Laid in are three typed copies of an original poem titled 'For a Silver Wedding" and headed "To My Dear Friends / Ulla And Heinrich Brugsch / On the Tenth of June 1958". Each copy is signed in full by Heider. Also laid in is a typed copy of "Commitments", the poem on page 15 of the book. Heider has written at the foot of the typed copy the dedication which is printed in the book: "To honor my old friend, / Heinrtich Brugsch. He has also typed above the dedication "/ I made up umbilicords because umbilical cords would not do in a poem. / " This copy is also signed in full. Accompanying these signed typed copies is a handwritten mailing label addressed to Dr. and Mrs. Heinrich G. Brugsch with Heider's return address. The edges of the poems are darkened & chipped.
Werner Heider was a German-born poet who fled the Nazis in the 1930s and later worked to restore ties between the United States and Germany. He arrived in New York on New Year's Eve 1936 and became an American citizen in 1944. Heinrich Brugsch was a professor of medicine at Tufts University. Good .
Keywords: LITERATURE; POETRY; POEMS; POET; GERMAN AMERICAN; WERNER HEIDER; EPIPHANIES: POEMS RECENT OR REVISED; TYPED POEMS SIGNED; SIGNATURE; AUTOGRAPH.