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Titre
Autograph Letter Signed and dated '14-X-'06 [De Zonheuvel, Doorn.] Holland'.
Auteur
MAARTENS, Maarten
Éditeur
Prix
€ 95,00(Excl. toute livraison)
Plus d'informations
Letter in English on mourning paper with printed letterhead 'De Zonheuvel, Doorn.', signed '"Maarten Maartens"'. Five pages. 17,8 x 11,3 cm. 53 lines. Some traces of glue. Pin holes where a visiting card may have been pinned to the letter. Maarten Maartens is the pseudonym of J. van der Poorten Schwartz (1858-1915), a Dutch author who wrote in English. Extensive letter to a 'Dear Sir' in Pittsburgh who had given a lecture and invited him for a stay. Maartens writes he is 'just back from the Aberdeen festivities, where I met Mr. Carnegie who renewed his invitation to my daughter'. He would like to come, but because of his bad health is reluctant to take a fast boat to the USA. 'I am a disgraceful sailor, but America is worth even that - can any man say more?' He wonders if he can take his 18-year old daughter along. Very friendly letter by a bit of a pedant who flaunts the name of his famous friends Andrew Carnegie and Admiral F.E. Chadwick and asks the benevolence of the gods in Latin ('Dii, favete!') while pondering a tour through Northern America. Not in The Letters of Maarten Maartens.
Fokas Holthuis
Den Haag 
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