Sep 25, 2008 - Sale 2155

Sale 2155 - Lot 238

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Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
HUXLEY, ALDOUS. Autograph Letter Signed, "Aldous," to Claire [Nicolas White], mentioning his involvement in the UN Food and Agriculture Organization's campaign against hunger and providing a brief literary critique of the recipient's Death of the Orange Trees. With a four-line postscript explaining his poor handwriting. 3 1/2 pages, 4to, written on the recto and verso of two sheets; torn from a notebook with three holes punched in one margin, horizontal folds. "On the plane--LA to Rome," 9 March 1963
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". . . [T]he relations between Maria & her painter-husband . . . were never made very clear (e.g., Were they sexually compatible? How much did she care about his professional preoccupations with art? And if she didn't take an interest in these, what was the basis of their happy symbiosis?) . . ."