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Oblong 4to. 1 page. In blue ballpoint to his chambermaid and confidante Inès Sassier, announcing a cheque (not enclosed) to be taken to the lawyer Bernard de Sarriac, who was in charge of controlling the alimony that Picasso owed his children Claude and Paloma: "Ma chère Inès, voici le cheque pour les enfants à porter à Sarriac. Merci, je vous embrasse tous [...]". - Traces of original folds. In near-perfect condition.
8vo and oblong 12mo. Altogether 12 pages on 8 ff. 4 items written in violet ink, Paris, Grand Hôtel de Londres, 23 October to 12 December 1906 where dated. Stamp removed from one postcard with loss of text; two letters apparently incomplete. Five unpublished letters to Sybil Seligman, Puccini’s closest female friend and his most important advisor after Giulio Ricordi, and one to her husband David, reporting his arrival in Paris, the first rehearsal at the Opéra-Comique, and his expectation that the opera will be staged within about a month, which will leave too little time before his departure for New York, expressing his anguish at matters going from bad to worse with the soprano Marguerite Carré, for whom the title role is too demanding, admitting he is constrained from stating his position openly, for fear of ruining the forthcoming production of La Bohème, and that he is leaving it until as late as possible to give his blessing to the production, hoping his fears are not realized. He also discusses the book by Oscar Wilde (A Florentine Tragedy) that Sybil was going to send him, meetings with Maurice Vaucaire about Conchita, and his travel plans to Milan, Torre de Lago and New York, and writes to David Seligman, asking for Sybil to be allowed to attend the production in Paris ("Cara Sybil, angustie sopra angustie! Qui si va di male in peggio, passo indietro esigenze ridicole tutte a causa di Mme Carré la quale a mio parere ha un rôle troppo forte. Temo che non andremo in scena o mai o forse molto tardi. Dico mai perché m’aspetto all’ultimo momento quando si eseguirà l’opera [...] Figuratevi dunque in che stato d’animo io sia! E mia salute tanto male! [...]"). - The letters to Sybil are unpublished. Puccini clearly expresses his frustration with Marguerite Carré, who sang the title role in the French premiere of Madama Butterfly; it was staged at the Opéra-Comique on 28 December 1906 and established the opera in the definitive form in which it is usually performed today. Mme. Carré was the wife of the Director of the theatre, Albert Carré (who staged and produced the opera), but was clearly out of her depth. The letter to David Seligman is published, not quite complete, in V. Seligman, Puccini Among Friends, (1938), p. 3.
8vo. 2 pp. on bifolium. With autograph envelope. In Russian. Insightful letter to the Russian-French journalist Michel Delines in Nice, concerning rehearsals in Brussels, obligations in St Petersburg, and the possibility of staging his operas at La Monnaie in Brussels under the forthcoming directorate of Maurice Kufferath. Rimsky-Korsakov was rehearsing "daily the programme of the concert" after which he would have to return to St Petersburg, as he was "obliged to attend the rehearsals of two symphony concerts", complaining that, "as a professor at the Conservatory", he is "always busy and obliged to be there". Concerning the staging of his operas in Brussels, Rimsky-Korsakov stresses that it is "premature to talk about it, because the theatre has not yet passed under the directorate of Kufferath". In addition, the librettos would have to be translated, "which depends on the publishers (Belaieff and Bessel)". In closing, Rimsky-Korsakov promises to "see to it that Belaieff" sends Delines "the scores of his operas that he does not know yet" but declines a visit in Paris due to his aforementioned obligations. - Rimsky-Korsakov first met Michel Delines in the summer of 1889 when he conducted two concerts on the occasion of the World Exhibition. Delines, born as Mikhael Osipovich Ashkenazi (1851-1914), had been active in revolutionary circles in Odessa and went into exile in 1878, eventually settling in Paris. There he made a name for himself as a journalist and as a promoter and translator of Russian literature, including works of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. In 1888, Delines was introduced to Tchaikovsky and subsequently started to promote Russian music in his new home. He translated the libretto of "Yevgeny Onegin" and facilitated its French premiere in Nice in 1895. As this beautiful letter shows, Delines was also eager to promote Rimsky-Korsakov's music in the francophone world. The composer appreciated Delines' efforts, including a translation of his opera "Sadko". In his autobiography, Rimsky-Korsakov has warm words for the journalist: "We also made the acquaintance of Michel Delines, subsequently translator of Onyegin and of my Sadko. With the exception of Delines, all these acquaintanceships proved most superficial [...] Delines was a kind man, danced attendance upon us, aided us in many things" (My Musical Life, New York 1945, pp. 303f.). - On stationery with lithographed letterhead of the "Hotel Metropole Bruxelles". Traces of folds; minor tears to the vertical fold.
1 S. Folio. Mit papiergedecktem Siegel (eingerissen) und Adresse (Name getilgt). An [Gerhard Pichler?] und wohl im Zusammenhang mit einem an den "Ritterkrieg" sich anschließenden Streit zwischen dem Landgrafen Philipp dem Großmütigen von Hessen und dem Reich, das sich der Ansprüche einiger mit Franz von Sickingen verbündet gewesener Ritter angenommen hatte. "[...] Ich hab dem amptman zü marburg Etlich warnung meins g[nädigen] h[errn] [d. i. Fürstbischof Konrad III. von Würzburg?] halb zü geschriben uff sein schrifftlich ansuchen und Begern, da mit mein g[nädiger] h[err] gewarndt werde, wan in der still da von geredt wirt, Beym Bundt oder im her, als ob man uber sein gand [verschrieben für "land"?] im umwenden ziechen wölle, ist mir nit zweyffels sein f[ürstlich] g[naden] wiß sich uff solche warnung wol zü hallten, sye haben nit uber thaussent Reissiger pferde und Bis an neuntaussent zü fuß, aber Ein stargk geschoß Bey vier oder XXV stugken uff Redern die Eyssen schiessen, dar under wol acht Brechender stugk sind, aber fur war, die stradiotten und vil knecht underm hauffen wern lieber uff dem gegentheil dan Beym pund [...] Ich hab XIII artigkel Bey mir, die Sind schon gedrugkt, aber nit von mir, die Beschliessen allen Eingang des gannczen Regamenczs aller stend im Reich [...]". - Aus der 1911 durch C. G. Boerner versteigerten Sammlung Carl Geibel. - Von größter Seltenheit. - Mit kleinen Randläsuren und kl. Montagespuren verso.
Large 4to. ½ p. With original mailing envelope. A charming note from Salinger to Maria DeSalvo in which he writes "I'm an unsatisfactory and, at best, a one-shot letter answerer, but I would like you to know that I liked that very nice letter you sent me. Thank you. Very good wishes to you. Sincerely, J.D. Salinger". - In black ink. Rare.
8vo. 1 p. on a bifolium with integral address panel. In German. One addendum. To the music publisher Raimund Härtel about the imminent publication of his new work for piano: "When the fantasias are ready I would request you send me a few copies. Clara Wieck has let me know that she wishes to play some of them at her Vienna concerts, which will surely be useful to you and me - and this is also the reason why I press you so hard, as Clara wants to give only one or two more concerts [...]" (transl.). Schumann adds in a postscript: "I beg you to publish the enclosed advertisement in your main newspaper, charging the expenses to Mr. Friese's account". - In July 1837 the Leipzig publisher August Robert Friese had bought Robert Schumann's "Neue Zeitschrift für Musik". The advertisement ran there on March 2nd (NZfM 8/18, p. 72). The fantasias for piano ("Fantasiestücke", op. 12), composed before the end of July 1837, were first published by Breitkopf & Härtel in Leipzig in February 1838, in two volumes. On February 6th, Breitkopf & Härtel sent Schumann the voucher copies. Clara Schumann prformed the pieces in Vienna on March 4th. - Includes a contemporary handwritten copy of the essay "Musikalische Haus- u. Lebensregeln verfasst von Rob. Schumann" (17 pp. and title), first published in 1850 in the "Neue Zeitschrift für Musik" (8vo, sewn in paper wrappers).
8vo. 1 page on bifolium. To his brother Carl in Schneeberg. Clara and he have been hiking; they are thinking of going as far as Carlsbad and then returning via Schneeberg, where they hope to see Carl and his family. They will be in Schneeberg on Thursday at the latest: "Wir haben einen Ausflug gemacht, denken heute von hier nach Carlsbad, und von da über Schneeberg zurückzureisen, wo wir dann Dich und die Deinigen zu sehen hoffen. Bis spätestens Donnerstag sind wir in Schneeberg. Wir werden uns freuen, Euch alle wohl und zu Hause zu treffen. Es ist ein langer Wunsch von mir, Dich einmal aufzusuchen. Das schönste Wetter hat uns immer begleitet; hier dachte ich unserer lieben Eltern oft. Erinnerst Du Dich noch unsrer Fußreise durch die Böhmischen Berge [...]". - Slightly wrinkled and spotty; a small tear to fol. 2 due to breaking the seal.
8vo. 3 pp. on bifolium. With autograph address on verso. To his sister Pauline Périer-Lagrange (1786-1857) in La Tour-du-Pin about the Bourbon Restoration shattering his dreams of a successful career under Napoleon, as well as his departure for Italy, mentioning a letter to their father requesting the title to estates with an income of 2,400 francs: "Tu verras, ma chère Pauline, dans le journal d'aujourd'huy, the total fall of my hope. Ainsi, il faut finir. Je passerai à Lyon dans un mois, de là à Gênes et Rome. J'ai écrit officiellement au Bastard [i. e. his father, the lawyer Chérubin Beyle] pour lui demander des terres rapp[ortan]t 2400F". He would like to grant general authority to the prosecutor Ennemond Hélie, discusses plans to sell his furniture as well as his cabriolet to raise enough money for his travels and a couple of months beyond the point when he will receive monies from M. Gagnon (likely a relative: his grandfather, Henri Gagnon, died in 1813), and admits having to struggle to reason with his creditors over a sum of 37,000 francs, hoping Pauline might persuade their father to help him out: "Je vends mon Mobilier et mon Cabriolet. Le produit de cette vente me donne le voyage et quelques mois. Ensuite l'argent que payera Mr. Gagnon. Le difficile est de faire entendre raison aux 37000F créanciers d'ici. Si tu peux pousse le bastard à être honnête homme une fois en sa vie [...]". Planning to meet her in Lyon in June, he asks her not to keep his fate a secret, sure to provoke some feelings of pity and shame among their family, especially their father, and happy never to see Grenoble again: "Nous nous donnerons rendez-vous à Lyon vers la fin de Juin. Mais où es-tu toujours au Plantier? [...] Ne fais pas mistère de ma misère. La pitié fera tomber la haine fondée sur l'envie, et peut-être donnera un peu de Vergogne au Bastard, qu'au reste j'espère bien ne plus revoir, ni Cularo [i. e. Grenoble] non plus [...]". - Signed with the pseudonym "F. Brenier". A small paper flaw due to opening the letter. Champion, Correspondance générale II, 987.
139:97 mm auf Trägerkarton (166:109 mm). "À Madame Convairy amicalement de la part de Johann Strauß". Das Notenzitat mit vier Takten ohne weitere Bezeichnung. - Aus dem Atelier Reichard & Lindner, Berlin, mit dessen gedr. Signet am Trägerkarton.
8vo. 1 page. To Kathleen Delvev, apologising for not writing sooner, as he has been away, thanking her but declining her invitation to speak at the Taunton Book Club: "Thank you for your invitation to come to the Taunton Book Club, but I'm afraid I won't be able to accept it as I shall be going to the States, fairly soon, I think, and don't know when I shall return: all my plans are in such a muddle at the moment [...]". - Thomas undertook four tours of America between 1950 and 1953. Here he writes in July 1953, fresh from his third visit, where he performed a "work in progress" version of Under Milk Wood, initially as a solo piece at Harvard and then at the Poetry Centre in New York with a full cast, when he gave his rewritten lines to the actors just minutes before the play began. During this tour he also began his affair with Elizabeth Reitell, the assistant of poet John Brinnin. - The following months back home, when this letter was written, were characterised by heightening tensions with his wife Caitlin and his increasingly unpredictable behaviour, fuelled by a desperate need to escape his situation ("all my plans are in such a muddle"). Encouraged by promises of more performances at the Poetry Centre and a month collaborating with Stravinsky in California, he returned to New York in October - "to Reitell, and exhaustion. Drinking heavily, he became ill and intermittently deranged about the time of his thirty-ninth birthday at the end of the month. On 4 November a doctor unwisely sedated him by injecting half a grain of morphine, which was to prove fatal" (Paul Ferris, ODNB). - Kathleen Delves was the secretary of the Taunton Book Club in the 1950s and, on hearing Dylan Thomas was available for public engagements, she invited him to speak. His reply has been retained in the family until now. It is unpublished, not appearing in the Collected Letters (ed. Paul Ferris, 2000). - Some spotting.
A quantity of some 155 letters and postcards, including several addenda (postcards, clippings, photographs, etc.). To Oskar Haaf, head of the entertainment department at the German radio broadcaster Südwestfunk Baden-Baden, and to his wife Ria: a copious collection comprising some 93 autograph or typed letters, 15 folded lettercards, and 47 postcards and photographs, with several addenda. - Trenker's friendship with the broadcaster Haaf, which dated from the prewar years, intensified in the 1960s when the busy mountaineer and film-maker began to concentrate on lectures, documentaries, and wide and varied appearances on radio and television. The numerous letters and postcards offer a lively account of their collaboration (including a long Trenker feature which entails a discussion about the classical music to be used), but also provide a narrative of the many years in which Trenker, ever bustling with activity, produced scripts, songs, radio shows, and much more. Among the subjects of the correspondence are Karajan and Kokoschka (whom he criticizes), the memoirs of Tilla Durieux (which he is reading), Ennio Morricone (whose music for "Once Upon a Time in the West" he praises), and his forged Eva Braun diaries (which he disowns). The collection expands the well-known image of Trenker as a popular mountaineer, showing him as an intelligent, active, and well-read man fully abreast with current developments even in his old age. - Occasional edge damage; some letters with punched holes.
4to. 2¾ pp. on bifolium. To an unidentified recipient: "I have been favoured by your letter of June 29th, in which you have given me your opinion of your drawing of Blenheim, for which I am very much obliged. As the drawing was then in London, I thought it best to defer replying to your letter till I should have it before me, or till I had made the alterations you mentioned, which I believe I have now completed, and which undoubtedly improve it very much. In the first place I have darkened the large green oak No. 1, on the right, also the lower part of the warm oak No. 2 on the left, the upper part, at present, I am unwilling to alter unless I find that it be your wish that I should do so. The Wych Elm No. 3 was very yellow, but I have now made it somewhat green, such as it might be when the foliage has undergone a partial change only. The small beech trees remain much the same, for some time I was unwilling to do any thing to them, I have however made them a little darker. I have endeavoured to work up the distance and building to the effect you desired; and the ferns in the foreground I have varied both in effect and colour. I should say that I have not done much to the building, and was unwilling for some time to touch it, but after making the other alterations, I ventured also to deepen and warm it a little, and I now think it better. I shall be much obliged if you will inform me if you recollect any other little thing that you desire I should do to it, and I shall be most happy to do my best to work up to your idea of the subject. I must beg to say that I agree entirely with you as to propriety of strengthening the effect according to your suggestion [...]".
8vo. 1 page on bifolium, with integral blank. To the collector Elhanan Bicknell: "I will thank you for a call in Queen Anne Street at your earliest convenience, for I have a whale or two on the canvass [...]". - Remnants of prior mounting on terminal page along vertical fold, faint scattered soiling. "The Whalers", exhibited at the Royal Academy Exhibition in 1845, was painted for Bicknell, a wealthy whale oil merchant.
4 SS. auf Doppelblatt. 4to. Schöner Brief aus Wagners letzten Tagen in Zürich, die unter dem Eindruck des endgültigen Bruchs mit seiner Frau Minna standen. Der Adressat des Briefs ist der befreundete Tenor Josef Tichatschek, der an der Dresdner Oper sehr erfolgreich mit Wagner zusammengearbeitet und auch in der Uraufführung des "Rienzi" 1842 die Titelpartie übernommen hatte: "Du hast mich durch die verständissvolle und innige Weise, mit der du mir deine Theilnahme für meine Lage ausdrückst, sehr gerührt und ergriffen! Du weisst, was mich so niederdrückend einnahm, als du bei mir warst, und verzeihest mir somit auch, dass ich dir nicht immer so heiter und unbefangen zu begegnen vermochte, wie es dein so sehr liebenswürdiger Besuch verdient hätte. Ende dieser Woche reise ich von Zürich fort. In Oberitalien, vermuthlich in Venedig, will ich suchen mir wieder ein Arbeitsstübchen zu bereiten; gebe der Himmel, dass ich bald wieder Ruhe zur Arbeit finde: sie einzig kann mir über mein leidvolles Leben hinweghelfen. Meine Frau gedenkt bis Ende des Monates unser Häuschen zu räumen; einiges wird sie verkaufen, das Beste soll sie verpacken lassen. Mein Wunsch ist, dass sie sich bald mit unsren Sachen in Deutschland wieder einrichtet. Welches mein ferneres Schicksal sein wird, kann ich jetzt nicht bestimmen; nur Eines suche ich: Ruhe, und nur Eines hoffe ich: wiederkehrende Arbeitslust […]". - Weiters über seine Bearbeitung von "Rienzi", die er "nach Deinem Wunsche, hier in Kürze" anfügt, und mit der Bitte, ihm doch "den Erfolg Deiner so schönen, ächt freundschaftlichen wie künstlerischen Bemühungen" zu melden. - Wagner verließ in der Woche darauf Zürich und reiste nach Venedig, um sich dort niederzulassen und weiter am "Tristan" zu arbeiten; Minna zog Anfang September zu ihren Verwandten nach Dresden. Erst drei Jahre später sollten sie einander in Paris wiedersehen, wo im März des Jahres 1861 der "Tannhäuser-Skandal" die musikalische Welt durchrüttelte; im Jahr darauf kam es im Februar 1862 ein letztes Mal zu einer persönlichen Begegnung, als Wagner in Wiesbaden-Biebrich an seinen "Meistersingern" arbeitete. - An wenigen Stellen unbedeutend fleckig, sonst tadellos erhalten. Abgedruckt in: Klaus Burmeister und Johannes Forner (Hg.), Richard Wagner. Sämtliche Briefe. Bd. IX (Leipzig, 2000), Nr. 237. Dort auch die dem Brief ursprünglich beigelegene, mit "17. Juli 1858" datierte Anlage, in der die Kürzungen vermerkt sind.
1 page. 4to. In pencil. Addendum. Extremely rare specimen of Wellington's handwriting, created shortly after the capture of Péronne by allied forces on 26 June, during the retreat of the French army after their defeat at Waterloo, sending an unnamed officer from Cambrai to Péronne and Nesle with orders for the commanding officer at Péronne: "He must send me without loss of time a return of the ordnance & stores in the place including Provisions in order that I may know what to throw in [...]". - Somewhat waterstained. Includes an autograph letter signed by Seymour Thomas Bathurst to his sister Emily, describing the storming of Péronne and enclosing Wellington's orders: "In case you would like to have some orders of the Duke of Wellington's own handwriting I send you the enclosed which he gave me to carry [...]" (Conchy-les-pots near Roije, 28 June 1815. 5 pp. on bifolium and single sheet, 4to and 8vo, with autograph address on verso). - Seymour Thomas Bathurst (1793-1834), whom Wellington entrusted with these orders, was the third son of the 3rd Earl Bathurst, and served as a Lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards at Waterloo. - With small marginal flaws.
Oblong large 8vo. Altogether 5 pp. Together with a telegram in a different hand (2 ff). All to her husband Karl, Archduke of Austria. - I: "How was the march? [...] I'm doing very well and look forward so much to tomorrow. A thousand kisses | Zita" (23 March 1912). - II: "Of course I am happy to place the Countess Thun at your disposal. Warmest regards, Zita" (23 March 1912). - III: "I am doing very well, am really happy for you. Embrace | Zita" (22 March. 1912). - IV+V: Written in her husband's name, to Archduke Rainer and Archduchesse Maria Josefa: "Zita and I thank you most sincerely for being accommodated so kindly at your castle Izdebnik [...]" (to Rainer, March 1912).
- s.d. (circa 1860), 20,6x27,6cm, un feuillet remplié. - DUMAS Alexandre Naïs et Chloé. Unpublished handwritten sapphic poem signed by Alexandre Dumas N. d. (c. 1860), 20,6 x 27,6 cm, one folded leaf Autograph manuscript poem signed by Alexandre Dumas bearing the title "Naïs et Chloé," 84 verses in black ink on a blue folded leaf of paper. A few tiny tears without damage to the text, invariably produced when a leaf of paper is folded. A very rare manuscript of a long unpublished poem depicting the love of Naïs and Chloé, the writing of which is motivated by the admiration and tribute paid by Alexandre Dumas to one of the greatest figures of ancient poetry, Sappho. A prolific novelist, Dumas rarely tried his hand at poetry; "Naïs et Chloé," by its length, constitutes a hapax in the literary production of this writer. The text remains unpublished to this day and is here enhanced by the elegant calligraphy of its author. The poem is made up of 21 quatrains, among which stands a remarkable insertion of the most famous verse by Sappho, "to the beloved woman," the title of which is preserved in the very body of the text. This embedding is part of the verve with which Dumas defends the poetic and evocative force of the writing of Sappho, whom he elevates to the rank of the "star of the world" of Poetry: "Il est au sein des mers s'appuyant à l'Asie Entre l'heureuse Smyrne et la sombre Lemnos Une île aux bois fleuris chers à la Poésie A qui Venus donna le doux nom de Lesbos. Quand du chantre divin la voix fut étouffée Que du nom d'Euridice elle eut frappé l'écho Le flot roula tête et la lyre d'Orphée Sur la rive où plus tard devait naître Sapho Sapho naquit la lyre en ses mains fut remise Les sons qu'elle en tira jusqu'à nous sont venus." Translated with conscientious care by the author, the poem borrowed from Sappho in which that most famous verse emerges ("this one, I say, is equal to the gods"), is found in several places in Dumas' work, particularly in the chapter entitled "les vers saphiques" of San Felice and in a collection of articles dedicated to the great female figures, where she sits alongside Joan of Arc and Margaret of Anjou. For Dumas, it is a matter of remaining faithful to the written verses and rendering their sensuality, often blurred by previous translators: "The translations of these two poets [...] often appear to lack not only ancient color but are inadequate in their lesbian ardor" (Les étoiles du monde, Galerie historique des femmes les plus célèbres de tous les temps et de tous les pays). Above and beyond this translation, Dumas is imbued with the lyricism of Sappho without losing his own romantic vein, and he paints the sapphic love of Naïs and Chloé in an erotic light: "Oh seule palpitante, échevelée et nue Une main sur ma gorge et l'autre... Oh ma Naïs Serre moi dans tes bras et sois la bien venue Car à force d'amour... tiens... tiens je te trahis Et l'on n'entendit plus alors dans la nuit sombre Que le bruit des baisers répétés par l'écho Car Nais et Cloé se taisaient et dans l'ombre Clinias s'enfuyait en maudissant Sapho." The poem testifies to the continuous interest that the authors of the late 19th century showed toward sapphism and to the personage of the reader-voyeur, here embodied by Cleinias, whose most famous occurrence remains Zola's Nana. Exceptional and long autograph sapphic poem by Alexandre Dumas. $ 10 000 [FRENCH VERSION FOLLOWS] Poème manuscrit autographe signé d'Alexandre Dumas portant le titre "Naïs et Chloé", 84 vers à l'encre noire sur feuillet remplié bleu. Quelques infimes déchirures sans manque de texte dues aux pliure inhérentes à la mise sous pli. Le poème autographe est présenté sous une chemise en demi maroquin vert sapin, plats de papier marbré, contreplats doublés d'agneau vert, étui bordé du même maroquin, ensemble signé Goy & Vilaine. Rarissime manuscrit d'un long poème inédit retraçant les amours de Naïs et Chloé et dont l'écriture est régie par l'admiration et
3¾ SS. auf Doppelblatt. 8vo. An seinen Verleger Fritz Simrock: "Epstein dankt mir u. ich danke Ihnen herzlich daß Sie so freundlich hinter dem Rücken des Autors in s[einem] Namen versandten. Nun aber: Was dem E. recht, ist dem Door billig! Wenn Sie das nicht selbst schon gedacht haben, bitte ich, doch auch an Door (I, Sonnenfelsgasse 1) ein Ex. zu senden. (An Brüll habe ich gegeben u. an Mandyczewski.) Wollen wir mit den Uebungen dann auch so liebenswürdig gegen die Professoren sein? Daß mir diese Freundlichkeit gegen m[eine] hiesigen Kollegen sehr angenehm ist, brauche ich nicht zu sagen. Ich möchte dann wohl um 4 Ex. bitten - aber ein Ex. des Klst. muß ich schon bitten wieder beizulegen, damit auch ich sie habe. Das Neueste vom Jahr lege ich dafür bei! [...]". In einem mit Bleistift verfassten Postscriptum ersucht er abschließend, von den 51 Übungen jeweils ein Exemplar an Door und Epstein zu schicken und ihm selbst auch 4 Stück zukommen zu lassen, ebenso 1 Exemplar von "op. 118": "Eben kommt ein Brief von Kirchner - Sie sind eben besser als ich, denn so viel ich erinnere, hatte ich nicht an ihn gedacht".
- Pacific Palisades (CA) 1976-1978, 23 pages A4. - Henry Miller's complete manuscript correspondence with Béatrice Commengé Pacific Palisades (CA) 1976-1978 | 23 pages 21 x 29.7 cm A superb complete set of 17 autograph letters signed by Henry Miller and addressed to the writer Béatrice Commengé, the author most notably of Henry Miller, ange, clown, voyou [Henry Miller: angel, clown, thug] and translator of a number of works by Anaïs Nin. With an autograph envelope addressed by Henry Miller to Béatrice Commengé and an autograph letter signed by Anaïs Nin to Béatrice Commengé. In 1976, Béatrice Commengé, then a young literature student, began writing a thesis on Anaïs Nin and Henry Miller. From her home village in the Périgord region, she wrote to both. Nin, who was very unwell, apologized for not being able to help her. Miller, though, let himself be seduced at the outset by the idea of exchanging letters with an inhabitant of Domme, the village whose beauty he had lauded in The Colossus of Maroussi. Very quickly, impressed with the student's style and determination, he entered into a correspondence with her that would last until - two years before his death - Miller's eyesight broke down completely, preventing him from reading and writing. At this time, Miller, then 85, was living almost as a recluse in Pacific Palisades in California, rejecting the American way of life and its illusions, and dreading all-too frequent offers and invitations. But the old writer was very quickly charmed by Commengé's outlook on his work: «You are a gem! One of the very few ''fanas'' to understand me. Merci! Merci mille fois!» he writes in his second letter. A true epistolary friendship then develops between the ageing writer and his young muse: «I think of you as some sort of terrestrial angel», and «what a delight to get a letter from you»; «Keep writing me, please!» In passionate letters that are written and re-written, with their English mixed with French, words underlined, copious brackets and exclamation points, and post-scriptums squeezed into the margins, Miller examines his work and his memories. He refuses a purely academic correspondence, «To be honest with you, I don't think either A.N. or I, who are naturally very truthful persons, really succeeded with truth as it is conventionally thought of. We are both confirmed 'fabulators'.» Miller recommends the young woman the books he's been reading recently and his old friends: «[Lawrence] Durrel is the friend to talk to about me, [...] he knows me inside out»; «[he] is wonderful when you get to know him. éblouissant même»; «that great master of the French language - Joseph Delteil»; «Delteil is almost a saint. But a lively one,»; «Alf[red Perlès] is the clown, the buffoon, who made me laugh every day». He goes on to congratulate her on abandoning her didactic project in favor of an «imaginary book about [him]» and launches on a much more intimate correspondence. He confesses his shock, as well: «Did you read about the French prostitutes protesting and demonstrating in Paris against my receiving [the legion of honor]? They say I did not treat them well in my books. And I thought I had!!». He also shares his literary tastes: «I prefer the Welsh. They are the last of the poets». He also warns the future translator of Anaïs Nin against his former mistress' duality: «She is or was a complete enigma, absolutely dual. [...] Actually, I suppose there is always this dichotomy between the person and the writer», and confides to her her secrets: «she is slowly dying (of cancer) she refuses to admit it. (This is entre nous!)». He also discusses his latest loves: «I am in love with a very beautiful Chinese actress [...]. I seem to go from one to another, never totally defeated, never wholly satisfied. But this is near 'eternal' love as I've never been.» Indeed, despite his advanced old age, the author of Sexus has lost nothing of his passion for the fairer sex and his correspondent's being a woman i
1 S. Qu.-kl.-8vo. An seinen Verleger Fritz Simrock ("S"): "Ich wollte Sie mit inlieg[enden] Berliner u. Leipziger Geschichten dort nicht stören - aber ich muß wohl. Das Wienerische vertraulichst und gelegentlich zurück. Auch hier haben wir das allerherrlichste Wetter u. genießen es. Dr. Wendt ist heute Morgen abgereist. Daran denkt noch gar nicht | Ihr J. Br. | Schöne Grüße an Frau u. Fräulein [...]". Briefwechsel Bd. XI: Brahms Briefe an Peter Joseph Simrock und Fritz Simrock. Bd. 3. Hg: Max Kalbeck. Berlin 1919, S. 128 (Nr. 568).
- Hauteville House 11 et 13 mai 1856, 14x21,5cm, une feuille. - Lettre autographe signée de Victor Hugo datée du 13 mai 1856 à la suite d'une lettre inédite de Madame Victor Hugo à Madame David d'Angers datée du 11 mai. 4 pages sur un feuillet remplié à filigrane "Barbet Smith Street Guernesey". Publiée dans Correspondance de Victor Hugo, Paris, année 1856, p. 246 Dans cette lettre imprégnée des apparitions et spectres qui hantent les Contemplations récemment publiées, Victor Hugo s'adresse à la veuve de son grand ami le sculpteur David d'Angers, fervent républicain et artiste particulièrement admiré des romantiques. En pleine crise mystique, Hugo parle à l'ombre du sculpteur à qui il dédia de sublimes poèmes dans Les feuilles d'automne ainsi que Les rayons et les ombres et réclame auprès de sa veuve son portrait favori, un buste en marbre jadis sculpté par David d'Angers. Après l'expulsion des proscrits de l'île de Jersey, Victor Hugo fait l'achat d'Hauteville House grâce au succès des Contemplations et apprend avec tristesse la disparition d'un ami cher. Il écrit à la veuve du sculpteur sur le même feuillet que sa femme Adèle, également liée avec la famille de David d'Angers, créateur d'un médaillon à son effigie : « Vous êtes la veuve de notre grand David d'Angers, et vous êtes sa digne veuve comme vous avez été sa digne femme ». Le sculpteur de renom s'était déjà lié au premier salon romantique de Nodier à l'Arsenal et fréquentait presque quotidiennement Hugo à la fin des années 1820 dans l'ambiance bonapartiste et bon enfant de la rue Notre-Dame des Champs, en compagnie des frères Devéria, Sainte-Beuve, Balzac, Nanteuil et Delacroix. En 1828, l'écrivain avait posé avec bonheur dans l'atelier de David d'Angers rue de Fleurus, pour un médaillon puis un buste qui avaient été suivis de deux sublimes poèmes célébrant le talent du sculpteur dans Les Feuilles d'Automne et Les rayons et les ombres. De tous ses portraits pourtant nombreux, il chérissait plus que tout autre son buste de marbre signé David d'Angers et n'hésite pas à le réclamer à sa veuve : « Avant peu, peut-être, madame, ma famille vous demandera de lui rendre ce buste qui est ma figure, ce qui est peu de chose, mais qui est un chef-d'uvre de David, ce qui est tout. C'est lui encore plus que moi, et c'est pour cela que nous voulons l'avoir parmi nous ». De ces séances de pose avec le sculpteur naquirent de fructueuses conversations esthétiques et politiques où s'était affirmée leur aversion commune pour la peine de mort. Ils assistèrent au ferrement des galériens qui rejoignaient Toulon depuis Paris, décrit par Hugo dans deux chapitres du Dernier jour d'un condamné. Victime de l'exil comme Hugo, David d'Angers était rentré à Paris avant de rejoindre le monde des morts : « Mon exil est comme voisin de son tombeau, et je vois distinctement sa grande âme hors de ce monde, comme je vois sa grande vie dans l'histoire sévère de notre temps ». La « grande vie » de David d'Angers fut consacrée à façonner les effigies des hommes illustres, par un subtil équilibre de ressemblance et d'idéalisation. Le sculpteur prend finalement place dans le panthéon personnel de Victor Hugo, lui qui avait orné le fronton du véritable Panthéon des grands hommes où repose aujourd'hui l'écrivain : « David est aujourd'hui une figure de mémoire, une renommée de marbre, un habitant du piédestal après en avoir été l'ouvrier. Aujourd'hui, la mort a sacré l'homme et le statuaire est statue. L'ombre qu'il jette sur vous, madame, donne à votre vie la forme de la gloire ». C'était en effet à l'ombre des grands hommes qu'Hugo vécut son exil à Jersey, loin du tumulte de la capitale et dans le silence ponctué par les embruns frappant les carreaux. Hugo s'était plongé dans l'occulte et parlait aux disparus : « David est une des ombres auxquelles je parle le plus souvent, ombre moi-même », déclare-t-il, rappelant le poème final des Contemplations, « Ce que dit la bouche d'ombre », dicté au poète grâce
101 x 189 mm. Floral silk print in simple paper matte. A loving gift from Che to his wife "Aleiducha" (i.e. Aleida March, b. 1936) on the occasion of the birth of their first child, a girl named Aleida, after her mother. March was a member of Fidel Castro's Cuban army, and an active combatant during the revolution. Che writes on the margins: "Para mi Aleiducha, por este día tan especial de engendra maternal eterno" and signs off "with all the love of your dear warrior" ("Con todo el amor de tu querido aguerrido"). Signed simply "Che". - Light staining and edgewear.
Qu.-8vo (106:173 mm). 322 SS. mit 205 Einträgen. Lederband der Zeit mit Rückenvergoldung, Rückenschildchen und Deckelvergoldung. Dreiseitiger Goldschnitt; Kattunpapiervorsätze. Die Beiträge in deutscher, lateinischer, griechischer und hebräischer Handschrift auf Papier, darunter einige Einträge aus der Zeit des Theologiestudiums des Stammbucheigners und späteren Pfarrers Carl Christian Merian (1737-1808) in Halle von mehreren Frauen bzw. Ehepaaren und einigen Personen in Verbindung zu den Franckeschen Stiftungen zu Halle. - Allen voran zu nennen ist der Moralphilosoph und Dichter Christian Fürchtegott Gellert (1715-69), der ein Widmungszitat nach Ciceros "De amicitia" beisteuert: "Fructus ingenii omnisque praestantiae maxime tum capitur, cum in proximum quemque confertur", Leipzig, 9. X. 1759). Unter den weiteren, teils namhaften Beiträgern finden sich Nathanael Ephraim Blanckmeister (1726-88, Pastor), Georg Christian Bodinus, Philipp Adolph Böhmer, Jakob Gottfried Bötticher ("Oberaufseher des Hällisch Waisenhausischen Buchladens", 1692-1762, seine Portraitsammlung 1756 der Bibliothek des Waisenhauses geschenkt), Andreas Cyriacus Breithaupt (Pfarrer, 1705-80), Andreas Elias Büchner (Mediziner, Professor in Halle, später Präsident der Leopoldina, 1701-69), Christian August Crusius (Philosoph, Theologe, 1715-75), Johann Peter Eberhard (Arzt, Theologe, Mathematiker und Physiker, Mitglied der Leopoldina, 1727-79), Sebastian Andreas Fabricius, Johann Justinus Gebauer (Verleger in Halle, 1710-72), Gottfried Gutjahr, Gottlob Friedrich Hillmer, Johann Friedrich Joachim (Jurist, Historiker und Numismatiker, 1713-67), Christian Ludwig Klotz, Gustav Krampe, A. von Krosigk, Köthen (13. V. 1759), Johann Christoph Kühnau (Berlin, 19. IX. 1792, Kirchenmusiker und Komponist, Kantor an der Dreifaltigkeitskirche in Berlin, 1735-1805) und Wilhelmine Kühnau ("Zum Andenken der heute in der Dreifaltigkeitskirche gehaltenen schönen Predigt"), Johann Joachim Lange (1698-1765, Mathematiker, Dichter, Mineraloge), Christian Gottfried Mathesius (Theologe, 1714-80), Georg Friedrich Meier (Philosoph, Ordinarius, Mitglied verschied. gelehrter Gesellschaften, 1718-77), Johann Valentin Polack, Friedrich Eberhard Rambach (1708-75, seit 1756 in Halle als Pastor an der Marktkirche und Superintendent im ersten Saalekreis), J. P. Raspe, Sanfftleben, Benjamin Schultze (Halle 17. X. 1759, Missionar in Südindien, 1689-1760), Friedrich Magnus von Solms (1. XI. 1759), M. von Sperlingen, Johann Christian Stemler (Theologe, 1701-73), Christoph Wolle (Theologe, 1700-61), sowie Johann Christoph Unzer (1714-73), "HochGräfl. Stollberg. Leib-Medicus", mit seiner Frau Sophie Charlotte. - Merian wurde erst Pfarrer in Bruderdorf und später in Dassow. - Einband beschabt. Drei Bll. am Anfang mit biographischer Notiz zum Eigner in blauer Tinte, das erste Blatt nahe am Bug entfernt. Teilweise schwach bräunlich, Tinte vielfach stärker durchschlagend.
Mit koloriertem Kupferstich (Titelblatt) und einer lavierten Federzeichnung. Insgesamt 193 num. Seiten, davon etliche leer und 16 Bll. alt entfernt. Am Schluß 4 Bll. Register. Brauner Original-Lederband mit überaus reicher Rücken- und Deckelvergoldung sowie Buntpapiervorsätzen und Goldschnitt. Qu.-8vo (175:110 mm). Friedrich Heinrich Stock, geboren um 1760, besuchte das Gymnasium in Lemgo und studierte anschließend Jura an der Universität Göttingen. Die meisten und interessantesten der rund 70 Einträge dieses Stammbuches stammen von Gelehrten und Professoren der Universität Göttingen. Zuerst sei hier Johann Nikolaus Forkel (1749-1818) genannt, der hier am 3. IV. 1787 ein Zitat von Aristoteles niederschrieb ("Quod majori labore acquiritur, magis diligitur"): Forkel, der erste Bach-Biograph und Begründer der historischen Musikwissenschaft, war seit 1769 in Göttingen, zunächst als Student, dann als Privatgelehrter und ab 1779 als Universitäts-Musikdirektor. Weiters finden sich Eintragungen von Göttinger Professoren wie Georg Ludwig Böhmer (1715-97; Straf- und Kirchenrechtslehrer), Johann Stephan Pütter (1725-1807, Publizist und Staatsrechtslehrer), Johann Beckmann (1739-1811, Philosoph und Ökonom); Johann Peter Waldeck (1751-1815, Jurist), Justus Friedrich Runde (1741-1807, Jurist und Rechtshistoriker), Justus Claproth (1728-1805, Jurist und Erfinder des Recyclingpapiers) sowie Johann Ludwig Ewald (1748-1822, Theologe und Pädagoge, Hofprediger und Generalsuperintendent in Lippe-Detmold) und Johann Heinrich Bösenberg (1745-1828, Theaterschauspieler und Bühnenautor). Außerdem konnten noch weitere 20 Freunde und Kommilitonen ermittelt werden (eine Liste ist auf Anfrage erhältlich). - Bei den alt entfernten Beiträgen handelt es sich laut Register offenbar hauptsächlich um Familienmitglieder und Bürger Lemgos. - Äußerst gehaltvolles Stammbuch mit namhaften Beiträgern und von sehr schöner Erhaltung.
Mit 71 Einträgen auf 346 (statt 356) SS. und 6 Bll. Personenverzeichnis. Mit 7 Gouachen auf Pergament und 1 koloriertem Kupferstich. Brauner Kalbslederband der Zeit mit reicher Rücken- und Deckelvergoldung und umlaufendem Goldschnitt. Vorsätze in zeitgenöss. Kleisterpapier. Qu.-8vo (175 x 104 mm). Hübsches Album des in Jena studierenden "F.W.S." (so am Vorderdeckel geprägt), in das sich 71 Kommilitonen eingetragen haben. Besonders erwähnenswert sind die hübschen Gouachen, die wohl alle von demselben Künstler stammen und u. a. studentische Szenen (Einzug zu Pferd und in Karossen, nächtliche Versammlungen), ein "Memento mori" mit einem Mönch in einer Klause, Landschaften und Allegorien auf die Tugend zeigen. - Der hübsche Einband mit Rocaille- und Gittermuster nur gering berieben, beschabt und bestoßen; am Hinterdeckel die geprägte Jahreszahl 1756; innen stellenweise leicht fleckig; S. 1 mit photographischem Exlibris eines Walter Amon.