Lagerlöf, Selma, Swedish writer and Nobel Prize laureate (1858-1940). 9 letters and 2 lettercards signed.

Mårbacka, Sunne, Badesanatoriet Skodsborg, and Karlavägen, 1925 to 1933.

Mostly small 4to. Altogether 34½ pp. on 22 ff. With 8 envelopes. Together with a portrait postcard with 2 autograph but unsigned lines. Mostly dictated.

 6,500.00

To the prominent Swedish baritone and opera administrator John Forsell, mentioning her novel "Gösta Berling's Saga", which was set to music by Riccardo Zandonai (under the title "I cavalieri di Ekebù") and was staged at the Stockholm Opera in 1928 in connection with her 70th birthday. Moreover, on some economic problems with a Mr. Falke, who wrote a dramatization of "Gösta Berling", and "who has never paid me a Pfening, but has repeatedly sought to capitalize his being in contact with me" (transl. from the Swedish original).

From the estate of John Forsell (1868-1941).

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