Three items signed by French scientists, including: an ALS in French by Albert Calmette, one page both sides, Institut Pasteur letterhead, July 3, 1908, in part (translated): “With all my heart I hope that you will be Hoselle's successor in Alexandria. It's a position far more suitable for you than for Hoselle who is not a doctor (even though everyone calls him Dr., even professor). He's just a Canadian agronomist. I wonder how he can get a chair at Yale University since he has no title other than that of bacteriophage or rather of transmissible microbial decomposition. He fooled those English suckers with his cholera treatment about which we remain more than skeptical. Perhaps you're coming to the Hygiene Congress in Cairo in December. Some of our comrades will attend”; an ALS in French by Camille Flammarion, two pages on two adjoining sheets, Observatoire Flammarion letterhead, August 9, 1923, to psychic researcher Walter Franklin Prince, in part (translated): “Accept all my thanks for your generous presentation of the 3rd volume of my Work La Mort et son mystere. We are both working in the same sphere and trying to make known the same truths. But how slow is the progress of general instruction. How heavy, material, and blind earthly humans still are! For more than a year I’ve been working on…Maisons hantees (Haunted Houses). There is much illusion, much error there, but at least half of the experiences are true and fantastic…I began this psychic research in 1861…it’s not finished yet. I receive reports…from all over the World…Unfortunately our crazy planet turns too fast”; and an eye-catching 4.25 x 5.75 color postcard photo of a man flying a bi-plane, signed on the reverse in black ink by Auguste Piccard, “A. Piccard,” beneath a typed message in German (translated): “Flying is a patriotic duty!” In overall fine condition. Pre-certified PSA/DNA.
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