BOSWORTH William Welles Marietta, Ohio, 1869 -... Lot 4

BOSWORTH William Welles [Marietta, Ohio, 1869 - Vaucresson, 1966], American architect. Signed autograph letter and 2 signed autograph cards, addressed to Albert Laprade. 1956-1962; 4 pages in-32 and 1 page in-4°; in French. - 1956: "I have just read your article "Anniversary" with a lot of emotion. Our dear boss Gaston Redon had a deep sympathy with me, which I hope to tell you about one day. ...] I found today the brochure that Pontremoli wrote about him, succeeding his chair at the Institute. Have you read it? "»... - Undated: "I want to congratulate you on the publication of your articles "The Architects". I will have them bound for preservation in my library [...] This includes a letter that shows the enormous activity of Architects in America. At this time of the hundredth anniversary of the formation of the Institute of Architects." - Vaucresson, 1962: "I have just read your admirable article "Back to the roots" in S.A.D.G. with great admiration, and despair! Especially, after reading Lippmann in this morning's Herald Trib. The explosion of babies all over the world is doing all the damage! Is "Creation" the greatest source of joy !!! But I am writing to you for an old friend, in America, a doctor, who served for a long time with Alexis Carrel, in France [...] asked me to send him the article you wrote for SADG about the street named for Jean Oberlé in Vaucresson and when the Mayor named me Citizen of Honour. I didn't see it in SADG, but I guess if you give me the date of the article, and I write to the secretary...he will send me the article....