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Large 4to. ½ p. With typed envelope. To Wolfgang Seibold, declining the project of setting to music Egon Friedell's and Alfred Polgar's short comedy "Goethe", suggesting he approach Maria de Alvear instead: "Wegen einer wohl mehr als vorübergehenden Lähmung des Auges schreibe ich Ihnen kurz in Antwort auf Ihren freundlichen Brief [...] Natürlich 'spinnen' Sie nicht mit Ihrem Anliegen, bloß bin ich jetzt auf längere Zeit nur auf halbe Kraft gesetzt und kann daher nichts Neues zusagen, sondern eher im Gegenteil, andere Verpflichtungen absagen. Die Groteske von Friedell/Polgar wurde mir vorgelesen und ist recht lustig. Ich bin sicher, daß Sie jemanden finden werden, der Ihnen helfen kann. Warum nicht Maria de Alvear? [...]". - Auf Briefpapier mit gedr. Briefkopf. - On headed paper.
8vo. 6 pp. on 2 double leaves. To Mrs. Roland G. Hopkins from the Women's City Club of Boston: "[...] I was very happy to have the opportunity of speaking to that interesting gathering of friends in your home [...] Although I spoke somewhat about the International Congress of Working Women, I am going to repeat a few of the outstanding facts - which you may or may not care to read. Nineteen countries were represented, and the members of the Congress spoke in six or seven languages. They were women of broad vision and great insight into the industrial problems now confronting the world, and they had come together to consider the next steps in reconstruction in an effort to stabilize industry [...]". - On stationery with printed letterhead and two pinhead-sized holes.
4to. 1 page. With typed envelope and address stamp. To a M. Tage Bolander at the "Time & Life Building" in New York about the project of publishing the memoirs of the former Queen Elisabeth of Greece and Princess of Romania, with thanks for the recipient's interest and efforts: "J'ai bien reçu en son temps votre lettre du 24 Janvier 1956 ainsi que le carnet manuscrit des 'Mémoires" de Sa Majesté [...]". - Elisabeth of Romania (1894-1956) settled in Cannes some years after her expulsion from Romania in 1947 when the Romanian People's Republic was proclaimed. In France she met the much younger aspiring artist Marc Favrat, who became her lover and whom she made her equerry and adopted in the year of her death. - With blindstamped letterhead and address stamp "Le Chef de la Maison Civile en France".
4to. 2 pp. on 2 ff. On headed stationery of the Cabinet Nicolas, Agents Immobiliers. To Marc Favrat ("Sa Altesse Royale Prince Marc") in Golfe-Juan, concerning the final settlement for the Villa "Rosalba". Broken or lost inventory is noted, as well as outstanding bills for gas, electricity, and telephone. As there is no detailed information on the exact number of missing objects, a total debt of 40,500 francs is estimated, of which a note states that Favrat has already deposited 6,000 francs upon his departure. As the letter records, Favrat and the owner of the Villa "Rosalba", Madame Berger, are in agreement about the aforesaid objects and the generally good state of the villa: "Le tout est de savoir la quantité, mais comme l'inventaire ne le mentionne pas nous nous en reporterons à votre bonne foi pour faire une quote mal taillée entre les 6000 frs que représentent la quantité restant à votre départ et une estimation forfaitaire de ce qu'il y avait au début de la location [...]". - Marc Favrat gained some fame through his relationship with Princess Elisabeth of Romania (1894-1956), former Queen of Greece, who settled in Cannes in the Villa "Rosalba" some years after her expulsion from Romania in 1947 when the Romanian People's Republic was proclaimed. The much younger aspiring artist Favrat became Elisabeth's lover, equerry, and adopted son in the year of her death. - With some handwritten annotations and a few small marginal tears.
4to. Ca. 1½ pp. on 2 ff. Added is a duplicate. To Marc Favrat concerning a bill over 250,000 francs for the burial of Princess Elisabeth of Romania, former Queen of Greece, and a partly deferred payment of 50,000 francs, accompanied by the corresponding fee note: "Comme suite à notre conversation de ce jour, il est entendu que le montant des frais occasionnés par l'enterrement de S. A. La Reine Elisabeth [...] payable de la façon suivante: Frs ... 250.000 et 50.000 Frs par paiement différé e par vous-même [...]". - Elisabeth of Romania (1894-1956) settled in Cannes some years after her expulsion from Romania in 1947, when the Romanian People's Republic was proclaimed. In France, she met the much younger aspiring artist Marc Favrat, who became her lover and whom she made her equerry and adopted in the year of her death. - With printed letterhead "Association Cultuelle Orthodoxe Russe Saint-Michel Archange" and stamps. Includes a duplicate.
4to. 1 page. To Marc Favrat with a bill over 300,000 francs for the burial of Princess Elisabeth of Romania, former Queen of Greece: "Je me permets de vous présenter ci-dessous la montant des frais occasionnés par l'enterrement de S. A. la Reine Elisabeth [...]". - Elisabeth of Romania (1894-1956) settled in Cannes some years after her expulsion from Romania in 1947, when the Romanian People's Republic was proclaimed. In France, she met the much younger aspiring artist Marc Favrat, who became her lover and whom she made her equerry and adopted in the year of her death. The last year of Elisabeth's life was characterised by financial worries and health issues. - With printed letterhead "Association Cultuelle Orthodoxe Russe Saint-Michel Archange" and stamp. Surface somewhat defective and scratched with several tiny holes and tears, some fingerstaining, dust-soiling and marks in red pencil.
Folio. ¾ page. With typed address (folded air mail). To Marquis Marc de Favrat, offering a requiem mass for the soul of the deceased Princess Elisabeth of Romania, the former Queen of Greece: "I am doing this partly out of the friendship which I have for her sister, the Princess Ileana, and I thought that you would like to know that his Requiem was being offered. May I express to you my very sincere condolences on the death of one so dear to you [...]". - Elisabeth of Romania (1894-1956) settled in Cannes some years after her expulsion from Romania in 1947, when the Romanian People's Republic was proclaimed. In France, she met the much younger aspiring artist Marc Favrat, who became her lover, whom she made her equerry and adopted in the year of her death.
4to. ½ p. To the Belgian art historian and editor of the periodical "Sélection" André de Ridder (1888-1961), concerning payments and photographs for a forthcoming issue devoted to Kandinsky: "Je vous enverrai les RM. 200 de suite après avoir reçu les corrections. Malheureusement ça m'est impossible d'acheter les clichés!". Kandinsky hints at his dire financial situation due to the forced closure of the Bauhaus by the Nazis since April 1933 which led to its ultimate dissolution on 19 July: "Les conditions pecuniaires sont difficiles et mon revenu personnel a subit un changement peu agréable - je suis forcé de faire des économies." He also mentions that his friend, the important art critic Will Grohmann, would finish the corrections for the issue within a day: "J'ai parlé à M. Grohmann en le priant de se bien dépecher avec les corrections. Il est de mon avis que c'est très important de se dépecher avec la parition du cahier. Quant à lui il ferra les corrections dans un seul jour." In closing, Kandinsky underlines that a two month delay caused by another publication was not his fault so he should not have to bear the consequences, and apologizes for the scant response: "Che M. de Ridder, ce n'est pas ma faute que le Cahier de M. W. [Edward Wadsworth] était en retard de deux mois! Ça ne saurrait pas consequent de me faire porter les resultats de ce retard. Excusezbien la breveté de ma reponse [...]". - The special issue entitled "Sélection Chronique de la Vie Artisque XIV Wassily Kandinsky - Éditions Sélection Anvers 1933" appeared in July when Kandinsky and his wife were about to move to Paris, fleeing the Nazi regime. - With an adhesive mark on the upper edge, folded, and slightly browned.
4to. ½ p. To music director Johannes Schüler (1894-1966), reporting the successful recital of his "Pierrot Lunaire" and mentioning Alban Berg, who had also informed him that. - On headed paper; foldings with small tears, small tear-out at the top left).
Half page, on quarto lettersheet of personal letterhead. With one correction and several insertions of accents in ink. Folded for mailing, else about fine. To "Mi distinguido Amigo" (the gallery owner Marcelo de Ridder in Buenos Aires). In part, Miro writes (in translation): "[...] I have just returned from Paris; Maeght and I think this exhibition should be postponed until the world comes out of this state of hysteria and madness. Since the paintings that we would send belong to private collections, and mine are being kept for my wife and daughter, we can not risk assuming such responsibility under the current circumstances. Please pass this information on to the Ambassador. I can only hope that the world will return to its senses, and in that case, I would be very honoured to do this exhibition, which, by the way, needs to be better organised [...]". Signed boldly "Miro".
4to. 3 pp. on 2 leaves. A remarkable letter to Ludwig Marcuse who had published "Sigmund Freud. Sein Bild vom Menschen" the year before: "[...] Unfortunately in writing about Freud's personality in the first chapter you have suffered the same fate of the many other approaches to the subject. It seems always to stir some unconscious conflicts which lead to serious misinterpretations and incorrect hypotheses which only add to the distorted legends of that personality which are so frequent. It even affects the capacity to quote correctly simple facts even when they are perfectly clear in my biography. Thus Freud did not see his mother naked between the age of 2 and 2½, but precisely when he was three and a half (S. 17). Freud's difficulty in expressing his angry emotions was that he could not make them literaturfähig, not literarisch-historisch (S. 25). Prof. Putnam was not present at the first Psa Congress (S. 35); the only one he ever attended was the second. Freud's Eisenbahnangst, which you say was not neurotic, was certainly neurotic and could lead to fainting fits in the railway station [...] No one who knew Freud personally would ever have thought of him as either melancholisch or a Grobianus. He had excellent social manners and a constantly cheerful temperament to the end of his life. He once referred to himself as a 'cheerful pessimist', but he explained carefully that what people meant by pessimist was realist: a sceptic who doubted the practicability of achieving idealistic visions (such as the communist one) [...]". - On stationery with printed address.
8vo. 1 page. With autogr. salutation and small corrections. To an unidentified recipient, thanking for "Your volume [...] with its charming inscription": "[...] The Germans seem to me to be losing every trace of moral-self-respect in their methods; - Indeed, they have got to a point when it seems to me they hardly care to distinguish between right and wrong. But I may be prejudiced [...]". - On stationery with printed address; some damage to edges and remnants of scotch tape.
8vo. 1 page. To Eleanor Roosevelt: "[...] I have reserved my four house seats for you on Thursday evening, October the 12th. Will you please let me know [...] if you require more than four? But if I do not hear I will take it that four seats will be enough and they will definitely be at the box office in your name [...]". - On headed paper of the Ritz-Carlton in Boston.
4to. ¾ p. To [John Henderson, Secretary of the National Liberal Club]: "I remeber with great pleasure the evening I had with your Literary Circle, but I am afraid I can't again avail myself of your kindness. I am not at all sure that I shall be in England on any of those dates, and in any case I cannot accept speaking engagements as they make ma so tired that I am unfit for my other work [...]".
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.
Small 4to. 1½ pp. on 2 ff. To Mrs. Roland G. Hopkins from the Women's City Club of Boston: "Your letter [...] concerning your friend, Professor Salvemini, has been on my desk for several days. My delay in answering was caused by an embarrassment in which I am sure you will sympathize as your letter informed me he was anxious to secure information 'in connection with President Wilson's attitude towards Italy'. These are such very difficult and vital days for Italy - and as I had none of Mr. Wilson's papers to substantiate my recollections - I deemed it unwise to make myself his interpreter. Through Mrs. Brandeis, who thoroughly understood my position, this has been explained to Professor Salvemini, and a suggestion made that he get in touch with Mr. Ray Stannard Baker in whose possession all of Mr. Wilson's papers now are and where I am sure he will get a very sympathetic hearing [...]". - Edith Bolling Wilson was the second wife of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson. - On stationery with embossed address.
4to. ½ p. To [John Henderson, Secretary of the National Liberal Club]: "I am just returned from Scotland to find your letter. I shall be happy to come to your room at the National Liberal Club at a quarter to 7 tomorrow [...]". - On stationery with black border.
4to. 1 p. To the Liberal Publication Department: "Enclosed please find corrected proof for the Liberal Year Book [...]".
¾ p. Large 8vo. With typed envelope. To a collector, sending a First Day Cover with printed signature of her late husband.
4to. 1½ pp. on 2 ff. To Mrs Cowper, written on his re-accession to power in 1951: "I have been preoccupied with national problems since becoming Prime Minister so that it is only just recently that I have been able to consider my personal affairs, and how they affect all the people who have been working for me over the past years [...] I know how efficiently and happily you have looked after my affairs and interests in my constituency over the past years, and I wish you to know how much Mrs Churchill and I have valued your services and your loyalty [...]. - On engraved headed paper bearing the seal of the Prime Minister and blind-stamp of George VI, filing-hole at head.
4to. 1 page. To the blind bass-baritone Sinclair Logan about a recital: "I greatly enjoyed both your singing and your songs last night. I have never heard you in better form or with better control of vocal colour. I wish I could feel that your accompanist were a patch on you, but frankly I think he was not a great success last night [...] I will try to get the recital mentioned in my 'Passing Notes', in our next Bulletin [...]". - Apart from his musical activities, Foss was the first Musical Editor (1923-41) for the Oxford University Press at Amen House in London. - On headed paper "Oxford University Press - Music Department".
8vo. 1 page. To the musician Frederick Allan Wilshire (1868-1944). Newman is unable to provide information on Wagner Societies in England and gives an outline of the work that preoccupied him at the time: "I am glad to hear of the formation of your Wagner Society, and wish it good luck and long life. I don't know whether there are any other Wagner Societies still in existence in England. I would suggest your asking the Musical Times [...] I have completely given up lecturing: I have about a dozen books on hand, and I have had do give up every form of activity that draws upon the time I need for these. It seems a long while now since we heard the 'Ring' in Bristol. These were great days! [...]". In 1931 Newman had published his work "Fact and Fiction about Wagner". - With embossed letterhead.
135:21 mm. 1 p. Folded page on the photographer's letterhead. Retaining the original envelope. To Jay Martin, author of a biography of Henry Miller, regarding his friendship with the writer: "[...] Mais si vous avez-vu Alfred Perlès en Grèce, cela suffit peut-être, nous avons vécu à peu près la même periode ensemble avec Henry Miller de 1930 - jusqu'à la guerre. Je ne crois pas que je pourrais vous dire grand-chose en ce qui concerne la biographie de Miller [...]". - Folded page on the photographer's letterhead.
8vo. 1 p. on bifolium. Several addenda. Fine collection of material about Alexander Graham Bell's experimental designs for hydrofoils and flying machines in his last years, i. e. the time of World War I and immediately thereafter. The Smithsonian Institution's librarian Brockett writes to Bell: "The fact that I have not written to you does not mean that I have not been going ahead with the search for the material relating to the boats in which you are interested. I am going through some of the older series of 'Revista Marittima' and publications of a similar class, keeping a careful list of what I am doing, as suggested by you. Just to be sure that I am correct as to the size of the copy, I am sending you a few photostat copies which I have had made. It seems to me that it would have been much better to have the black on white as we agreed upon before you left. Another thing, as to bringing these things together, would you like to have me send them on or was it your intention that I should retain them here [...]". - Includes the photostat copies mentioned in the letter, as well as: - 2 typed copies from Bell's "Home Notes", his collection of memoranda which ultimately would span 135 volumes: "A Hydroplane Submarine Chaser" (5 Feb. 1917, 3 ff.; and 4-5 April 1917, 6 ff., 4to). The memoranda were published in the "Beinn Breagh Recorder" (vol. XXI, pp. 95ff. and 175ff.), Bell's house periodical, published in only 21 copies. - Carbon copy typescript "Secret and Confidential Report on the Graham Bell 'Hydroplane'" (21 ff., folio). - Carbon copy typescript "Report on Experiments with the HD-4 with Liberty Motors. Made 1919 Sept. 26 by Alexander Graham Bell" (4 ff. , large 4to). - Offprint from the "Smithsonian Report for 1919": William Washington Nutting, "The 'HD-4'. A 70-Miler With Remarkable Possibilities Developed at Dr. Graham Bell's Laboratories on the Bras d'Or Lakes". Washington, 1921. (2), 205-210 pp. With 9 plates. 8vo. Original wrappers. - Pencil graph (in Bell's hand?) on graph paper, displaying the increase of fuel consumption with increasing engine speed. - A. G. Bell not only invented the first telephone but was also a pioneer in the construction of hydrofoil boats. He undertook his first experiments in 1908 with his collaborator Fredrick "Casey" Baldwin (1882-1948), and in 1915 they created their most successful model, the HD-4, which reached 114 kilometers per hour - a record unchallenged for a decade.
1 p. Very good condition
