SEABROOK WILLIAM: (1884-1945) Lot n° 588

SEABROOK WILLIAM: (1884-1945) American Journalist, Explorer, Occultist and cannibal. Seabrook served in World War I where he was gassed at Verdun, further becoming a reporter for The New York Times, Cosmopolitan, Vanity Fair and few others. He wrote about his experiences with cannibalism, Satanism and Haitian Vodou in his books Jungle Ways (1930) and The Magic Island (1929). On September 1945 Seabrook committed suicide by drug overdose. Rare T.L.S., `Seabrook´, including multiple annotations, corrections and full sentence in his hand, one page, 4to, Studio Hotel, rue Delambre, Paris, 20th February 1932, to Maurice Garçon, in French. Seabrook states in part `Fels, chief-editor of VOILA, who I first met five years ago, and who always seemed to me a dirty guy, has come to meet me on my return from Tombouctou, with fake compliments, and asked me for the photographs of my reportage in order to publish them with VOILA. I kindly explained to him that it was going to be published by another magazine, but when he kept on insisting I clearly told him that he was pissing me off, and his magazine too. I sent him to hell..´ further saying `..I thought that if someone powerful could warn him a bit and tell him that if he acts so again, he may have strong problems,… Therefore, obviously, I thought about you..´ and before concluding he adds `Forgive my nigger way of writing.´ Folded with small overall age wear. G £80-100 Maurice Garçon (1889-1967) French lawyer and writer.