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Edward Kilenyi, Jr. Materials Kilenyi I Kilenyi Jr. to father ● 49 letters and 1 letter fragment from Kilenyi Jr. to father ● 5 postcards to father ● 19 telegrams to father (1940s) or to mother (North African tour) ● 8 envelopes, 4 with their respective letters and 4 loose 1. Letter to Edward Kilenyi Sr. from Edward Kilenyi Jr., June 1, [1933]. [Budapest]. People mentioned: Ernő Dohnányi, Irén Senn, Elza Galafrés Dohnányi, Alfred Cortot, Pásztor, Arthur Judson, Halli Huberman. 2. Letter to Edward Kilenyi Sr. from Edward Kilenyi Jr., with envelope, July 3, 1933. Paris, Hotel Malherbe. People mentioned: Alfred Cortot, Ernő Dohnányi, Robert Casadeus, Eugene Ormandy. 3. Letter to Edward Kilenyi Sr. from Edward Kilenyi Jr., with envelope, October 1, 1933. Paris. People mentioned: Ethel Kilenyi, Josef Slenczynski, Ruth Slenczynska, [Gerald?] Langelaan and son [George Langelaan]. 4. Letter to Edward Kilenyi Sr. from Edward Kilenyi Jr., with envelope, October 22, 1933. Paris. People mentioned: Rudolf Serkin, Adolf Busch, Joseph Hoffmann. 5. Letter to Edward Kilenyi Sr. from Edward Kilenyi Jr., with envelope, October 10, 1934. Paris, Claridge’s Hotel. People mentioned: Wilhelm Fürtwangler, Joseph Goebbels, Dr. Schiff, Marcel de Valmalète. 6. Letter to Edward Kilenyi Sr. from Edward Kilenyi Jr., January 6, 1935. Milan, Grand Hotel Continental. People mentioned: Ethel Kilenyi, Giacomo Balla, Sir Geoffrey Fry, Elza Galafrés Dohnányi, cousin Laczi. 7. Letter to Edward Kilenyi Sr. from Edward Kilenyi Jr., January 4, 1941. [New York]. People mentioned: Ethel Kilenyi, Fulkerson, Jack Salter, Yehudi Menuhin. 8. Letter to Edward Kilenyi Sr. from Edward Kilenyi Jr., November 15, 1941. [New York]. People mentioned: Jascha Heifitz, Olin Downes, Rudolf Serkin, Claudio Arrau, Moe [Moses Smith], Eugene Stinson, Alexander Greiner, Theodore Steinway, William Steinway, Jack Salter, Giannino Agostinaccho, Frances McLanahan, Ilya, Arthur Judson. 9. Letter to Edward Kilenyi Sr. from Edward Kilenyi Jr., November 23, 1941. [New York]. People mentioned: Ethel Kilenyi, Moe [Moses Smith], Gabriel Fenyves. 10. Letter to Edward Kilenyi Sr. from Edward Kilenyi Jr., December 15, 1941. [New York], Hotel des Artistes. People mentioned: Ethel Kilenyi, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Julio Kilenyi, Gabriel Fenyves and wife [Jane?]. 11. Letter to Edward Kilenyi Sr. from Edward Kilenyi Jr., January 8, 1942. [New York]. People mentioned: Julio Kilenyi, Selmar Meyrowitz, Ilya, Jack Salter. 12. Letter to Edward Kilenyi Sr. from Edward Kilenyi Jr., February 16, 1942. [New York]. People mentioned: Olin Downes, Billy Hyman, [F. W.?] Risberg. 13. Letter to Edward Kilenyi Sr. from Edward Kilenyi Jr., dated “Monday” [1934?] New York. People mentioned: José Iturbi, Jack Salter, Arthur Judson, Grace Salter, John Barbirolli, Bruno Zirato, New York Philharmonic, Vladimir Horowitz, Frances McLanahan. 14. Letter to Edward Kilenyi Sr. from Edward Kilenyi Jr., July 8, [1934?]. London. People mentioned: Count Laszlo Széchenyi, [Marquis Alfonz de Csáky] Pallavicini, [César?] Searchinger, Adrian Boult, Laszlo Fülöp [Philip de László], Baroness Schröder, Meda Lynn, Arthur Judson. 15. Letter to Edward Kilenyi Sr. from Edward Kilenyi Jr., November 12, [1934]. [New York?]. People mentioned: Aunt Margaret, Julio Kilenyi, Ethel Kilenyi, Arthur Judson, Eugene Ormandy, [César?] Saerchinger, Meda Lynn, Arthur Rubinstein, Walter Gieseking, Ruth Slenczynska, Mrs. Townsend. 16. Letter to Edward Kilenyi Sr. from Edward Kilenyi Jr., December 17, [1934?]. Paris. Names mentioned: Ethel Kilenyi, Countess Behague [Martine-Marie-Pol de Béhague], Gilman, Ambassador Strauss [Jesse Isador Straus]. 17. Letter to Edward Kilenyi Sr. from Edward Kilenyi Jr., February 7, [1933]. Budapest, Hotel St. Gellért. People mentioned: Ernő Dohnányi, [Emil?] Telmányi, Nicholas Roosevelt, Halli Huberman. 18. Letter to Edward Kilenyi Sr. from Edward Kilenyi Jr., March 23, [1933]. Budapest, Hotel St. Gellért. People mentioned: [Bronisław?] Huberman, Halli Huberman. 19. Letter to Edward Kilenyi Sr. from Edward Kilenyi Jr., April 28, [1933]. [Budapest]. People mentioned: Irén Senn, Ernő Dohnányi, Igor Stravinsky, Halli Huberman. 20. Letter to Edward Kilenyi Sr. from Edward Kilenyi Jr., August 3, [1933]. Paris. People mentioned: Ruth Slenczynska and father [Josef Slenczynski], Nicolai Orloff. 21. Letter to Edward Kilenyi Sr. from Edward Kilenyi Jr., September 8, [1934?]. Vienna. Names mentioned: Berci, Ethel Kilenyi, Bransens [Walter Bransen and Dorthee Manski], Bruno Walter. 22. Letter to Edward Kilenyi Sr. from Edward Kilenyi Jr., January 27, [1933] Budapest, Hotel St. Gellért. People mentioned: Cecilia Hansen, Ethel Kilenyi, Grock [stage name of Charles Adrien Wettach], Nina Fonaroff, Ernő Dohnányi. 23. Letter to Edward Kilenyi Sr. from Edward Kilenyi Jr., August 11, [1934?]. Budapest. People mentioned: Sol Hurok, Arthur Judson, Mr. Clark, Ernő Dohnányi, Irén Senn, Pásztor. 24. Letter to Edward Kilenyi Sr. from Edward Kilenyi Jr., May 12, [1934]. Paris. People mentioned: Ethel Kilenyi, Countess Behague [Martine-Marie-Pol de Béhague], Ernő Dohnányi, Artur Schnabel, Elza Galafrés Dohnányi, Leopold Stokowski, Sergei Koussevitzky, [Gabriel?] Gaveau. 25. Letter to Edward Kilenyi Sr. from Edward Kilenyi Jr., July 9, 19—. [New York]. People mentioned: Ethel Kilenyi, Julio Kilenyi, Meda Lynn, Eugene. 26. Letter to Edward Kilenyi Sr. from Edward Kilenyi Jr., June 9, [1935]. Oare House, Wiltshire. People mentioned: Sir Geoffrey Fry, Mrs. Townsend, Lady Cunard [Maud Alice Burke], Lord Derby [Edward George Villiers Stanley], [Edward VIII], [Prince George, Duke of Kent]. 27. Letter to Edward Kilenyi Sr. from Edward Kilenyi Jr., February 6, [1935]. London. People mentioned: Countess Béhague [Martine-Marie-Pol de Béhague], Marcel Grandjany, François de Wendel, Ernő Dohnányi, Princesse Polignac [Winaretta Singer], Countess Mercati [Harriet Wright], Lady Cunard [Maud Alice Burke], Arturo Toscanini, Ignacy Paderewski, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Otto Klemperer, Sol Hurok, the Bransens (Walter Bransen and Dorothee Manski). 28. Letter to Edward Kilenyi Sr. from Edward Kilenyi Jr., January 9, [1933?]. Aboard the Norddeutscher Lloyd ship D. Bremen. People mentioned: Arthur Judson, Mrs. Cooper, [Harold?] Bauer, Edwin Fischer, Alfred Cortot, Poldi Mildner, Frederic Horwitz, Géza de Koos, Lütgert, Miss Yarmel, Joseph Szigeti. 29. Letter to Edward Kilenyi Sr. from Edward Kilenyi Jr., December 14, [1932]. [New York]. People mentioned: [José] Iturbi. 30. Letter to Edward Kilenyi Sr. from Edward Kilenyi Jr., dated “Thursday”. [Place unknown]. People mentioned: Ethel Kilenyi. 31. Letter to Edward Kilenyi Sr. from Edward Kilenyi Jr., July 17, [1935]. [Budapest?]. People mentioned: Mme. La Grave, [Maurice?] Dandelot, Ernő Dohnányi, Irén Senn, Arthur Judson, Harold Holt. 32. Letter to Edward Kilenyi Sr. from Edward Kilenyi Jr., August 8, [1935]. Balatonföldvár, Hungary. People mentioned: Mme. La Grave, Arthur Judson, Harold Holt, Sir Thomas Beecham, Arturo Toscanini, [Paul?] Cravath, Ernő Dohnányi, Elza Galafrés Dohnányi, Waldbauer. 33. Letter to Edward Kilenyi Sr. from Edward Kilenyi Jr., April 15, [1935]. Paris. People mentioned: Andrés Segovia, Malcolm Sargent, Adrian Boult, Thomas Beecham, Hamilton Harty, Sir Geoffrey Fry, Ernő Dohnányi, Lady Cunard [Maud Alice Burke], Lady Ethel Snowden, Mrs. [Rachel] Townsend, [Gladys Vanderbilt?] Szechenyi, Countess Mercati [Harriet Wright], Schiff, William Steinway, Harold Holt, Wilfrid Van Wyck, Robert Leigh Ibbs, John Tillett, Lady Melchet [Violet Mond, Baroness Melchett], Mme de Rothschild [Kathleen (Kitty) Wolf?], [Marquis Alphonz de Csáky] Pallavicini, Philip de László, Dr. Rácz, Lady Clementine Beit, Countess Behague [Martine-Marie-Pol de Béhague], Elza Galafrés Dohnányi, [Sándor? or Károly?] Khuen-Héderváry. 34. Letter to Edward Kilenyi Sr. from Edward Kilenyi Jr., February 8, [1941]. [New York]. People mentioned: Frances McLanahan, Edward Johnson, Jack Salter, Grace Salter, Rappée [Ernö Rapée], Béla Bartók, Ethel Kilenyi. 35. Letter to Edward Kilenyi Sr. from Edward Kilenyi Jr., May 18 and 22, [1935]. [Paris]. People mentioned: Ambassador Strauss [Jesse Isador Straus], Philippe Gaubert, Schiff, Gladys Vanderbilt Széchenyi, Countess Mercati [Harriet Wright], Mme de Rothschild [Kathleen (Kitty) Wolf?], George II of Greece, Prince René de Bourbon-Parme, Princess Margaret of Denmark, John Tillett, Thomas Beecham, Viola Mitchell. 36. Letter to Edward Kilenyi Sr. from Edward Kilenyi Jr., May 31, [1941]. [New York]. People mentioned: Julio Kilenyi, Ethel Kilenyi, Bishop, Billy [William A. Hyman], Newman, Jack Salter, Grace Salter, Ilya, Edward Wallerstein. 37. Letter to Edward Kilenyi Sr. from Edward Kilenyi Jr., dated “Thursday” [January 5, 1933?]. New York. People mentioned: Bruno Walter, Arturo Toscanini, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Issay Dobrowen. 38. Letter to Edward Kilenyi Sr. from Edward Kilenyi Jr., May 25, [1934]. [Paris]. People mentioned: Irving Schwerké, Leopold Stokowski, Sergei Koussevtizky, Arthur Judson, Dr. Schiff, [Tibor?] Serly, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Lauritz Melchior, Frida Leider, Alexander Kipnis, Rudolf Serkin, Arthur Rubinstein, Vladimir Horowitz, Artur Schnabel, Bronisław Huberman, Cecilia Hansen, Arturo Toscanini, Carlo Zecchi. 39. Letter to Edward Kilenyi Sr. from Edward Kilenyi Jr., February 1, [1934]. Paris. People mentioned: Dr. Schiff, Baron Villani, Halli Huberman, American ambassador [Jesse Isador Straus?]. 40. Letter to Edward Kilenyi Sr. from Edward Kilenyi Jr., February 26, [1935]. Paris. People mentioned: