Letters from Emma Klingenfeld to Paul Heyse

The 33 letters from Emma Klingenfeld (1848-1935) to the poet and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature Paul Heyse (1830-1914, Heyse Archive V.105), as well as her letters to Helene Raff (Raffiana VI. Klingenfeld, Emma) contain all sorts of occasional poems, including a complaint of an incompetent player (leaf 22). Special homage is paid to the addressee in the form of an acrosticon:

Poet
Eighties
Great-grandfather
Teacher and master

Heartbreaker
Europe and
Yankeeland's celebrated
Beauty apostle
Honorary citizen

(leaf 24)

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