Autograph album : manuscript, 1893-1897.

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Autograph album : manuscript, 1893-1897.

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Includes Rainer Maria Rilke's autograph manuscript poem of 8 lines, beginning: "Dies sei das höchste Ziel das Erdenlebens" (p. 22); signed (René), Prague, Mar. 1893. Autographs and manuscript poems, often accompanied by pencil or pen illustrations, authored by friends of the collector.

1 v. (45 p.) : ill. ; 20 cm.

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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...

Mähler von Mählersheim, Gisela,

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