Bidspirit auction | NARODNY IVAN: (1870-1953)

NARODNY IVAN: (1870-1953) - NARODNY IVAN: (1870-1953) Russian-born Estonian-American revolutionary, journalist, arms dealer, and con artist who was a friend of the Russian writer Maxim Gorky, and is also considered to be one of Estonia´s first science fiction writers. T.L.S., Ivan , one page, 4to, Riverside Drive, New York, 30th March 1939, to George. Narodny thanks his friend for their ´ many suggestions in regard to my literary stuff´, and continues to explain ´I am just now on the verge of a new turn, so have been rather indifferent to marketing anything.....My Key of Time is a special document of my metaphysical campaign plan, so I am holding it home. My ”Iceflower” needs re-writing to suit the Broadway taste, and now I am absorbed with the esoteric theme of my past friend Dr. Lao Chin, etc. as we are today ready for a new world war and what not - the people acting like in a trance or insane´ , further remarking ´My European friends inform me of the start of the war in May, which will upset things everywhere´ and again discussing his writing work ´I have written a special article for Musical America, on their request, on the Tartar music. I have a real Gobi Desert play with Gliere´s music, but it is too exotic for Broadway´ , and future projects ´I intend to make soon a public statement of Dr. Lao Chin´s Cosmocratic chapel, to be built in NY with his left funds, which I will have to get from Mongolia´ , before concluding ´I would not encourage your European trip, but would love to meet you here and talk, talk and talk´ . VG