The amount of original letters is 124 items; the remainder of the items comprise a comprehensive set of photocopies. 123 items are correspondence from Zemlinsky: 12 original items and typescripts of 111 items. Only 2 items from Zemlinsky are addressed to Gustav Mahler, and the remainder are addressed to Alma Mahler. 11 of the 12 original items of correspondence are dated 1900 to 1901; all of these were items inserted by Alma between the pages of her diary; see Tagebuch-Suiten ed. Beaumont and Rode-Breymann. The relevant diary entries in 1900 are as follows: 29 March; 15 April; 17 April; 6 June; 10 Aug.; 25 Aug.; 28 Oct.; 22 Dec.; and 27 Dec. The relevant diary entries in 1901 are: 27 April and 12 Aug. The 1 remaining original item from Zemlinsky is a letter dated ca. 1930, which he wrote from Berlin in response to a letter from Alma, at a point when his position at the Kroll Opera was about to end. The 111 typescripts are dated 1901 to ca. 1926, distributed chronologically as folllows: 57 items in 1901; 26 items dated 1904 to 1910; 17 items dated ca. 1911 to 1917; and 11 items dated 1918 to ca. 1926. Also included is 1 item which appears to be a 4-page typed manuscript prepared by Alma Mahler, which combines transcriptions of 1 letter from Zemlinsky, 1 letter from Felix Muhr, and 2 of Alma's own diary entries, all dated in March 1901; topics arising in these items are Zemlinsky's critique of Alma's composing; Alma's excitement over her work on her song "Ekstase," based on a text from Otto Julius Bierbaum; and Muhr's proposal of marriage. The 4 pages, which begin with the letter from Zemlinsky, have been given what appears to be a title: "Die Tragödie des hässlichen Menschen!" The text bears a few handwritten emendations by Alma, and the transcription of the 2 diary entries (21 March and 24 March 1901) reflects editing, in comparison to the original diary (published in Tagebuch-Suiten, referred to above). See the oversized container for additional items by Zemlinsky, as follows: 1 autograph of the music to the first act of a ballet, presumably Zemlinsky's music to Hofmannsthal's Triumph der Zeit (the sheet is believed to have been inserted in Alma's diary somewhere in Suite 23, ca. May to Aug. 1901); an autograph of Zemlinsky's song "In der Sonnengasse," signed and dated by him 29 Aug. 1901 for Alma's birthday on the 31st (the manuscript, which had been torn into 28 pieces and saved by Alma in a small envelope, has now been restored, with accompanying photocopies documenting the pieces as originally found); and a photostatic copy of a manuscript of the song "Ahnung Beatricens," based on a poem by Franz Werfel, dated Jan. 1935.
