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[Delighted offer you one thousand dollars...]
Telegram of 17 February 1941
Author
Author Alvin S. JohnsonLetter to André Breton
Description
Telegram from Alvin Johnson to André Breton dated 17 February 1941.
Write to... Skira, Paulhan, Denoël, Péret, Mabille, Paalen, Matta, Francis, Tanguy, Seligmann, Ubac, and a few others. Do the shopping, sort out one’s affairs. Leave for the United States. These few pages taken from a notebook, these telegrams, constitute a snapshot of a key moment in Breton’s life, during that winter of 1941 as he waited impatiently to finally be able to leave the South of France. [Atelier André Breton website, 2005]
Telegram, 17 February 1941.
- 1 telegram addressed to Breton, currently in Marseille, from Alvin S. Johnson in New York, the 17 February, offering him $1,000 to teach modern French literature at the New School for Social Research. (Tears and traces of sticky tape.) [Auction catalogue, 2003]
| Creation date | 17 février 1941 |
| Languages | French |
| Physical description | Télégramme - encre noire |
| Reference | 484000 |
| Breton Auction, 2003 | Lot 2230 |
| Keywords | Correspondence, Letter, New York |
| Categories | Letters to André Breton |
| Permanent link | https://www.andrebreton.fr/en/work/56600100619480 |