?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
OF CIVILIZATION AFTER OUTBREAK OF WORLD WAR: "LET US HOPE IT WILL SURVIVE" MANN, THOMAS. Typed Letter Signed, to Milton Kronovet, in English, thanking for birthday wishes. 1 page, 6x5 1/2 inches, personal stationery; faint discoloration from prior matting, faint scattered staining, horizontal fold. Princeton, 8 June 1940
In full: "How kind of you to think of me at my birthday! In these dark, almost unbearable hours it is a great comfort to know that one has friends who still believe in the fundamentals of western civilization. Let us hope it will survive." With--Thomas Mann. Photograph Signed, bust portrait clipped from a newspaper. Signed on the mount below the image. 3x2 1/4 inches (image), 4x2 3/4 inches overall; uneven toning affecting signature. Np, nd.
