Ernst Curtius and Ernst Robert Curtius correspondence, 1841-1956-(bulk 1841-1934).
Collection Number: 6957
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Ernst Curtius and Ernst Robert Curtius correspondence, 1841-1956-(bulk 1841-1934).
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
6957
Abstract:
Letters to Ernst Curtius and Ernst Robert Curtius, covering the period 1841-1956
Creator:
Curtius, Ernst, 1814-1896.
Curtius, Ernst Robert, 1886-1956.
Aragon, 1897-1982.
Beach, Sylvia.
Benois-Méchin, Jacques, 1901-
Blanche, Jacques-Emile, 1861-1942.
Bourdet, Claude, 1909-1996
Cocteau, Jean, 1889-1963.
Coudenhove-Kalergi, Richard Nicolaus, Graf von, 1894-1972.
Crevel, René, 1900-1935.
Du Bos, Charles, 1882-1939.
George, Stefan, 1868-1933.
Gide, André, 1869-1951.
Green, Julien, 1900-1998.
Joyce, James, 1882-1941.
Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955.
Maritain, Jacques, 1882-1973.
Paulhan, Jean, 1884-1968.
Pozzi, Catherine, 1882-1934.
Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922.
Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926.
Rohan, Karl Anton Prinz, 1898-1975.
Sieburg, Friedrich, 1893-1964.
Thibaudet, Albert, 1874-1936.
Travers, Theodor Heinrich.
Valéry, Paul, 1871-1945.
Quanitities:
1 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English, French, and German.
Ernst Curtius (1814-1896) was a philologist and archeologist. From 1844-50 he served
as tutor ("Zivilgouverneur") to Prince Friedrich von Hohenzollern, afterwards Emperor
Friedrich III. He was also professor of classical philology, archeology, and eloquence
at the Universities of Göttingen and Berlin. In 1874 Curtius concluded an agreement
with the Greek authorities by which the excavations in Olympia were entrusted exclusively
to the Germans. What he found there ultimately led to the re-institution of the Olympic
Games by Baron Pierre de Coubertin in 1894.
His grandson Ernst Robert Curtius (1886-1956) was a literary scholar of the 20th century.
The son of a high-ranking civil servant, he grew up in Alsace, a French province annexed
by the Reich between 1871 and 1918, and was thus bilingual in German and French --
and also fluent in English, Italian, and Spanish. Under the aegis of Strasbourg Professor
Gustav Gröber, he devoted his doctoral dissertation to editing an Old French epic,
but his "Habilitationsschrift" in Bonn was on the contemporary French critique Ferdinand
Brunetière. Thus emerged two paths: the study of "medieval literature" and the critical
appraisal of recent works, both of which he was to follow throughout his life. Curtius
rejected Brunetière's "scientific" method, instead favoring intuition, attention to
nuances, and "elected affinities" as the most meaningful avenues toward literary knowledge.
After being mobilized and wounded in Poland during World War I, he obtained a tenured
position at the University of Bonn in 1916. Eevn though he considered the politicization
of spiritual and intellectual life as a betrayal of the truly independent thinker,
his scholarship in the 1920s often seemed to support a political, pan-European agenda:
"Der Europagedanke," he would say, "mußte geistig gebaut werden. Dazu wollten meine
Bücher helfen." Curtius took part in international symposiums in Pontigny (Burgundy)
and Colpach (Luxemburg); was in touch with the Austrian prince von Rohan (who had
launched an "Europäische Revue" in 1925, and would join join the Nazi Party in 1938);
and corresponded with Parisian intellectuals of all stripes, despite the divisions
generated by two wars (1870-71, 1914-18). The exchange slowed down considerably after
1933 however, and not only because of the passing of his beloved Catherine Pozzi (1882-1934),
a poetess and former lover of Paul Valéry who wrote scientific articles and translated
the poetry of Stefan George. Curtius dedicated to her his essay, "James Joyce's Ulysses"
(1929) and also corresponded with Pozzi's son, Claude Bourdet, a young engineer who
would become a major figure of the Resistance and create the weekly "L'Observateur"
(after 1964 "Le Nouvel Observateur.") In 1931, Catherine Pozzi wrote to Curtius: "In
Frankreich scheint das Geistige noch in keiner Gefahr zu stehn, wie bei Ihnen." Indeed,
with Hitler leading the new Reich, life became almost impossible for German intellectuals.
A fervent patriot and a Stoic, Curtius decided to stay in Germany and to focus on
medieval and Renaissance literature, where less political interference would be encountered.
Despite his commitment to "European unity" he would reject any "collaboration" between
Germany and France after 1940 -- to the disappointment of his admirer Jacques Benoist-Méchin
(1901-1983), a journalist, military historian, and Proust scholar who occupied a number
of high positions in the Vichy regime. In 1950, back from the Institute for Advanced
Studies at Princeton, Curtius wrote to Anne Heurgon-Desjardins: "Les querelles franco-allemandes
m'ennuient. Je considère ces deux peuples comme des collégiens mal élevés qui se chamaillent.
J'ai fait métier de rapprocheur pendant vingt ans. J'ai maintenant droit à la retraite."
"Deutsch-französiche Gespräche, 1920-1950. La Correspondance de Ernst Robert Curtius
avec André Gide, Charles du Bos et Valery Larbaud" Herbert et Jane M. Dieckmann ed.,
Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1980.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Letters to Ernst Curtius and Ernst Robert Curtius, #6957. Division of Rare and Manuscript
Collections, Cornell University Library. There is no restriction in terms of access.
The letters were given to the Division of Rare Books and Manuscripts in Kroch Library
in 2001 by Mrs. Jane Marsh Dieckmann, widow of Herbert Dieckmann (1906-1986), a professor
of Romance Studies at Harvard (1950-66) and Cornell (1966-74.) Born in North Rhine-Westphalia,
Herbert Dieckmann wrote his doctorate in Bonn under the direction of Ernst Robert
Curtius, and left Germany in 1933. A specialist of Diderot, he spent his last years
co-editing and annotating the voluminous correspondence between his former professor
and André Gide, Valéry Larbaud, and Charles Du Bos. Letters from other European intellectuals
and writers were handed over to the Dieckmann by Ilse Curtius, but not selected for
publication -- they form the present collection.
This collection contains about a hundred letters and some drawings, addressed mostly
by Parisian intellectuals, poets and scholars to Ernst Curtius and Ernst Robert Curtius,
two members of the German educated upper middle-class (Bildungsbürgertum), between
1841 and 1934. Correspondents include Sylvia Beach, Jean Cocteau, Stefan George, André
Gide, James Joyce, Thomas Mann, Marcel Proust, Rainer Maria Rilke, Paul Valéry, Theodor
Heinrich Travers, and others.
PROVENANCE
The letters were given to the Division of Rare Books and Manuscripts in Kroch Library
in 2001 by Mrs. Jane Marsh Dieckmann, widow of Herbert Dieckmann (1906-1986), a professor
of Romance Studies at Harvard (1950-66) and Cornell (1966-74.) Born in North Rhine-Westphalia,
Herbert Dieckmann wrote his doctorate in Bonn under the direction of Ernst Robert
Curtius, and left Germany in 1933. A specialist of Diderot, he spent his last years
co-editing and annotating the voluminous correspondence between his former professor
and André Gide, Valéry Larbaud, and Charles Du Bos. Letters from other European intellectuals
and writers were handed over to the Dieckmann by Ilse Curtius, but not selected for
publication -- they form the present collection.
Names:
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 -- : Appreciation.
Joyce, James, 1882-1941.
Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922.
Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850.
Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850 -- : Appreciation -- : Germany.
Pozzi, Catherine, 1882-1934 -- : Correspondence.
Action française
Décades de Pontigny
Places:
Vence (France)
Paris (France) -- History
France -- Civilization.
Subjects:
Politics in literature.
Philology -- History and criticism.
Philology -- History -- 20th century.
National socialism and scholarship.
National socialism and literature.
National socialism.
Communism.
Politics and literature.
Literature.
European cooperation -- History.
Criticism.
Biography in literature.
Archaeology.
Anti-Americanism -- France.
Form and Genre Terms:
Correspondence.
CONTAINER LIST
Container
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Description
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Date
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Series I. Letters from and to Ernst Curtius
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Box 1 | Folder 1a |
Hase, Karl Benedict [Curator at the Département des Manuscrits of the Bibliothèque
nationale in Paris], to "Monsieur Curtius, Professeur de littérature ancienne à l'Université
Royale de Berlin"
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30 November 1844 |
2 leaves
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Scope and Contents
ALS in German: "Wir gehen einer Zeit entgegen, wo es von der größten Wichtigkeit sein
wird, daß der Beherrscher des einzigen waffenmächtigen protestantischen Staates in
Europa (England ist keine Landmacht) teutschen Sinn habe, klug und fest sei, gleich
entfernt von Gleichgültigkeit für das Höchste und von befangener Frömmelei. Und kann
irgend etwas in Ihrem Zögling solche Gefühle wecken, solche Eigenschaften entwickeln,
so sind es gewiß Ihre Lehren und Ihr Beispiel.".
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Box 1 | Folder 1b |
Hase, Karl Benedict [Curator at the Département des Manuscrits of the Bibliothèque
nationale in Paris], to "Monsieur Curtius, Professeur de littérature ancienne à l'Université
Royale de Berlin"
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2 July 1845 |
2 leaves
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Scope and Contents
ALS in German: "Bedenken Sie, verehrtester Freund, wie wichtig es für das Wohl eines
ganzen Landes ist dass dessen künftiger Herrscher nicht bloß Hofstaat und Hofprediger
um sich habe, sondern auch Männer voll Geist, Wissenschaft und Verstand, teutsch gesinnt,
vertraut mit den großen Alten."
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Box 1 | Folder 1c |
Curtius, Ernst, to Theodor Heinrich Travers
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14 November 1845 |
2 leaves
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Scope and Contents
ALS in German about his position as tutor and preceptor of Kronprinz Friedrich Wilhelm:
"Der Prinz entwickelt sich körperlich und geistig zu seinem Vortheile, sein Umgang
wird auch für mich immer angenehmer, meine Tätigkeit immer geistiger und würdiger;
er geht in sein 13. Jahr, ist aber von meiner Größe, stark und gesund. Im Sommer besuchte
ich mit ihm meine Heimat [Lübeck], dann lebten wir auf dem schönen Babelsberger Schlosse
[...] bis um Ende Oktober"; also about his academic and social life in Berlin ("Berlin
ist jetzt ein ganz anderer Ort geworden, statt des früheren flauen Indifferentismus
in allen öffentlichen Dingen ist es jetzt der Ort lebendigen Bewegungen geworden,
die durch das ganze Reich pulsieren"); about his friendship with playwright and librettist
Emanuel Geibel (1815-1884): "Auch lese ich wieder an der Universität. [...] Dieser
Augenblick ist auch Geibel wieder hier, körperlich sehr leidend, aber innerlich sehr
produktiv; er schreibt u.A. auch eine Oper jetzt für Mendelssohn [...] Von seinen
Gedichten wird die 5. Auflage gedruckt; er steht recht gut"; finally, about his travel
projects: "Ich habe entschieden die Absicht, nach Beendigung meiner jetzigen Stellung
-- kleine 3 1/2 Jahre -- eine Reise nach Italien und Griechenland zu machen."
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Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Laborde, Léon de [Curator of the Départment de Antiquités at the Louvre], to Ernst
Curtius
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28 August 1844 |
1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
ALS in French.
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Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Luynes, Honoré d'Albert de [Archeologist and Numismatist], to Ernst Curtius
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27 January 1845 |
1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
ALS in French.
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Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Rochette, Raoul [Curator at the Cabinet des Médailles of the Bibliothèque nationale
in Paris]
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1841 |
1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
ALS in French related to his being introduced to Prince Friedrich of Prussia.
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Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Rochette, Raoul [Curator at the Cabinet des Médailles of the Bibliothèque nationale
in Paris]
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11 May 1846 |
1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
ALS in French: "Vous êtes, Monsieur, du petit nombre des philologues allemands qui
joignent à l'étude de la langue, base essentielle de toute connaissance sérieuse de
l'Antiquité, le goût et l'intelligence des monuments."
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Box 1 | Folder 5bis |
Curtius, Ernst, to an unnamed recipient, 19 June 1881
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1881-06-19 |
1 items.
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Scope and Contents
Curtius asks whether the unnamed recipient can recommend an artist to depict the artifacts
found at an archeological dig being conducted at Olympia, Greece: "Ich bin mit Holzschnitt
durchaus einverstanden. Es handelt sich nur um einen Zeichner, der für antike Sculpturen
Geduld hat. Der, an den ich dachte, ist abgereist. Können Sie mir einen empfehlen?
Er müsste nach einer in der Grösse der Holzschnitte herzustellenden Photographie und
nach den genauen Zeichnungen, welche in den 'Ausgrabungen' publicirt sind wie nach
den Abgüssen die betreffende Gruppe ... zu restauriren im Stande sein nachdem wir
uns über die Art der Restauration verständigt haben ..."
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Series II. Letters to Ernst Robert Curtius
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Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Aragon, Louis, to E.R.Curtius
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4 May 1921 |
1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
ALS in German about the poor reception of his poetry in France: "Ich schwöre Ihnen,
[dass] kein französicher Kritik, dem ich mein Buch gesendet habe, mir ein einfaches
Dankwort geschrieben hat". Offers to send Curtius a copy of "Feu de Joie": "Ich würde
zufrieden sein, es Ihnen [zu] senden. Hier aber, hielt man es für unverständliches
Pathos, und dafür wage ich nicht selbt diese Jugend- (was sage ich?), [diese] Kindheit-Gedichte
jemandem zu geben."
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Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Aragon, Louis, to E.R. Curtius
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n.d. |
1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
ALS in French ("Je crois, Monsieur, que bous ne goûtez guère mes manières de lycéen
avec la langue allemande") about his detestation of "literary nationalism."
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Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Bainville, Jacques, to E.R. Curtius
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n.d. [1932] |
1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
ALS in French.
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Box 1 | Folder 9 |
Bardoux, Jacques, to E.R. Curtius
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15 March 1932 |
1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
ALS in French.
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Box 1 | Folder 10 |
Baroja, Pio, to E.R. Curtius
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27 June 1924 |
1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
ALS in Spanish.
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Box 1 | Folder 11 |
Beach, Sylvia, to E.R. Curtius
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21 December 1928 |
1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
ALS in English, about James Joyce (his recent books and problems with his eyes.)
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Box 1 | Folder 12 |
Beach, Sylvia, to E.R. Curtius
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6 May 1930 |
1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
ALS in English, about James Joyce (his recent books and problems with his eyes.)
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Box 1 | Folder 13 |
Benoist-Méchin , Jacques, to E.R. Curtius
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n.d. [1922] |
2 leaves
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Scope and Contents
ALS in French. B-M. offers to meet in Marburg, rather than France; he's ashamed of
the decadence of his country, doesn't want to wear the French uniform when they meet.
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Box 1 | Folder 14 |
Benoist-Méchin, Jacques, to E.R. Curtius
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27 November 1922 |
1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
ALS in French.
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Box 1 | Folder 15 |
Benoist-Méchin, Jacques, to E.R. Curtius
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n.d. [Summer1923] |
13 leaves
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Scope and Contents
ALS in French about Claudel, Valéry, Proust. "France can still produce men like Valéry,
but not a Rimbaud or a Lenin."
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Box 1 | Folder 16 |
Benoist-Méchin, Jacques, to E.R. Curtius
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n.d. [1923] |
1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
ALS in French.
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Box 1 | Folder 17 |
Benoist-Méchin, Jacques, to E.R. Curtius
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n.d. [1923] |
1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
ALS in French.
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Box 1 | Folder 18 |
Benoist-Méchin, Jacques, to E.R. Curtius
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9 Oct. 1923 |
2 leaves
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Scope and Contents
ALS in French.
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Box 1 | Folder 19 |
Benoist-Méchin, Jacques, to E.R. Curtius
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n.d. [end of 1923?] |
1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
ALS in French.
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Box 1 | Folder 20 |
Benoist-Méchin, Jacques, to E.R. Curtius
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16 February 1924 |
3 leaves
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Scope and Contents
ALS in French.
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Box 1 | Folder 21 |
Benoist-Méchin, Jacques, to E.R. Curtius
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2 March 1924 |
1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
ALS in French.
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Box 1 | Folder 22 |
Benoist-Méchin, Jacques, to E.R. Curtius
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23 May 1924 |
1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
ALS in French.
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Box 1 | Folder 23 |
Benoist-Méchin, Jacques, to E.R. Curtius
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September 1924 |
1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
ALS in French: "La France est un vieux pays pourri de littérature et de bourgeoisie"
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Box 1 | Folder 24 |
Benoist-Méchin, Jacques, to E.R. Curtius
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January 1925 |
1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
ALS in French.
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Box 1 | Folder 25 |
Benoist-Méchin, Jacques, to E.R. Curtius
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15 June 1926 |
1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
ALS in French.
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Box 1 | Folder 26 |
Benoist-Méchin, Jacques, to E.R. Curtius
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September 1926 |
1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
ALS in French.
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Box 1 | Folder 27 |
Benoist-Méchin, Jacques, to E.R. Curtius
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3 December1933 |
2 leaves
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Scope and Contents
ALS in French ("Vous conservez un héritage de piété et de dignité intellectuelles...
Le traîner jusqu'à l'autre rive peut-il excéder vos forces, si vous savez que sur
l'autre rive, tant d'êtres vous attendent et vous saluent?")
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Box 1 | Folder 28 |
Blanche, Jacques-Emile, to E.R. Curtius
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3 January 1927 |
1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
ALS in French.
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Box 1 | Folder 29 |
Blanche, Jacques-Emile, to E.R. Curtius
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14 August 1928 |
3 leaves
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Scope and Contents
ALS in French. Mostly about Marcel Proust.
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Box 1 | Folder 30 |
Blanche, Jacques-Emile, to E.R. Curtius
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7 December 1929 |
2 leaves
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Scope and Contents
ALS in French. About literary critique, Gide, Du Bos...
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Box 1 | Folder 31 |
Boillot, Félix, to E.R. Curtius
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7 March 1932 |
1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
ALS in French.
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Box 1 | Folder 32 |
Bourdet, Claude, to E.R. Curtius
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1931 |
2 leaves
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Scope and Contents
ALS in French.
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Box 1 | Folder 33 |
Bourdet, Claude, to E.R. Curtius
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7 December 1934 |
2 leaves
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Scope and Contents
ALS in German, written after the passing of his mother [Catherine Pozzi]: "Ja, wir
werden Freunde bleiben."
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Box 1 | Folder 34 |
Bourdet, Claude, to E.R. Curtius
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March 1935 |
1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
ALS in German, about publishing Catherine Pozzi's poem "Peau d'âme" and the situation
in Europe ("dass die Flucht von Hass, von Dummheit und Kulturvernichtung sich nähert,
dass sie fast schon da ist, quelle tristesse!")
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Box 1 | Folder 35 |
Brémond, Abbé Henri, to E.R. Curtius
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n.d. [1925] |
1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
ALS in French.
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Box 1 | Folder 36 |
Brémond, Abbé Henri, to E.R. Curtius
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n.d. [1926?] |
1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
ALS in French.
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Box 1 | Folder 37 |
Brunschvicg, Léon, to E.R. Curtius
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28 march 1932 |
1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
ALS in French, annotated by Curtius in German: "von Brunschvigg [sic], über "Essai
sur la France" aufheben!"
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Box 1 | Folder 38 |
Cocteau, Jean, to E.R. Curtius
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n.d. [1924] |
1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
ALS in French, about the death of Radiguet and the alleged misperception of his work
in France ("La France qui juge vite me croit saltimbanque.")
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Box 1 | Folder 39 |
Cocteau, Jean, to E.R. Curtius
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22 July 1929 |
1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
ALS in French.
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Box 1 | Folder 40 |
Cocteau, Jean, to E.R. Curtius
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10 October 1929 |
1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
Telegram in French.
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Box 1 | Folder 41 |
Crevel, René, to E.R. Curtius
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27 September 1924] |
1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
ALS in French, mostly about "the Americanization of Europe."
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Box 1 | Folder 42 |
Crevel, René, to E.R. Curtius
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n.d. [1927] |
1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
ALS in French, mostly about his writing projects.
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Box 1 | Folder 43 |
Crevel, René, to E.R. Curtius
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July 1928 |
1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
ALS in French: writing projects; Paul Éluard reads Proust.
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Box 1 | Folder 44 |
Crevel, René, to E.R. Curtius
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28 december 1931 |
1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
ALS in French: "J'aime vos compliments, mais pas ce que vous dites de la Révolution...
Notre capitalisme, nos nationalisme, le ridicule pan-européanisme à la Coudenhove-Kalergi
ont fait leur preuve. Votre Hitler, notre Action Française se valent -- ne valent
pas cher. Si vous avez une minute, dites-moi pourquoi vous traitez ainsi la Révolution.
Je ne crois pas au libéralisme."
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Box 1 | Folder 45 |
Desjardins, Paul, to E.R. Curtius
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31 July 1923 |
1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
ALS in French.
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Box 1 | Folder 46 |
Evrard, Eugène, Jacques, to E.R. Curtius
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18 March 1932 |
1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
ALS in French.
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Box 1 | Folder 47 |
Friess, Ruth [wife of Horace L. Friess], to E.R. Curtius
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20 February 1932 |
1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
ALS in English.
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Box 1 | Folder 47b |
Gide, André , to E.R. Curtius
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16 October 1936 |
1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
ALS in French: a friendly arranging to meet Curtius in Paris; he will not see him
at the gathering arranged by "Charlie D.B." [Charles Du Bos], because he will be in
Cuverville for his wedding anniversary ; he therefore invites Curtius and his wife
to have tea on another day, rue Vaneau, with "Mme Théo [van Rysselberghe]". Gide asks
Curtius to give him a phone call "in the morning before 11AM."
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Box 1 | Folder 48 |
Green, Julien, to E.R. Curtius
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n.d. [January 1930] |
1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
ALS in French.
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Box 1 | Folder 49 |
Green, Julien, to E.R. Curtius
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February 1930 |
1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
ALS in French.
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Box 1 | Folder 50 |
Green, Julien, to E.R. Curtius
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August 1930 |
1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
ALS in French.
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Box 1 | Folder 51 |
Grémillon, Jean, to E.R. Curtius
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17 April 1932 |
1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
ALS in French.
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Box 1 | Folder 52 |
Lyautey, Inès, to E.R. Curtius
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23 July 1927 |
2 leaves
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Scope and Contents
ALS in French.
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Box 1 | Folder 53 |
Lyautey, Inès, to E.R. Curtius
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23 August 1934 |
2 leaves
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Scope and Contents
ALS in French.
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Box 1 | Folder 54 |
Maritain, Jacques, to E.R. Curtius
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12 July1935 |
4 leaves
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Scope and Contents
ALS in French: the practice of philosophy, the disciples, Thomas Aquinas...
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Box 1 | Folder 55 |
Maritain, Jacques, to E.R. Curtius
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4 August 1935 |
2 leaves
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Scope and Contents
ALS in French: Dante, Barrès...
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Box 1 | Folder 56 |
Massignon, Louis, to E.R. Curtius
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5 November 1932 |
1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
ALS in French, about "L'Essai sur la France."
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Box 1 | Folder 57 |
Morand, Paul, to E.R. Curtius
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10 April 1932 |
1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
ALS in French, about "L'Essai sur la France."
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Box 1 | Folder 58 |
Nathan, Roger ["L'Europe Nouvelle"], to E.R. Curtius
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21 March 1932 |
1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
ALS in French, about "L'Essai sur la France."
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Box 1 | Folder 59 |
Pozzi, Catherine, to E.R. Curtius
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1 November 1928 |
1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
ALS in French, about the concept of European culture.
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Box 1 | Folder 60 |
Pozzi, Catherine, to E.R. Curtius
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15 November 1928 |
1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
ALS in French, about the concept of European culture.
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Box 1 | Folder 61 |
Pozzi, Catherine, to E.R. Curtius
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5 December 1928 |
1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
ALS in French, about her literary career ("Je n'ai pas de salon, parce que je n'ai
pas de diplomatie.") and her interest in the sciences.
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Box 1 | Folder 62 |
Pozzi, Catherine, to E.R. Curtius
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17 December 1928 |
1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
ALS in French, about languages, the process of learning...
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Box 1 | Folder 63 |
Pozzi, Catherine, to E.R. Curtius
|
26 December 1928 |
1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
ALS in French, about creation, dream, the universe...
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Box 1 | Folder 64 |
Pozzi, Catherine, to E.R. Curtius
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January 1929 |
2 leaves
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Scope and Contents
ALS in French: New Year greetings, their friendship...
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Box 1 | Folder 65 |
Pozzi, Catherine, to E.R. Curtius
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23 May 1929 |
2 leaves
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Scope and Contents
ALS in French: their friendship, Rome and Curtius as "a Roman" ("Adieu, tu, Romane!").
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Box 1 | Folder 66 |
Pozzi, Catherine, to E.R. Curtius
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3 June 1929 |
2 leaves
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Scope and Contents
ALS in French: invitation to go together in Dordogne; the relative importance of France
and Germany ("On voit très bien que toutes les aventures spirituelles les plus hardies
et les plus gênantes pour la collectivité paraissent partir d'Allemagne... Luther
est allemand. Nietzsche est allemand . Cette sorte de volonté d'atteindre quelque
chose qui transcende, et de l'atteindre envers et contre tout, et de détruire pour
cela, s'il le faut, tout le reste, c'est allemand.")
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Box 1 | Folder 67 |
Pozzi, Catherine, to E.R. Curtius
|
n.d. [ mid-June1929] |
1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
ALS in French: personalism, freedom...
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Box 1 | Folder 68 |
Pozzi, Catherine, to E.R. Curtius
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28 June 1929 |
4 leaves
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Scope and Contents
ALS in French, containing fragments of a poetic essay.
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Box 1 | Folder 69 |
Pozzi, Catherine, to E.R. Curtius
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3 July 1929 |
2 leaves
|
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Scope and Contents
ALS in French and German: their literary friendship.
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Box 1 | Folder 70 |
Pozzi, Catherine, to E.R. Curtius
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10 July 1929 |
1 leaf
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Scope and Contents
Prose poem in German.
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Box 1 | Folder 71 |
Pozzi, Catherine, to E.R. Curtius
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13-14 July 1929 |
2 leaves + 2 leaves
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Scope and Contents
ALS in French: her social status and social obligations in Paris.
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Box 1 | Folder 72 |
Pozzi, Catherine, to E.R. Curtius
|
n.d. [1923] |
1 leaf + 1 leaf + 2 leaves
|
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Scope and Contents
ALS in French, with a photographic portrait of C. Pozzi and Paul Valéry, and by two
original watercolors by C. Pozzi, showing her country house in Provence.
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Box 1 | Folder 73 |
Pozzi, Catherine, to E.R. Curtius
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26 July 1929 |
1 leaf + 1 leaf
|
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Scope and Contents
ALS in French: Curtius's "Balzac," the "scientific nature" of his work ; with a picture
of C. Pozzi as "Séraphitus."
|
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Box 1 | Folder 74 |
Pozzi, Catherine, to E.R. Curtius
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12 August 1929 |
1 leaf
|
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Scope and Contents
ALS in French about her social life in Paris.
|
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Box 1 | Folder 75 |
Pozzi, Catherine, to E.R. Curtius
|
n.d. [August or September 1929] |
1 leaf
|
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Scope and Contents
ALS in French: philosophical considerations.
|
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Box 1 | Folder 76 |
Pozzi, Catherine, to E.R. Curtius
|
24 September 1929 |
2 leaves
|
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Scope and Contents
ALS in French: Hofmannstahl; the political opinions of her son Claude Bourdet ("J'ai
un fils de dix-neuf ans. Il est très jeune-français d'aujourd'hui; assez américanisé...
travaillant à Zürich et donc en allemand... d'Action Française avec passion... C'est
un fait que la jeunesse va en masse à l'A.F. ou au communisme") and her own ("Le rapprochement
franco-allemand ne se fera pas par la République [mais] par une politique de droite
et par une diplomatie d'Ancien régime.")
|
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Box 1 | Folder 77 |
Pozzi, Catherine, to E.R. Curtius
|
n.d. [September 1929] |
3 leaves
|
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Scope and Contents
ALS in French and English: Baden; her mood and feelings.
|
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Box 1 | Folder 78 |
Pozzi, Catherine, to E.R. Curtius
|
n.d. [September 1929] |
1 leaf
|
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Scope and Contents
ALS in French: the nature of their friendship.
|
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Box 1 | Folder 79 |
Pozzi, Catherine, to E.R. Curtius
|
n.d. [September 1929] |
1 leaf
|
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Scope and Contents
ALS in French.
|
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Box 1 | Folder 80 |
Pozzi, Catherine, to E.R. Curtius
|
n.d. [September 1929] |
5 leaves
|
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Scope and Contents
Tapuscript in French.
|
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Box 1 | Folder 81 |
Pozzi, Catherine, to E.R. Curtius
|
12 September 1929 |
2 leaves
|
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Scope and Contents
ALS in French: "L'écriture, c'est l'état le moins acceptable aux techniciens [...]
Oui, c'est l'état [de] pythie."
|
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Box 1 | Folder 82 |
Pozzi, Catherine, to E.R. Curtius
|
15 September 1929 |
1 leaf
|
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Scope and Contents
ALS in French, "envoyé des hyper-mondes" (sic).
|
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Box 1 | Folder 83 |
Pozzi, Catherine, to E.R. Curtius
|
10 October 1929 |
2 leaves
|
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Scope and Contents
ALS in French: poems in French, German, and Italian.
|
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Box 1 | Folder 84 |
Pozzi, Catherine, to E.R. Curtius
|
25 October 1929 |
1 leaf + 5 leaves
|
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Scope and Contents
ALS in French: nature, science, plus corrections on a tatuscript.
|
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Box 1 | Folder 85 |
Pozzi, Catherine, to E.R. Curtius
|
n.d [October 1929?] |
1 leaf
|
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Scope and Contents
ALS in French: sonnet addressed by Curtius to C. Pozzi, with her follow-up in verses.
|
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Box 1 | Folder 86 |
Pozzi, Catherine, to E.R. Curtius
|
n.d [October 1929?] |
1 leaf
|
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Scope and Contents
ALS in French: flowers and insects.
|
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Box 1 | Folder 87 |
Pozzi, Catherine, to E.R. Curtius
|
29 October 1929 |
1 leaf
|
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Scope and Contents
ALS in French about Maurice Barrès.
|
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Box 1 | Folder 88 |
Pozzi, Catherine, to E.R. Curtius
|
8 November 1929 |
1 leaf
|
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Scope and Contents
ALS in French: about the possibility of translating poems by Stefan George (at Paulhan's
request.)
|
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Box 1 | Folder 89 |
Pozzi, Catherine, to E.R. Curtius
|
30 November 1929 |
1 leaf
|
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Scope and Contents
ALS in French: Paulhan's "betrayal."
|
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Box 1 | Folder 90 |
Pozzi, Catherine, to E.R. Curtius
|
3 December 1929 |
1 leaf
|
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Scope and Contents
ALS in French: René Schwob, Charles Du Bos...
|
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Box 1 | Folder 91 |
Pozzi, Catherine, to E.R. Curtius
|
4 December 1929 |
1 leaf
|
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Scope and Contents
ALS in French: Curtius's next sojourn in France.
|
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Box 1 | Folder 92 |
Pozzi, Catherine, to E.R. Curtius
|
21 January 1930 |
2 leaves
|
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Scope and Contents
ALS in French: Curtius's marriage; André Siegfried, Edouard Bourdet, Maurice Barrès.
|
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Box 1 | Folder 93 |
Pozzi, Catherine, to E.R. Curtius
|
4 February 1930 |
1 leaf + 1 postcard
|
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Scope and Contents
ALS in French: Curtius's marriage; Gide.
|
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Box 2 | Folder 94 |
Pozzi, Catherine, to E.R. Curtius
|
13 February 1930 |
1 leaf
|
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Scope and Contents
ALS in French: their friendship, journalism.
|
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Box 2 | Folder 95 |
Pozzi, Catherine, to E.R. Curtius
|
16 February 1930 |
1 leaf
|
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Scope and Contents
ALS in French about her readings and correspondence.
|
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Box 2 | Folder 96 |
Pozzi, Catherine, to E.R. Curtius
|
31 March 1930 |
1 leaf
|
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Scope and Contents
ALS in French: Proust, Bernard Groethuysen.
|
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Box 2 | Folder 97 |
Pozzi, Catherine, to E.R. Curtius
|
n.d. [April 1930] |
1 leaf
|
|||
Scope and Contents
ALS in French: literary honors ("On ne donnerait plus le Prix Nobel à Dante.")
|
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Box 2 | Folder 98 |
Pozzi, Catherine, to E.R. Curtius
|
26 April 1930 |
1 leaf + 1 leaf
|
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Scope and Contents
ALS in French: review of Curtius's book in "Le Figaro." With an undated postcard on
the same subject.
|
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Box 2 | Folder 99 |
Pozzi, Catherine, to E.R. Curtius
|
14 May 1930 |
1 leaf
|
|||
Scope and Contents
ALS in French, containing a handwritten poem by her, "Nova."
|
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Box 2 | Folder 100 |
Pozzi, Catherine, to E.R. Curtius
|
1 June 1930 |
1 leaf
|
|||
Scope and Contents
ALS in French (postcard from Vence.)
|
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Box 2 | Folder 101 |
Pozzi, Catherine, to E.R. Curtius
|
10 June 1930 |
1 leaf
|
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Scope and Contents
ALS in French: Edouard Bourdet, James Joyce, France-Allemagne.
|
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Box 2 | Folder 102 |
Pozzi, Catherine, to E.R. Curtius
|
July 1930 |
4 leaves
|
|||
Scope and Contents
ALS in French: annotated and corrected proofs for "Un Manuel de civilisation française."
|
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Box 2 | Folder 103 |
Pozzi, Catherine, to E.R. Curtius
|
16 July 1930 |
1 leaf
|
|||
Scope and Contents
ALS in French: Claude Bourdet and the International Congress of Students in Paris.
|
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Box 2 | Folder 104 |
Pozzi, Catherine, to E.R. Curtius
|
2 August 1930 |
4 leaves
|
|||
Scope and Contents
ALS in French: Europe, China.
|
|||
Box 2 | Folder 105 |
Pozzi, Catherine, to E.R. Curtius
|
24 August 1930 |
1 leaf
|
|||
Scope and Contents
ALS in French: Paulhan's decision not to hire her as scientific journalist for the
"NRF."
|
|||
Box 2 | Folder 106 |
Pozzi, Catherine, to E.R. Curtius
|
4 October 1930 |
1 leaf
|
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Scope and Contents
ALS in French: Herrad von Landsberg.
|
|||
Box 2 | Folder 107 |
Pozzi, Catherine, to E.R. Curtius
|
14 October 1930 |
1 leaf
|
|||
Scope and Contents
ALS in French: reception of Curtius in France.
|
|||
Box 2 | Folder 108 |
Pozzi, Catherine, to E.R. Curtius
|
3 January 1931 |
1 leaf
|
|||
Scope and Contents
ALS in French: Sieburg's "Dieu est-il français ?" (Grasset, 1930)
|
|||
Box 2 | Folder 109 |
Pozzi, Catherine, to E.R. Curtius
|
18 January 1930 |
2 leaves
|
|||
Scope and Contents
ALS in French: Sieburg's "Dieu est-il français ?" (Grasset, 1930); project of an interview
of André Siegfried titled "Contre l'Amérique!"; France and Germany.
|
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Box 2 | Folder 110 |
Pozzi, Catherine, to E.R. Curtius
|
14 February 1930 |
1 leaf
|
|||
Scope and Contents
ALS in French: health problems; Vence.
|
|||
Box 2 | Folder 111 |
Pozzi, Catherine, to E.R. Curtius
|
n.d. [1931] |
3 leaves
|
|||
Scope and Contents
ALS in French: body and soul; Diderot and Montaigne.
|
|||
Box 2 | Folder 112 |
Pozzi, Catherine, to E.R. Curtius
|
8 June 1931 |
1 leaf
|
|||
Scope and Contents
ALS in French about Gnosticism and Christianism ("Nous sommes catholiques, ER!")
|
|||
Box 2 | Folder 113 |
Pozzi, Catherine, to E.R. Curtius
|
September 1931 |
1 leaf
|
|||
Scope and Contents
ALS in French: the spirit of the Middle Ages and the present time.
|
|||
Box 2 | Folder 114 |
Pozzi, Catherine, to E.R. Curtius
|
October 1931 |
1 leaf
|
|||
Scope and Contents
ALS in French: news of her son Claude; her readings: Racine, Corneille.
|
|||
Box 2 | Folder 115 |
Pozzi, Catherine, to E.R. Curtius
|
18 November 1931 |
1 leaf + 1 leaf
|
|||
Scope and Contents
ALS in French and English. With a poem in German, "Todwasser," composed by her son
Claude Bourdet.
|
|||
Box 2 | Folder 116 |
Pozzi, Catherine, to E.R. Curtius
|
4 December 1931 |
1 leaf
|
|||
Scope and Contents
ALS in German and French.
|
|||
Box 2 | Folder 117 |
Pozzi, Catherine, to E.R. Curtius
|
December 1931 |
1 leaf
|
|||
Scope and Contents
ALS in German: vacations in Vence and in the Alps.
|
|||
Box 2 | Folder 118 |
Pozzi, Catherine, to E.R. Curtius
|
December 1931 |
1 leaf
|
|||
Scope and Contents
ALS in French and German: "Comment ne verrais-je pas l'Allemagne à travers vous? Elle
vous a fait. Sa jeunesse vous lit et vous écoute..."
|
|||
Box 2 | Folder 119 |
Pozzi, Catherine, to E.R. Curtius
|
January 1932 |
1 leaf
|
|||
Scope and Contents
ALS in French: writings and readings (Jules Romains, Stefan George); friendship with
Marie Kiener; her Italian origins.
|
|||
Box 2 | Folder 120 |
Pozzi, Catherine, to E.R. Curtius
|
31 January 1932 |
1 leaf
|
|||
Scope and Contents
ALS in French: her translations of Lucretius.
|
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Box 2 | Folder 121 |
Pozzi, Catherine, to E.R. Curtius
|
February 1932 |
1 leaf
|
|||
Scope and Contents
ALS in French: relation of a dinner with the Nietzsche scholar [and Nazi sympathiser]
Friedrich Würzbach and René Schwob, "le Boswell de Gide."
|
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Box 2 | Folder 122 |
Pozzi, Catherine, to E.R. Curtius
|
5 February 1932 |
1 leaf
|
|||
Scope and Contents
ALS in French: St Paul, Maritain...
|
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Box 2 | Folder 123 |
Pozzi, Catherine, to E.R. Curtius
|
11 February 1932 |
1 leaf
|
|||
Scope and Contents
ALS in French: Tibullus, Colette...
|
|||
Box 2 | Folder 124 |
Pozzi, Catherine, to E.R. Curtius
|
mid-February 1932 |
1 leaf
|
|||
Scope and Contents
ALS in French: André Siegfried, Italy...
|
|||
Box 2 | Folder 125 |
Pozzi, Catherine, to E.R. Curtius
|
21 February 1932 |
1 leaf
|
|||
Scope and Contents
ALS in French about metaphysics.
|
|||
Box 2 | Folder 126 |
Pozzi, Catherine, to E.R. Curtius
|
27 February 1932 |
2 leaves
|
|||
Scope and Contents
ALS in French: philosophy and science.
|
|||
Box 2 | Folder 127 |
Pozzi, Catherine, to E.R. Curtius
|
8 March 1932 |
1 leaf
|
|||
Scope and Contents
ALS in French: her writings and interest in science.
|
|||
Box 2 | Folder 128 |
Pozzi, Catherine, to E.R. Curtius
|
14 March 1932 |
1 leaf
|
|||
Scope and Contents
ALS in French: the death of her mother.
|
|||
Box 2 | Folder 129 |
Pozzi, Catherine, to E.R. Curtius
|
end of March1932 |
1 leaf
|
|||
Scope and Contents
ALS in French: "Suivre votre travail aura été le dernier plaisir d'un certain moi
appliqué au monde."
|
|||
Box 2 | Folder 130 |
Pozzi, Catherine, to E.R. Curtius
|
26 May 1932 |
1 leaf
|
|||
Scope and Contents
ALS in French: her travels in Europe.
|
|||
Box 2 | Folder 131 |
Pozzi, Catherine, to E.R. Curtius
|
16 June 1932 |
1 leaf
|
|||
Scope and Contents
ALS in French: despair.
|
|||
Box 2 | Folder 132 |
Pozzi, Catherine, to E.R. Curtius
|
9 September 1932 |
2 leaves
|
|||
Scope and Contents
ALS in French and German: her property in Dordogne.
|
|||
Box 2 | Folder 133 |
Pozzi, Catherine, to E.R. Curtius
|
26 December1932 |
1 leaf
|
|||
Scope and Contents
ALS in German.
|
|||
Box 2 | Folder 134 |
Pozzi, Catherine, to E.R. Curtius
|
22 January 1933 |
1 leaf
|
|||
Scope and Contents
ALS in French: Proust, Benda...
|
|||
Box 2 | Folder 135 |
Pozzi, Catherine, to E.R. Curtius
|
26 January1932 |
1 leaf
|
|||
Scope and Contents
ALS in French: the task of the cleric, the importance of erudition...
|
|||
Box 2 | Folder 136 |
Pozzi, Catherine, to E.R. Curtius
|
5 February 1933 |
1 leaf
|
|||
Scope and Contents
ALS in French: chronology and style.
|
|||
Box 2 | Folder 137 |
Pozzi, Catherine, to E.R. Curtius
|
13 July 1933 |
1 leaf
|
|||
Scope and Contents
ALS in German: news from the house, her son...
|
|||
Box 2 | Folder 138 |
Pozzi, Catherine, to E.R. Curtius
|
9 October 1933 |
1 leaf
|
|||
Scope and Contents
ALS in German: considerations about life, the animals...
|
|||
Box 2 | Folder 139 |
Pozzi, Catherine, to E.R. Curtius
|
31 October 1933 |
1 leaf
|
|||
Scope and Contents
ALS in French ("Vous voulez que je vous écrive en français"): her mood and writings.
|
|||
Box 2 | Folder 140 |
Pozzi, Catherine, to E.R. Curtius
|
31 October 1933 |
1 leaf
|
|||
Scope and Contents
ALS in French.
|
|||
Box 2 | Folder 141 |
Pozzi, Catherine, to E.R. Curtius
|
17 November 1933 |
1 leaf
|
|||
Scope and Contents
ALS in French: their correspondence; Curtius's "Balzac."
|
|||
Box 2 | Folder 142 |
Pozzi, Catherine, to E.R. Curtius
|
30 December 1933 |
1 leaf
|
|||
Scope and Contents
ALS in French and ancient Greek: her friends in Paris (Abel Bonnard, Jacques Maritain);
the correspondence with Rilke.
|
|||
Box 2 | Folder 143 |
Pozzi, Catherine, to E.R. Curtius
|
20 february 1934 |
1 leaf
|
|||
Scope and Contents
ALS in French: "Je vais entreprendre de vous écrire avec un stylo cassé." Annotated
by Curtius: "letzter Brief."
|
|||
Box 2 | Folder 144 |
Rambaud, Henri, to E.R. Curtius
|
18 March 1933 |
2 leaves
|
|||
Scope and Contents
ALS in French: Balzac, Stendhal, Valéry; Curtius's "Essai sur la France."
|
|||
Box 2 | Folder 145 |
Schlumberger, Jean, to Ilse Curtius
|
4 May 1956 |
1 leaf
|
|||
Scope and Contents
ALS in French: condolences.
|
|||
Box 2 | Folder 146 |
Thibaudet, Albert, to E.R. Curtius
|
15 April 1924 |
2 leaves
|
|||
Scope and Contents
ALS in French about Curtius's essay on Balzac: "Vous avez fait de la critique créatrice,
celle qui s'impose quand on a à parler d'un créateur comme Balzac."
|
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Box 2 | Folder 147 |
Thibaudet, Albert, to E.R. Curtius
|
22 April 1924 |
1 leaf
|
|||
Scope and Contents
ALS in French: Bergson; Décade de Pontigny.
|
|||
Box 2 | Folder 148 |
Thibaudet, Albert, to E.R. Curtius
|
22 August 1924 |
1 leaf
|
|||
Scope and Contents
ALS in French: sojourns of young French intellectuals (incl. Armand Bérard) in Heidelberg,
Germany, at Curtius's invitation.
|
|||
Box 2 | Folder 149 |
Thibaudet, Albert, to E.R. Curtius
|
n.d. (1928) |
1 leaf
|
|||
Scope and Contents
ALS in French: notions of literary critique.
|
|||
Box 2 | Folder 150 |
Thibaudet, Albert to E.R. Curtius
|
30 June 1929 |
1 leaf
|
|||
Scope and Contents
ALS in French about their respective publications.
|
|||
Box 2 | Folder 151 |
Valéry, Jeannie, to E.R. Curtius
|
9 December 1955 |
1 leaf
|
|||
Scope and Contents
ALS in French.
|
|||
Box 2 | Folder 152 |
Valéry, Paul, to E.R. Curtius
|
24 August 1933 |
1 leaf
|
|||
Scope and Contents
ALS in French. Responding to a pressing request made by Curtius to employ German scholars
who would otherwise be facing persecution by the Nazi regime, Paul Valéry explains
why, in his capacity as the general administrator of the "Centre Universitaire Méditerranéen"
in Nice, he is unfortunately unable to do anything : his authority is limited by government
regulations as well as by financial constraints; an academic center is not a university,
and therefore can offer only lectures to visiting faculty, not regular teaching; there
are no professorial chairs, unless foreign governments wish to endow them, etc.
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