gb-003348-wl3000 9 1-947
scope and content: The correspondence centres on arrangements of a visit of The Wiener Library by Thomas Mann and his family in May 1949. Contained are lists of people to be invited, personalized invitation cards, a photograph of Thomas and Erika Mann in the Library, and the transcript of an address Mann gave on this occasion. Further subjects in the correspondence are the consignment of published material (including the Library’s Bulletin) and signed photographs, Thomas Mann’s contributions to a Wiener Library Festschrift for Leo Back, and a draft for birthday wishes for Thomas Mann’s 80th birthday.
biographical history: An offspring of an old Hanseatic family, Paul Thomas Mann (1875-1955) was one of the most famous and influential German novelists, and the 1929 laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Together with his wife Katia and one of his children, his daughter Erika, he had emigrated to Switzerland in 1933 and to the US in 1939. During the war, Alfred Wiener had become acquainted with the Manns in New York.
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record resource extent: 39 items
title: Correspondence with Mann, Thomas, Katia, and Erika
has beginning date: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/dates/1949-02-12
has or had some members with language: eng
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