Hesse, Hermann.

including eleven autograph letters signed ("Hermann Hesse", "H. Hesse", "H H"), one with an autograph pen and watercolour illustration, five typed letters signed, two typed notes, seven autograph notes on postcards, three postcard photographic portraits signed; the letters mentioning Thomas Mann, Penzoldt, Carossa and Buber, discussing the war, religions and the intolerance of Christianity, his sons, his difficulty in working, his generally poor health, the pleasure he obtains by finding beautiful new things in poetry and music, and many other matters ("...Mir sind alle Religionen der Welt teuer und ehrwürdig, weil sie alle die vielleicht edelste Fähigkeit des Menschen zur Quelle haben: die Ehrfurcht. Doch unterscheide ich trotzdem die Religionen nicht nur nach ihrem geistigen und kulturellen Niveau, sondern auch nach ihrer Toleranz. Und da gehört ja leider die christliche nicht zu den freundlichen, milden und toleranten, sondern zu den missionierenden, hochmütigen, alleinseligmachenden und gewalttätigen..."), over 50 items in all, various sizes, five autograph and four typed envelopes, three typescript carbon copies and one other printed item, newspaper cuttings, the autograph letters on postcards or as postscripts to carbon-copy typescripts, Montagnola and elsewhere, 1926-1960

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing where appropriate.
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A good collection recording Hesse's friendship of many years with Hede Herzberg in Berlin.