Author: Freytag-Loringhoven, Elsa von, 1874-1927.
Title: The Else Baroness von Freytag-Loringhoven autobiography, ca. 1923-1927 : manuscript (in four parts), and typescript / [typescript edited by Djuna Barnes]. --
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Description:
3 folders (205 p., ca. 180 mss. p.) + Finding aid (1 fld.)
Contents:
Fd. 1-2. Typescript "Elsa" [p.1-99; p.100-205]. --
Fd.3, Mss.1. First instalment, corresponding to p.1-33 of typescript.
Fd.3, Mss.2. Second instalment, corresponding to p.33-72 of typescript.
Fd.3, Mss.3. Third instalment, corresponding to p.73-205. --
Fd.3, Mss.4. Fourth instalment, corresponding to p.73-130 of typescript (earlier, shorter, and quite different version of the first part of Fd.3, Mss. 3). --
Annotation:
These documents were obtained in April 1992 from Rare Books & Literary Manuscripts, University of Maryland, College Park, in exchange for a microfilm copy of Felix Paul Greve [alias F. P. Grove)'s novel
Fanny Essler, 1905. -- Special user conditions apply. --
The Baroness, née Ploetz, divorced Endell, lived with Felix Paul Greve in Italy, Switzerland, France, Berlin, & Pittsburgh from January 1903 to 1911/12, when he abandoned her in Sparta, Kentucky. She later became a well-known artist in Greenwich Village where she was involved with New York Dada artists like Man Ray & marcel Duchamp. In April 1923, she returned to Berlin from where her autobiographical writings were sent to Djuna Barnes. She committed suicide in Paris in December 1927, where she had moved in early 1926. -- Djuna Barnes edited the typewritten version from the manuscript instalments she had received as letters in the early twenties at some later time. A typed title page is attached to Mss.1 [in fd.3] which reads: "Baroness Elsa : her life and letters / edited with a foreword by Djuna Barnes."
Local Note:
Mss 81 FINDING AID AVAILABLE IN READING ROOM (in folder).
Subjects: Freytag-Loringhoven, Elsa von, 1874-1927
Freytag-Loringhoven, Elsa von, 1874-1927 Relations with men.
Grove, Frederick Philip, 1879-1948 Relations with women
Grove, Frederick Philip, 1879-1948 Childhood and youth.
Stefan George Kreis Biography.
Dadaism New York (State) New York.
Other Author(s): Barnes,Djuna
Other Title(s): Baroness Elsa : her life and letters
