Collection Scope and Content Note

This collection contains about a hundred and fifty letters and some drawings addressed mostly by Parisian intellectuals, poets and scholars to Ernst Curtius and Ernst Robert Curtius, two prominent members of the German educated upper middle-class (Bildungsbürgertum) between 1841 and 1934.

Letters to Ernst Curtius are in series 1.

Letters to Ernst Robert Curtius are in series 2.