Epistulae 2: Correspondence between Matthias Alexander Castrén and Natalia Tengström
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Edited by Juha Janhunen & Timo Salminen.
Manuscripta Castreniana, Personalia I,2. 149 pp.
ISBN 978-952-7262-27-6 (print),
ISBN 978-952-7262-28-3 (online).
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After returning from his last expedition in February 1849, Castrén actively started making preparations for his academic future and personal life. In January 1850, he became engaged to Natalia Tengström, the youngest daughter of Johan Jacob Tengström, Professor of Philosophy at the Imperial Alexander University in Helsinki. Their wedding took place in October 1850. The present volume contains the letters exchanged between Castrén and Natalia during the period of their engagement from February to September 1850. This intensive correspondence gives new insights into the persons of Castrén and his bride, as well as the role the Tengström family played in the intellectual circles of Finland. The letters also illustrate how intimate and, occasionally, humorous the relationship between Castrén and Natalia was. Although the social background of their engagement and marriage followed a pattern that was typical of the time, the letters speak for themselves and reveal that true love was involved. In the light of these previously unpublished letters Castrén himself emerges as a somewhat different person from the one he is known as on the basis of his other, more official and less intimate writings.
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Contents
Manuscripta Castreniana: A General Preface to the Series by Juha Janhunen
Editors’ Foreword by Juha Janhunen and Timo Salminen
Natalia and Alexander: An Introduction by Juha Janhunen
Correspondence between Matthias Alexander Castrén and Natalia Tengström
1 M.A. Castrén to Natalia Tengström 17–19 February 1850
2 M.A. Castrén to Natalia Tengström 10/22 February 1850
3 Natalia Tengström to M.A. Castrén 24–26 February 1850
4 M.A. Castrén to Natalia Tengström 15/27 February 1850
5 Natalia Tengström to M.A. Castrén 1 March 1850
6 M.A. Castrén to Natalia Tengström 19 February/3 March 1850
7 M.A. Castrén to Natalia Tengström 21 February/5 March 1850
8 Natalia Tengström to M.A. Castrén 8 March 1850
9 M.A. Castrén to Natalia Tengström 24 February/8 March 1850
10 M.A. Castrén to Natalia Tengström 28 February/12 March 1850
11 Natalia Tengström to M.A. Castrén 13 March 1850
12 M.A. Castrén to Natalia Tengström s.d. 1850
13 M.A. Castrén to Natalia Tengström 28–29 June 1850
14 Natalia Tengström to M.A. Castrén 30 June 1850
15 M.A. Castrén to Natalia Tengström s.d. [1 July 1850]
16 Natalia Tengström to M.A. Castrén 2 July 1850
17 M.A. Castrén to Natalia Tengström 2 July 1850
18 Natalia Tengström to M.A. Castrén s.d. [3 July 1850?]
19 Natalia Tengström to M.A. Castrén s.d. [20 August 1850]
20 M.A. Castrén to Natalia Tengström 21 August 1850
21 M.A. Castrén to Natalia Tengström s.d. [16 September 1850?]
22 Natalia Tengström to M.A. Castrén 17 September 1850
23 M.A. Castrén to Natalia Tengström 19 September 1850
24 M.A. Castrén to Natalia Tengström s.d. [23 September 1850]
25 Natalia Tengström to M.A. Castrén 24 September 1850
26 M.A. Castrén to Natalia Tengström s.d. [26 September 1850?]
27 Natalia Tengström to M.A. Castrén 26 September 1850
28 Natalia Tengström to M.A. Castrén s.d. [27 September 1850]
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ISBN 978-952-7262-28-3 (online).