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This item WAS NOT SOLD. Auction date was 2010 Aug 11 @ 17:00UTC-07:00 : PDT/MST
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Truly dizzying array of items related to the publication of ''The Africa of Albert Schweitzer'' by Charles R. Joy and Melvin Arnold. Archive includes (1) original draft of book in 220 typed carbon lightweight pages, 80 of which have over 9,500 words handwritten by Schweitzer, mostly in ink, with some pages completely in Schweitzer’s hand. Schweitzer used plastic tape on a few pages to attach long edits, then simply glued others on at the blank edges. Almost all of Schweitzer’s additions are in French (many translated), with a few in English. There are also many instances where he has penned “Schweitzer” in his edits. Also included is a 17 page German translation of one of the chapters, ''The Struggle of Equatorial Africa,'' with over 100 words in Schweitzer’s hand. (2) Autograph letter signed “Albert Schweitzer” in French on five separate lightweight sheets totaling over 1,300 words. Additionally signed ''Dr A Schweitzer'' on each page in top right corner. 8.75'' x 11.5'' letter is chipped at edges, otherwise very good. Accompanied by full translation on ''The Beacon Press'' stationery. Dated 11 April 1948 to Dr. Joy and Mr. Arnold, letter reads in part, ''…By the courier who is leaving tomorrow morning I am sending you three revised chapters. The work has interested me greatly. In general I find your text very good, especially where you tell what you have seen and your impressions. There I have made only a few changes. But in the references you have given, my changes are more important. Most of the time I have made the references more precise and complete, sometimes also I have corrected certain errors. In reading your pages I have doubly regretted that I did not have more time for you when you were here and was unable to orient you better and more completely myself. I explain to you here the things I would have explained to you if I had longer and better conversations with you. And I change here also some inaccuracies in the conversations with me which you have reproduced. Often I have presented to you only one side of a question. But for the public it is necessary to present a complete picture but otherwise it forms a false idea of things and of my point of view and of my judgment…Wherever in the text telling of the conversations that I have had with you it was necessary, as you recount matters unfamiliar to you I have reworded the text. Then in place of corrections and detailed revisions, sometimes I have preferred to rewrite the whole. I hope that you do not mind this…The nice account of the hospital I have not entitled ‘Worms and their Cure’ which is too far-fetched and incomplete, but I have called it quite simply ‘At Dr. Schweitzer’s Hospital’ which corresponds more truly with the content of the following pages. [Note: the authors kept the “Worms and their Cure” chapter title]…Occasionally with the help of Miss Emma I have furnished you with English lines in place of French. You will turn them into true English rather than the wooden English in which they are…All the account, the three chapters which are found in this envelope give me great satisfaction. I have read and reread them with a great interest always. It is living. I believe that it is not necessary to add to your account elements of another kind. Do not chide me for having changed certain pages and replace my prose for yours. You know well I am fond of and devoted to you and how much I desire your book to succeed. I did not talk with you as I should have and wished to do when you were here to my great regret. I am trying to remedy this lack in speaking to you through the changes made by my pen. Please interpret and accept thus my way of doing things and my modest and anonymous collaboration…'' (3) A 1958 copy of book in question, ''The Africa of Albert Schweitzer,'' signed by the author ''Charles R. Joy'' on the title page. (4) Over 1,000, mostly unpublished, photographs of various sizes and condition taken by Charles R. Joy to illustrate ''The Africa of Albert Schweitzer.'' Most of the photographs measure 2.5'' x 2.5'', each mounted in the lower right corner of a lined 8'' x 5'' index card. The manner in which these index cards were stored by the authors, tightly banded together, has resulted in most of the 2.5'' x 2.5'' photographs sticking to the versos of the index cards in front of them. Also included are 15 unmounted 2.5'' x 2.5'' photographs, four picturing Schweitzer, each captioned on verso in pencil, and each with the original negative. Additionally, there are eight photographs measuring 4'' x 4'' to 8'' x 6.5'', each affixed to a 8.5'' x 11'' sheet, each noting the page of ''The Africa of Albert Schweitzer'' on which the photograph is to appear, with four negatives. Finally, there are 129 photographs in varied condition: 14 are 10'' x 10'' and 115 are 8'' x 10''. A fantastic collection.
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