Correspondence with Alma Mahler, Franz Werfel, and Adolf Klarmann, 1925-1974.

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Haas, Willy, 1891-1973. Correspondence with Alma Mahler, Franz Werfel, and Adolf Klarmann, 1925-1974.

Correspondence with Alma Mahler, Franz Werfel, and Adolf Klarmann, 1925-1974.

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In 1 undated letter, apparently written from Prague, Haas expresses somber reflections and feelings of isolation. His letters written from India describe his life there, his reading, and his feelings about India and about his contacts with British society. He mentions several times having had affidavits from Lilian Gish and Edward G. Robinson when he was thinking of trying to emigrate to the U.S. In a letter of 1944 he asks Alma and Franz to do whatever they can on behalf of the Czech composer Walter Kaufmann, who was a mutual acquaintance of him and Werfel; Kaufmann had helped Haas emigrate to India and was himself seeking to emigrate to the U.S. at that time. In 1961 Alma made a gift to Willy Haas of Werfel's manuscript for the novel Die Geschwister von Neapel; included is a handwritten draft and typed transcript of the accompanying letter, in which she recounts to Haas the story of how Werfel came to be inspired to write the novel. Of the 2 letters from Haas's secretary Anne Uhde, 1 from 1959 concerns Haas's work on Alma's memoirs and 1 from 1961 tells of Haas's joyful reaction to Alma's gift of the manuscript. After Willy Haas and Adolf Klarmann had published an essay about Franz Werfel in Die Welt in 1950, Ida Sieburg, the widow of the poet Erich Sieburg, wrote to Haas about a number of letters in her possession which Werfel had written to her husband (she includes an excerpt), as well as books from Werfel with personal dedications. Also included is a 35-page typed manuscript of Haas's essay entitled "Der junge Werfel. Erinnerungen von Willy Haas," dated 1953 and personally inscribed to Adolf Klarmann. For other essays by Haas on Werfel, published 1927 to 1962, see under: Secondary Sources on Franz Werfel.

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