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Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorWilliam N. West is professor of English, comparative literary studies, and classics at Northwestern University. He is the author of As If: Essays in As You Like It and Theatres and Encyclopedias in E.

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3pp, 4to. Bifolium. In good condition, lightly aged, with thin strip of paper from mount adhering to blank reverse of second leaf. Folded twice. Fifty-two lines of text. He thanks Pierce for his 'most kind expressions of regard for myself, & your eulogistic & cordial tribute to my poor efforts in the cause of Psychological Medicine'. which he has read in 'the account of the proceedings at the Edinburgh Meeting in July last', in the Journal of Mental Science. He states that he has been 'most happy in enjoying for so many years the warm appreciation of so many friends & it is a source of peculiar pleasure to myself & my Wife that an old friend, like yourself, should have been spokesman on this occasion'. He discusses his wife's recovery following a cataract operation, and 'the great wave of democracy that is sweeping over the world'. He is 'very glad to have lived to see the final vindication of the cause of the Allies' in the Great War, and explains: 'We live a very quiet & retired life at Brighton but from reasons of health have of course been debarred from taking a very active part in War Work, although even we have tried to play our little part throughout the great tragedy. Brighton today is en fête be-flagged & jubilant every face wears a smile, & everywhere we hear expressions of intense relief, gratitude & joy'. From the distinguished autograph collection of the psychiatrist Richard Alfred Hunter (1923-1981), whose collection of 7000 works relating to psychiatry is now in Cambridge University Library. Hunter and his mother Ida Macalpine had a particular interest in the illness of King George III, and their book 'George III and the Mad Business' (1969) suggested the diagnosis of porphyria popularised by Alan Bennett in his play 'The Madness of George III'.…

3pp, 12mo. Bifolium with mourning border. In fair condition, lightly aged, with thin strip of paper from mount adhering to blank reverse of second leaf. Folded once. Forty-three lines of text. He begins by expressing pleasure at the prospect of being associated with Pierce 'in the Course of Lectures on Mental Diseases', and at the news that Pierce has 'decided to take up the Systematic Part'. He leaves the choice of day to Pierce, and offers to put him up for the night. They must 'talk the matter over thoroughly so that there will be no gaps or breaches of continuity between Systematic & Clinical Teaching'. References follow to the 'Council', 'the Board', and 'Edgerley' [Dr Samuel Edgerley (d.1954) of Menston Asylum], to whom he asks Pierce to write, as he is anxious that he should not 'get it into his head that I have been opposing his interests'. The letter concludes: 'I will not enter here into detail as to my method of teaching in former years, but will leave this to our meeting'. From the distinguished autograph collection of the psychiatrist Richard Alfred Hunter (1923-1981), whose collection of 7000 works relating to psychiatry is now in Cambridge University Library. Hunter and his mother Ida Macalpine had a particular interest in the illness of King George III, and their book 'George III and the Mad Business' (1969) suggested the diagnosis of porphyria popularised by Alan Bennett in his play 'The Madness of George III'.…