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Two fragments of two holograph letters concerning Lenin's view of the Turkish-Italian War and the role of wives in society.
Description:
Each fragment is bound with more complete photostats of the page from which the fragment was taken, and an English translation of the photostat letter., Ex libris Laura K. and Valerian Lada-Mocarski, who acquired it from Grigoriĭ Aleksinskiĭ. Purchased from Valerian Lada-Mocarski with funds from the Beinecke Endowment, 1985., and Letters in Russian, with English translations.
Subject (Name):
Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich, 1870-1924 and Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich, 1870-1924--Relations with women
Subject (Topic):
Turco-Italian War, 1911-1912 and Wives--Conduct of life
Two fragments of two holograph letters concerning Lenin's view of the Turkish-Italian War and the role of wives in society.
Description:
Each fragment is bound with more complete photostats of the page from which the fragment was taken, and an English translation of the photostat letter., Ex libris Laura K. and Valerian Lada-Mocarski, who acquired it from Grigoriĭ Aleksinskiĭ. Purchased from Valerian Lada-Mocarski with funds from the Beinecke Endowment, 1985., and Letters in Russian, with English translations.
Subject (Name):
Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich, 1870-1924 and Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich, 1870-1924--Relations with women
Subject (Topic):
Turco-Italian War, 1911-1912 and Wives--Conduct of life
The collection contains autograph manuscripts and typescripts, corrected, of works by William Maxse Meredith, including the short stories Marion, A Winter Tour, and Will She Regret It?, as well as letters by and to him, including letters to Edward Clodd; William Morris Colles; S. M. Ellis; and Arthur Wing Pinero.
Description:
Acquired from various sources. For more information see catalog cards filed in the collection.
Subject (Topic):
Authors, English--19th century--Archives, Authors, English--20th century--Archives, English literature--19th century, and English literature--20th century
The collection primarily contains letters received by Carel Mondriaan and his wife Mary Mondriaan, including one autograph letter and twelve postcards, signed, from Piet Mondrian writing from Paris (1937-1938), London (1938-1939), and New York (1941). Other correspondents in the papers are Willem Frederik Mondriaan (two telegrams, 1943-1944); Harry Holtzman (one typed letter, signed, 1948), Michel Seuphor (one autograph letter, signed, 1956), and Kunstkreis-Verlag (one typed letter, 1956). Also present is a manuscript inventory in an unidentified hand (1946) listing some of the items in the collection, a printed announcement for Louis Cornelis Mondriaan's funeral (1943), a photograph of Carel and Mary Mondriaan with Piet Mondrian in his studio at 278 Boulevard Raspail, Paris (1936), and an album holding seventy-two carte-de-visite portrait photographs of Mondriaan family members (1870s-1880s).
Description:
Carel Mondriaan was born on June 1, 1880, and died on July 28, 1956. The younger brother of Dutch artist Piet Mondrian (1872-1944), Mondriaan had a career as an insurance broker. and Purchased from S. W. Myers (Sotheby's sale, 1983 November 7, lot 291) on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 1983.
Subject (Name):
Mondriaan, Carel, 1880-1956 and Mondriaan, Louis Cornelis, 1877-1943
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