New Lives

Editorial Note

MOST OF THE LETTERS ARE HANDWRITTEN, a smaller number were typed, the last ones on a computer.

With few exceptions T. always kept a carbon copy or printout. Wherever there was both an original and a copy, only significant changes are noted, scratch-outs for instance. Words underlined by T. are set here in italics.

Matters are somewhat less transparent with regard to the small body of thirteen letters to Vera Türmer. Only three of the letters sent to Beirut have survived, all in the form of copies. The two faxed letters no longer exist as received letters. The final letter was never sent.

Errors in grammar and spelling have been corrected without remark, although both regionalisms and Türmer’s own idiosyncrasies were taken into consideration.

I.S.