Letters to a Young Poet

German true first 'Briefe an einen jungen Dichter,' Insel-Verlag, Leipzig, 1929, issued in the Insel-Bücherei series as volume number 406 (posthumous — Rilke died December 1926); it collects the ten letters to the young cadet Franz Xaver Kappus (1903–1908) with a foreword by Kappus, published with the cooperation of Rilke's widow Clara and daughter Ruth