Autograph letters signed (2) and autograph postal card signed : Paris, to Professor T.B. Rudmore-Brown, 1926 Dec. 8, 1926 Apr. 10 and 1927 Oct. 22.

Larbaud, Valéry, 1881-1957

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Valéry Larbaud was a French novelist, poet, critic, and translator. He was particularly noted for his creation of the fictional character Archibaldo Olson Barnabooth, a wealthy young South American who travels through Europe searching for fulfillment. Maurice Edgar Coindreau was brought over from France to teach French at Princeton University's Depart. of Romance Languages and Literatures in 1923. From the description of Préface pour le roman de William Faulkner "Tandis que j'agoni...

Rudmore-Brown, T. B., Professor,

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Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986

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Gordon N. Ray, a graduate of Indiana University, was closely associated with the life and work of William Makepeace Thackeray. His four volume edition of the Letters and private papers appeared in 1945-1946 and his two volume biography in 1954-1955. From 1963 to 1985 Ray was president of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. Ray was also an outstanding collector of English and French illustrated books. His collections formed the bases of two exhibitions held at the Pierpont Morgan Library that w...