Elizabeth Mayer and Wolfgang Sauerländer papers
Collection
Call Number: YCGL MSS 36
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of letters to Elizabeth Mayer and Wolfgang Sauerländer concerning their translation and editorial work, with related reports and legal documents relating to business operations of Pantheon Books, Random House, and the Bollingen Foundation. Many letters concern Mayer's and Sauerländer's personal and professional relationships with Kurt and Helen Wolff. Other correspondence includes letters to Sauerländer from Jacques Schriffrin, letters and documents relating to translations of Bertolt Brecht by Ralph Manheim, and letters to Mayer from Norman Holmes Pearson and Erich and Fine Kahler, accompanied by photographs of Fine Kahler. Most correspondence to Sauerländer includes typescript carbon copies of his responses.
Dates
- circa 1933-1977
Creator
Language of Materials
In German and English.
Conditions Governing Access
The materials are open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
The Elizabeth Mayer and Wolfgang Sauerländer 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
Purchased from Beate Sauerländer on the Beinecke German Literature Collection Fund, 1997.
Arrangement
Organized into three series: I. Letters to Elizabeth Mayer, 1933-1966. II. Wolfgang Sauerländer Correspondence, 1953-1977. III. Other Papers, 1956-1972.
Extent
0.83 Linear Feet (2 boxes)
Catalog Record
A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog
Persistent URL
Overview
The collection consists of letters to Elizabeth Mayer and Wolfgang Sauerländer concerning their translation and editorial work, with related reports and legal documents relating to business operations of Pantheon Books, Random House, and the Bollingen Foundation. Many letters concern Mayer's and Sauerländer's personal and professional relationships with Kurt and Helen Wolff. Other correspondence includes letters to Sauerländer from Jacques Schriffrin, letters and documents relating to translations of Bertolt Brecht by Ralph Manheim, and letters to Mayer from Norman Holmes Pearson and Erich and Fine Kahler, accompanied by photographs of Fine Kahler. Most correspondence to Sauerländer includes typescript carbon copies of his responses.
Elizabeth Mayer (1884-1970)
Elizabeth Mayer (1884-1970), German-American translator.
Wolfgang Sauerländer
Wolfgang Sauerländer, editor, employed by Pantheon Books and the Bollingen Foundation. Sauerländer was married to Beate Sauerländer, daughter of Elizabeth Mayer.
Processing Information
Former call number: Uncat Zg Ms 14. This collection received a basic level of processing, including rehousing and minimal organization, in 2011. The current finding aid supercedes a preliminary list created in 1997. Folder titles and content notes are based on a vendor description and have not been verified in all cases against contents of folders.
- Authors, German -- 20th Century
- Bollingen Foundation
- Bollingen series
- Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956 -- Translations into English
- Editorial Noguer
- Editors -- United States -- 20th Century
- Editors -- United States -- Archives
- German literature -- 20th Century
- German literature -- Translations into English
- Kahler, Erich, 1885-1970
- Kahler, Fine
- Manheim, Ralph, 1907-1992
- Mayer, Elizabeth
- Pantheon Books
- Pearson, Norman Holmes, 1909-1975
- Photographs
- Publishers and publishing -- United States
- Random House (Firm)
- Sauerländer, Wolfgang
- Schiffrin, Jacques
- Translators -- United States -- 20th century
- Translators -- United States -- Archives
- Wolff, Helen, 1906-1994
- Wolff, Kurt, 1887-1963
- Title
- Guide to the Elizabeth Mayer and Wolfgang Sauerländer Papers
- Status
- Under Revision
- Author
- by Beinecke staff
- Date
- September 1997
- 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
Access Information
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