Papers concerning Rainer Maria Rilke, 1919-1953.

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Papers concerning Rainer Maria Rilke, 1919-1953.

Includes correspondence concerning von Mises' Rilke collection, a catalog of the von Mises collection, and several documents concerning the friendship between Von Mises and Rilke, among other items.

3 boxes (1.5 linear ft.)

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SNAC Resource ID: 8206350

Houghton Library

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Rilke-Sammlung Richard von Mises.

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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...

Von Mises, Richard, 1883-1953

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Von Mises, mathematician and philosopher of science, was Gordon McKay Professor of Aerodynamics and Applied Mathematics at Harvard. He collected German and Austrian literature, and particularly the works of Rainer Maria Rilke. From the description of Papers, 1908-1950. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122357330 Von Mises was an Austrian-born American mathematician, engineer, and positivist philosopher who notably advanced statistics and probability theory. Rilke was...