Rilke letters, 1905-1921.

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Rilke letters, 1905-1921.

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109 manuscript letters written by Rilke, the German poet, to Karl and Elizabeth von der Heydt from 1905-1921.

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University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

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University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

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Heydt, Karl ˜von derœ 1858-1922

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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...

Heydt, Elisabeth von der

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