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Br. I-III: Thomas Mann: Briefe 1889-1936 (vol. 1); 1937-1947 (vol. II); 1948-1955 and Nachlese (vol. III). Edited by Erika Mann. Frankfurt/Main 1961-1965.
Br. Bertram: Thomas Mann an Ernst Bertram. Briefe aus den Jahren 1910–1955, edited, annotated and with an afterword by Inge Jens. Pfullingen 1960.
GKFA: Thomas Mann: Große kommentierte Frankfurter Ausgabe: Werke -Briefe - Tagebücher. Frankfurt/Main 2002ff.
GW I-XIII: Thomas Mann: Gesammelte Werke in dreizehn Bänden. 2nd ed. Frankfurt/Main 1974.
Regesten: Die Briefe Thomas Manns. Regesten und Register. Edited by Hans Bürgin and Hans-Otto Mayer, with the collaboration of Gert Heine and Yvonne Schmidlin. 5 vols. Frankfurt/Main 1976-1987.
TMA: Thomas Mann Archive of the ETH Library, Zurich.
TM/Adorno: Theodor W. Adorno/Thomas Mann: Briefwechsel 1943-1955. ed. by Christoph Gödde and Thomas Sprecher. Frankfurt am Main 2002.
TM/AM: Thomas Mann/Agnes E. Meyer: Correspondence 1937-1955. ed. by Hans Rudolf Vaget. Frankfurt am Main 1992.
TM/Amann: Thomas Mann: Letters to Paul Amann 1915-1952. ed. by Herbert Wegener. Lübeck 1959 (= Veröffentlichungen der Stadtbibliothek Lübeck, N. R., vol. 3).
TM/GBF: Thomas Mann: Correspondence with his publisher Gottfried Bermann Fischer 1932-1955. ed. by Peter de Mendelssohn. Frankfurt am Main 1973.
TM/Hamburger: Thomas Mann/Käte Hamburger: Correspondence 1932-1955. ed. by Hubert Brunträger. Frankfurt am Main 1999 (= TMS XX).
TM/Herz: Thomas Mann, Katia Mann: "Dear Miss Herz". Correspondence with Ida Herz 1924-1955. ed. by Holger Pils. Frankfurt/Main 2025.
TM/Hesse: Hermann Hesse/Thomas Mann: Correspondence. Edited by Anni Carlsson and Volker Michels. 3rd, expanded edition. Frankfurt am Main 1999.
TM/Jacobson: Thomas Mann, Katia Mann - Anna Jacobson. An exchange of letters. Edited by Werner Frizen and Friedhelm Marx. Frankfurt am Main 2005 (= TMS XXXIV).
TM/Kahler: Thomas Mann - Erich von Kahler: Briefwechsel 1931-1955. ed. and annotated by Michael Assmann. Hamburg 1993 (= Veröffentlichungen der Deutschen Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung Darmstadt, vol. 67).
TM/Kerényi: Thomas Mann - Karl Kerényi: Conversation in Letters. Edited by Karl Kerényi. Zurich 1960.
TM/Lesser: Thomas Mann: Letters to Jonas Lesser and Siegfried Trebitsch 1939-1954. ed. by Franz Zeder. Frankfurt am Main 2006 (= TMS XXXVI).
TM/Preetorius: From the correspondence between Thomas Mann and Emil Preetorius. Ed. by Hans Wysling. In: Sheets of the Thomas Mann Society Zurich. No. 4 (1963).
TMA: Thomas Mann Archive of the ETH Library, Zurich
TMS: Thomas Mann Studies. Ed. by the Thomas Mann Archive of the ETH in Zurich. Bern/Munich. 1967-1988 and Frankfurt am Main 1991ff.