Scope and Contents
The Alice Raphael Papers contain writings, translations, correspondence, lectures, photographs, a scrapbook and other papers that document the professional and personal life of author and translator Alice Raphael. Writings and translations comprise the bulk of the papers. Raphael's writings include drafts for her book Goethe and the Philosophers' Stone: Symbolical Patterns in 'The Parable' and the Second Part of 'Faust.' The papers contain several drafts of Raphael's translation of Goethe's Faust: A Tragedy Part One and Two with annotations and notes that reveal her translation process. Correspondence primarily consists of correspondence with Carl Gustav Jung, William A. Speck, Curt von Faber du Faur, and other curators of the Yale Collection of German Literature. The bulk of the correspondence regards her work to publish her Goethe translation and her writings on Goethe. The papers also contain sound recordings of Raphael's 1965 lectures given at the New York Institute of the C. G. Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology. Photographs include portraits of Raphael and an album of snapshots of the Eckstein family and their farm in Greenwich, CT. The papers also include a scrapbook of Raphael's colored pencil drawings and a charcoal portrait of Raphael by Kahlil Gibran.
Dates
- 1917-1977
Creator
Language of Materials
Materials in English and German.
Conditions Governing Access
The materials are open for research.
Box 23 contains audiovisual material. Restricted fragile. Reference copies may be requested. Consult Access Services for further information.
Box 23 contains audiovisual material. Restricted fragile. Reference copies may be requested. Consult Access Services for further information.
Conditions Governing Use
The Alice Raphael Papers is the physical property of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the appropriate curator.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Alice Raphael, 1963, 1966, 1969. Gift of Alice Wolff, 1975.
Arrangement
The papers are organized into five series: Writings and Translations, Correspondence, Lectures, Other Papers, Correspondence with Yale Collection of German Literature.
Extent
11 Linear Feet ((23 boxes) + 1 art object)
Catalog Record
A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog
Persistent URL
Overview
The Alice Raphael Papers contain writings, translations, correspondence, lectures, photographs, a scrapbook and other papers that document the professional and personal life of author and translator Alice Raphael. The papers include letters from Carl Gustav Jung and drafts of Raphael's book Goethe and the Philosophers' Stone: Symbolical Patterns in 'The Parable' and the Second Part of 'Faust' and her translation of Goethe's Faust: A Tragedy Part One and Faust: A Tragedy Part Two. The papers span the years 1918-1977.
Alice Raphael (1887-1975)
Alice Pearl Raphael was born on June 22, 1887 in Brownsville, Texas. She attended Barnard College in New York City and studied music in Germany. Raphael later lived in Zurich and studied with Carl Gustav Jung and Fritz Wittels and was a lay analyst for several years. Raphael focused for many years on her translation of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust: A Tragedy Part One and Faust: A Tragedy Part Two. Her friend William A. Speck, curator of his own collection at Yale University's Collection of German Literature, assisted her in the translation until his death in 1928. Carl Schreiber, who oversaw the Speck Collection following Speck's death, befriended Raphael and continued assistance with her translations. In 1939, Raphael met Curt von Faber du Faur, who in 1944 became curator of Yale's Collection of German Literature and university faculty member. Raphael and Faber du Faur were close colleagues and friends until Faber du Faur died in 1966.
Raphael published several articles, reviews, and the 1965 book Goethe and the Philosophers' Stone: Symbolical Patterns in 'The Parable' and the Second Part of 'Faust'. This book analyses Goethe in the context of Jungian theory. In the 1920s, Raphael was interested in drawing and studied drawing in Washington, CT. She preferred colored pencils and expressed herself through a method that she called "spontaneous creative expression."
Raphael lived in Manhattan for most of her life, where she founded the Analytical Psychology Club of New York and was an active member of the Society for Psychical Research. She married Henry Eckstein in 1911 and had two daughters. Raphael died in Manhattan on August 27, 1975.
Raphael published several articles, reviews, and the 1965 book Goethe and the Philosophers' Stone: Symbolical Patterns in 'The Parable' and the Second Part of 'Faust'. This book analyses Goethe in the context of Jungian theory. In the 1920s, Raphael was interested in drawing and studied drawing in Washington, CT. She preferred colored pencils and expressed herself through a method that she called "spontaneous creative expression."
Raphael lived in Manhattan for most of her life, where she founded the Analytical Psychology Club of New York and was an active member of the Society for Psychical Research. She married Henry Eckstein in 1911 and had two daughters. Raphael died in Manhattan on August 27, 1975.
Processing Information
Correspondence comprising Series V. was transferred from the administrative files of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library by curatorial staff.
- Authors
- Authors -- 20th Century
- Drawings (visual works)
- Faber du Faur, Curt von, 1890-1966
- German literature
- Gibran, Kahlil, 1883-1931
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832 (Faust)
- Jung, C. G. (Carl Gustav), 1875-1961
- Literature, Modern -- Translations
- Raphael, Alice, 1887-1975 (Goethe and the philosophers stone)
- Schreiber, Carl F. (Carl Frederick), 1886-1960
- Sound recordings
- Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928
- Translators
- Title
- Guide to the Alice Raphael Papers
- Author
- by Molly Wheeler
- Date
- February 2008
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Part of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Repository
Location
121 Wall Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Opening Hours
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