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- Creator
- Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963
- Call number
- MssCol 22939
- Physical description
- .21 linear feet (1 volume)
- Preferred Citation
Aldous Huxley letter to L. P. Jacks, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library
- Repository
- Manuscripts and Archives Division
- Access to materials
- Request an in-person research appointment.
Autograph letter signed (4 p.) from British author Aldous Huxley at Llano, California, 1942 September 6, to L. P. Jacks, a British author, educator, philosopher and Unitarian minister. Responding to a query in Jacks’s last letter concerning Prometheus, Huxley discusses the nature of reality and evil, political power, certain French Christian mystics (Père Joseph and Pierre de Bérulle), and the possible uses of mystical practice.
Administrative information
Source of acquisition
Purchased from William Reese Company, 2014
Processing information
Compiled by Susan P. Waide, 2014
Using the collection
Location
Manuscripts and Archives DivisionStephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
Brooke Russell Astor Reading Room, Third Floor, Room 328