Esteemed Chilean writer and politician (1904–1973) who won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature. His 1952 stay in an Italian villa served as the inspiration for the Academy Award–winning 1994 film Il Postino. TLS in Spanish, signed “Neruda,” one page, 8.25 x 10.5, personal letterhead, June 26, 1973. Untranslated letter to Dr. S. F. Jones, in the Department of Romantic Languages at Dalhousie University. In very good condition, with intersecting folds, one through a single letter of signature, scattered creasing and toning, mounting remnants to top edge, and chip to right edge. RRAuction COA.
