Karen Blixen with Dune circa 1905.
The Archives holds postcards from Karen Blixen to publisher Charles Pick, a cablegram announcing her arrival in London and press-cuttings.
Pick’s memoirs describe his first meeting with Blixen in Copenhagen after the publication of ‘Anecdotes of Destiny’ (1958). He also writes of a later meeting in London and his efforts to secure champagne and oysters for Ms Blixen on her flight to New York. Pick describes Blixen’s disappointment at missing out on the Nobel Prize for Literature, his publishing of her biography by Errol Trzebinski and the securing of film rights for ‘Out of Africa’.
In addition to these gems the Archives holds an original manuscript of Anne Born’s translation of ‘Letters from Africa’ (1981).
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