YALE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY

German Literature Collection

April 3, 1952

Professor Erich Kahler
Princeton University
Princeton, New Jersey.

Dear Professor Kahler:

Professor Ernst Hassold of Louisville University is very anxious to have
a microfilm made of

Broch, Hermann: Über syntaktische und kognitive Einheiten,

As long as you already have given Professor Hassold permission to inspect
the Broch manuscripts, will you extend this privilege to the making of this microfilm? His
request will, of course, also be passed by the University Library Committee, which will meet
April 24. We would be very grateful for an immediate reply so this request can go on the
agenda for this meeting.

Mrs. Hedwig S. Dejon
Librarian, German Literature Collection

April 4, 1952

Mrs Hedwig S. Dejon
Librarian, German Literature Collection
Yale University Library
New Haven, Conn.

Dear Mrs. Dejon :

Thank you for your note of April 3.

After consultation with Mr Robert Pick - the
other two members of our committee, Dr. Canby and
Miss Arendt being out of reach - I wish to tell you
that there seems to be no objection to the granting
of Professor Hassold's request to have a microfilm
made of Hermann Broch's essay :"*Über syntaktische
und kognitive Einheiten*".

We would merely suggest that Professor Hassold
signs a statement to the effect that the microfilm
is intended for his personal use only and that he
will refrain from quoting *extensively* from the essay

February 11, 1955.

Miss Hedwig S. Dejon
German Literature Collection
Yale University Library
Newhaven, Conn.

Dear Miss Dejon,

Thank you for your letter of February 9.

The obvious confusion in Mrs. Broch's letter must be due to a
typing error. The manuscripts to be sent to Dr. Brody (Via Mazzini 6,
Lugano, Switzerland) are:

1. Fassung mit Schluss komplett" and

2. Fassung" as far as it goes.

However, as I told Professor von Faber, I would not take the
risk to send abroad any manuscript that is unique. I therefore would
ask you to have both copies of each version exactly equalized, that
is, to have the pages that are missing in one copy (they are not many)
typed from the complete copy and added to the incomplete one, so that
both copies are complete and exactly alike. Only then, one of the copies
of each manuscript should be sent to Dr. Brody.

Would you please tell me the cost of the typing before ordering
it. If it exceeds the amount remaining from the mask collection, I shall
try to collect the difference or ask Dr. Brody to provide for it.

With many thanks,

Yale University Library
New Haven Connecticut

James T. Babb
Librarian

The William A. Speck Collection of Goetheana
Carl F. Schreiber, Curator

February 9, 1953

Professor Erich Kahler
1 Evelyn Place
Princeton, New Jersey.

Dear Professor Kahler:

Today we received via Mrs. Loewy from Mrs. Arendt
the second version of the Bergroman. The exact inscription
on its label is:

Berg Roman, zweite Fassung;
Arbeits Exemplar, 1-292;
bis Seite 139 verwendet für
die letzte Fassung.

Mrs. Broch requested two earlier versions of this
work to be sent to Mr. Brody; she specified

"1. Fassung mit Schluss, komplett" and
"1. Fassung, Seite 149"[i.e.148] "A-M fehlen"

We are really not quite certain now which version
is to go to the publisher in Italy. Can you clear the
situation up for us? So that the manuscript can go off
to Italy immediately? Thank you so much for your trouble.