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Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Letter from Beatrice Harraden, London, to an unidentified recipient, 1926-1929 November 10 : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
429525
Accession number
MA 22739.5
Creator
Harraden, Beatrice, 1864-1936, sender.
Display Date
London, England, 1926-1929 November 10.
Credit line
Purchased on the Drue Heinz Fund, 2019.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 17.7 x 11.3 cm
Notes
On stationery with the blind-stamped address "40, Belsize Square, / Hampstead, / N.W.3."
The year of writing is not provided. Based on the publication dates of the books described in this exchange of letters, they were most likely written between 1926 and 1929. See the collection-level record for additional information.
Harraden's discussion of Jud Süss in this letter refers to the original novel by Lion Feuchtwanger, not the 1940 Nazi propaganda film with that title.
Provenance
Purchased from Ken Lopez Bookseller, 2019.
Summary
Thanking him for sending Paul Wiegler's Die grosse Liebe and promising to read it; thanking him for his offer to send Lion Feuchtwanger's The Ugly Duchess (which she refers to by the English title) and saying that she does not know if she will be reviewing it for Country Life; adding "Jew Süss was a rare book; & it will be very interesting to see what we get from Mr Feuchtwanger now."