III. In 1976, Professor Margaret Stobie, UM, donated research documents related to her 1973 book about Grove in the Twayne World Authors series. Her papers contain detailed records of Grove's early Canadian years as a teacher in Manitoba, and his very first Canadian publication, "Rousseau als Erzieher" in Der Nordwesten, Nov.-Dec., 1914. This significant text transparently imitates the title of Nietzsche's essay "Schopenhauer as Educator." Note that Greve had reviewed two volumes of the philosopher's posthumous works in 1901. There are also numerous tape recordings of interviews with former pupils, colleagues, friends or neighbours from Grove's years in Manitoba.

A Finding Aid to the Stobie Research Collection is available. It has received a certain measure of upgrading and detailed component descriptions in recent times.

IV. FPG source material collected in North American and European archives has been deposited in the Divay Research Collection since 1990. Included are early manuscript poems Greve submitted for Stefan George's exclusive journal Blätter für die Kunst in 1902; six sonnets from Dante's Vita Nuova in German translation; the 1904/5 poetry cycle by a certain "Fanny Essler" (Else and Greve's joint pseudonym) which was published in Die Freistatt even before the novel entitled Fanny Essler appeared in print in 1905; his entire correspondence with Insel Publishers obtained from the Weimar Archives in early May 1990; his Munich police registration (1901/2) showing that he briefly shared an address with Thomas Mann at the Pension Gisela in 1902; and his initial attempt from Bonn prison to secure the translation rights for H. G. Wells' works. Greve's letters to Wells were obtained from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2000.

As a crucial juncture between the two lives of FPG, his passage on the White Star liner "Megantic" from Liverpool to Montreal in late July 1909 could be documented in October 1998 [Bruce Thomson for G. Divay, with funding from the FPG Endowment; see Bison Entry, 17.2.99]. Greve/Grove's crossing of the Atlantic had eluded FPG researchers for decades, even though all the details are openly presented in the first few pages of A Search of America (1927).

For the three obscure years FPG spent in America before assuming his Canadian identity in late 1912, this research collection contains evidence that Grove's Bonanza Farm was in Amenia, near Fargo, N.D., and many documents about this massive operation, their owners, and nearby Casselton; an enigmatic entry in a 1910 Pittsburgh directory lists Greve as "manager" of an unnamed business with an address near the Allegheny County Court House & Jail [in 1999, the same directory yielded further information about the nature of Greve's professional dealings in that city]; and proof that he operated a small farm near Sparta, Kentucky, a small town ca. 80 miles southwest of Cincinnati, Ohio, stems from a single poem, shown in facsimile in Greve/Grove's 1993 poetry edition, in Else's archival collection in Maryland.

IV.a. Both the manuscript of Else's revealing autobiography and Djuna Barnes' typescript were exchanged with the University of Maryland in 1990 for a microfilmed copy of Fanny Essler (1905), Greve's first novel about her life. Her own reminiscences, written 20 years later in Berlin, provide a faithful mirror-image to this novel. The discovery of Else's connection with Felix Paul Greve was made in the mid-1980s by Professors Spettigue and Hjartarson who published the manuscript version along with a selection of letters as Baroness Elsa in 1992. These documents finally confirmed that Greve had not perished in 1909, as intimated in Else's correspondence with Insel chief Anton Kippenberg [Pacey, 548]; that he had started a new life abroad; and that Else had followed him to his new destination.

Many of FrL's poems and letters held at the University of Maryland have been obtained over the years. They contain references to "FPG" and former lovers & friends. Some of her German poetry incorporates elements of the 1904/5 "Fanny Essler" cycle, and one makes explicit references to both 1903 Palermo when Greve served his prison-term in Bonn, their 1910 reunion in Pittsburgh, & and his abandonment of her in Kentucky within a year.

Further FrL copies have been acquired from The Little Review Collection at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee. Two NYT newspaper articles were found in 2003/4, one reporting her arrest for cross-dressing in Greve's clothes & smoking in public on 5th Ave. in downtown Pittsburgh in September 1910, not even three months after her arrival. Then, in 2006, two photos depicting FrL & Claude MacKay in exotic costume were discovered in the LC Bain Collection.

No Finding Aid to the Divay Research Collection exists to date, but a good many documents have been made available online, & descriptive entries about virtually all can be found in the UM Libraries' on-line catalogue BISON.

V. A small, but important research collection was donated in 1995 by Professor A. W. Riley. The noted Germanist, Thomas Mann- and Döblin scholar, is also a pioneer in FPG research. He was the first to review Greve's two novels about Else's life in view of Grove's fictitious biography, and he co-edited, with Professor Spettigue, the English translations of these two revealing books, Maurermeister Ihles Haus and Fanny Essler (both, Ottawa, Oberon, 1976 &1984). A. W. Riley's doctoral dissertation at Tübingen University was about Thomas Mann's Felix Krull. There is evidence today that Greve was the real-life model for the hero in this hilarious impostor novel. This Ph.D. thesis, two valuable copies of Greve's Flaubert and Meredith translations, and an astonishing second, 1909, edition of Greve's novel about Else's childhood (Maurermeister Ihles Haus, orig. ed., 1906) were among his gracious donations to the archival collections.

VI. Both Greve's & Grove's respective books are available either in the Rare Book Room (RBR) or in the open stacks of Dafoe-, St. John's- and St. Paul's- Library. The same applies to a near-comprehensive collection of FPG criticism. Freytag-Loringhoven materials have only been systematically collected since the late 1980s. Relevant related holdings are found particularly in the Arts & Architecture Library.

VII. Grove's son, Leonard Grove, made the invaluable donation of his father's Library in 1992. Many of the nearly 500 books are annotated in the author's hand, and all are fully described in the University of Manitoba Libraries' on-line catalogue BISON. These books allow to unveil many connections with FPG's carefully concealed European past, and also reveal the author's literary tastes and preferences. A commentated bibliography of this important collection will be published on the UM Archives website in the near future. Highlights include: a much used Baedeker travel guide to the United States published in 1909, the very year Greve faked his suicide and disappeared from Germany. In it, many German bookdealers listed for New York City are underlined; American editions of Goethe and Heine some of whose poems Grove imitated; and a complete set of Swift's Prose Works edited by Temple Scott whose edition Greve had used for one of his last major translation assignments (for Oesterheld and E. Reiss publishers, 1909-1910). Double- or triple-selling this particular German four-volume selection seems to have hastened his departure for North America [as so gently suggested by Kippenberg in his letter to Else, Sept. 21, 1909].
Leonard Grove died shortly before his 76th birthday in October 2006.

VIII. Minor collections about FPG & Else were deposited in recent years by H. Makow, I. Gammel, W. Ruttkowski, M. Rubio, Angela Kopp, Therese Caiter-Meyer, and many others. Documents or collections by G. Wade, St.John-Stubbs, Karl Werner Maurer, A. L. Phelps and others provide insights by Grove's contemporaries, early admirers, and critics.