Mar 07, 2024 - Sale 2661

Sale 2661 - Lot 46

Price Realized: $ 531
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
FATHER OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA MASARYK, TOMÁŠ GARRIGUE. Autograph Letter Signed, "Thomas," to his sister-in-law Esperanza Garrigue ("Dear Espr"), in English, expressing appreciation for her friendship and for sharing her inner life, stating that his strength is in the political sphere rather than the religious, remarking that despite their differences he is respectful of everyone's beliefs, expressing sympathy with her decision not to adopt a monastic life, sharing a fantasy in which the apostle Paul is living in the modern world, and reporting that Alice [Esperanza's sister?] has gone to Rome for a wedding. 2 pages, 3to, "President Ceskoslovenské Republisky" stationery, written on recto and verso of a single sheet; horizontal fold. With the original envelope. (SFC) [Prague], 17 October 1929
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". . . You wrote me a long letter from Naples & Rome & I get from you now & then some glimpses of your inner life, especially of your religious feelings & ideas. If I don't speak about these things, do not believe that I don't appreciate your friendship in sharing [with] me some of your sacred thoughts. I myself am religious, though I do not claime [sic] to be a relig[ious] man; my force is politics, not religion, although there passes not one day of my life that I would not think of God & religion in general.
"You know I go an other way than you, but I respect every man's sincere convictions.
"You told me that you would not go in a monastery: I think it is a good element of Anglican & American activity in that decision--Catholicism of the Anglo-Saxon type is . . . different from the Roman type. Monastical seclusion may be good for some people, good in some epochs, but I should prefer an active life. I sometimes imagine a modern apostle Paul: typewriting, telephoning etc . . . . That's just one of my fancies & private thoughts. You may understand them. . . ."