Hasterlik Family Correspondence, December 1956- April 1957

Containers:

98.0729 Box 7, Folder 001

Scope and content:

This folder contains correspondence between family members about political ongoings, such as the Hungarina Revolution of 1957 and the aid which Austria offered to refugees. There are discussions about Heimito von Doderer, Auguste "Gusti" Hasterlik's ex-husband, and his increasing fame in the literary communiy. There is also correspondence between Gusti and Erwin Ratz, the president of the International Gustav Mahler Society in Vienna. There is also a copy of a short paragraph which Madeline Hine wrote in school in 1957. There is correspondence about Mia's upcoming operation on her foot on February 4. Additionally, there is a copy of a short story titled "You Mean the Animal, a Bull?" which Giulia sent to the New Yorker under the pseudonym "P. Hasterlik."

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