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ENVELOPE THAT DELIVERED REASONS TO NOT MARRY KAFKA, FRANZ. Envelope Signed with holograph address, to his fiancée Felice Bauer. Postage stamps and ink cancellation stamps below signatures, yellow registered mail label above address verso. 4x6 inches; minor scattered soiling. Prague, 23 June 1913 [from postmark]
On June 20, Kafka wrote to Felice that "tomorrow's letter . . . is so important to me that I'd rather not send it by ordinary mail today, but registered, tomorrow" (from Letters to Felice, 1973). The letter that was sent to her by registered mail in the present envelope was written on June 21, 22, and 23, 1913. In it, Kafka explained why he could not marry her.
