ID: 8771  -  Gigliola Sacerdoti Mariani  -  Firenze Type: Text    Klaus Format: Medium: Letter Extent: 2 pp. Identifier: Source: Title: [Klaus Mann to Muriel Rukeyser] Subtitle: Alternative: Agents: Creator: Mann, Klaus Role: Name: Created: 1942-01-11 Date: in/on: Language: English Rights: Berg Collection, N. Y. Public Library Relation: IsPartOf Qualifier: Berg Collection, N. Y. Public Library Coverage: Place: Time: Description: Typed letter with misprints and handwritten corrections. Formal closing words and signature (in huge capital letters) are handwritten. Subjects: Places Subjects: Displacement Subjects: Exchanges Subjects: Cultural Practices Subjects: Wo/Men Subjects: Wo/Men Keywords: magazines Keywords: writers Keywords: periodicals Keywords: magazines Keywords: Mann, Klaus Keywords: Rukeyser, Muriel Query Subject+Keyword: (Places, magazines) Query Subject+Keyword: (Displacement, writers) Query Subject+Keyword: (Exchanges, periodicals) Query Subject+Keyword: (Cultural Practices, magazines) Query Subject+Keyword: (Wo/Men, Mann, Klaus) Query Subject+Keyword: (Wo/Men, Rukeyser, Muriel) Comment: In December 1940, Klaus Mann founded the English-language journal Decision. Contributors included W. H. Auden, Sherwood Anderson, Stephen Spender, Jean-Paul Sartre and Muriel Rukeyser. In a page of his diary, dated June 8, 1941, after quoting the first few lines of “Who in one lifetime”, Mann comments: “These terrifying lines are from a poem Muriel Rukeyser gave me for the forthcoming issue. If only I were somewhat less familiar with the anguish they articulate …”. In another page, a few weeks later, he writes: “I suppose this is the most lonely summer I’ve ever experienced. […] the only person I see is Muriel Rukeyser, who recently joined the staff of the magazine. She is a great help in these trying days. Probably I couldn’t carry on Decision if it were not for her cheering and dynamic assistance” (345-6). From the letter here attached, we can evince that Rukeyser was willing to resign as Associate Editor of Decision.