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NORDAU MAX SIMON: (1849-1923) Zionist Leader, Physician, co-Founder of the World Zionist Organization and Author of many controversial works such as Degeneration.A.L.S., ` S. M. Nordau´, also signed to the verso as addressee, to the verso of a postcard, Paris, 1st July 1909, to Guido Corbo, in Cairo, Egypt, in French. In bold purple ink, Nordau responds to his correspondent´s request of his signed portrait with a sincere explanation, stating ` Recevez mes remerciements de votre aimable lettre et croyez bien que rien ne me serait plus agréable que de pouvoir répondre à votre désir. Malheureusement, je ne possède pas de photographie de moi. Chaque fois que j´en fais faire 2 ou 3 douzaines, elles me glissent aussitôt entre les doigts, et comme elles sont ridiculement chères à Paris, mes moyens ne me permettent pas de dépenser 80 à 100 fr. par mois...´ (Translation: " Accept my thanks for your kind letter and believe me that nothing would be more pleasant to me than to be able to respond to your desire. Unfortunately, I do not have a photograph of myself. Every time I have 2 or 3 dozen made, they immediately slip through my fingers, and as they are ridiculously expensive in Paris, my means do not allow me to spend 80 to 100 francs. per month...") Postmarked in Paris and Cairo and stamped to the verso. G
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NORDAU MAX SIMON: (1849-1923) Zionist Leader, Physician, co-Founder of the World Zionist Organization and Author of many controversial works such as Degeneration.A.L.S., ` S. M. Nordau´, also signed to the verso as addressee, to the verso of a postcard, Paris, 1st July 1909, to Guido Corbo, in Cairo, Egypt, in French. In bold purple ink, Nordau responds to his correspondent´s request of his signed portrait with a sincere explanation, stating ` Recevez mes remerciements de votre aimable lettre et croyez bien que rien ne me serait plus agréable que de pouvoir répondre à votre désir. Malheureusement, je ne possède pas de photographie de moi. Chaque fois que j´en fais faire 2 ou 3 douzaines, elles me glissent aussitôt entre les doigts, et comme elles sont ridiculement chères à Paris, mes moyens ne me permettent pas de dépenser 80 à 100 fr. par mois...´ (Translation: " Accept my thanks for your kind letter and believe me that nothing would be more pleasant to me than to be able to respond to your desire. Unfortunately, I do not have a photograph of myself. Every time I have 2 or 3 dozen made, they immediately slip through my fingers, and as they are ridiculously expensive in Paris, my means do not allow me to spend 80 to 100 francs. per month...") Postmarked in Paris and Cairo and stamped to the verso. G
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