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October 14, 05:47 PM GMT
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ALBERT SCHWEITZER
A COLLECTION OF CORRESPONDENCE, DOCUMENTS, AND PHOTOGRAPHS RELATING TO DR. ALBERT SCHWEITZER
Comprising 2 letters by Dr. Schweitzer, one letter by his daughter, Rhena Eckert, 2 postcards, one map:
Postcard signed ("Albert Schweitzer"), Basel, [Switzerland], 21 February 1933. — Postcard signed ("Albert Schweitzer"). — Autograph letter signed ("Albert Schweitzer"), 2 pages on a bifolium, n.p., 31 March 1936, to the family of Professor Alfred Stern, offering his condolences. — Printed hospital plan inscribed ("Albert Schweitzer"), 1958, detailing plans for a hospital in Lambaréné, Gabon. — Autograph letter signed ("Albert Schweitzer"), one page, Lambaréné, Gabon, n.d., expressing his final wish that all his book proceeds go to his daughter, Rhena Eckert, and accompanied by a typed letter signed ("Rhena Eckert-Schweitzer"), one page, Lambaréné, 7 September 1965, that confirms "with a deep emotion...these last lines of my father."