Manes, Eva: Letter, 1957

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 1556 WL 1560
Held at	: Wiener Library   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.wienerlibrary.co.uk/ ›
Full title	: Manes, Eva: Letter, 1957
Date(s)	: 1957
Level of description	: collection
Extent	: 1 file
Name of creator(s)	: Reichardt | fl [1940]-1957

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

This letter is from a former friend of Philip Manes and his wife, addressed to Eva Manes and written in 1957. For the main Manes collection see WL document collection 1346.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Letter to Eva Manes from Mrs Reichardt, former friend of the Manes family, 1957. Mrs Reichardt bought the Manes' grand piano for RM 1000 and lived in the same house as Philip Manes and his wife and was a close friend. She writes about arrangements for payment for the piano, about Manes' problems, and also describes her own unhappy fate during the last years of the war and after. She describes the last days before her family's deportation.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
German

System of arrangement:

1 item.

Conditions governing access:

Open

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies can be made for personal use. Permission must be sought for publication.

Finding aids:

Description exists to this archive on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Deposited by Eva Manes.

Allied Materials

Related material:

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Entry compiled by Howard Falksohn.

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
March 2008