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Collitz (Klara Hechtenberg) 1863-1944
Papers (1881-1948)
Ms. 15
         

Size:          11 document boxes
               (4.6 linear ft.)

Processed:     February 1988
By:            M. C. Beecheno

Provenance:    The papers were acquired between 1945 and 1946
               following the death of Klara Hechtenberg Collitz in
               1944.

Permission:    Permission to publish material from this collection
               must be requested in writing from the Manuscripts
               Librarian, Special Collections, Milton S. Eisenhower
               Library, The Johns Hopkins University.

Citation:      Klara Hechtenberg Collitz Papers Ms. 15
               Special Collections
               Milton S. Eisenhower Library
               The Johns Hopkins University

                   Collitz (Klara Hechtenberg) 1863-1944
                            Papers (1881-1948)
                                  Ms. 15

Provenance

     The papers were acquired some time between 1945 and 1946 following
the death of Klara Hechtenberg Collitz in 1944.

Biographical Note

     Klara Hechtenberg Collitz was born in Germany at Rheydt in Rhenish
Prussia on May 30, 1863.  She was graduated from the Hohere Lehrerinnen-
Bildungsanstalt, Neuwied am Rhein, in 1883, and in 1884-85 studied in
Lausanne to perfect her knowledge of the French language.  From 1889-1892
she attended lectures in Latin and French philology at the University of
London.  After two years of study at Oxford University she gained first
class honors in the Oxford final examination in 1895.  During the
following year she was Lecturer in Romance Languages at Victoria College
in Belfast.  From 1897-99 she had charge of the Department of German
Philology at Smith College, Northampton, Mass.  She attended lectures at
the University of Chicago during the summer of 1897 and spent the year
1898 at the University of Bonn.  After two years at the University of
Heidelberg she took her Ph.D. (magna cum laude) in 1901.  From 1901-1904
she was Lecturer in German Philology for Women Students at Oxford
University.  On August 13, 1904 she married Hermann Collitz.  After her
marriage she devoted herself to extensive research and was the author of
numerous articles and contributions to various scholarly journals in the
United States and abroad.  Particularly noteworthy among her books were:
Das Fremdwort bei Grimmelshausen (1901); Fremdworterbuch des 17
Jahrhunderts (1904); and Verbs of Motion in Their Semantic Divergence
(1931).  Mrs. Collitz died in 1944.

Scope and Content Note

     The papers span the years 1881-1948 and consist of: correspondence,
photographs, newspaper clippings, drafts, typescripts and reprints of
articles by Klara Hechtenberg Collitz, notes and notebooks, diaries,
invitations, bills and receipts, royalty statements, advertisements and
brochures, commonplace book, and pamphlets containing propaganda of World
War I.  Much of the collection is in German and there are some items in
French.

Series Description

SERIES 1:  CORRESPONDENCE  (Boxes 1-6)

     The correspondence of mostly personal and some professional letters
dates from 1891-1948, and comprises more than half of the collection.
A large part of this correspondence is not of a scholarly nature.  There
is a voluminous correspondence from various family members in Germany and
England, and many of these letter present a vivid picture of everyday
life in Germany before and after World War I.  (See letters from the
following families:  Friederichs, Gunter, Hechtenberg, Kauffmann, Laufs,
Thedens and Totzke).  The First World War was a time of some financial
reverses for Klara Collitz and her husband.  The comfortable pre-war
income which she had enjoyed from investments in Germany dwindled
drastically.  At the same time increasing anti-German sentiment in the
United States led to a decline of interest in German and German Studies,
which adversely affected their professional earnings.  These lean years
for the Collitzes and their families in Europe are described in the
correspondence.

     The more scholarly portion of the correspondence related to Klara
Hechtenberg Collitz's philological studies and her prolific writings on
a variety of subjects. 

     The letters are arranged alphabetically by author of letter.

SERIES 2:  PERSONAL (Boxes 7 and 8)

     This series contains biographic material, letters of recommendation,
correspondence with Ostbank, Berlin regarding Klara Collitz's dwindling
accounts, photographs, invitations, travel brochures, bills and receipts,
royalty statements, advertisements of local theatrical and musical
performances, notices from clubs, Bryn Mawr College, Johns Hopkins
University, Oxford University, American Philological Association, Modern
Language Association, and Propaganda pamphlets of World War I.  This
material is arranged alphabetically by subject.

SERIES 3:  WRITINGS  (Box 9)

     In this series there are reprints of articles by Klara Hechtenberg
Collitz; a gallery proof of an article entitled "Boost"; manuscript
notes; drafts and typescripts.  These writings are arranged
alphabetically by title.

SERIES 4:  NOTEBOOKS  (Box 10)

     These notebooks contain manuscript notes, mostly undated, on Old
High German, Middle High German, German Literature, Hildbrandslied.  One
notebook contains notes taken from Prof. Johannes Hoops' lectures in
1900.

SERIES 5:  DIARIES   (Box 11)

     The diaries contain few details and are dated 1912, 1919, 1925,
1928, 1929 and 1930.  There is a ledger of 1919 in which Klara Collitz
has copied articles from various newspapers dealing primarily with
political subjects. An album or commonplace book with entries dated 1882-
1904 has signatures and messages from school friends, sketches, mementos
and verses.                               CONTAINER LIST

     Series 1:  Correspondence

     Box 1

     Abbot-Allen
     Abel, Annie Heloise
     Albright, Ruth and William F.
     Allerdice-Arcady
     Altdorfer, Auguste
     Anderson, Bessie
     Andrews, Evangeline
     Armstrong-Ayre
     Arrowsmith, R.
     Back, Doris
     Barbour-Baxter
     Beaumont-Binz
     Benjamin, Queenie
     Blake-Blau
     Bliss-Bloomfield
     Bocking-Bowman
     Brauer-Bryatn
     Braune, Wilhelm
     Buchner-Byers
     Burchinal, Mary C.
     Cable-Chinard
     Collitz, Hermann
     Clark-Cyples

     Box 2
     Dahschah-DuVal
     Ebeling-Evers
     Falk-Fettback
     Fields-Ford
     Frank-Furst
     Friedsrichs, Henriette, Maria, Max and Ernst
     Friedsrichs, Natalie    
     Gardner, Julia
     Gardner-Gillinder
     Gildersleeve, Basil L.
     Glasock-Gould
     Box 2 (Cont.)

     Goodloe, Jane. F.
     Goskar, Kate E.
     Gray-Gruner
     Gunter, Annie
     Haevernick-Hayward
     Hardcastle, Maria S.
     Hechtenberg, Maria and Wilhelm
     Heffner-Heuser
     Hekmeyer, Elise

     Box 3

     Hicks-Hirsh
     Hoefer-Howell
     Hoops, Ida and Johannes
     Huber-Hyland
     Imelman-James
     Jeffers-Jessen
     Johnson, Bertha J.
     Johnson-Jordan
     Kanton-Karsten
     Kauffmann, Maria and Ludwig, Fritz and Ludwig Jr.
     Keasberg-Keyser
     Keddie, Henrietta
     Kent, Roland G.
     Khull-Kluge
     Knott-Kurath
     Kurrelmeyer, Carrie May

     Box 4
     Lancaster-Lyon
     Laufs, Fritz and Meta
     Laufs, May, Nora and Freddy
     Mackall-Matthews
     McCurdy-McKnight
     Meillet-Meyer
     Miller-Myers
     Napier-Nunn
     Oberer-Hedwig
     Oehlke-Orvis
     Palmgren-Pratt
     Pound, Louise
     Prebble-Prokosch
     Putz, Max and Therese      Box 5

     Reynolds, Muriel
     Raynal,-Richardson
     Robertson-Roulston
     Ruprecht, L.
     Saleski-Schirp
     Schmidt-Sever
     Schulze, Rosa
     Sehrt, Cecilia and Edward H.
     Sievers, Eduard
     Sharpless-Squar
     Starck, Taylor
     Stechert-Sweet
     Tabor-Tyndale
     Thedens, Else
     Thedens, Johanna
     Thedens, Otto
     Totzke, Selma and Alfred

     Box 6

     Ungrad-Vos
     Waldthausen-Waugh
     Wardale, E.E.
     Weber-Wheeler
     White-Wintgens
     Windheim, Gertrud von
     Wood, Clothilde M. and Joseph
     Zwick, Mary
     Unidentified

     Series 2:  Personal

    
     Box 7

     American Philological Association
     Biographic Material
     Bryn Mawr College
     Bulletins
     College Club
     German War Relief
     Household
     Johns Hopkins University
     Letters of Recommendation
     Linguistic Society of America & Modern Language Association

     Box 8

     Ostbank (1909-1938)
     Oxford University (1912-1939)
     Peabody Conservatory
     Photographs
     Publications and Royalties
     Travels
     World War I Propaganda
                                           
     Series 3:  Writings
    
     Box 9

     Bibliography.  1938
     Alliteration in American English. (reprint) 1932
     Boost.  (galley proof and reprint) 1926
     Der Briefstil im 17.  Jahrhundert.  (reprint) 1903
     Clipped Appelatives in German. (typescript) 1931
     Elizabeth, Queen of Rumania ("Carmen Sylva") 1931
     English "hiss" and it Cognates.  (manuscript notes)  n.d.
     Das Frauenstudium in England.  (newspaper article, Der     
     Zeitgeist, 13 Juni 1904)
     Fremdworterbuch des siezehnten Jahrhunderts.  (reprint)  1904
     Nifty, Hefty, Natty, Snappy.  (reprint) 1929
     Propriety in the Light of Linguistics.  (reprint)  1927
     The Suffix -ei in Modern German.  (reprint) 1928
     Verbs of Motion.  (tyescript, draft) n.d.
     Verbs of Motion in Their Semantic Divergence.  (reprint) 1931
     [Notes - various] n.d.

     Series 4:  Notebooks

     Box 10

     Old High German - notes n.d. [1891?]
     Chrest's story - notes n.d.
     Old High German - notes; with some French exercises n.d.
     Notes - n.d. [1899-1900?]
     Vocabulary - Middle High German n.d.
     German Literature - notes. n.d.
     Hildebrandslied - notes n.d.
     Lectures of Prof. Hoops, 1900 - notes

     Series 5:  Diaries

     Box 11

     Diaries:  1912, 1919, 1925, 1928, 1929, 1930.
     Ledger, 1919, political articles copied from newspapers
     Album/Commonplace Book, 1882 - 1904. INDEX

Albright, Ruth and William F. (1)
"Alliteration in American English" (9)
Altdorger, Auguste (1)
American Philological Association (7)
Arrowsmith, R. (1)
Back, Doris (1)
"Boost" (9)
Braune, Wilhelm (1)
"Der Briefstil im 17. Jahrhundert."  (9)
Bryn Mawr College (7)
Burchinal, Mary C. (1)
"Clipped Appelatives in German." (9)
Collitz, Hermann  (1)
"Elizabeth, Queen of Romania." (9)
"English "hiss" and its Cognates." (9)
"Das Frausnstudium in England." (9)
"Das Fremdwort bei Grimmelshausen." (9)
"Fremdworterbuch des siebzehnten Jahrhunderts." (9)
Friedrichs Family (2)
Gardner, Julia (2)
German Literature (10)
German War Relief (7)
Gildersleeve, Basil L. (2)
Goodloe, Jane F. (2)
Goscar, Kate (2)
Gunter Family (2)
Hardcastle, Maria S. (2)
Hechtenberg Family (2)
Hekmeyer, Elise (2)
Hildesbrandslied (10)
Hoops, Ida and Johannes (3) (10)
Johnson, Bertha J. (3)
Kauffmann Family (3)
Kent, Roland G. (3)
Kurrelmeyer, Carrie May (3)
Laufs Family (4)
Middle High German (10)
"Nifty, Hefty, Natty, Snappy." (9)
Oberer, Hedwig (4)
Old High German (10)
Ostbank (8)
Oxford University (8)
Peabody Conservatory (8)
Pound, Louise (4)
"Propriety in the Light of Linguistics."
Putz, Max and Therese (4)
Reynolds, Muriel (5)
Ruprecht, L. (5)
Schulze, Rosa (5)
Sehrt, Cecilia and Edward H. (5)
Sievers, Eduard (5)
Starck, Taylor (5)
"The Suffix -ei in Modern German."
Thedens Family (5)
Totzke Family (5)
"Verbs of Motion" (9)
"Verbs of Motion in their Semantic Divergence." (9)
Wardale, E.E. (6)
Windheim, Gertrud von (6)
Wood, Clothilde and Henry (6)
World War I Propaganda (8)
Wright, Elizabeth M. and Joseph (6)
Zwick, Mary (6)