Correspondence with Alma Mahler, 1944-ca. 1960.

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Correspondence with Alma Mahler, 1944-ca. 1960.

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2 items from Lester were addressed to Mocsari while Lester was a soldier in the U.S. army, stationed in France and Germany. 1 item is a bound printed copy of a play by Lester, Das Reich des Achilles, personally inscribed to Alma Mahler. 1 later item addressed to Isolde Klarmann when Lester was living again in Europe includes mention of Lester's activities as part of a Viennese committee concerned with Werfel's reburial in an honorary grave and with the possible erection of a monument near Alma and Franz's former house in Vienna.

7 items (74 leaves).

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University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Van Pelt Library

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Lester, Conrad H.

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Conrad Henry Lester (1907-1996) was born Kurt Heinz Lichtenstern; he legally changed his name in the U.S. in 1941. Born in Austria of a Jewish family, Lichtenstern inherited a share in the family ceramics manufacturing business in Switzerland; after his father was deported from Switzerland in 1937, Lichtenstern returned to Austria. Following the Anschluss in 1938 he fled to France. By a circuitous route he finally emigrated to the U.S. and became a U.S. citizen; he served in the U.S. Army during...

Mocsari, Paul.

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Klarmann, Isolde.

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Lester, Caty.

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