Sophie Cat 56 - Sophie Dupre

Clive Farahar & Sophie Dupré, XV The Green, Calne, Wilts, SN1 8DQ, Tel: (01249) 821121 38
288. JUNG (Carl Gustav, 1875-1961, Swiss Psychiatrist)
Fine TLS in English to Mr Evans-Wentz, thanking him for
his letter and copy of his book, he promises to “first
carefully plough through it and then I will try what I can do
about it. I am very glad the you give me the necessary time
to do the work without too much hurry. As I’m still
working as a medical man I can only do actual scientific
work during my vacations ...” but he expects to be able to
start in December and hopes to finish by the summer, “This
is at least my pious wish ... I hope that it will not be too late
... I want to express my special gratitude to you that you
trust me with such a task, since there would be few scholars
in the world that would not be heavily prejudiced against a
psychology which deals with the unconscious mind ...”, 1
side 4to., Küsnacht-Zurich, 17th November 1938, mounted
with afine Karsh him head and shoulders portrait with his
glasses on his forehead, 12” x 9” [SD23113]£1,750
ARL ALEXANDER (1818-1901, from 1853
Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach)
LS, inFrench with translation, to Count Potocki
(Pototski), thanking him “for the good wishes you express
... on the renewal of the Year” and returning his own, “In
case you are journeying abroad, I hope you will not fail to
stop at Weimar ... I will receive you there with pleasure”, 1
side 4to., Weimar, 19th / 31st December 1859
[SD50225]£225
Bismarck called the Grand Duke “Counsel for good relations
between Berlin and St. Petersburg” - his sister Augusta was the
wife of Wilhelm I, and his mother Maria the daughter of Paul I.
Brought up under the eye of Goethe, the Duke furthered the
literary, musical and scientific eminence of Weimar, founding the
Art School, the Music School, and the Wartburg, and as active
patron of the Schiller Institute, the Goethe Society, the
Shakespeare Society, and the University of Jena.
290. KEMBLE (Priscilla, née Hopkins, 1756-1845,
Actress, wife of John Philip Kemble)
ANS to ‘Gentlemen’, sending “as above a draft for your
account”, n.p., n.d., c. 1790, lacks top portion (the draft)
[SD17665]£30
Priscilla Kemble was the original Maria in ‘The School for
Scandal’.
JEROME KERN ON PROHIBITION
291. KEY (Carl Axel Helmer, 1864-1938, Editor and
Chairman, Svenska Dagbladet Publishing Co.)
ALS to Dr Ferdinand L. Leipnik, (1869 - c.1924), the
Hungarian Journalist and intermediary with Great Britain
during WWI, saying hewill “hold me freetose[sic]Mr
Shaw on Wednesday” and inviting him to meet Jerome
Kern ,“tomorrow at 1.15 Savoy ... his last success at New
Amsterdam (F. Ziegfeld jr) ‘ Sally ’isperhaps the greatest
... ever ... in New York ... He writes ... only fine light opera
music” and quotes Kern ,‘Now when we have prohibition
the jazz is dead; because only drunk men can love that ’,
2sides 4to., Savoy Hotel, London, 11th June 1921
[SD19034]£65
Leipnik was in neutral Holland during WWI, and besides relaying
enemy diplomatic documents and peace offers to Great Britain,
acted as go-between with Bernard Shaw’s translator in Vienna.
Dr Key was on the board of the Royal Opera Company,
Stockholm.
292. KING-HALL (Sir George, 1850-1939, C-in-C
Australia Station 1910-1913, Admiral)
ALS to Eileen Cond, sending his autograph and enclosing
his booklet ‘The High Destiny of Man’ (present), 1 side
8vo., 3 Tite Street, Chelsea, 13th June 1936 [SD19267]£30
293. KIRKLINTON, CUMBERLAND
Final Agreement in the Court of Common Pleas, before
“Robert Dallas [chief justice], James Allan Park, James
Burrough and John Richardson [all knights, see DNB]”,
whereby James Forster pays Joseph & Sarah Irving £60 for
“2 cottages 25 acres of land 5 acres of meadow & 10 acres
of moss” in Kirklinton, vellum, typeset in anattractive
adaptation of Court Hand with manuscript additions, 1
side 16½” x 8½”, Westminster, “in 8 days of the
Purification of the Blessed Mary” 3 Geo. IV, 2nd - 9th
February 1822 [SD20142]£75
294. KNOLLYS (Sir Francis, 1837-1924, Private
Secretary, 1870-1913, to King Edward VII & George V,
from 1911 1st Viscount)
TLS toDrMaurice Ernst (later Ernest), 1872-1955, marked
‘Private’, he begs to state “that I never write such a letter as
you request and I much regret ... I am unable to have the
pleasure of meeting your wishes ... however ... I believe
every Englishman has the highest admiration for the
Emperor of Austria and his Country”, London, 5th April
1906 [SD17696]£25
worked constantly to improve Anglo-Austrian relations. In April
1906 he polled leading politicians and scientists about the
forthcoming Exhibition at Earl’s Court of Austrian Arts &
Industries. He returned to medicine in 1909 but kept a lifelong
interest in international peace initiatives. Till 1914 Great Britain
had never been at war with Austria.
Loosely inserted is a cutting about the qualities needed in a royal
Private Secretary.Dr Ernst, as London Correspondent of the Neues
Wiener Tagblatt,
295. KONSTANTIN KONSTANTINOVICH (Grand
Duke, 1858-1915, cousin of Alexander III, Writer,
President of the Imperial Academy of Sciences)
ALS inRussian with translation, to ‘Pavel Gavrilovich’,
thanking him for “the list of works” for “making the revised
edition of the translation of ‘Hamlet’”, and sending “the
English version of my ‘King of the Jews’. It would be very
flattering ... given the present signs of rapprochement
between Russia and England, if the translation of my drama
received some circulation in the land of Shakespeare”, blind
embossed ‘Konstantin’, 3 sides 8vo., Pavlovsk, 1st April
1915 laid down by blank fourth side [SD50012]£150
The writer’s translation of Hamlet, with critical commentary, came
out in 3 vols., 1899-1900, and ‘The King of the Jews’ in 1914.
He also translated ‘Henry IV’, wrote anart history of Pavlovsk,
and verses on the martydom of St. Sebastian. See his ‘Selected
Correspondence’ (in Russian, 1999, with portrait), for many
references to Shakespeare, including earlier versions of Hamlet in
other languages (pp. 507-508).
296. KUBELIK (Jan, 1880-1940, Czech-born Hungarian
Violinist & Composer)
Postcard Photograph Signed by him, of him and his wife
Countess Szell, n.d., c. 1905 [SD19914]£25