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MAARTENS, Maarten (ps. of Jozua ('Joost') Marius Willem van der POORTEN-SCHWARTZ), (1858-1915).
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MAARTENS, Maarten (ps. of Jozua ('Joost') Marius Willem van der POORTEN-SCHWARTZ), (1858-1915). Collection of 5 signed letters to "Q" or Arthur Quiller-Couch (1863-1944). All in ms., dated and from the period 1894-1904. -- Added: 1 signed postcard and 20 signed letters (12 w. or envelopes) to Maarten Maartens and/or his daughter Ada van der Poorten-Schwartz (1888-1944). All but 1 in ms., dated and from the period 1894-1934. -- (26). Jozua Van der Poorten-Schwartz was a Dutch writer who wrote in English under his nom de plume Maarten Maartens. When he was 6 years old his parents moved to London where he lived for 6 years. He married his niece Anna van Vollenhoven (1862-1924), their daughter Ada was born in 1888. In 1884 he bought a rural estate in Doorn ('Zonheuvel'). In 1889 he got permission to add the name Van der Poorten (one of his great-grandmothers went by that name) to his own name. From then on he was called Jozua Marius Willem van der Poorten Schwartz. Deeply shocked when World War I broke out in 1914, he fell into a depression and his state of health deteriorated quickly. On 3 August 1915 he died. The collection of letters - mostly on literary subjects - presented here comprises also 2 letters and a postcard by Anna Alma Tadema (1867-1943), daughter of the painter Lourens/Lawrence Alma Tadema (1836-1912), who himself contributed to his daughter's correspondence with two short messages (1 in English and 1 in Dutch). Other correpsondents are John Galsworthy (1867-1933): 1 letter w. envelope (l.w.e.), Émile Verhaeren (1855-1916): 1 letter, Edmund Gosse (1849-1928): 1 l.w.e., Léon Bonnat (1833-1922): 1 letter, Norreys Jephson O'Conor (1855-1958): 4 letters (3 w.e.), Henry van Dyke (1852-1933): 1 l.w.e., Herbert John Clifford Grierson (1866-1960): 2 letters (1 w.e.), Elizabeth d'Oyley (?-?): 2 l.w.e., Arthur Quiller-Couch (1863-1944): 2 l.w.e., Marion Harry Alexander Spielmann (1858-1916): 1 letter, and Hall Caine (1853-1931): 1 letter. - See also lot nr. 861.
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MAARTENS, Maarten (ps. of Jozua ('Joost') Marius Willem van der POORTEN-SCHWARTZ), (1858-1915). Collection of 5 signed letters to "Q" or Arthur Quiller-Couch (1863-1944). All in ms., dated and from the period 1894-1904. -- Added: 1 signed postcard and 20 signed letters (12 w. or envelopes) to Maarten Maartens and/or his daughter Ada van der Poorten-Schwartz (1888-1944). All but 1 in ms., dated and from the period 1894-1934. -- (26). Jozua Van der Poorten-Schwartz was a Dutch writer who wrote in English under his nom de plume Maarten Maartens. When he was 6 years old his parents moved to London where he lived for 6 years. He married his niece Anna van Vollenhoven (1862-1924), their daughter Ada was born in 1888. In 1884 he bought a rural estate in Doorn ('Zonheuvel'). In 1889 he got permission to add the name Van der Poorten (one of his great-grandmothers went by that name) to his own name. From then on he was called Jozua Marius Willem van der Poorten Schwartz. Deeply shocked when World War I broke out in 1914, he fell into a depression and his state of health deteriorated quickly. On 3 August 1915 he died. The collection of letters - mostly on literary subjects - presented here comprises also 2 letters and a postcard by Anna Alma Tadema (1867-1943), daughter of the painter Lourens/Lawrence Alma Tadema (1836-1912), who himself contributed to his daughter's correspondence with two short messages (1 in English and 1 in Dutch). Other correpsondents are John Galsworthy (1867-1933): 1 letter w. envelope (l.w.e.), Émile Verhaeren (1855-1916): 1 letter, Edmund Gosse (1849-1928): 1 l.w.e., Léon Bonnat (1833-1922): 1 letter, Norreys Jephson O'Conor (1855-1958): 4 letters (3 w.e.), Henry van Dyke (1852-1933): 1 l.w.e., Herbert John Clifford Grierson (1866-1960): 2 letters (1 w.e.), Elizabeth d'Oyley (?-?): 2 l.w.e., Arthur Quiller-Couch (1863-1944): 2 l.w.e., Marion Harry Alexander Spielmann (1858-1916): 1 letter, and Hall Caine (1853-1931): 1 letter. - See also lot nr. 861.
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