Correspondence to Alma Mahler and Adolf Klarmann, 1945-1978.
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William Melnitz was born in Germany in 1900 and was a theater director there, before emigrating to the U.S. in 1941. In early 1945 he succeeded Albrecht Joseph as Franz Werfel's secretary. After Werfel's death, later in 1945, Melnitz worked in conjunction with Adolf Klarmann to sort and take stock of Werfel's unpublished and/or unfinished manuscripts, including the first draft of Werfel's last novel, Stern der Ungeborenen, and the fragment Cella. Melnitz, who had begun a doctoral degree in Germa...