Research Catalog

Title

Collection of 15 autograph letters signed : Brooklyn and New York, to Muki Wachstein, 1954 July 29-1964 Dec. 28.

Author

Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Fairchild, Muki.
• Mayer, Elizabeth.
• Sauerlander, Beata.

Description

18 ill.; size varies +

Summary

Collection includes the following letters to Muki Wachstein [Fairchild]: a.l.s., July 29, 1954, 2 p. (1 leaf), with envelope and accompanying card with a drawing of a mouse printed on it; autograph postcard signed, Aug. 24, 1954, 1 p.; a.l.s., Dec. 25, 1954, 1 p., with envelope; autograph postcard signed, Jan. 18, 1955, 1 p.; a.l.s., Apr. 11, 1955, 2 p. (1 leaf), with envelope; a.l.s., Nov. 19, 1955, 4 p. (1 folded leaf), with envelope; autograph card signed, Dec. 23, 1955, 1 p., with envelope; autograph postcard signed, undated, 1 p.; autograph card signed, Dec. 20, 1957, 1 p.; photocopy of an a.l.s., Dec. 19, 1958, 1 p., with accompanying card of a raccoon and babies; autograph card signed, Jan. 1, 1960, 1 p., with envelope; autograph card signed, Jan. 14, 1962, 2 p. (1 leaf), with envelope; autograph card signed, Nov. 20, 1962, 1 p., with envelope; a.l.s., Nov. 21, 1964, 1 p., with envelope and accompanying postcard of a horse; autograph postcard signed, postmarked Dec. 28, 1964, 1 p. Also includes a.l.s. to Beata [Wachstein Sauerlander], Apr. 29, 1964, 2 p. (1 leaf); a.l.s. to Elizabeth [Mayer], Nov. 25, 1956, 1 p.; and b&w photograph of Moore and Elizabeth Mayer from 1954.

Subjects

• Mayer, Elizabeth > Portraits
• Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972 > Portraits
• Bollingen Foundation
• Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972 > Anecdotes
• Mayer, Elizabeth > Anecdotes
• Sauerlander, Beata > Anecdotes

Note

• Many letters with postmarked envelopes.
• Moore writes with a sense of intimacy and playful humor about: Muki's daily life and piano lessons; animals (often enclosing postcard pictures of them), including ladybugs (which she sketches in a letter of Jan. 24, 1962), dogs, and especially cats; Moore's poetry; and later, reminiscences of times spent together when Muki was a child, Moore's personal life, Muki's mother (Beata Wachstein, for whom Moore expresses love), and the need to persevere in the face of illness and other challenges.
• Muki Wachstein married and became Muki Wachstein Fairchild.
• Beata Wachstein, who became Beata Wachstein Sauerlander after her second marriage, is the mother of Muki Wachstein and the daughter of Elizabeth Mayer.
• Elizabeth Mayer (1884-1970) was a German-born American translator and editor, closely associated with W.H. Auden, Benjamin Britten, Peter Pears, and other writers and musicians. She translated Adalbert Stifter's Bergkristall (1945) in collaboration with Marianne Moore.
• A.l.s. of Dec. 19, 1958 is a photocopy, though one of the 4 color printed images referred to in letter is present.

With (note)

• With b&w snapshot photograph of Marianne Moore and Elizabeth Mayer standing arm-in-arm in front of 1 Gramercy Park (Mayer's home), 1954.

Access (note)

• Restricted access;

Call Number

Berg Coll m.b. Moore, M A.l.s. to Wachstein, M 1954

OCLC

795528827

Author

Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972.

Title

Collection of 15 autograph letters signed : Brooklyn and New York, to Muki Wachstein, 1954 July 29-1964 Dec. 28.

With:

With b&w snapshot photograph of Marianne Moore and Elizabeth Mayer standing arm-in-arm in front of 1 Gramercy Park (Mayer's home), 1954.

Access

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Added Author

Fairchild, Muki. Addressee

Mayer, Elizabeth. Addressee

Sauerlander, Beata. Addressee

Fairchild, Muki. Former owner

Research Call Number

Berg Coll m.b. Moore, M A.l.s. to Wachstein, M 1954