MAC-AULIFFE (Léon). Born in Paris, 1876-1937. French physici - Lot 104

MAC-AULIFFE (Léon). Born in Paris, 1876-1937. French physician and morphologist. Former deputy director of the École des Hautes Études. L.A.S. "Léon Mac-Auliffe" addressed to Pierre Abraham. Paris, July 14, 1928. 2 pp. in-4 on headed paper of Dr. Léon Mac-Auliffe, 6 rue Octave-Feuillet, Paris XVIe. Interesting letter combining scientific, editorial and artistic considerations, addressed to writer and critic Pierre Abraham. Mac-Auliffe first mentions a recent conversation with "Pietri", who is said to have spoken to him at length about his correspondent "et des tirés partiels". He then sends him Max von Arx's booklet on the "Mammoth", a subject that seems to have caught Pierre Abraham's attention. The doctor invited him to write "a little note on these data", adding humorously that they might well have "some connection with those used to build the Eiffel Tower". The letter then shifts to editorial concerns: Mac-Auliffe recommends the publisher Gaubert to his correspondent for a manuscript entitled La Duchesse de Boulogne, and asks him to send "the portraits to be cliché at Démichel's". Together, they reveal a particularly lively intellectual network in 1920s Paris, where the natural sciences, literature, publishing and iconography intersect. Mac-Auliffe's personality, a scholar open to artistic and literary circles, shines through in this friendly, spontaneous letter. Beautiful letter in energetic blue ink, on elegant medical letterhead. A document of real interest for the history of intellectual and scientific sociability between the wars.