Guide to the Otto Müller papers , 1816-1914


Brown University Library, Special Collections
Box A, John Hay Library
Providence, RI 02912
Tel: 401-863-2146
E-mail: hay@brown.edu

Published in 2010

Collection Overview

Title: Otto Müller papers
Date range: 1816-1914
Creator: Müller, Otto, 1816-1894
Extent: 11 linear feet
Abstract: Otto Müller was a German political author and journalist, who produced over 25 books in his lifetime. He is best known for his novel Charlotte Ackermann, which was later made into a play. This collection includes manuscripts, reviews, correspondence, artwork, professional and personal documents, and articles from journals and newspapers both by and about Müller.
Language of materials: German
Repository: Brown University Library, Special Collections
Collection number: Ms. 2010.023

Scope & content

This collection contains personal and professional materials, including correspondence, manuscripts of published and unpublished material, reviews, clippings by and about Müller, personal and professional documents, drawings, and photographs, as well as holiday cards, calling cards, and diaries.

Access Points

Subject Topics

Arrangement

The collection has been divided into 7 series, based on type of material.

  • Series 1, Artwork
  • Series 2, Newspaper/Journal Clippings
  • Series 3, Correspondence
  • Series 4, Documents
  • Series 5, Ephemera
  • Series 6, Manuscripts
  • Series 7, Reviews/Criticism

Biographical note

Otto Muller was raised in Darmstadt, Germany, where, after studying theology, he became the librarian at the Darmstadt court library then the private librarian for Prince Karl von Hessen. In 1843 he became the editor of the literary Frankfurter Conversationsblatt. He continued to write and edit throughout his career, espousing his political beliefs and his love of history. Many of his works were published in serialized form, and his best-known work, Charlotte Ackermann, was made into a play. Muller's wife, Gustava Fritz, died in 1854 after giving him a son, Gustav, and in 1856, he married her sister, Alvinia, with whom he lived in Stuttgart until his death in 1894.

Access & Use

Access to the collection: There are no restrictions on access, except that the collection can only be seen by prior appointment. Some materials may be stored off-site and cannot be produced on the same day on which they are requested.
Use of the materials: Although Brown University has physical ownership of the collection and the materials contained therein, it does not claim literary rights. Researchers should note that compliance with copyright law is their responsibility. Researchers must determine the owners of the literary rights and obtain any necessary permissions from them.
Preferred citation: Otto Müller papers, Ms. 2010.023, Brown University Library.
Contact information: Brown University Library, Special Collections
Box A, John Hay Library
Providence, RI 02912
Tel: 401-863-2146
E-mail: hay@brown.edu

Administrative Information

ABOUT THE COLLECTION  
Acquisition: Gift of Elizabeth M. Bishop, July 20, 2000. (A2000-50)
ABOUT THE FINDING AID  
Author: Finding aid prepared by Gaelen Adam.
Encoding: Finding aid encoded by Gaelen Adam 2010 June 09
Descriptive rules: Finding aid based on Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS)

Additional Information

Inventory


Series 1. Artwork

Box 2, Folder 3 Pen and Ink drawing: German soldier with bayonet
Box 3, Folder 22 Drawings
Box 8, Folder 20 Sketch
Box 11x, Folder 1 Gravesite of Otto Müller
Box 11x, Folder 3 Assorted prints, photographs, and illustrations

Series 2. Newspaper/Journal Clippings

Box 2, Folder 21 Swabian Chronicle; 2
1880-1882
Box 4, Folder 8 Articles about Müller: Burger, Alexander Afred Bock, 1902; Burschenschaftliche Blatte, Berlin, April 1890; Hessenland, Nov. 1901
1890, 1901, 1902
Box 5, Folder 4 Zeilage zum Sonntagsblatt der New York Staats Zeitung: clippings
1885
Box 5, Folder 11 Frankfurt Museum Aesthetic Newspaper 1855-1956, edited by Otto Mueler
1855-1856
Box 5, Folder 16 New York Staats Zeitung clippings
Sept. 1889
Box 6, Folder 14 Deutsche Illustrierte Zeitung
1894
Box 6, Folder 15 Wiener Literatur Zeitung, 1885-1892; Burschenschaftliche Blatter, 1890; Homeopathic Monthly Magazine, 1885
1885-1890
Box 6, Folder 17 Newspaper clippings
1880s
Box 8, Folder 14 Clippings
Box 8, Folder 21 Clippings
1859
Box 8, Folder 24 Pussnaer Bitterwasser (?)
Box 8, Folder 26 Europaishe Beitung
1817

Series 3. Correspondence

Box 2, Folder 4 Miscellaneous correspondence
Box 2, Folder 10 Letter or Note from Gustava Fritze
1846
Box 2, Folder 12 Letters of Gustava Fritze Müller
Box 2, Folder 13 Letters of Otto Müller, mostly to his son Gustav
1885-1894
Box 2, Folder 14 Letters to Otto Müller from Gustav Müller
1887-1889, 1886 (?)
Box 2, Folder 16 Letters from Gustav Müller
1879-1881
Box 2, Folder 23 Letters of Otto Müller to his sister in Darmstadt and to his mother in Bremen
Box 3, Folder 6 Two leather writing cases with newspaper clippings and some letters
Box 3, Folder 12 Letters to Gustav Müller. Pamphlets by Schulte von Bruhl concerning Otto Müller
Box 3, Folder 15 Letters, autographs, souvenir programs to Otto Müller
Box 3, Folder 21 Additional correspondence
Box 5, Folder 8 Letters to Otto Müller in Stuttgart from Anna Andreae with death notice
Box 5, Folder 12 Love letter, from Otto Müller to his wife
1849
Box 7, Folder 1 Correspondence: various writers (H)
1860-1880
Box 7, Folder 2-5 Correspondence: various writers (A-D)
1860-1903
Box 7, Folder 6-8 Gustav Müller letters (copied) during his wandering years
1870-1882
Box 7, Folder 9-10 Correspondence: various writers (R)
1860-1880
Box 7, Folder 11 Correspondence: various writers (J)
1860-1880
Box 7, Folder 12 Correspondence: various writers (M)
1860-1880
Box 8, Folder 1 Correspondence: various writers (L)
1860-1880
Box 8, Folder 2 Correspondence: various writers (E)
1846-1886
Box 8, Folder 3 Correspondence: various writers (F)
1860-1880
Box 8, Folder 4 Correspondence: various writers (G)
1860-1880
Box 8, Folder 8 Gustava Fritze letters from youth
1830-1860
Box 8, Folder 12 Family matters: 79 letters
1892-1894
Box 8, Folder 17 Envelopes
Box 8, Folder 19 Correspondence: unlabeled
Box 8, Folder 22 Otto Müller's letters
Box 8, Folder 23 Letters, clippings
Box 10, Folder 1 Correspondence: various writers (W)
1860-1880
Box 10, Folder 4 Correspondence: various writers (W)
1860-1880
Box 10, Folder 5 Correspondence: various writers (Z)
1860-1880
Box 10, Folder 6 Literary Activities: to Scheffel from Otto Müller
1855-1861
Box 10, Folder 7 Correspondence: (S-Scheffel)
Box 10, Folder 8 Literary Activities: to Scheffel from Otto Müller
1855-1861
Box 10, Folder 9 Correspondence: various writers (O-P)
1860-1880
Box 10, Folder 10 Correspondence: various writers (P)
1860-1880

Series 4. Documents

Box 1, Folder 1 Typed Documents: Book Contracts, Refusal to publish article
Box 2, Folder 6 Letters to Publishers
1885-1893
Box 3, Folder 8 Copy of Otto Müller's Birth ceritificate 1833, original date 1816
1833
Box 3, Folder 9 Funeral 2nd class of Gustava Müller. Mannheim
1852
Box 3, Folder 14 Contracts
Box 3, Folder 19 Wedding: Otto Müller and Alvinia Fritze
1856
Box 4, Folder 12 Other documents
Box 6, Folder 1 Summons to court, ref J.P. Grohe
1848
Box 8, Folder 5 Contracts
Box 8, Folder 7 Copies of legal documents, birth certificates, etc.
Box 8, Folder 11 Geneology: Müller and Klamroth
Box 8, Folder 18 Family documents
1816-
Box 8, Folder 28 Certificate
1849

Series 5. Ephemera

Box 1, Folder 4 Otto Müller visiting cards
Box 2, Folder 7 Printed Card, Café Rabenau
Box 2, Folder 9 Carmen Program; Lucerne
1889
Box 2, Folder 11 Hochfurstlich Hessen-Darmstadtischer Staats und Address-Kalender Auf Das Jahr
1791
Box 2, Folder 18 Grassman; Moral Theology; banned in Stettin, anti-catholic pamphlet with insert bay Prince Max; Grossman
1901
Box 2, Folder 22 National Korner Feier; with letter signed by committee
1863
Box 3, Folder 7 New Year's Greeting Cards; 60; Stuttgart
before 1846
Box 3, Folder 10 Routes et Distances de Frankfurt; Gumprecht, German Verein
1882
Box 3, Folder 11 Frederic Schiller's Autograph
Box 3, Folder 13 Florence University Catalogue, 1914; History of Turnigen Student Union, 1909; The House with the 3 Lyres; Bundewald; Müller et al. Schulerfest 1859; Das Schulerfest; Müller et. al. Instructions on how to keysonder 1859; letters and article
1914, 1909, 1859
Box 4, Folder 3 Spulheft, the mighty paver of the press; Zuller; Laustner; Knopf; Bucher; Emminghaus; Roberts Burning Theater Questions; Neustadt Gymnasium Catalog; Poem
Box 4, Folder 5 Denkinger; Jubilee of John Calvern; S.A.Altar
1909
Box 5, Folder 1 Clossman, Ma Vie; chipped, not complete
1859
Box 5, Folder 3 Numerous pamphlets and booklets
1850-1869
Box 5, Folder 20 Schillerfest program
1863
Box 6, Folder 8 Green Booklet
Box 6, Folder 13 Reviews, invitations, programs, etc
Box 8, Folder 13 Journal
Box 9, Folder 1 Wrappers
Box 10, Folder 2 Weidig; Reliquien; Huff (Otto Müller's copy)
1838
Box 10, Folder 3 Weidig; history and poems; poison
1847

Series 6. Manuscripts

Box 1, Folder 2 Original manuscript of Alter and Kirker - volume 2
Box 1, Folder 3 Uber Land und Meer vol. 52
1874
Box 2, Folder 1 Rotharmel in parts; Sonntagsblatt der N.Y. Stadts Zeitung
1889
Box 2, Folder 8 Ad for Der Fall Von Konstanz- Wilhelm Meck; Ad for Der Fall Von Konstanz- Ernst Gunther
Box 2, Folder 17 Illustrierten Deutschen Monatshefte: serialization of Das Irrwischparchen
1886
Box 2, Folder 19 Illustrierte Deutsche Monatshefte: Die Deutsche Muse am Nordpal
1892
Box 2, Folder 20 Unnamed Manuscript of Otto Müller; 200 pages with corrections
Box 3, Folder 1-2 First draft of Die Kiliansverberge
Box 3, Folder 4 Corrected manuscript of Charlotte Ackermann, Frankfurt, with printer's instructions
1854
Box 3, Folder 5 Unpublished manuscript: Die Kiliansverberge
Box 3, Folder 17 The Ones Who Are at Fault, for WWI; Gustav Müller; Swabischer Merkur
1916
Box 3, Folder 18 Rotharmel in parts; Sonntagsblatt der N.Y. Staats Zeitung; Serialization
1889
Box 3, Folder 20 Playbills of Charlotte Ackermann
1855-1869
Box 4, Folder 2 Playbills of Charlotte Ackermann
Box 4, Folder 4 Playbills Charlotte Ackermann, 9 copies; screenplay by Mosenthal
1854
Box 4, Folder 7 Landasdorf, A., Der Fleischtrager Romer Bull, with wrappers
1842
Box 4, Folder 10 Extracts of Andrea D'Castago; missing 1/8 Frankfurter Museum
1857
Box 4, Folder 13 Frankfurter Zeitung 1886, incomplete serialization
1872
Box 5, Folder 5 Revision of printed second edition of Der Tannenschutz
c. 1880
Box 5, Folder 6 Das Irrwischparchen, short story by Otto Müller; corrected galley proofs
Box 5, Folder 13 Das Irrwischparchen, manuscript by Otto Müller
Box 5, Folder 15 Manuscript: The Kaiser's Flea and published excerpt
Box 5, Folder 21 Literature by Gustava
Box 6, Folder 3 Serialization of Das Irrwischparchen; illustrierte Deutsche Montashefte
1886
Box 6, Folder 5 Reviews of selected writings
1873
Box 6, Folder 6 Serialization of Der Tannenschutz, 1851, in parts
1851
Box 6, Folder 11 Handwritten Booklets by Gustava
Box 6, Folder 12 Newspaper installments from Otto Müller novel "The Countess and her Servants": Die Grafin und Ihr Diener; incomplete; Frankfurter Zeitung
1880
Box 6, Folder 16 Frankfurter Zeitung 1886, incomplete serialization
1886
Box 8, Folder 6 Copies of poems, etc.
c. 1852
Box 8, Folder 9 unpublished manuscripts
Box 8, Folder 10 La Martime Rafael
1849
Box 8, Folder 15 Random thoughts, sayings, poems of Otto Müller
Box 8, Folder 25 Romildje Steinbrudje auf dem Felsberg an der Bergstrake program
1876
Box 8, Folder 27 Programs and signature books
Box 11x, Folder 2 Galley Proofs, Cola Rienzi
1843
Box 11x, Folder 4 Die Kunst und Alterthums-Denkmale in Konigsreigh Wurtemburg
1880
Box 2, Folder 24 Diary of Fritze Müller with poems
1839-

Series 7. Reviews/Criticism

Box 2, Folder 2 Literary Criticism
Box 2, Folder 5 Reviews of the Professor from Heidelberg
Box 2, Folder 15 Reviews of Schatten Auf Hohen
1884
Box 3, Folder 3 Reviews of Charlotte Ackermann
1854
Box 3, Folder 16 Review of George Volker by Gustava Fritze
1851
Box 4, Folder 1 Reviews of Altan and Kerker
1884
Box 4, Folder 6 Reviews of Otto Müller's books
1880s
Box 4, Folder 9 Reviews of Der Wildsfarrer; review of Aus Petranicus Alten Tagen
Box 4, Folder 11 Handwritten critique to unfavorable review of Georg Volker by Friedrich Lichterfeld
1851
Box 5, Folder 2 Review of Der Postgraf
1880s
Box 5, Folder 7 Review of Munchausen in Vogelslung
Box 5, Folder 9 Review of Der Klosterhof
Box 5, Folder 10 Review of Diadem und Maske; favorable
1875
Box 5, Folder 14 Reviews: Georg Volker, Revolutionary Novel
1880s
Box 5, Folder 17 Munchausen in Sud Deutschland, review by Karl Falk; Frankfurter Zeitung
1882
Box 5, Folder 18 Reviews of Burger by Otto Müller; in Weser Zeitung
c. 1846
Box 5, Folder 19 Reviews of Müller's books
1880s
Box 5, Folder 22 Reviews of Majoratsherr
1880s
Box 5, Folder 23 Reviews of Professor from Hidelberg, Schatten und Hohen Sat Review
18 March 1872
Box 6, Folder 2 Reviews of Schatten und Hohen
c. 1881
Box 6, Folder 4 Reviews of Charlotte Ackermann, Monitor Universal and other papers
1854
Box 6, Folder 7 Reviews of Monika; Algemeine Moden Zeitung, et. al.
1877-1878
Box 6, Folder 9 Wesen Zeitung, 1846; Weiner Zeitung 1854; Review of Altar und Kerken
1846, 1854
Box 6, Folder 10 Reviews of Altar und Kerken
1884
Box 8, Folder 16 Critics
1846