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BORIS PASTERNAK

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BORIS PASTERNAK
<p><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'>BORIS PASTERNAK </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:windowtext'>(1890-1960). Russian poet and novelist, best remembered for his narrative epic <i>Doctor Zhivago</i>. ALS, 1p, 4to, Peredelkino, Sep 14, 1959. From his country house in Russia, Pasternak writes to “<i>Mr. Di Giacomo, don’t pamper and spoil me with your dear and frequent presents. Thank you for the chocolate in two parcels, for Velasquez Matisse and Utrillo. My debt to you augments. What can I repay you with?</i>...” Boldly penned and signed in purple ink the year after he was forced to reject the Nobel Prize for literature. Accompanied by Russian airmail transmittal envelope with holograph address. Light wear; o/w Fine.</span></p>