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Correspondence between Peter Hans Hofmann and his future wife Susanne Renèe Schwatzer

Date
1937 to 1942
Place
Tatura
Loveday camp
Hay camp
Paris
Cape Town
Subject
Category
Author
Hofmann, Peter Hans
Schwatzer, Susanne Renèe
Keywords
Hay
Tatura camp
Dunera
Loveday
Current holder
Series number
MLMSS 11887
Item number
n88Gg7Jn
Access rights
Request at location
Rights
Copyright restrictions may apply. Please acknowledge: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder.
Country of origin
Language
Description from source
0.48 metres of textual material (3 boxes, includes photographs) The collection also contains 15 photographs of two women.

Approximately 288 letters, postcards and telegrams between Peter Hans Hofmann and his future wife Susanne Renèe Schwatzer. 217 of the letters were written while Hofmann was interned in the United Kingdom and then Australia. Most are written in German, but this changes to English when Hofmann arrives in Australia. Other locations where Hofmann writes from includes Paris and Cape Town.
The collection also contains 13 photographs of Susanne Renèe Schwatzer and an unidentified friend and two studio portraits; one of Susanne Renèe Schwatzer and the other of Mizzi Langalka.
Physical format
Correspondence
Photographs
Manuscripts
Pictures
Bibliographic citation
Secondary languages
English
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