Autograph Letter Signed W. H. Auden to Stella Musulin 1968-11-06

PIDhttps://hdl.handle.net/21.11115/0000-000E-C30F-6
AuthorAuden, W. H.
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  • Mayer, Sandra
  • Frühwirth, Timo
  • Grigoriou, Dimitra
PublisherAustrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage, Vienna 2021
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  • State Collections of Lower Austria
  • Stella Musulin (Depot)
  • St. Pölten
Origin
  • 1968-11-06
  • 77 St. Mark's Place
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Cite this Source (MLA 9th Edition)Andorfer Peter, Elsner Daniel, Frühwirth Timo, Grigoriou Dimitra, Mayer Sandra, Mendelson Edward and Neundlinger Helmut. Auden Musulin Papers: A Digital Edition of W. H. Auden's Letters to Stella Musulin. Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage, Austrian Academy of Sciences, 2022, amp.acdh.oeaw.ac.at .

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  • 1968-11-06
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WH Auden
77 St Mark's Place
New York City
N.Y. 10003
U.S.A.

Air-Mail

Die Baronin
Stella Musulin
Wien A-1030
Neulinggasse 26/14
Austria

77 St Mark's Place
N.Y.C.
N.Y. 1003
Nov 6 th .

Dear Stella:

Many thanks for your letter. Of course,
selfishly, I'm rather relieved. How horrid
one is !

The U.S. is grim.

love

Wystan.

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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