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Barrows Mussey Translations

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Mussey, June Barrows, 1910-1985

Barrows Mussey was an American translator who completed English translations of various works, mostly novels, of German and other European authors during the 1940s.

Mussey, June Barrows, 1910-1985

Barrows Mussey was an American translator who completed English translations of various works, mostly novels, of German and other European authors during the 1940s.

Consists of typed manuscripts, often heavily revised or corrected, of Mussey's English translations of various works, mostly novels, of German and other European authors during the 1940s. Included are Frans G. Bengtsson's Red Orm (incomplete); Hermann Borchardt's The Conspiracy of Carpenters; Dola de Jong's Knikkernik, Knakkernak, and Knokkernok (several chapters); Anthony Fokker and Frank Harper's Specialized in Terror; Heinrich Hauser's Time Was; Frederick Heydenau's The Wrath of the Eagles; Hugo von Hofmannsthal's Plays at Salzburg; Hermann Kesten's Colonel Kock; Christine Liungman's The Shining Sea; Ernst Lothar's Beneath Another Sun and A Woman is Witness; Emil Ludwig's Mediterranean; Gerardo E. Neisser's Call Me Frank; and Hermann Rauschning's The Redemption of Democracy.

In addition, the collection includes Fritz von Unruh's untitled 1941 novel, as well as Franz Werfel's Jacobowsky and the Colonel and A Portrait of Giuseppe Verdi. Some of Mussey's translations were apparently never published. "Translators and Traitors," Mussey's article describing his experiences as a translator, rounds out the collection.

The following standard abbreviation, or its variations, is used to identify materials in this collection: ALS = autograph letter signed, TLS = typed letter signed, TMs = typed manuscript, TMsS = typed manuscript signed.

The collection is arranged alphabetically by author name.

Some of the manuscripts found in draft form in the collection came to print in the following publications: Bengtsson, Frans G., Red Orm (NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1943); Borchardt, Hermann, The Conspiracy of Carpenters (NY: Simon and Schuster, 1943); De Jong, Dola, Knikkernik, Knakkernak, and Knokkernok (NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1942); Hauser, Heinrich, Time Was (NY: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1942); Lothar, Ernst, Beneath Another Sun (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, 1943), and A Woman is Witness (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, 1941); Ludwig, Emil, The Mediterranean (NY: Whittlesey House, 1942); and Rauschning, Hermann, The Redemption Of Democracy (NY: Alliance Book Corp., 1941).

Originally, this collection formed part of Princeton's Archives of American Literature.

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This collection was processed by Rachel Jordan in 2004. Finding aid written by Rachel Jordan in 2004.

Biography written by Jessica Marati, '08.

No appraisal information is available.

Publisher
Manuscripts Division
Finding Aid Author
Rachel Jordan
Finding Aid Date
2004
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TMs, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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Program: December 24, 1940, Berlin, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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ALS by Bochardt to Mussey, 1943 January 14. 1 folder.
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TMs (I), English translation (Simon & Schuster), dates not examined. 1 folder.
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TMs (II), English translation (Simon & Schuster), dates not examined. 1 folder.
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TMs (III), English translation (Simon & Schuster), dates not examined. 1 folder.
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TMs (carbon), Dutch (unpublished), dates not examined. 1 folder.
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English translation made but lost.

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TMs (carbon) (Scribner), dates not examined. 1 folder.
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TMs, German, translation made but lost (unpublished), dates not examined. 1 folder.
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TMs, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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TMs (mostly carbon), German: Der Zorn der Adler, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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Program: February 22, 194?, Berlin, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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TMs, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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Program: December 25, 1940, Rome, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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TMs, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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Program: December 25, 1940, Berlin, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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Program: May 17, 1942, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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TMs, English translation, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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Program: December 25, 1940, Berlin, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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TMs (carbon), German, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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Program: May 17, 1942, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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TMs, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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TMs (carbon), dates not examined. 1 folder.
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TMs, German, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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TMs, German, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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TMs, English translation (Doubleday), dates not examined. 1 folder.
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TMs with holograph revisions, English translation (Doubleday), dates not examined. 1 folder.
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2 ALsS to Barrows Mussey, 1940-1941. 1 folder.
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TMs (carbon), German, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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TMs, English translation, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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TMs, English translation, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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TMs, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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Contains corrections, glossary, new forward (German) for translation

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TMs, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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TMs (carbon), dates not examined. 1 folder.
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TMs (carbon), dates not examined. 1 folder.
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TLS by Neisser to Mussey, 1942. 1 folder.
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Program: December 25, 1940, London, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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TMs, German (English translation made but lost) (unpublished), dates not examined. 1 folder.
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TMs (Alliance Book Corp.), dates not examined. 1 folder.
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TMs, English translation, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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TLS by Unruh to Mussey, 1941. 1 folder.
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ALS by Unruh to Mussey, 1941. 1 folder.
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TMs (carbon), German: Jacobowsky und der Oberst, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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TMs, English translation by Mussey, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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TMsS (carbon), German: Ein Bildnis Giuseppe Verdi's, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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TMs, English translation by Mussey, dates not examined. 1 folder.
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