Correspondence with Alma Mahler and Franz Werfel, 1940-1946.

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Borchardt, Hermann, b. 1888. Correspondence with Alma Mahler and Franz Werfel, 1940-1946.

Correspondence with Alma Mahler and Franz Werfel, 1940-1946.

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The correspondence covers the period when Borchardt was working on his novel Die Verschwörung der Zimmerleute (The Conspiracy of the Carpenters), which was published in an abridged English translation by Simon & Schuster in 1943, with a foreword by Franz Werfel. (The unabridged German version of the novel was published for the first time in 2005.) A series of small note-sheets, mostly in Werfel's hand, document a conversation between Werfel and Borchardt, apparently at the St. Moritz Hotel in New York City, about the novel and the translation (Werfel talked on paper due to Borchardt's poor hearing). Topics of Borchardt's letters include his writing, his health problems, his precarious financial situation and struggle to support his family, and his political opinions. With one letter Borchardt encloses a copy of a letter he had written to Hubertus Prinz zu Löwenstein but which his wife had prevented him from mailing; in another communication, he sends along an excerpt entitled "Germany Speaking," from a brochure entitled Basic German Education, which he said he had written for Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster.

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