Eva Schiffer Materials Related to Editing the Thomas Mann-Karl Loewenstein Correspondence

Mainly correspondence related to the compilation, editing, and permissions to publish the correspondence between Thomas Mann and Karl Lowenstein, published in Blätter der Thomas Mann-Gesellschaft, Nr. 18-19 (1981-82). The collection also includes photocopies and transcriptions of the original Mann-Loewenstein correspondence. The correspondence between the famed German author and later émigré Mann and the legal scholar Loewenstein dates from 1933 (the year Loewenstein emigrated from Germany to join the faculty at Yale University) to Mann's death in 1955. Loewenstein was on the faculty of Amherst College from 1936 to 1961. The collection includes correspondence with various archives, the Thomas Mann Gesellschaft in Zurich, and a variety of Mann scholars and family members, including Golo Mann, the son of Thomas Mann.