Auction Date:2011 Nov 09 @ 18:00 (UTC-5 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Rare ALS in pencil on a postcard, 5.5 x 3.5, postmarked August 12, 1937. Letter in French, to Madam Sullivan, wife of tenor John Sullivan, requesting news of his daughter, Lucia, translated in full: "Dear Madam, When you have a moment, you'd be very kind if you'd send us a card with news about Lucia. I hope that you have found her to be in a good state.” Light wear around the edges, a small area of surface loss to the top left corner, not affecting the signature, postage marks, and a few small pieces of adhesive remnant on reverse, otherwise fine condition.
It was during the 1930s that Joyce spent much of his time traveling from Paris to Switzerland for treatments for his only daughter, Lucia. A mysterious and tragic figure, Lucia began suffering from schizophrenic-type symptoms in her early twenties, treated by none other than Carl Jung. Once a promising and passionate dancer, she followed in the footsteps of pioneering interpretive dancer, Isadora Duncan, having attended brother Raymond Duncan’s school of dance. Lucia and her father were so close that they shared a secret language, one which Joyce infused into his work. Aside from exhibiting flamboyant and wildly creative talent, Lucia fell passionately for her father’s assistant and legend in his own right, writer Samuel Beckett. After a crushing rejection by Beckett, Lucia began a downward spiral from which she would never recover. She was committed to St. Andrew’s hospital for mental diseases in Northampton, where she would remain until her death in 1982.
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