Elizabeth Mayer and Wolfgang Sauerländer papers, 1938-1977.

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Elizabeth Mayer and Wolfgang Sauerländer papers, 1938-1977.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702158316

Correspondence and other papers.

0.42 linear feet (1 box)

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8020171

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Sauerländer, Wolfgang

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Mayer, Elizabeth Lloyd

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Elizabeth Mayer was the wife of William Mayer, a psychiatrist who had his office in Amityville, Long Island, in the early 1940s, at the time that Alma Mahler and Franz Werfel first met the couple. Alma recounts that meeting in her memoir Mein Leben (spelling their name "Meyer"); it was through the Mayers that Alma became acquainted with Benjamin Britten, who was staying at their house. From the description of Correspondence to Alma Mahler, 1946-1963. (University of Pennsylvania Libra...