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Rainer Maria Rilke fonds
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- Source of title proper: TItle based on content of fonds.
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CA RBD MSG 424
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Name of creator
(1875-1926)
Biographical history
Born in Prague as René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke, Rainer Maria Rilke was a poet and writer whose best known works include the Duino Elegies and the Sonnets to Orpheus.
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Scope and content
Fonds consists of six letters, with four manuscript letters from Rilke written between 1896 and 1922 and two discussing letters discussing these. The four letters from Rilke are addressed to various correspondents, including on 8 November 1896 to the author Gabriele Reuter regarding her book, 15 October 1904 to Anette Vedel, and 9 July 1907 to an unidentified correspondent. The fourth letter dates likely from August or September 1922 and is addressed to Elfriede Nicolaus. The two later letters which discuss the Rilke letters include one dated 13 December 1954 from Hedvig Wahlgren regarding the date of the 1922 letter to Nicolaus and one dated 29 November 1955 from Ruth Fritzsche (née Rilke) to McGill Librarian Richard Pennington.
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- German
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Original letters written in German, accompanied by later translations in English.
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Associated materials
McGill's Rare Books and Special Collections also holds a monographic collection of Rilke's works, formed in the late 1950s. The collection comprises some 300 titles, including many first and limited editions of Rilke's prose works and poetry, translations, and critical works on the poet.
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- Reuter, Gabriele, 1859-1941 (Subject)