Autograph Letter Signed W. H. Auden to Stella Musulin 1972-02-22

PIDhttps://hdl.handle.net/21.11115/0000-000E-C318-B
Author
Editor(s)Mayer, Sandra; Frühwirth, Timo; Grigoriou, Dimitra
PublisherAustrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage, Vienna 2024
Licence(s)
Source Information
  • State Collections of Lower Austria
  • Stella Musulin (Depot)
  • St. Pölten
Origin
  • 1972-02-22
  • 77 St. Mark's Place
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Cite this Source (Chicago Manual of Style)Auden, W. H.; Musulin, Stella Mary Bellairs1972/2024. "Autograph Letter Signed W. H. Auden to Stella Musulin 1972-02-22." 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-C318-B.

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Language(s):
  • English
  • German
Sent at:
  • United States General Post Office
Sent from:
  • New York City
Sent at:
  • 1972-02-23
Transmitted by:
  • Postamt Oberndorf an der Melk (post office Oberndorf an der Melk)
Transmitted at:
  • Oberndorf an der Melk
Transmitted at:
  • 1972-02-28
Redirected by:
  • Postamt Oberndorf an der Melk (post office Oberndorf an der Melk)
Redirected at:
  • Oberndorf an der Melk
Received by:
Received at:
  • Fridau

W.H.Auden
77 St Mark's Place
New York City
N.Y . 10003
U.S.A

Not quitting Kirchstetten ·

Die Baronin
Stella Musulin
Fridau
3200 Obergrabendorf
N. Ö
Austria

Feb 22nd, 1972 77 St Mark's Place
New York City
N.Y. 10003

Dear Stella;

Many thanks for your letter, Whatever
made you imagine I was quitting Kirchstetten?
Of course I'm not, The change is that I
shall be spending my winters in Oxford
not in New York.

love

Wystan

change

According to Richard Davenport-Hines's Auden biography, W. H. Auden took leave from his friends in New York City on 15 April 1972, and, after briefly returning to the US, ultimately left for Oxford on 30 September 1972.

External Evidence: ph_018