PASTERNAK, BORIS. Autograph letter signed ("B. Pasternak") to Mrs. Blanche Wagstaff, [Russia], 24 February 1960. One page, small folio, on tan paper, very slightly and evenly faded, in English. "I really agree with what Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt or Mary Pickford have said to you about your poem, about the grave simplicity and transparence of your diction... But on the ground of my unfortunate experiences I very doubt [sic] whether your beautiful poem in a Russian translation, especially in a version made by myself, could be hoped to be issued by our State Editorial Houses. Such a hope is a deception..."

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PASTERNAK, BORIS. Autograph letter signed ("B. Pasternak") to Mrs. Blanche Wagstaff, [Russia], 24 February 1960. One page, small folio, on tan paper, very slightly and evenly faded, in English. "I really agree with what Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt or Mary Pickford have said to you about your poem, about the grave simplicity and transparence of your diction... But on the ground of my unfortunate experiences I very doubt [sic] whether your beautiful poem in a Russian translation, especially in a version made by myself, could be hoped to be issued by our State Editorial Houses. Such a hope is a deception..."