Correspondence with Alma Mahler and Franz Werfel, ca. 1934, 1942.

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Correspondence with Alma Mahler and Franz Werfel, ca. 1934, 1942.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155864745

The item from Frieda Warburg includes a response to Franz Werfel's Song of Bernadette. The draft letter from Alma Mahler, presumed to be addressed to Felix Warburg, solicits his support on behalf of a group seeeking to re-establish a monarchy in Austria, in the face of the Nazi threat.

2 items (2 leaves).

University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Van Pelt Library

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University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Van Pelt Library

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