Oswald Mueller manuscript
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a typewritten manuscript called "Seeking the Garden of the World", which is Oswald Mueller’s English translation of Fritz Scheffel’s Deutsche suchen den Garten der Welt. Mueller authors the preface, in which he describes the story as that of the failed German attempt to colonize Texas into a New-Germania. The manuscript is 351 pages long.
Dates
- Creation: 1948
Creator
- Mueller, Oswald (Translator, Person)
Conditions Governing Access
This material is open for research.
Conditions Governing Access
Stored onsite at the Woodson Research Center.
Conditions Governing Use
Permission to publish material from the Oswald Mueller manuscript must be obtained from the Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library.
Biographical / Historical
No information is currently available on the author.
Extent
0.25 Linear Feet (2 folders)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
This typewritten manuscript is titled "Seeking the Garden of the World". It is Oswald Mueller’s English translation of Fritz Scheffel’s Deutsche suchen den Garten der Welt. Mueller authors the preface, in which he describes the story as that of the failed German attempt to colonize Texas into a New-Germania.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
This collection was a gift from Oswald Mueller.
- Title
- Guide to the Oswald Mueller manuscript, ca. 1948
- Status
- Completed
- Date
- 2009
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas Repository
Fondren Library MS-44, Rice University
6100 Main St.
Houston Texas 77005 USA
713-348-2586
woodson@rice.edu