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The Mahler Family Letters.

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The Mahler Family Letters. Edited and translated by Stephen McClatchie. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. [xiii, 418 p. ISBN 0-195-14065-6. $65.00] Illustrations, bibliographic references, index.

Stephen McClatchie's The Mahler Family Letters examines hundreds of pieces of correspondence between Mahler and his immediate family. Compared to other sources that include letters between Mahler and Richard Strauss or Alma Schindler, this book translates 568 letters from German into English. While a number of these documents are from various sources, most of these items are housed in the Mahler-Rose Collection at the University of Western Ontario, and until now many of the letters were difficult to access, especially in English.

The introduction provides the details of Mahler's family tree and traces how the letters ended up in Canada. McClatchie describes how the Mahler-Rose Collection is organized and some challenges in determining dates on various letters. Although Mahler corresponded with his parents and four younger siblings, Alois, Justine, Otto, and Emma, the majority of the letters focus on the relationship Mahler had with his younger sister Justine. When Justine married violinist Arnold Rose, she continued to save the letters. After her daughter Maria Rose inherited them, she finally donated the...

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