Sep 25, 2008 - Sale 2155

Sale 2155 - Lot 240

Unsold
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
HUXLEY, ALDOUS. Group of 4 Autograph Letters Signed or Typed Letter Signed, to Bobby White or Claire Nicolas White, in French or English. Format and condition varies. Vp, [1938-63]

Additional Details

ALS, thanking her for a poem. 1/2 page, 4to. Np, 30 December 1938 ALS, mentioning the "mixed reception--some people enthusiastic, others intensely hostile" to his Island. 2 pages, 4to, written on the recto and verso of a single sheet. Los Angeles, 10 July 1962 ALS, showing admiration for Erasmus whose "sweet reasonableness made him abhorrent to both parties, who went on with their wars and agreed only in demonizing the apostle of good will, intelligence and compromise." 1 1/2 pages, 8vo, written on two sheets; minor soiling. Los Angeles, 17 November 1962 TLS, with holograph corrections, touching on his dramatization of Ape and Essence. 1 page, 4to; toned, 3 holes punched in left margin. Palm Desert, 14 February 1949.