Auction Date:2013 May 15 @ 18:00 (UTC-05:00 : 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
Important TLS, in French, signed “L. Trotsky,” one page both sides, 8.5 x 11, October 27, 1938. Trotsky writes to Gérard. In part (translated): “I received your letters concerning the question of Siéva….In Jeanne’s deposition the assertion is found that Léon Sédov was Trotsky’s natural son. It is not correct from a legal standpoint. My marriage to Natalia was legalized according to the Soviet laws. I took my wife’s civil name and my name is Léon Sédov on the documents with which I went abroad….Zinaida was my daughter from the first marriage. She legally married Professor Volkov, whose name she was bearing. Siéva bears his father’s name, which is Volkov….I am Siéva’s sole blood relative abroad. If I could travel freely…to take Siéva there would not be any legal question at all. In a letter that Jeanne sent to me shortly after Léon’s death, she insisted that I decide Siéva’s fate as soon as possible….She did not deny for a instant my right to decide….I have long been waiting for an answer from [French publisher] Grasset about my new book….Maybe he was shaken by the great international events?
A few words about Breton [distinguished French surrealist author André Breton, 1896–1966]. I don’t believe that as a party we can require of him to make his literary review one of the bloc. He represents the surrealistic school. We do not carry the weight for him in the domain of the art that prevails for him over everything; he has, of course, the absolute right of self-determination. It is not a matter for us to mix artistic tendencies but to group them as they are for a common struggle against the totalitarian attacks toward art. Any attempt on our part to subordinate the artistic tendency as such for a political interest could only discredit us in the eyes of true artists. It is true that I have the advice to have an ‘eclectic’ attitude on artistic matters to the Partisan Review. But Partisan Review is not the review of an artistic school. It is a Marxist review when it comes to literature, art, etc.” In very good to fine condition, with intersecting folds (horizontal mailing fold touching the bottom of a couple letters of signature), a few spots, and first stroke of signature a shade light.
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