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Collection Contents
Series 1. Articles about B. Traven and his works. 1948-1986.
Series Scope and Content Summary
Articles on B. Traven, including Michael L. Baumann's Reflections on B. Traven's language (1976), a typescript by Rolf Recknagel (1975), typescripts of two of Jannach's papers on B. Traven, and an article on Tina Modotti and Edward Weston by Amy Conger (1986). 1948-1986.
Newspaper (original) and magazine articles (photocopy and original) on B. Traven, including Judy Stone's Ramparts article, The Mystery of B. Traven (1967) and Gerd Heidemann's Stern article, Wer ist der Mann, der Traven heisst? (1967). 1955-1973.
Magazine titled The Pennsylvania Gazette, complete copy, vol. 74, no. 6 (April, 1976) including article by Michael L. Baumann, "Who is B. Traven?" on p. 15-21, 40-42; and story from magazine Showcase vol. 2, no. 6 (1960s?) by B. Traven, "Why I don't get drunk no more at Doña Amalia's cantina", p. 2-4, 63-65. 1960-1976.
Photocopy of complete book: Rolf Recknagel, B. Traven: Beiträge zur Biographie (Leipzig: Reclam, 1971). 1971.
Series 2. Correspondence. 1949-1987.
Correspondence between Hubert Jannach and Michael L. Baumann. 1974-1977.
Correspondence between Hubert Jannach and Peter Briscoe. Includes typescripts of two papers on B. Traven presented by Jannach in 1952 and 1965, a conference program from the 1982 Penn State conference on B. Traven, and correspondence regarding transfer of Jannach's papers and selected B. Traven books to the University of California, Riverside Library. 1952-1987.
Correspondence between Hubert Jannach and W. Bernard Fleischmann, editor of Encyclopedia of World Literature in the Twentieth Century, Frederick Ungar Pub. Co., to which Jannach contributed the article on B. Traven. 1960-1970.
Correspondence between Hubert Jannach and Charles R. Humphrey. 1963-1964.
Correspondence between Hubert Jannach and Charles Miller. 1963-1974.
Correspondence between Hubert Jannach and Carl Mora, University of New Mexico Press. 1974.
Correspondence between Hubert Jannach and various correspondents, including E.R. Hagemann. 1949-1979.
Series 3. Research and biographical material. 1926-1978, undated.
Notes and correspondence on the B. Traven article "Spielzeug," Typographische Mitteilungen, vol. 26 (1929), p. 71-73, including a photographic reproduction of the article. 1929-1964.
Conference on the Life, Literature and Cinema of B. Traven, held at the University of Arizona, April 18-20, 1975; includes program and correspondence relating to the conference, at which Jannach gave a paper titled The Early and Later Works of B. Traven. 1974-1975.
Newspaper clippings, photocopies, manuscript notes, book reviews of B. Traven books, some B. Traven stories. 1926-1969.
Research notes, manuscript and typed, Hubert Jannach. circa 1938-1978.
Research notes, manuscript, Hubert Jannach; and photocopied excerpts from the National Union Catalogue. circa 1978, undated.