Call Number:

C0009

Repository:

Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division

Extent:

5 boxes

Language:

Dutch; Flemish

Preferred Citation:

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Barrows Mussey Translations, Box and Folder Number; Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Date:

circa 1940-1944 (inclusive)

Creator:

Mussey, June Barrows, 1910-1985

Abstract:

The Barrows Mussey Translations collection consists of English translations of works by various European authors, predominately German, made by the American translator Barrows Mussey.

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

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.