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| Editor(s) | Mayer, Sandra; Frühwirth, Timo; Grigoriou, Dimitra |
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| Cite this Source (Chicago Manual of Style) | Mendelson, Edward; Musulin, Stella Mary Bellairs1981/2024. "Aerogram Signed Edward Mendelson to Stella Musulin 1981-11-21." 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-C326-B. |
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Delighted you got that EARLY AUDEN, and even more delighted you find
it worth looking into. As I suppose you've experienced yourself,Is it a universal experience among authors to
be surprised that someone actually reads one's book? I'm so familiar
with the thing by now, and so aware of its deficiencies, that I wish
I could recall the edition and rewrite the whole thing frombook from the start.
Luckily, theaching, reviewing and miscellaneous annoyances keep the
mind elsewhere. One of those miscellaneous annoy[]ances was a move
from my odld flat to antother one on the same floor in the same building.
The new address is up above, and the only change is in the apartment
number. Phone number still 212 222-0679.
Yes, I saw the yougng man who was doing advance work froor Robert Robinson,
but haven't heard from him since July. I gather worthat work progresses,
though. There was an hour on Wystan on BBC Radio the other week--a
"dramatization" with an actor reading the poems and lots of ominous
noises off. I'm told it was fairly dreadful, but perh[]aps the TV film
will be better. I saw quite a good one from the BBC on Benjamin Britten.
Its only fault--and I'm not sure []wthis was a fault, given the usual tone
of TV journalism--was an awed tone of worship.
AEasy answers to important questions. Those two volumes []fby and about
Auden sound very attractive. (Which publisher is interested?) The
place to write for permissions is to the agents, specifically, to
Maureen Walters
Curtis Brown Ltd
575 Madison Avenue
New York NY 10022
USA
Mention my name, and things will be easier. But they should be easy
anyway.
Now let me beg you for an easy answer. I've heard from att[] least two
different people that they had seen (or knew someone else who had seen)
a German text of your Wystan memoir in print. Are they right, or are
they confusing this with an occasion when you read it aloud (and it was
reported)? I had an Austrian student here this summer working on Wystan,
and I wanted to tell her about the piece, but didn't know where to find
it. Please, please tell me if you printed it, and if so, where. No need
for a long letter: just a "No, calm down, I never printed it" or a "Yes,
it appeared in such-in-such a journal" would be more than enough. This is
the one min[]or mystery of writings-about-Wystan I haven't been able to solve,
so please do help.
Have I told you []nyany of my news? I'm now at Columbia University permanently,
if Iwa want to be. I have a flat with a small guest room and bath--so please
take note if you're in theis country for any reason. I have a lady friend,
the first whom I expect to be with for a very long time, and we are quite
happy about things in general. Next June we'll be in Europe, certainly in
Paris, possibly father []south, talthough we may put off the southern trip
for another year or so. I haven't been across the Atlantic this year; too
Mendelson
39 Claremont Ave, apt 31
New York NY 10027
Redaktion 11-12.
Kronenzeitung.½ 2-5
Morgen 1977. ·
1.Numer. Heft.
Frau Baronin
Stella Mausulin
Sch[]ltoösselgasse 8/17
A-1080 Vienna
Austria
preoccupied, too broke, too much to do in New York to feel much of an
ipmpulse to get away. My years in New Haven always left me panting to
get overseas, but now I feel at home again.
Did you see Humphrey Carpenter's book on Wystan? Not bad, as biographies
go, but not very deep either. It seems to have most of the facts right,
which is something. Now a life of Chester is being written, by the woman
who recently married Chester's father, and who knew Chester since 1942.
Full of surprises and purple passages; Chester would be pleased, I think,
although I don't like to imagine how Wystan would have taken it.
two volumes []fby and about Auden
In Stella Musulin's letter to Edward Mendelson from December 1985, she writes, "Peter Müller has not been sleeping over his plan to edit a book on Auden´s time here . . . Now - you may know this - it is definite and the book is to come out in February 1987 in time for A´s 80th." In a 1990 interview, she states that "[d]uring the eighties, she was commissioned by the Niederösterreichische Verlag (Lower Austrian Provincial Publishers) to write a piece on Auden for some unnamed bilingual publication, which she did. However, due to lack of funds, this never appeared" (Firchow 237).
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