Sold For $541
*Includes Buyers Premium
French writer (1866–1944) who won the 1915 Nobel Prize for Literature. ALS in French, two pages on two adjoining sheets, 5.25 x 8.25, December 4, 1921. Handwritten letter to Madame Laura Talmage Huyck. In part (translated): "It is heartening to me to feel that my Clérambault has found its way into other souls. Moreover, I was convinced… that it would awaken echoes in certain souls in America: for I knew the purity of religious light that is a moral elite (and especially a feminine one) in Anglo-Saxon culture.—Here [in France], unfortunately, religion is too often confused with the rites of an official cult, and is not the deep and spontaneous surge of a free soul. I thank you for the kindness you showed in writing to me. I hope that, through new works, I will be able to complete the ‘message’ of Clérambault." In fine condition. Accompanied by the original mailing envelope, addressed in Rolland's own hand. Rolland’s 1920 book Clérambault is a pacifist novel about a French intellectual disillusioned by nationalist propaganda during World War I.
This item is Pre-Certified by PSA/DNA
Buy a third-party letter of authenticity for
$50.00
*This item has been pre-certified by a trusted third-party authentication service, and by placing a bid on this item, you agree to accept the opinion of this authentication service. If you wish to have an opinion rendered by a different authenticator of your choosing, you must do so prior to your placing of any bid. RR Auction is not responsible for differing opinions submitted 30 days after the date of the sale.
Third-party authentication service applies only to signatures and handwriting, and does not cover the addition of sketches, artwork, musical quotations, etc.
