The Thomas Mann and Marguerite Yourcenar letters of 1955, 1953-1963.

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The Thomas Mann and Marguerite Yourcenar letters of 1955, 1953-1963.

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In 1955 Thomas Mann wrote a letter to Marguerite Yourcenar complementing her on her recent play entitled "Electra." Yourcenar responded. The Mann letter (in German) and Yourcenar's draft response (in French) is included in this collection, as is a photocopy of Yourcenar's letter now in the Yale University Library. The transmittal of these 1955 letters to Smith College includes correspondence between Yourcenar and Grace Frick and Margaret L. Johnson of Smith College and contains additional information on this exchange of letters between Mann and Yourcenar.

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Smith College, Neilson Library

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Smith College, Neilson Library

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Yourcenar, Marguerite, 1903-1987

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Marguerite Yourcenar (8 June 1903 – 17 December 1987) was a French novelist and essayist born in Brussels, Belgium, who became a US citizen in 1947. Winner of the Prix Femina and the Erasmus Prize. In 1980, Yourcenar was the first female member elected to the Académie française. Yourcenar's house on Mount Desert Island (Maine), Petite Plaisance, is now a museum dedicated to her memory. ...

Frick, Grace

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Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955

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Epithet: novelist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001085.0x000173 German author. From the description of Land of good will : typewritten article signed, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270609625 From the description of Autograph letter signed with initials : Bad Tölz, to Herr Fischer, his publisher, 1909 Aug. 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270607913 From the description...

Johnson, Margaret Louise, 1902-1973.

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