<meta content="urn:uuid:b5892a72-07c3-41f0-8075-78332e60d72e" name="Adept.expected.resource"/> </head> <body> <p class="p16"><a id="a1361"/><span class="t15">XX. TO HELENE RAFF</span></p> <p class="p17">(Letters XX-XXII were first published in the Norwegian magazine <span class="t8">Samtiden,</span> February, 1908.)</p> <p class="p17"> </p> <p class="p17">(Helene Raff is a German artist whose acquaintance Ibsen had just made in Gossensass, and this letter is written in German.)</p> <p class="p20"> </p> <p class="p20">Late Friday night, </p> <p class="p20">MUNICH, September 30th, 1889</p> <p class="p20"> </p> <p class="p20"><span class="t8">Dear Child:</span></p> <p class="p20">HOW kind, how lovable of you to visit us yesterday. My wife is so truly, heartily fond of you. And I too. As you sat there in the twilight and told us various things so thoughtfully and understandingly, do you know what I then thought, what I wished? No, that you do not know. I wished — Alas, if I only had such a dear and lovely daughter.</p> <p class="p20">Come and see us again real soon. But in the mean time you must keep busy at work artist-like in your atelier. There you must not be disturbed for the present.</p> <p class="p20"> Blessings on your dear head, </p> <p class="p20"> Yours devotedly, </p> <p class="p20"> HENRIK IBSEN</p> </body> </html>