[Voigt (Hans Henning Otto Harry Baron von)], "Alastair". 22 Autograph Letters on 39 pages, 1 Autograph Note and 29 telegrams to his friend Richard Thoma, variously signed "Alastair", "Hanael" or "H.", letters mostly in purple ink, v.s., Paris, Versaille, Houdemont and Zurich, [c.1927-32], folds, housed in purple cloth folder and chemise within purple morocco-backed slip-case.

*** "After you went away the other night I felt sad. I wanted you to stay but did not dare to ask."

An excellent and extensive correspondence from the artist to his sometime lover Richard Thoma. The letters are filled with the artist's eccentric charm, at times hallucinatory in character ("In the mornings my bones sound like castagnettes and mushrooms are beginning to grow in the folds of my pyjamas. Even the cat has swollen eyes."), they include discussion of other writers and artists, such as Proust, Cocteau and Harry Crosby, as well as apparent discussion of gay liaisons "I only rushed away for a couple of hours to meet somebody at midnight under the blue elm. My happenings are sad to say often in this bad taste,"

The most significant collection of Alastair correspondence to be offered at auction in decades. We can trace only 5 other Alastair letters at auction in the last 50 years.