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COLLECTION Identifier: MS Ger 170

Heimito von Doderer letters to Henry Caraway Hatfield

Overview

Letters to American scholar and critic of German literature Henry Caraway Hatfield from Austrian writer Heimito von Doderer concerning their literary research and publications.

Dates

  • Creation: 1954-1965

Language of Materials

Collection materials are in German.

Conditions Governing Access

There are no restrictions on physical access to this material. Collection is open for research.

Extent

.1 linear feet (1 volume)

Includes ten letters from Doderer to Hatfield concerning their literary research and publications, three photographs of the grand staircase Strudlhofstiege in Vienna, which Doderer made famous in his 1951 novel, and a printed announcement of Doderer's death.

Biographical / Historical

Doderer was an Austrian writer. Hatfield (Harvard graduate, 1933) was an American scholar, a German literary critic, and a Harvard faculty member in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures.

Arrangement

Arranged chronologically.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

67M-11. Gift of Mr. Henry C. Hatfield, 410 Boylston Hall, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; received: 1967 July 7.

Title
Doderer, Heimito von, 1896-1966. Heimito von Doderer letters to Henry Caraway Hatfield, 1954-1965: Guide.
Author
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library
Language of description
und
EAD ID
hou01293

Repository Details

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