CONDE CARMEN: (1907-1996) Spanish Poet and Writer. Founder of the first popular University and the first woman to ...

CONDE CARMEN: (1907-1996) Spanish Poet and Writer. Founder of the first popular University and the first woman to become number academic of the Royal Academy of Spain. Small collection of two A.Ls.S., and two T.Ls.S., Carmen, in blue pencil, one or two pages each, 8vo, Madrid 1955-57, all to Juana Granados, in Spanish. The first being a T.L.S., 14th April 1955, on the printed stationery of the Madrid University, and Conde states `I have been in Alicante and in the Spanish Morocco, and that is why I could not contact you. For the Miguel Hernandez book you have to contact…he is the Librarian at the Miro library in Alicante, his biographer and my friend..the book will be a success…I send to you a clipped piece from the ABC journal referring to Jorge Guillen´ (Clipped piece enclosed). The second being a postcard, 1st October 1956, and Conde pushes her correspondent saying `You must call and talk to the Consul, and to the General Director for Cultural Affairs, and to the Foreign Affairs Minister. Do it.-´ further saying `Tell me my friend. I am very sad and sorry for the illness..I´ll find you the book. And will write to you again´. The third, an AL.S., on a two pages card, dated 2nd April 1957. Conde refers to an article she has read about a lecture given by the Spanish Poet Dictinio on Juan Ramon Jimenez, with her correspondent´s presence alongside and wishes to get her feed back. On the fourth letter, an A.L.S., 10th August 1957, on the printed stationery of the Conference Archive of Ruben Dario, Conde reports about her prompt trip to Santander where she will meet her correspondent and asks her a favour as her daughter has lost her glasses and is very sad, and states `Everything from Italy pleases me, poor me ! I would live eternally in your country… Please send the work `Carmen Conde, Poetry´ to the noble German writer Gertrude de Fort, she has written a very good book…´. The four letters are accompanied by the original envelopes. G to generally VG, 4 + 2 £80-100 Juana Granados de Bagnasco - Italian-Spanish Writer & Translator and close friend to Carmen Conde, with whom she worked on poem works. Miguel Hernandez (1910-1942) Spanish Poet. An iconic figure in the Spanish literature of the first half of 20th century. Condemned to death after the Spanish Civil War, he got it commuted to 30 years imprisonment. He would die two years after in prison of tuberculosis. Jorge Guillen (1893-1984) Spanish Poet, a member of the generation of 27. Juan Ramon Jimenez (1881-1958) Spanish Poet, Nobel Prize in literature in 1956. Gertrude von Le Fort (1876-1971) German Writer of novels and poems.