Harold Acton Letter collection
Date Published: 1963 to 1964
Binding: No binding
Sir Harold [Mario Mitchell] Acton was a British writer, aesthete, and scholar wrote fiction, biography, and autobiography. Born near Florence to a prominent Anglo-Italian family, he was educated at Eton College and Oxford. After serving as an RAF liaison officer in the Mediterranean, he returned to Florence, restoring his childhood home, Villa La Pietra
This collection contains 12 letters dating from 1963 to 1967 and 11 written in Italian concerning his talks at several venues in Italy for the Associazione Culturale Italiana Acton proposes to talk about the Bourbons in Naples, Galiani, and Lord Acton
• 3 Autographed Letter Signed (ALS) and 9 Typed Letters Signed (TLS) to Irma Antonetto, Associazione Culturale Italiana who was the creator of the Italian Cultural Association and in forty-six years of activity she had brought to Italy over 400 personalities including philosophers, scientists, writers, Nobel laureates.:
• 10 May 1963, ALS
• 1 June 1963 (written and signed by his secretary),
• 5 November 1963, TLS
• 8 November 1963, TLS
• 4 February 1964, TLS
• 10 February 1964, TLS
• 15 April 1964, ALS
• 21 April, TLS
• 1964, 24 April 1964, TLS
• 12 May 1964, TLS
• N.D., TLS with hand-written P.S.
• ALS addressed Cher ami, 30 May 1967, in French, re visiting friends in the Dordogne on 13 July, hot in Italy, opera and concerts at the Maggio Musicale, giving papers for the 50th anniversary of the Institut Britannique, looking forward to good food, turning 63 years of age.
Collection on consignment with LDRB
Good. Item #8319
$900.00 USD
$1,226.93 CAD