THOMAS MANN - TYPED NOTE SIGNED 06/08/1950 - HFSID 156288
Sale Price $845.00
Reg. $1,000.00
THOMAS MANN
Form letter thanking recipients for gifts regarding his 75th birthday
Printed Note Signed in Ink: "Thomas Mann", 5¾x4 card. Zürich, 1950 June 8. In German,
not translated. Form letter thanking recipients for good wishes, kind thoughts, flowers and
gifts on the occasion of his 75th birthday. Mann, who was overwhelmed by the outpouring,
asks recipients to accept the form letter as a personal acknowledgement of their thoughtfulness.
Handwritten postscript (in English): "Sorry, no pictures with me". Lightly soiled. Fine
condition. Accompanied by original envelope, 6¼x4½. Addressed by Mann to: "Mr.
Seymour Wishnefsky/ 2150 N. 3rd Street/Milwaukee, Wisc./U.S.A." Swiss stamp affixed,
postmark illegible. Lightly creased and soiled, stained on verso. Overall, fine condition.
Thomas Mann (1875-1955), a German author and essayist won the Nobel Prize for
Literature in 1929. His best known works include Buddenbrooks (1901), Death in Venice
(1912) and The Magic Mountain (1924). Mann, who would die in Zürich in 1955, first
moved to Switzerland in 1933. He became an American citizen in 1940, living in Santa
Monica, California from 1941-1953. Two items.
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