Gróf Károly Lonyay papers, 1930-1963
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Finding aid last modified on 18 March 2016.
Title: Gróf Károly Lonyay papers
Collection number: 818
Contributing Institution:
UCLA Library Special Collections
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
5.5 linear ft.
(11 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1930-1963
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Department
of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Creator:
Lonyay, Gróf Károly, 1886-1963
Restrictions on Access
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Open for research. Advance notice required for access. Contact the UCLA Library, Department
of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections. Literary rights, including
copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds
the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold
the copyright.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of Victoria Wolff, 1963.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Gróf Károly Lonyay Papers (Collection 818). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research
Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Scope and Content
Collection consists of literary manuscripts, galleys, notes, scrapbooks, and ephemera of Count Carl Lonyay. Includes the manuscript
of his unfinished autobiography,
As a Hussar Saw it (boxes 3-4), and his manuscript,
Rudolph: the Tragedy of Mayerling (1963).
Portions of this collection are in Hungarian and German.
Organization and Arrangement
Arranged in the following series:
- Correspondence (Boxes 1-2).
- Galley proofs of unidentified article (Box 1).
- Newspaper clippings (Box 2).
-
As a Hussar Saw it (autobiography) (Boxes 3-4).
-
The Prisoner (Box 4).
-
The Lieutenant Remained a Virgin (Box 5).
-
Franz Joseph I: the Liquidation of a Mighty Empire (Boxes 6-7).
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Rudolph: the Tragedy of Mayerling (Boxes 8-9).
-
My Past, by Countess Marie Larisch (Box 9).
-
The Two Prisoners (Box 10).
- Miscellaneous manuscripts and notes (Box 11).
UCLA Catalog Record ID
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Lonyay, Gróf Károly, 1886-1963--Archives.
Authors, Hungarian--20th century--Archives.
Manuscripts for publication.
Box 1
Personal papers: passport,
1937.
Physical Description: 13 folders.
Scope and Content Note
Also, letters and other papers, in Hungarian and German,
ca.
1930-40.
Box 1
Galley proofs of unidentified article in German with holograph corrections in German, not Lonyay's hand,
ca. 1952.
Box 2
Mayerling incident and revelation of “secret” documents about it,
ca. 1949.
Box 2
Publication of
Rudolph: the Tragedy of Mayerling, reviews, etc.,
ca. 1949.
Box 2
Pages from scrapbook with miscellaneous clippings,
ca. 1949-60.
Box 2
Miscellaneous clippings about Lonyay personally,
ca. 1949-60.
Box 2
Miscellaneous clippings bearing no direct relation to Lonyay,
ca. 1949-60.
Box 2
Personal letters to Lonyay,
ca. 1948-61.
Physical Description: 20 items.
Box 2
Drafts of letters from Lonyay with notes, holograph and typescript; announcement of Lonyay's funeral.
ca. 1948-61
Physical Description: Approximately 40 items.
Box 3
As a Hussar Saw it [autobiography]: Not published.
Physical Description: 3 manuscript drafts.
Box 4
As a Hussar Saw it: another copy.
Physical Description: First 95 pages missing; 28 random pages in a folder.
Box 4
The Prisoner [story of Napoleon II and Fanny Elsler].
Physical Description: Typescript and holograph.
Scope and Content Note
4 synopses for screenplay; 2 copies of screenplay; miscellaneous notes on Napoleon II. Not published.
Box 5
The Lieutenant Remained a Virgin [a novel].
Physical Description: Holograph typescript.
Scope and Content Note
2 complete drafts of manuscript; 1 incomplete draft of manuscript; notes. Not Published.
Box 6
Franz Joseph I - The Liquidation of a Mighty Empire.
Scope and Content Note
3 manuscript drafts. Not published.
Box 7
Franz Joseph I - The Liquidation of a Mighty Empire. Not published.
Physical Description: Notes, typescript and holograph, some in German.
Box 8
Rudolph: the Tragedy of Mayerling. New York: Charles Scribner's,
1949.
Physical Description: 2 drafts of manuscript.
Box 9
Rudolph: the Tragedy of Mayerling.
Scope and Content Note
Holograph notes; synopsis for screenplay; galley proofs; another manuscript draft.
Box 9
My Past, by Countess Marie Larisch, London, Eveleigh Nash,
1913.
Box 10
The Two Prisoners [Napoleon I and II].
Scope and Content Note
3 manuscript drafts. Not published.
Miscellaneous Manuscripts and Notes:
Box 11
Peter Wharton, incomplete novel(?).
Box 11
Tragic Queens: Elizabeth of Austria, Carlotta of Mexico, Last Empress of Russia, Eugínie of France, etc.
Box 11
Personal recollections. Not published.
Physical Description: Typescript and holograph.
