56 - [SCANDINAVIAN LITERATURE]

[SCANDINAVIAN LITERATURE] Collection of manuscripts of translations from Swedish/Danish/Finnish/Norwegian into Russian by the following authors: -August STRINDBERG (Sweden, 1849–1912): “Axel Borg”; "Margit, the Wife of Knight Bengt"; "Fagervick och Skamsund," a 1902 collection of short stories; "Margit, the Wife of Knight Bengt" (30 quires of 4 pages each, in-2° format). -Ola HANSSON (Sweden, 1860–1925): “Sensitiva amorosa” (1887); “Parias—Fatalistic Stories” (Parias—Fatalistische Geschichte, 1890); "The Paths of Life" (Vägen till lifvet, 1896). -Gustav Frederik ESMANN (Denmark, 1860–1904); "Father and Son," a comedy in three acts. - Jeppe AAKJAER (Denmark, 1866–1930); “How the Light Was Lit: Memories of the 1880s - “How the Lamp Was Lit: Memories of the 1880s” by Iakov Segal (Yakov Yitzhak Skolar, 1896–1954), 13 pages. - Knut HAMSUN (Norway, 1859–1952): typescript of the play “At the Gates of the Kingdom” from “The Trilogy”; manuscript of “Hunger”; manuscript of “At the Gates of the Kingdom.” -A collection of Finnish literature, proofs of the book published on this subject by V. Briussov and M. Gorky in 1917, corrected and annotated, containing in part three hymns excerpted from “The Tales of Ensign Stål” by Johan Ludvig Runeberg (1804–1877). Corrections to the translation by JKB. MC Provenance -Jurgis Kasimirovich Baltruchaïtis (1873–1944), Lithuanian diplomat and poet. -Their son, Jurgis Jurgissovitch Baltruchaïtis (1903–1988), historian. -His wife, Hélène Baltruchaïtis (1908–2004), née Castel-Focillon, daughter of Henri Focillon (1881–1943). -Then passed down through the family.