Correspondence to Alma Mahler and Franz Werfel, 1936-1949.

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Correspondence to Alma Mahler and Franz Werfel, 1936-1949.

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The letters document a warm friendship between the Kessers and Alma Mahler. Included is a letter from Henry Allen Moe, of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, to Franz Werfel, requesting an assessment of Hermann Kesser's abilities as a dramatist; Kesser had applied for a fellowship that would allow him to devote a period of time exclusively to creative writing.

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University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Van Pelt Library

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University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Van Pelt Library

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Kesser, Marlene

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John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1959

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Kesser, Hermann, 1880-1952

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Hermann Kesser was a German journalist and writer who emigrated to Switzerland in 1933, then to the U.S. several years later; after World War II he moved back to Switzerland. Marlene Kesser was Hermann's wife. Henry Allen Moe, an administrator at the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, addressed a letter to Franz Werfel. From the description of Correspondence to Alma Mahler and Franz Werfel, 1936-1949. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155863641 ...

Moe, Henry Allen, 1894-1975

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Rufus Ivory Cole served as the the director and physician-in-charge (1909-1937) of the Hospital of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, the first hospital in the United States devoted primarily to the investigation of disease. Cole's medical research centered on problems relating to immunity to diseases of the respiratory system, particularly pneumonia From the guide to the Rufus Ivory Cole papers, ca. 1900-1966, 1900-1966, (American Philosophical Society) George ...