Rainer Maria Rilke ephemera, 1945-1975.

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Rainer Maria Rilke ephemera, 1945-1975.

The collection contains twelve items related to Rilke from 1945-1975, including announcements of forthcoming Rilke translations, fine printing copies of Rilke's poems, and a manuscript translation into English of The bowl of roses. Includes announcements from Fine Editions Press, 1945, with offprints of Rilke poems and list of available editions, sent to Philip Allison Shelley. Also, material from Penstemon Press and Kathleen Gray Schallock, including available items, Schallock's resume, and two broadsides of Rilke poems with lithographs by Schallock, ca. 1975; manuscript copy of The bowl of roses, translated from the German of Rilke into English by J.N. Leishman, ca. 1949.

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Leishman, J. B. (James Blair), 1902-1963

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Schallock, Kathleen Gray

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Penstemon Press

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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...

Fine Editions Press

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