Isabel Florence HAPGOOD(1851-1928, American woman of letters - Lot 302

Isabel Florence HAPGOOD(1851-1928, American woman of letters, she was the translator of great names of French and Russian Literature, such as Victor Hugo, Tolstoy and Gogol, whom she made known in America; she was also an international figure of Ecumenism) / Autograph signed correspondence of 7 letters to Joseph ROUX (1834-1905, Canon of Tulle, poet and félibre, Majoral du Félibre in 1876), from Russia 1888 (4 p in-12), Saint-Pétersbourg 1889 (4 p in-8 plus envelope), Boston 1890 (4 p in-8 plus envelope), Boston 1890 (7 p in-8 plus envelope), Catskill-Amérique 1892 (4 p in-8), Campagne près New-York 1893 (4 p in-8), Long Island, 52 miles from New-York 1904 (7 p in-8) - Here we discuss the canon's works, the manuscripts he has received, possible editions in Russia or America, his various travels, news of his family, with remarks such as: "Russians are so accustomed to seeing themselves slandered or reading stupid things about themselves, that they don't get angry: I'm in no hurry to leave Russia, where I'm loved and spoiled"; Speaking of a French Catholic friend, settled in America, she says she will send her money for masses for her family, "she hates the Irish with a beautiful hatred that they deserve here, as almost all the priests are Irish", "it's not their religion that we hate here, we patriotic Americans, but the way they make it serve as a political complement, and what thieves, what these Irish, what monsters of all crimes when they come here! immigrants who arrived here only a few years ago, they (many of them) have plundered the public treasury by the millions", "Soon we will have in America wars of race and religion, because of the Irish, the Germans, the Italians - and the Catholics"; "We are waiting for cholera, perhaps it has already arrived in New-York, as the mail train was destroyed this morning, halfway between New-York and this place, we have not received our newspapers, and we only know that cholera is suspected"; She has just translated Tourguenieff's works (16 volumes!), she's preparing the publication of her two volumes of Divine Services for the Eastern Orthodox Church for the Holy Synod of Russia (she hasn't done a simple translation, "I've written, arranged, selected, rejected what is much more difficult") etc.