[MISCELLANEOUS] - Lot 109

[MISCELLANEOUS] - KISSINGER Henry Alfred [b. Fürth, Bavaria in, 1923], American politician and diplomat. Typed letter signed, addressed to Ambassador Kosciusko-Morizet. April 24, 1989; 1 page in-8° on "Henry A. Kissinger, suite 1021 Washington" letterhead. Henri Kissinger thanks the Ambassador for his help in organizing a luncheon with Mayor Chirac. - BELGIUM Important set of approximately 30 autographed or typed letters, signed. Late 19th and early 20th centuries, concerning the Mineur family. Correspondence from the King's Cabinet, the Ministry of Justice in Brussels, the Belgian Senate, the public prosecutor's offices in Charleroi... - Typed letter, signed by Paul-Emile Janson and addressed to M. Derbaix, Senator, Binche. "I am pleased to inform you that it has pleased the King, on my proposal, to appoint Mr. Mineur, Louis, a lawyer in whom you have an interest. - SENGHOR Léopold Sédar [Joal, Senegal, 1906 - Verson, 2001], Senegalese poet and President of the Republic of Senegal from 1960 to 1980. Letter signed, addressed to Mr. Luc Estang. Dakar, December 17, 1982; 2 pages in-4°, on headed paper. Envelope enclosed. He has taken great pleasure in reading the collections of poems "Corps à coeur" that Mr. Estang has sent. Senghor explains that "during a survey, in 1945, of the popular poetry of the Serer ethnic group, I discovered that the love poems were the most beautiful, and that their beauty came from their brevity - two to four lines, in the manner of haiku - but also from their analogical images and the fact that they were sung in three voices, with accompaniment in thirds and fifths. Obviously, the average European will be astonished to find so much refinement, even preciosity, in a so-called "primitive" people." - YORK Frédéric, Duke of [St. James's Palace, London, 1763 - Rutland House, near Piccadilly, 1827], member of the British royal family, second son of George III. second son of George III. Autograph letter signed "Frederick" addressed to Lord Castlereagh,. April 18, 1804; 1 page 1/3 in-4°, in English. Letter concerning a mutation in the dispatch of an English regiment to India. - RICHET Charles [Paris, 1850 - id., 1935], French physiologist, Nobel Prize winner in 1913 for his discovery of anaphylaxis. Autograph letter signed, addressed to M. P. Argyriadès. Toulon [Sept. 29, 1894], 2 pages in-8° on illustrated paper. He apologizes for unable to attend a conference. "If I am in Paris when your conference takes place, I will make it my honor and duty to attend. The idea you support is beautiful and fruitful. Before establishing universal peace, chimera today, reality tomorrow, between distant peoples; we must establish peace between brother peoples, as are the nations inhabiting the Balkans, and which politics has simply separated, when everything should unite them". Enclosed: stamped envelope.