Call Number:

C0295

Repository:

Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division

Extent:

• 13 boxes
• 6.1 linear feet

Language:

English and German

Preferred Citation:

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Thomas Mann Collection, Box and Folder Number; Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Date:

1881-1971 (inclusive)

Creator:

Princeton University. Library. Special Collections and Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955.

Form:

Correspondence., Galley Proofs (Printing) -- 20th century., Lectures., Photographic prints, and Radio scripts.

Abstract:

Consists of letters, manuscripts, photographs, and other materials from Nobel Prize winning author Thomas Mann, given by Caroline Newton, and also of those collected by Princeton University Library with funds provided by Caroline Newton.

Caroline Newton was a psychoanalyst, once a student of Freud in Vienna. Newton gave generously to Princeton of her books as well as her manuscripts. She was the daughter of the well-known collector A. Edward Newton. The Thomas Mann Collection consists of letters, manuscripts, photographs, and other materials given by Caroline Newton, and also of those collected by Princeton University Library with funds provided by Caroline Newton.

Thomas Mann, brother of Heinrich Mann, was an author of novels, plays, and essays. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1929, fled Germany and came to the U.S. (to Princeton) in 1938, and became a citizen in 1944. Among his best-known works (in English translation) are Buddenbrooks (1901), Death in Venice (1912), and The Magic Mountain (1924). Other publications by Mann include The Holy Sinner (New York: Knopf, 1951), Die Betrogene (Frankfurt am Main: Fischer, 1953), Der Erwahlte (Frankfurt am Main: Fischer, 1967).

Caroline Newton first met Thomas Mann in Berlin in 1929. When he had to leave Germany in 1937, she offered him her house in Jamestown, Rhode Island, and then she helped the Manns establish their home at 65 Stockton Street, Princeton, New Jersey, in 1938. By then Mann was a major German novelist, winner of the 1929 Nobel Prize for Literature, and author of Buddenbrooks. He wrote Lotte in Weimar and began Joseph The Provider while in Princeton. He died August 12, 1955. Caroline Newton arranged for two Mann commemorations at Princeton in 1964 and 1970. Newton died January 20, 1975 at age 82.

The collection contains works of Mann including lectures, addresses, radio broadcasts (1942-1943), proofs for Der Erwahlte and a chapter of Lotte in Weimar, and a facsimile of Die Betrogene, as well as correspondence between Mann and many German and American intellectuals, such as Charles Neider, Arthur Hubscher, Hans Hulsen, Erich von Kahler, and Caroline Newton. In addition, there are memorabilia, photographs of Mann and several friends (Arturo Toscanini, Bruno Walter, etc.), and printed matter relating to Mann, as well as articles and essays of which he is the subject.