T. Mann, Two autograph letters, Munich and Pacific Palisades, 1911 and 1948

MANN, THOMAS

Two autograph letters, signed ("Thomas Mann")

one to an unidentified man, thanking him for his volume of poems, commenting upon them and the pleasure they gave him, and mentioning his brother's travels; the other to a 'Herr Friedrich', replying to a request for some Goethe material for his journal, MENTIONING HIS NOVEL DR FAUSTUS, suggesting that he print something from Neue Studien or from [his 1939 novel] Lotte in Weimar, noting that he is preoccupied with other matters in the next few months, but that he will be engaging again with Goethe the following year in the course of a lecture tour in America and England, admitting that he will hardly be able to provide any new material as he has 'emptied his bag'

...Es wird kaum noch etwas Neues sein können - j'ai vide mon sac...

4 pages in all, 8vo (20.5 x 12.7cm and 21.5 x 14cm), the earlier letter cut down from a larger leaf, printed stationery, Munich, 27 November 1911, and Pacific Palisades, California, 8 August 1948, remains of mount and horizontal fold to recto of earlier letter, browning to edges of later letter; together with: a copy of the second (1945) edition of Deutsche Hörer! Fünfundfünfzig Radiosendungen nach Deutschland, INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY MANN ("An René Klemencic...Thomas Mann"); and a copy of his pamphlet Dieser Friede (Stockholm: Bermann-Fischer Verlag, 1938), 28 pages, printed wrappers

Two characteristic letters, the earlier dating from the year of Der Tod in Venedig.