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The Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy Digital Archive
The Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy Digital Archive is the result of a two-year undertaking by the Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy Fund to organize, catalog, and scan the many thousands of documents held at “Four Wells,” Rosenstock-Huessy’s former home in Norwich, Vermont, before the collection was broken up.
The central part of the collection at “Four Wells” was the result of Freya von Moltke’s years of effort to collect both sides of Rosenstock-Huessy’s correspondence. The Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy Fund felt strongly that this work should be preserved, which could only be done by digitizing it, as the need to store the most important papers over the long-term was making it necessary to break up the physical collection. “Unique historical documents” such as manuscripts and original letters were to become the basis of the Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy Archive at Dartmouth’s Rauner Library; the thousands of letters and other documents collected over the years as photocopies -- including most of ERH’s own letters to others – could not become part of that archive, and would be separated out for storage wherever it could be found. The Digital Archive preserves Freya von Moltke’s collection intact, and also contains a major bequest of documents from Cynthia Oudejans-Harris as well as scanned images of related material already held at Rauner.
The Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy Digital Archive contains about 50,000 page-sides of documents in 30 series. It includes over 15,000 pages of letters and documents written by Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, and over 5,000 letters by Margrit Rosenstock-Huessy. As an example, this is the first page of a letter from Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy to Adele Rosenzweig about "Leben, Lehre, Wirken" as response to the "Stern der Erlösung." The following seven pages of the letter are at the bottom of this page.
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The largest single series is the “internal” correspondence between Eugen and Margrit Rosenstock-Huessy, from 1914 to 1959 (some 10,000 page-sides), some of which was even on war postcards.
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Other series contain correspondence with Margrit’s sister Lotti Hüssy (over 1,200 page-sides), with Cynthia Harris (some 750 page-sides in the ERH collection, as well those in the Oudejans-Harris bequest), with Henry and Rosalind Greene (some 3,000 page-sides), with Eugen and Margrit’s son Hans R. Huessy (some 1,150 page-sides), with members of the Rosenstock, Huessy, and Rosenzweig families, publishers and editors, universities and other institutions, as well as friends and students.
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| Telegram from Eugen to Margrit |
Series 13 (“Correspondence A-Z”) contains letters exchanged with over 450 people, totaling over 12,000 pages; Series 18, correspondence and material relating to Camp William James, includes correspondence with over 150 people totaling over 4,000 pages—and some 20 essays by Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy.
The Digital Archive does not contain images of Rosenstock-Huessy’s work manuscripts, which are on deposit at Rauner; nor does it contain most of the surviving letters exchanged by Franz Rosenzweig with Eugen and Margrit Rosenstock-Huessy, which are held at Rauner and available in transcription on-line (http://www.argobooks.org/gritli/index.html). It also does not contain the letters exchanged by Freya von Moltke with Eugen and Margrit Rosenstock-Huessy, which have been deposited at the German Literary Archive in Marbach (http://www.dla-marbach.de) along with the rest of the von Moltke family letters.
The Digital Archive was created in two stages, each of which formed a unique project. The first project involved laying the intellectual groundwork for digitizing: accurately estimating the number of pages be saved and roughly cataloging them. Initial estimates of the number of pages ranged between 40,000 and 60,000 pages. Creating the Digital Archive had been the inspiration of Leo Oudejans-Harris, who, together with Cynthia Oudejans-Harris, donated the lion’s share of this first project’s funding. The second project consisted of actually scanning the papers and producing the digital archive of Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy’s papers. This second project was funded primarily by the Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany through the Cultural Affairs Department of the German Embassy in the United States. Its generous grant was matched by donations from members of the von Moltke family. Those tasks involved in creating the Digital Archive, which could not be funded as part of these two projects, were supported by other private donors in the U.S.
The project would have been impossible without the dedication and hard work of the project staff: Christina Chase, Steve Flanders, Joe Gaudet, Martha Howard, and Russ Pinigin, as well as Dorothy Gannon, Scott Gordon, Mitch Kewer, Steve Miller, and Diana Wright; the project supervisor was Raymond Huessy.
The Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy Fund dedicates the ERH Digital Archive and its use to the memory of Freya von Moltke.
The entire letter from Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy to Adele Rosenzweig on "Leben, Lehre, Wirken" as response to the "Stern der Erlösung."
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