The letters originate from the dramaturgist and translator Viggo Kjær Petersen, who became friends with the elderly and at the time greatly weakened Blixen. I have a couple of good records that I hope you will like.” It's the first I've heard that sounds this way. “ I'm bringing you a gramophone that sounds exactly like a piano. In a letter to Blixen, sent from one of his many safari trips, he mentions for the first time the gramophone, which today is located at the Karen Blixen Museum in the green living room at Rungstedlund: When the marriage with Bror fell apart in 1925, Finch Hatton became the leading man in Blixen's love life. " He (Finch Hatton, ed.) is an uncommonly amiable and knowledgeable person, and that sort of Englishman has an infinitely pleasing presence (.)." In a long letter to her mother, Blixen recounts the first meeting between the two, while she was still married to Bror Blixen: Karen Blixen's Great LoveĪ highlight at the auction is a series of letters to and from Karen Blixen, written by, among others, the British aristocrat Denys Finch Hatton, who was Karen Blixen's great love. Unread Blixen Letters, The Danish Vitruvius, Historical Greenland Collection and Piquant Leather Book BoxesĪt our book auction on 15 December, you can bid on unread letters by Karen Blixen, architectural treasures collected by the Danish "Vitruvius", diary accounts from a ship's boy on expedition with the "Dagny" and art collector John Hunov's book collection. Karen Blixen, Denys Finch Hatton: Two autographed letters and a photograph of Karen Blixen.
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