Tim Pyatt, University Archivist & Associate Director
Rare Book, Manuscript, & Special Collections Library
Box 90202, Smith Warehouse, Bay 11, Room A127
Duke University, Durham, NC 27708
tim.pyatt@duke.edu
919-684-8929 (direct line, Smith office)
919-660-5820 (RBMSCL administrative office)
919-660-5987 (fax)

--- and are located under Accession No. UA2007-0046.

The books that were received by the Special Collections Library can be seen at:
http://catalog.library.duke.edu/F/?func=find-a&find_code=WRD&request=%22From+the+library +of+Professor+Frank+Borchardt%22&filter_code_1=WLN&filter_request_1=&filter_code_2= WYR&filter_request_2=&filter_code_3=WYR&filter_request_3=&filter_code_4=WTP&filter_request_4= &filter_code_5=WSL&filter_request_5=SCL&request_op=AND&find_code=WRD&request=&request_op= AND&find_code=WRD&request=&adjac! ent=N&x=0&y=0

Miscellany from Frank Borchardt’s home

This material, collected from Frank Borchardt’s residence at 1531 Hermitage Court, Durham, N.C. shortly after his passing is now being held by Hans & Patricia Borchardt at 4062 Dupont, Parkway, Townsend, DE 19734 (302-378-7243). It can be made available to scholars interested in Frank’s life that would make constructive use of it.

Plastic Bin # 1

• Scrap book: Regis High School and St. Peter’s College.
• Panorama photo, 9 ½” x 50” of Frank’s Regis HS Class.
• Newspaper articles on Hermann Borchardt (Frank’s father), obit and other subjects.
• Magazine, “Die Tollen Zwanzigerjahre” (The roaring 20’s?) published in 1961. Pictures of Max Plank, Albert Einstein, George Grosz, Hermann Borchardt among many others.
• Manuscript by Hermann Borchardt, “Der Club Der Harmlosen”, Stories from his life.
• Manuscript by Hermann Borchardt, “The Lost Column” Play in 5 Acts. Written in 1939, translated in 1941 by Kurt Weill.
• Manuscript by Hermann Borchardt, “Traktat Ueber Unsterblichkeit” (Treatise on Immortality”?) or Ueber Die Quellen Der Modernen Skepsis.
• Manuscript by Hermann Borchardt, “DIE VERSCHWOERUNG DER ZIMMERLEUTE (The conspiracy of the Carpenters). In German. Three folders.
• Manuscript by Hermann Borchardt, Partial document, Drittes Buch. Schachzuege. Pages 531-836.
• Frank’s Fulbright Application. Autobiographical.
• Mimi’s (Dorothea Borchardt, Frank's mom)death certificate.
• Regis’ 50th Anniversary Reunion.
• Frank’s Regis H.S. Diploma.
• Folder on Frank’s correspondence with Stephan Weidle, 1992-1995, about publication of “The Conspiracy of the Carpenters” in German in Germany.
• 2 Folders on Frank’s correspondence with John M. Spalek, Prof of German, State U of NY, Albany 1981-87.
• Folder on Frank’s correspondence Wolfgang Wipperman.
• Folder on Hermann Borchardt’s early years, birth certificate (?) more.
• Mimi’s German Medical Insurance records, 1984.
• Address/phone book.
• Photos from trip to China.
• Cardboard box labeled Hermann Borchardt original documents.
• Large envelop labeled letters, postcards, passports, membership cards, Mimi’s diary from long ago.
• Cardboard box with mixed items including deed to house, drivers license, newspaper clippings, catholic art, papers about Mimi and Hermann.

Plastic Bin # 2

• Cardboard Tube: Frank’s Ph.D. Diploma from Johns Hopkins.
• Cardboard Tube: Page from Nurmberg Chronicle 1493. Berta etas mundi. Folium CXXXIIII.
• Metal index card box with 3 ½ inch floppy discs.
• Accordion folder with Franz Werfel’s letter of acceptance and preface to “Tne Conspiracy of the Carpenters”, (1941), Frank’s article on Hermann Borchardt (Feb 1981), burial info, The Chronicle, 1985, Frank picks new librarian
• Metal box labeled Hermann Borchardt correspondence.
• Framed Doonesbury cartoon.
• Framed letter from John Meadows (?).
• Wallet with ID cards.
• Duke 20 year award.
• Prayer book.
• Julius Hofmann award.
• Picture, Frank’s book & Marilyn Monroe.