Autograph Letter Signed W. H. Auden to Stella Musulin 1970-06-10

PIDhttps://hdl.handle.net/21.11115/0000-000E-C314-F
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
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  • 1970-06-10
  • Hinterholz 6
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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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  • 1970-06-10
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Translation recd.
Wedding nearKrems

Die Baronin
Stella Musulin
1030 Wien
Neulinggasse 26/14

WH Auden
3062 KIRCHSTETTEN
BEZ. ST. PÖLTEN
HINTERHOLZ 6
N.-Ö., AUSTRIA

June 10th 3062 KIRCHSTETTEN
BEZ. ST. PÖLTEN
HINTERHOLZ 6
N.-Ö., AUSTRIA


Dear Stella

Translation just received. Thanks
e million.

On Saturday Chester and I have
to attend a weddingnear
Krems at 3·0.p.m,which means
we shall have to lunch at 12·0,
Could you possibly make that?
If not,perhaps you could come
on Monday, or whichever day
you will be returning to Vienna
from Fridau.

love and again thanks ever
so much

Wystan

You're an angel

According to her memoir "The Years in Austria" (26), Stella Musulin translated W. H. Auden's speech "Freedom and Necessity in the Arts". This translated speech he delivered at Lyrik 70 and was published, without a title or indication of the translator, in the first issue of the literary journal Podium.

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