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| Editor(s) | Mayer, Sandra; Frühwirth, Timo; Grigoriou, Dimitra |
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| Cite this Source (Chicago Manual of Style) | Auden, W. H.; Musulin, Stella Mary Bellairs1968/2024. "Autograph Letter Signed W. H. Auden to Stella Musulin 1968-10-15." In Auden Musulin Papers: A Digital Edition of W. H. Auden's Letters to Stella Musulin, edited by Sandra Mayer, Timo Frühwirth, Dimitra Grigoriou, Edward Mendelson, Peter Andorfer and Daniel Elsner. Vienna: Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage, Austrian Academy of Sciences. https://hdl.handle.net/21.11115/0000-000E-C30E-7. |
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Got back from Oxford yesterday and found your
letter waiting.
1) I think I ought to take the couple in , but
I must leave it to you to decide whether
they are O.K. If they are , all rooms, including
my study ( which can't be heated are open to them.
2). How much money will they need to keep going ?
And how shall I make the arrangements for payment.
Here, I suggest
you contact
Otto Hoffmann.
Wien VII
Karl Schweighofgasse
4/21
Tel. 93/88/155.
3) Will they be able to find work or emigrate before
I return in April,when I'm afraid there will
not be room for them.?
4) I'm worried about how they will get gas-cylinders
for cooking from Neulengbach ,since, presumably . they
have no car. I expect someone in the village
will help.
5). If and when they come, I must know in advance
so that I can write a note to the
Burgomeister.
Shall be here in my address until Oct 31.st After that
77 St Mark's Place .N.Y.C. N.Y 10003 .
couple
In her memoir "Auden in Kirchstetten", Stella Musulin writes that after the "uprising in Czechoslovakia in August and September 1968", W. H. Auden considered the "idea of lending the house to two Czechs" (217). In Auden's letter to Musulin from 24 October 1968, he refers to the couple as "the Langers". Eventually, these plans did not materialize. In his letter from 6 November 1968, Auden expresses his relief: "Of course, selfishly, I'm rather relieved. How horrid one is!"
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