STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CXXXIII. Honoré de Balzac: novel Une Ténébreuse Affaire; circa 1841. Printed early proof, with autograph annotations and corrections. French. See Oeuvres Complètes de Honoré de Balzac, ed. M. Bouteron and H. Longnon, vol. 26 (Paris, 1914), pp. 27-275. ff. ii+625. ...
STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CXXXIV. Honoré de Balzac: letter to Jean Thomassy; [1823]. French. See H. de Balzac, Correspondance, ed. R. Pierrot, vol. 1 (Paris, 1960), p. 218. f. 1. 191 x 147mm. Honoré de Balzac, novelist: Jean Thomassy: Letter to Jean Thomassy from Honoré de Balzac: [1823]:...
STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CXXV. Honoré de Balzac: fragment of an early version of his article 'Monographie de la Presse Parisienne'; before 1842. Printed proof sheet with autograph annotations. French. See Oeuvres Complètes de Honoré de Balzac, ed. M. Bouteron and H. Longnon, vol. 40 (Paris,...
STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CXXXVI. Charles Baudelaire: poems 'Les sept vieillards' and 'Les petites vieilles'; [1859]. Fair copy made for Victor Hugo to whom the poems are dedicated. French. See C. Baudelaire, Oeuvres Complètes, ed. C. Pichois, vol. 1 (Paris, 1975), pp. 87-90. ff. 2. 208 x ...
(Enoch) Arnold Bennett: Newspaper article in the series 'Books and Persons', including a review of Conflicts by Stefan Zweig, written for the Evening Standard; London, 20 February 1928 (see f. 1)
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Autograph draft. The review relates to novels by three European writers newly published in English translation. Begins: 'Not long since I saw an advertisement of [deletion] a novel . . .' Ends: ‘It has sparks of the divine fire’ The works discussed are: Thomas Raucat, L'Honorable Partie de ...
George Gordon, 6th Baron Byron: 'Note to the lines where Capel Lofft is mentioned'
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Autograph fair copy. The prose note explains the allusion to Capel Lofft in Byron's 'Hints from Horace' (published 1811), lines 693-696: 'Hark to those notes, narcotically soft! / The cobber-laureats sing to Capel Lofft! /Till, lo! that modern Midas, as he hears, / Adds an ell-growth to his egre...
STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CXXXIX. Paul Claudel: play 'L'Annonce faite à Marie'; 1911 (see f. 145v). Fair copy, with a few revisions. French. See Oeuvres Complètes de Paul Claudel, ed. R. Mallet, vol. 9, 'Théâtre' (Paris, 1955). Author's presentation inscription to Zweig, 1913 (f. 2v). ff. ...
STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CXL. Gabriele D'Annunzio: poem 'La Laude di Dante'; circa 1904. Fair copy. Italian. See Laudi del cielo, del mare, della terra e degli eroi, Istituto Nazionale per la Edizione di Tutti le Opere di Gabriele D'Annunzio, Book 2, Elettra (Verona, 1928), pp. 4-10. ff. ...
STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CXLI. Charles Darwin: fragment of 'Insectivorous Plants', with some mathematical calculations relating to meridians on the verso; n.d. Draft. Published in 1875. See The Works of Charles Darwin, ed. P. H. Barrett and R. B. Freeman, vol. 24 (1989), p. 307. f. 1. 165...
