BIB_ID
429269
Accession number
MA 22739.1-7
Creator
Harraden, Beatrice, 1864-1936, sender.
Display Date
London, England, between 1926 and 1929.
Credit line
Purchased on the Drue Heinz Fund, 2019.
Description
1 item (11 pages) ; various sizes
Notes
The letters are written on stationery with the blind-stamped address "40, Belsize Square, / Hampstead, / N.W.3."
Harraden lists the months and days of writing on each letter, but not the year. The letters run from "Oct. 21st" to "Jan 24th" and, based on the contents, appear to have been written between 1926 and 1929: Die schöne Richterin and Die grosse Liebe were first published in German in 1926 and then published in English translation in 1929. All of the books Harraden discusses either had been or were eventually published by Martin Secker in London, suggesting that her correspondent worked for Secker.
Harraden lists the months and days of writing on each letter, but not the year. The letters run from "Oct. 21st" to "Jan 24th" and, based on the contents, appear to have been written between 1926 and 1929: Die schöne Richterin and Die grosse Liebe were first published in German in 1926 and then published in English translation in 1929. All of the books Harraden discusses either had been or were eventually published by Martin Secker in London, suggesting that her correspondent worked for Secker.
Provenance
Purchased from Ken Lopez Bookseller, 2019.
Summary
A collection of 7 letters by Beatrice Harraden, written in London, responding to a publisher's invitation to translate German books into English. Harraden discusses two German books the publisher sends her as candidates for translation, Susanne G. Trautwein's Die schöne Richterin and Paul Wiegler's Die grosse Liebe, as well as other German books she has read and reviewed for the magazine Country Life, particularly Lion Feuchtwanger's novels Jud Süss and Die Hässliche Herzogin Margarete Maultasch. Items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see related records for more information.
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