b\u00f8rn til at l\u00e6re de \u00e6ldre til at elske ham.\u00a0Selvom nekrologerne var uskrevne og t\u00e5rer ikke gr\u00e6dt, f\u00f8r den n\u00e6ste damper bragte besked om, at den umiddelbare fare var overst\u00e5et, og den gamle digter, selvom han var invalid, havde, var det h\u00e5bet, flere \u00e5rs liv endnu f\u00f8r ham. Senere blev en anden historie fortalt, som vi har grund til at tro er sandt, da Andersen selv havde udtalt, at p\u00e5 trods af den enorme salg af hans b\u00f8ger i fremmede lande, disse salg eller hans omd\u00f8mme havde der aldrig v\u00e6ret “en dollar” til ham, med undtagelse af et enkelt tilf\u00e6lde hvor en amerikansk forl\u00e6gger, uopfordret til sidst sendte ham en copyright procent p\u00e5 salget af en udgave af Andersens arbejder. Andersen er nu en gammel og svag mand, selvom han ikke har mange \u00f8nsker til bekvemmeligheder for at g\u00f8re sine f\u00e5 tilbagev\u00e6rende \u00e5r nemme og behagelige. Det er blevet foresl\u00e5et, at i stedet for at vente til hengivenhed og hyldest af hans venner i dette land, kunne dette forsvinde i en begravelseannonce og private suk og den jammer, de shouldsand hin as solid, praktisk vidnesbyrd som tegn p\u00e5 taknemmelighed for forn\u00f8jelsen han har givet dem.\u00a0Hvis dette g\u00f8res lad det ske hurtigt, mens det kan v\u00e6re af den faktiske virkning og give ham den faktiske komfort. Ikke mange afd\u00f8de sj\u00e6le, vi har lyst til besv\u00e6re sig at kigge ned, ligesom Alexander Smiths helt, fra voldene omkring himlen ned p\u00e5 jorden for at finde ud hvad folk siger om dem, men intet kunne g\u00f8res mere yndefuld eller smukt end for b\u00f8rn af dette land til at sende \u00a0deres ven, der lever i alderdom og har behov for deres k\u00e6rlighed. Andersen fortjener, som intet andet menneske g\u00f8r, at titlen p\u00e5 b\u00f8rnenes ven, jo mere fordi han vil aldrig, efter al sandsynlighed ……”<\/p>\n

Desv\u00e6rre er det ikke muligt at se resten af artiklen.\u00a0I U.S.A. havde folk i 1874 f\u00e5et den fejlagtige opfattelse, at H.C. Andersen p\u00e5 sin gamle dage var meget fattig og derfor modtog H.C. Andersen flere breve fra den amerikanske ungdom med indsamlede penge til hans underhold. Dette var en situation som Andersen ikke selv br\u00f8d sig om.<\/p>\n

Se mere om: \u00a0Relationerne mellem H.C. Andersen og U.S. A. \u2013 Amerika<\/a><\/p>\n

Lars Bj\u00f8rnsten Odense<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Den amerikanske pige Abigail Tompkins havde skrevet et brev til H.C. Andersen dateret den 20. juni 1874. Med brevet var sendt et udklip fra “New York Tribune”. Se ovenfor. \u00a0“The Children’s Debt”. A few weeks ago there was a cable dispatch to the effect that Hans Andersen, the Danish poet, lay dying; whereupon all literary … L\u00e6s mere Til Hans Christian Andersen “The Children’s Debt” fra “New York Tribune” 1874<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":21997,"menu_order":116,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-24268","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hcandersen-homepage.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24268","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=24268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hcandersen-homepage.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40262,"href":"https:\/\/www.hcandersen-homepage.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24268\/revisions\/40262"}],"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=24268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}