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"Bell, Alexander Graham"
Alexander Graham Bell "An early autograph letter signed A. Graham Bell, Boston, March 24, 1873, to a Mr. Boydon of Newton Lower Falls. At this time working as a professor of Vocal Physiology and Elocution at the Boston University School of Oratory and beginning his experiments that would lead to the first practical telephone, Bell states, ""I am sorry that a bad cold compels me to keep indoors just now. I fear I may not be able to go to you tomorrow. I have been running down for some weeks past, and intend to run up to Canada to recruit towards the end of this week."" Bell's family had emigrated to Canada from Britain due to the ill health of his father and himself. Bell was chosen to work at various institutions in Boston, working with deaf-mute patients and others suffering from speech defects. He married one of his students Mabel Hubbard, whose father was a major backer of Bell's experiments. 2 page, 8vo.. 1st and 3rd pages of 4-page stationery. Fold wear. " [ref:5020] $2,000.00 add to cart enquire 
"Coue, Emile"
Emile Coue "A most famous quote used by the French psychologist in creating improvement in patients through autosuggestion. It is used as a mantra in Alcoholic Anonymous meetings. Written in English on a 4 x 2 ¼ card, ""Day by day, in every way, I am getting better and better."" Signed E. Coue. Minor mounting stains on the reverse. " [ref:5151] $750.00 add to cart enquire 
"Pasteur, Louis"
Louis Pasteur "A significant autograph letter signed L. Pasteur, [Paris], June 7, 1884, to noted veterinarian-surgeon Monsieur Bourrel to whom Pasteur entrusts his test dogs used in his effort to create a rabies vaccine. ""M. Pasteur sends to M. Bourrel 3 dogs with their tags. That brings on this day, June 7, the number of my dogs installed at the house of M. Bourrel to seven."" ""2 on June 3 1884"" ""2 on June 4 1884"" ""3 on June 7 1884"" A notation indicates that two additional dogs were added on June 10th. One page, 8vo. " [ref:5092] $7,500.00 add to cart enquire Andral, Gabriel GABRIEL ANDRAL. An uncommon autograph letter [more of an autograph diagnosis] signed Andral, Paris, December 7, 1850 by the great French physician who trailblazed the study of blood pathology and wrote the first textbook on internal medicine. "Madame Baroness of V.S. appears to present a mixture of nervous and inflammatory attacks that create a complicated condition which is hard to get rid of, all the more so as it calls for opposite treatment indications. At this time, the predominant problem lies with the respiratory system. As a matter of fact, for some time, Madame has had a dry cough and respiratory problems, etc. Building up her constitution, making the blood rich again, diminishing the congestive attacks that beset different organs at various times, and finally getting rid of the actual attacks of the respiratory system, these are the goals to reach. With this in mind, I suggest the following treatment methods." There follows a detailed 8 step plan of attack. They include cod liver oil, iron supplements to build her blood, red wine [he is a Frenchman] and the infusions of hyssop or ivy. An interesting read. 3 ½ pages, 4to. [ref:5213] $1,250.00 add to cart enquire Benjamin, Dr. Harry DR. HARRY BENJAMIN. A long 1 ¼ page, 4to typed letter signed, New York, April 30, 1931, by the American endocrinologist and sexologist who coined the term transsexualism to differentiate people who thought they were born into the wrong sex from homosexuals and transvestites, who writes to George Sylvester Viereck, American journalist, poet and Nazi sympathizer. He was reputed to be related to the Hohenzollern ruling class. Re: Viereck's autobiographical book My Flesh and Blood, "The combination of your unusual gifts as poet and writer, with your knowledge of biology, endocrinology and psychoanalysis makes your book for me…undoubtedly the most fascinating autobiography that was ever written. For the educated layman your book is almost a textbook of sexology…For the sexologist, too, your analyses are tremendously thought-stimulating even where he may disagree with you in certain of your conclusions. Your book will surely arouse many varied emotions…the principal [being] envy…Your self-analysis shows a combination of the localized, concentrated time-limited ecstasies of masculine sexuality with the more expanded and generalized sexuality of the female. You are one of those rare, fortunate individuals, who make themselves the master of their sexuality instead of its slave…" [ref:5212] $600.00 add to cart enquire 
Carver, George Washington
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER A Tuskegee Institute autograph letter signed G. W. Carver, January 10, 1931, as Director of the Research and Experiment Station. Writing about a rock specimen, "This is just to extend to you greetings and to say that another piece of the Fla. stone dresses up beautifully, if it is in large quantities they have a worth while product. Cut one piece from your deposit, it is too soft for anything but interior art finishing." A fine one-page 4to example. With portrait. The two: [ref:1323] $950.00 add to cart enquire Edison, Thomas A. Thomas A. Edison A folio document dated January 27, 1898 and signed with an unusually full signature, as a Director of the Edison Ore Milling Corp. This, the annual report, is signed by 4 others including his close business associate William E. Gillmore. The Edison Ore Milling Corp. was founded this year to maximize Edison's worldwide milling patents to advance technology in diamond crushing, gold separation and cement manufacturing. It dissolved in 1909. [ref:4910] $1,200.00 add to cart enquire Freud, Anna An autograph letter signed County Cork, Ireland, September l2, 1970, by the child psychologist, daughter of Sigmund Freud. To her late father’s housekeeper. "This time they are really ‘beautiful stamps’. Hope you don’t have them already. "You will have had a full house; I hope it was nice. Tinky seems to be in a good mood. "What do you say about the highjacking? I think if we were there in the desert, we would be dead already. Poor people." l page, 4to. [ref:1619] $350.00 add to cart enquire Freud, Anna An autograph letter signed, no date, Cottage No. 3 Tresco, Isles of Scilly, by the child psychologist, daughter of Sigmund Freud. To Freud’s former housekeeper. "I just remembered that I forgot to tell you something. Mr. Strachey will be ringing and asking whether and when he could come to the library. He needs a certain manuscript and I have explained to him where in my desk he would find it!" 1 page, 4to. A reference to James Strachey, editor of the Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud which the Hogarth Press under Leonard and Virginia Woolf published. [ref:2074] $400.00 add to cart enquire 
Oppenheimer, Julius Robert
Julius Robert Oppenheimer A scarce letter signed Robert Oppenheimer on The Institute For Advanced Study at Princeton stationery as Director of the Organization, June 25, 1956, by "The Father of the Atomic Bomb" whose loyalty and influence was greatly diminished by the witch hunts of the early 1950's. To Marjorie Robinson of Douglass College at Rutgers, "Thank you for your good letter of June 6th. I very much appreciate your invitation to lecture at Douglass College next April. I wish that it were possible for me to accept, however, I have afreed to give the William James Lectures at Harvard in the spring of 1957. This letter is therefore to send word of my warm thanks, to you and to the members of the Faculty Student Lecture Series Committee and of my real regret." 1 page, 4to. File holes at left margin affect nothing. His selection by Harvard to give the prestigious William James Lecture caused great havoc among Conservative elements of the Faculty. The great physicist concluded his final speech by saying: "...we gave a duty of great openness to others...learning to welcome the strange and being glad to learn something that is new..." [ref:4744] $3,000.00 add to cart enquire
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