Friedreich Spielhagen, Berlin, to Hjalamr Hjorth Boyesen, New York, 1893

Extent:

8 p.

Scope and content:

[States that he needed twelve weeks of rest at the Baltic Seaafter producing Sonnatagskindand another novel as well as many literary reviews in the last 1 1/3 years; mentions the latter novel will appear in a German weekly Die Romanweltand in New York Staatszeitung; bemoans his constant financial stress, saying he will never own a house; says that Georg Moritz Ebersand Carl von Heyse, being born to wealth, are the only contemporary German writers who do not have money worries; says Boyesen is in his best years, while he himself is already 64; considers the Cosmopolitanessay topic of German literature of the present too wide a field and limits the first installment of the essay to the dramatists; hopes to mail it to Walkes in 8 days; intends to send essay published in Preussiche Jahrbucher, which he must modify before sending it to Cosmopolitan; judges the present crop of German writers as "students all, no masters yet"; calls Hermann Sudermannthe most talented of the lot; finds Mammon of Unrighteousnessmore important than Social Strugglers; wonders about Americans' reactions to the latter since they would be looking at themselves in a sort of mirror.] (In German)

Names:

Hjalamr Hjorth Boyesen
Georg Moritz Ebers
Carl von Heyse
Hermann Sudermann

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