Correspondence with Franz Werfel and Adolf Klarmann, 1913-1964.

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Correspondence with Franz Werfel and Adolf Klarmann, 1913-1964.

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The correspondence between Rilke and Werfel comprises 4 letters from Werfel (typescripts). Also included are typed excerpts from the published correspondence between Rilke and Marie von Thurn und Taxis (ed. Ernst Zinn; Niehans & Rokitansky with Insel-Verlag, 1951). The latter include 6 excerpts from letters in which Werfel is mentioned; and 1 letter from Werfel to Thurn und Taxis in which he responds to her work in assembling, introducing, and annotating the letters of Rilke.

7 items (8 leaves).

University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Van Pelt Library

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University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Van Pelt Library

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Sieber-Rilke, Ruth, 1901-1972

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Thurn und Taxis, Marie, Princess, 1855-1934

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Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926

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Rilke wrote to Werfel in 1913 after reading Werfel's first 2 books of poems, Der Weltfreund and Wir sind. They met for the first time in the same year. Ruth Siebe-Rilke was the daughter of Rilke and Clara Westhoff; here she signs her name Ruth Fritzsche-Rilke. She was at that time the administrator of the Rilke family archive, located in Fischerhude, near Bremen, Germany. (More recently the archive has been located in Gernsbach.) From the description of Correspondence with Franz Werf...