Poem 'Allein'; composed 6 May 1906. Photocopy of typescript including inscription 'Dank und gute Wünsche! Ninon Hesse'. With a photocopy of a sketch of Hesse on his deathbed from the verso of the original, including MS inscription 'Isa 9. August /62'.
Six poems collected under the autograph title 'Ein paar Gedichte von Herm. Hesse'; composed 1929-1931. Hesse used the title 'Ein paar Gedichte . . .' for various collections of his poems, but this copy is personalised with an autograph dedication, 'Herrn Dr. Neumann überreicht mit Grüssen von H....
Three inscribed postcards as follows: i) Two cards stuck together, showing a wooded landscape and Mother and Child icon, signed in pencil 'Gruss v. H Hesse'; n.d. ii) Postcard showing Hesse with his youngest grandchild in 1956, photographed by Heiner Hesse. Inscribed in pencil 'Gute Wünsche v...
Poem Wenn auch . . . beginning 'Wenn auch der Abend kalt und traurig ist'; composed, according to the printed statement 'im Jahr 1918, dem vierten Jahr des Weltkrieges' but actually in April 1917.
Poem Friede; composed 11 October 1914, on a visit to Hesse's friend Conrad Haussman, and written in his Visitors' Book (see Sämtliche Werke vol. 12, p. 314). This printing 1939 on the evidence of the footnote 'Dieses Gedicht wurde vor fünfundzwanzig Jahren, einige Wochen nach Beginn des Weltkri...