Charles Mayer letters to Elizabeth Mayer, 1842-1857.

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Charles Mayer letters to Elizabeth Mayer, 1842-1857.

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Mayer, Charles, 1820-1891

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Born in Germany, emigrated to the United States with his family and settled in Galena, Illinois, served with the 12th Illinois Infantry, Company C, entered as a private and discharged as a captain. From the description of Papers, 1861-1865. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 52751218 ...

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...