HUXLEY ALDOUS Autograph Letter Signed to Dear Mr Blumenfeld

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HUXLEY, ALDOUS. Autograph Letter Signed, to "Dear Mr. Blumenfeld," sending a book as a wedding present [not present], complaining both about not having been able to visit Russia and about the current political situation, and suggesting a way to mend the financial worries of the world. 3 1/2 pages, 8vo, personal stationery, written on a single folded sheet; faint scattered soiling, horizontal fold. (MRS) "The Athenaeum" [London], 10 October 1931

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". . . I had hoped to go to Russia this summer, but was prevented by press of work, which I regret. For I sh'd much have liked to go. I was stuck in France all the time, whence have just returned to this political bedlam. Really, the lunacy of the world! The way these politicians go on prancing round, talking about tariffs & entrenchment etc, when it is palpably obvious that the only thing to be done is to alter our preposterous currency system & make the medium of exchange adequate to the amount of goods produced and producible, not limit production to the amount of available gold. They have a real chance of making the world a quite decent place--but I'm afraid that a mixture of stupidity & cupidity will triumph & that we shall be precipitated into the old sough of despond[ency]."