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Post date July 31, 2015
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Freundesbriefe 1922-1955 / Ernst Robert Curtius/Max Rychner ; in Zusammenarbeit mit Claudia Mertz-Rychner herausgegeben und kommentiert von Frank-Rutger Hausmann. (OCLC #908681242)

Biographies and memoirs of individuals in philology are classed under PC34 which is cuttered .A-Z by the name of the individual. So biographies of Ernst Robert Curtis would be classed under:

PC34.C85

For more specific types of biographies, consult the Biography Table for further subdivision. For letters and correspondence, subdivide with A4:

PC34.C85 A4 2015

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The correspondence of Washington Allston / Nathalia Wright, editor. (OCLC #897474403)

RDA 6.2.2.10.2 on Complete Works in a Single Form says to record a conventional collective title as the preferred title for a compilation of works that consists of, or purports to be, the complete works of a person in one particular form (such as their correspondence). In MARC, this is recorded in the 240:

100 1_ ǂa Allston, Washington, ǂd 1779-1843.
240 10 ǂa Correspondence

The title of the particular manifestation is also recorded, in the 245:

245 14 ǂa The correspondence of Washington Allston /
  ǂc Nathalia Wright, editor.

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