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This collection contains correspondence, press clippings, and other material regarding B. Traven collected by Sid Berger, former Head of Special Collections & Archives at University of California, Riverside. Includes items related to the publication of B. Traven materials, the 1999 Traven Conference in Stockholm, and the controversy surrounding the identities of Ret Marut and B. Traven.

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This collection contains correspondence, press clippings, and other material collected by Peter Briscoe, former Associate University Librarian for Collections at the University of California, Riverside, in his research conducted on B. Traven. Also contains material regarding the purchase and use of the UCR Libraries’ B. Traven Collections.

Abstract The William W. Johnson collection on B. Traven contains publications, correspondence, and other material related to Johnson’s research on the author B. Traven, which spanned more than forty years. This collection includes various articles on B. Traven, newspapers from Chiapas, Mexico covering the three-day homage to B. Traven, and Johnson's B. Traven related research notes. Also includes correspondence with Rosa Elena Lujan (B. Traven's wife), Lawrence Hill (B. Traven's United States...

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This collection contains manuscripts, press clippings, correspondence, and other material from Ret Marut's early days in Germany, chiefly Düsseldorf and Munich, including a complete run of the journal Ziegelbrenner. Ret Marut is thought to be the actual identity of the author B. Traven.