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Reynaldo Hahn letters to René Peter and related papers
Container / Volume:
Box 1
Image Count:
5
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Circa 200 autograph letters, signed, from Hahn to Peter, 1899-1947 and undated (Boxes 1-2), concerning their friendship, Hahn's music and music of others, and Peter's writings, and referring to Claude Debussy, André Messager, and other musicians and authors. Many letters are written as poems. Also present are single letters from Hahn to Gabriel Monod, 1898, and to Hahn from Georges Feydeau and Jeanne Granier, undated. and Related papers (Box 2), consist of additional poems by Hahn, typescript, 1946 and undated; a Proust questionnaire, printed, completed in holograph by Hahn, 1900 December; a scenario for a film titled Découvertes, by Hahn and Peter, typescript with corrections, undated; and a photograph of Peter, annotated by Hahn, undated.
Description:
Purchased from Les Autographes on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2008., René Peter, French author and son-in-law of André Messager., and Reynaldo Hahn, French composer, conductor, and author.
Two fragments of two holograph letters concerning Lenin's view of the Turkish-Italian War and the role of wives in society.
Description:
Each fragment is bound with more complete photostats of the page from which the fragment was taken, and an English translation of the photostat letter., Ex libris Laura K. and Valerian Lada-Mocarski, who acquired it from Grigoriĭ Aleksinskiĭ. Purchased from Valerian Lada-Mocarski with funds from the Beinecke Endowment, 1985., and Letters in Russian, with English translations.
Subject (Name):
Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich, 1870-1924 and Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich, 1870-1924--Relations with women
Subject (Topic):
Turco-Italian War, 1911-1912 and Wives--Conduct of life
Two fragments of two holograph letters concerning Lenin's view of the Turkish-Italian War and the role of wives in society.
Description:
Each fragment is bound with more complete photostats of the page from which the fragment was taken, and an English translation of the photostat letter., Ex libris Laura K. and Valerian Lada-Mocarski, who acquired it from Grigoriĭ Aleksinskiĭ. Purchased from Valerian Lada-Mocarski with funds from the Beinecke Endowment, 1985., and Letters in Russian, with English translations.
Subject (Name):
Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich, 1870-1924 and Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich, 1870-1924--Relations with women
Subject (Topic):
Turco-Italian War, 1911-1912 and Wives--Conduct of life
Authors, American--20th century--Archives, Authors, Russian--20th century--Archives , Nobel Prize winners, Poets, American--20th century, Poets, Russian--20th century, and Translators
American fiction--20th century, American literature--20th century, Americans--France--History--20th century, and Authors, American--20th century--Archives