Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883 Weber, J. J., fl. 1862-1871
Published / Created:
1862 December 1
Call Number:
GEN MSS VOL 244
Collection Title:
Documents relating to Richard Wagner
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Bound volume containing the original contract between Wagner and J. J. Weber for the publication of Der Ring des Nibelungen, signed by both parties, 1862 Dec 1, Leipzig and Dresden.
Collection of correspondence with Edith Wharton and others, including Hamilton Aidé, Anna Bahlmann, Bernard Berenson, Walter Berry, William Morton Fullerton, Percy Lubbock, and abbé Arthur Mugnier. The collection features approximately 172 pieces of correspondence from Edith Wharton, consisting of autograph letters, notes, and postcards, signed, dating from 1909 to 1931, as well as sixteen pieces of correspondence from Bélugou to Wharton. Selected letters between Wharton and Bélugou were assembled by Claudine Lesage and published as Lettres à l'ami français (Paris: M. Houdiard, [2001]). Accompanied by several black-and-white photographs of Bélugou and others.
Description:
Chiefly in French; some materials in English, Spanish and German., Léon Bélugou (1865-1934), French educator., and Purchased from Priscilla Juvelis Inc. on the Alfred Z. Baker, Jr. Fund, 2002.
Subject (Name):
Aïdé, Hamilton, 1826-1906, Bahlmann, Anna Catherine, Bélugou, Léon, 1865-1934, Berenson, Bernard, 1865-1959, Berry, Walter, 1859-1927 , Fullerton, William Morton, 1865-1952, and Lesage, Cla
Subject (Topic):
American literature--20th century, Authors, American--20th century--Archives, and Poets, American--20th century--Archives
The collection primarily contains letters received by Carel Mondriaan and his wife Mary Mondriaan, including one autograph letter and twelve postcards, signed, from Piet Mondrian writing from Paris (1937-1938), London (1938-1939), and New York (1941). Other correspondents in the papers are Willem Frederik Mondriaan (two telegrams, 1943-1944); Harry Holtzman (one typed letter, signed, 1948), Michel Seuphor (one autograph letter, signed, 1956), and Kunstkreis-Verlag (one typed letter, 1956). Also present is a manuscript inventory in an unidentified hand (1946) listing some of the items in the collection, a printed announcement for Louis Cornelis Mondriaan's funeral (1943), a photograph of Carel and Mary Mondriaan with Piet Mondrian in his studio at 278 Boulevard Raspail, Paris (1936), and an album holding seventy-two carte-de-visite portrait photographs of Mondriaan family members (1870s-1880s).
Description:
Carel Mondriaan was born on June 1, 1880, and died on July 28, 1956. The younger brother of Dutch artist Piet Mondrian (1872-1944), Mondriaan had a career as an insurance broker. and Purchased from S. W. Myers (Sotheby's sale, 1983 November 7, lot 291) on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 1983.
Subject (Name):
Mondriaan, Carel, 1880-1956 and Mondriaan, Louis Cornelis, 1877-1943
Inserted folding leaf : ""Effigies tabvlae smaragdinae."" : 2 representations of the emerald tablet of Hermes. In Hebrew on the left and an exotic tongue (representing Chaldean?) on the right.
Description:
Engraved plate, 185 x 235 mm., tipped in inside front cover., MS consists of 3 loose quires in cover., On paper., and Single columns 175 x 120 mm. bordered in pencil, without ruling.
Subject (Name):
Hermes, Trismegistus. Tabula smaragdina
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy and Ancient and Mystical Order Rosae Crucis
Binders leaves : ff. 4-16, 18, 20, 22, 24-25, 27, 29, 31, 33, 35, 38, 39-40, 43, 45, 47, 49, 51-83 mostly blank with several modern annotations in pencil., ff. 42 : anonymous additions written in England, ca. 1700 (missing from volume)., and On paper with modern foliation in pencil including binder's blanks.
f. 45v, 46r : Geometric symbols containing luna crests., f. 50r : ""Philosophisch balneum,"" distillation apparatus and furnace., f. 50v : ""Der Faule Heintze,"" a multilevel furnace, and f. 51r : ""Der Philosophische Offen,"" a cylindrical furnace, with chimney.
Description:
3 oversize folding pages with drawings and diagrams inserted after f. 227., On paper, Twelve illustrations., and Written by a single scribe in gothic, Fraktur and roman scripts.
Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883 Weber, J. J., fl. 1862-1871
Published / Created:
1843 June 10
Call Number:
GEN MSS VOL 244
Collection Title:
Documents relating to Richard Wagner
Image Count:
4
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Contained in bound volume containing the original contract between Wagner and J. J. Weber for the publication of Der Ring des Nibelungen, signed by both parties, 1862 Dec 1, Leipzig and Dresden.