Authors, German -- Archives
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Thomas Mann collection
Collection
Call Number: YCGL MSS 5
Abstract:
The Thomas Mann Collection consists of manuscripts, letters, photographs, and printed materials relating to the life and work of Mann and his wife, Katia.
Dates:
1894-1990
William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : manuscripts
Collection
Call Number: YCGL MSS 6
Abstract:
The collection, a part of the William A. Speck Collection of Goetheana, consists of correspondence, documents, playscripts, and other writings by or relating to Goethe and his work. The major strength of the manuscript collection is its documentation of Goethe's literary reception in England and America in the nineteenth century. There are 25 letters and manuscripts in Goethe's hand, and several Faust-related items. Authors represented prominently besides Goethe include Thomas Carlyle, Frank...
Dates:
1542-1967, bulk 1770-1900
Helen and Kurt Wolff papers
Collection
Call Number: YCGL MSS 16
Abstract:
The Helen and Kurt Wolff Papers consist of correspondence, manuscripts, printed material, and personal papers documenting the professional lives of Helen and Kurt Wolff through their affiliations with Kurt Wolff Verlag, Pantheon Books, and Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
Series I, Correspondence, consists predominantly of professional correspondence with authors, publishers, and translators, though correspondence can also be found with friends, editors, literary agents, periodicals, and...
Dates:
1888-1994
Kurt Wolff archive
Collection
Call Number: YCGL MSS 3
Abstract:
The papers consist of letters, manuscripts, and other documents from the business files of Kurt Wolff Verlag. Chiefly correspondence with authors of the German Expressionist literary movement. Includes contracts, financial statements, and documentary material. Correspondents include Walter Hasenclever, Franz Kafka, and Franz Werfel. Most letters to the Kurt Wolff Verlag are directed to Kurt Wolff himself; others are addressed to persons associated with the Kurt Wolff Verlag, e.g. Georg...
Dates:
1907-1938