Mayer collection, 1827-1976.

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Mayer collection, 1827-1976.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/501322144

The Rainer Maria Rilke collection of Dr. Gerhard Mayer of Champaign, a retired Chicago-area tax consultant and long-standing member of the Caxton Club, contains special editions as well as translations of specific primary sources and secondary criticism from many diverse countries and in numerous languages. A catalog of the collection's contents is available in the UIUC Rare Book & Manuscript Library: Kilton, T. and Mundo Lo, S. Catalog of the Gerhard Mayer Collection of Rainer Maria Rilke at the University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign.

ca. 2800 items.

University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

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SNAC Resource ID: 7620759

University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

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Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64q7st7 (person)

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...

Mayer, Gerhard, 1902-1983

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