Rare ALS in English, signed “Iv. Tourgueneff,” one page both sides, 3.5 x 4.5, April 15, 1882. Handwritten letter to Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen, an author and college professor remembered for his novel Gunnar: A Tale of Norse Life. In full: "This letter will be forwarded to you by a great friend of mine, Professor M. Kowalefski of Moscow. He has the intention to remain in America for three or four months, and I recommend you as warmly as possible this very amiable and intelligent man, so as to render him his sojourn in your fatherland agreeable and useful." In fine condition. Accompanied by the original mailing envelope addressed in Turgenev's hand, and a letter from Harvard University librarian William A. Jackson, noting: "It is the first Turgenev letter I have seen written in English. Normally he wrote as you know in French or Russian."
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