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SCHWEITZER, ALBERT. Two items, each Signed, to Fred and Eleanor Peck: Photograph * Brief Autograph Letter. The photograph, half-length portrait, showing him seated on a bank of the Ogooué River. Signed in the blank lower margin. 4x5 1/2 inches; cello tape along upper and lower edges (not affecting signature), slight silvering in dark areas. The letter, in French, thanking for sending medicines and sympathy, written in the space below the letter from Schweitzer's nurse and personal secretary Ali Silver to the same recipients. Silver's letter, in English, sending thanks for their gift, pointing out that the volume of Schweitzer's correspondence has become unprecedentedly large, noting that Schweitzer has been spending more time lately renovating the leper village, and remarking that there are now about 250 patients plus about 150 lepers at the compound. 1 page, 4to, onionskin paper; folds. With the original envelope. Np, nd; Lambaréné, 29 December 1955
"I thank you from the heart for the medicines for my hospital. Let me also tell you how much I am touched by the sympathy that you show in your Christmas card." With--Group of 4 items: Three letters or notes from various senders to Mr. or Mrs. Peck: Ali Silver. ALS, thanking for magazine subscription, pointing out that mail requires 3 months to arrive, and praising the courage of Linus Pauling. 1 page, 4to • Lee Ellenbrock. TLS and ANS, each on verso of a small photograph showing Schweitzer, recalling working together in a vineyard and discussing continued work at Lambaréné after Schweitzer's death. Together 3 pages, 12mo. Lambaréné, 31 October 1961; Np, 23 October 1965; Lambaréné, 16 February 1968 • Erica Anderson. The World of Albert Schweitzer, unsigned. 144 pages. Large 4to, publisher's cloth-backed boards; dust jacket. New York, (1955).
