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Van Noppen, Leonard Charles; Van Noppen, Adah [Grierson, Francis; Markham,
Edwin; Markham, Catherine; Rittenhouse, Jesse B.; Weber, Max; de Fornaro,
Carlo; Konno, Takeshi; Kumar, Benoy; [Kumar, Binoy]; Kathryn White; Eudy,
Mary Cummings; Gibran, Kahlil; Matthews, Charles Elk; Kloos, Willem, and
many others.
ORIGINAL SIGNATURE BOOK OF LEONARD VAN NOPPEN AND ADAH VAN NOPPEN: Travel
and Signature Diary of American Poet and Diplomat Leonard Van Noppen and
his wife, Adah Van Noppen [Signed by Leonard Van Noppen, Ada Van Noppen,
Francis Grierson, Edwin Markham, Catherine Markham, Jesse B. Rittenhouse,
Kahlil Gibran, Max Weber, Kathryn White Ryan, Mary Cummings Eudy, Charles
Elkins Matthews, Alma Reed, Willem Kloos, Jeanne Reyneke-Kloos van Stewe
(also as Jacqueline Reyneke v Stewe) & many others

[Unpublished]: [No Publisher]. Original Signature Book. Hardcover. GREATLY
REDUCED. WAS $3,250 NOW TEMPORARILY $685.00. The original Travel and
Signature Diary of Leonard Van Noppen and his wife Adah Van Noppen, bound
in the Diary's original vellum. The book is worn and numerous pages are
loose from the binding but present. Two pages and a partial page have been
excised. The volume hosts some plant material loosely laid in, presumably
taken from places the van Noppen's visited. Leonard Charles Van Noppen was
a Dutch-born, American-educated, academic and Professor at Columbia
University, translator, and Poet, who also served as an American Naval
Attache at the Hague and who, as a member of the United States Naval
Reserves authored "The Challenge: War Chants of the Allies, Wise and
Otherwise". Some of his Poems, along with those of Rudyard Kipling, John
Galsworthy, Edith Wharton, G. K. Chesterton, Hilaire Belloc, Henry Van
Dyke, Robert Bridges, Thomas Hardy, John Masefield, and others, were
Anthologized in "A Treasury of War Poetry: British and American Poems of
the World War, 1914—1919". Van Noppen is also noted for his translation of
Joost van den Vondel's "Lucifer" into English. Van Noppen and his wife,
Adah (who was associated with the Universal Order, a mystical cult),
traveled the world and met numerous Literary and Political figures, many of
which have signed this Diary, often with inscriptions of various natures.
The many signatures and entries include, among many others the following:
Kahlil Gibran, author of "The Prophet", one of the best-selling books of
all time (who wrote "and now let us sing altogether", followed by his
signature); Francis Grierson (pen name of Benjamin Henry Jesse Francis
Shepard) the author, composer, pianist, and spiritualist; Edwin Markham:
American Poet [In 1922, Markham's poem "Lincoln, the Man of the People" was
selected from 250 entries to be read at the dedication of the Lincoln
Memorial. Markham himself read the poem and Dr. Henry Van Dyke of Princeton
called it "...the greatest poem ever written on the immortal martyr, and
the greatest that ever will be written."]; Emilie Augusta Louise "Lizzy"
Lind af Hageby: a Swedish-British feminist and animal rights advocate who
became a prominent antivivisection activist in England in the early 20th
century; Catherine Maclennan; Jessie B. Rittenhouse: Poet, Literary Critic,
anthologist who also was the daughter of John Edward and Mary Rittenhouse;
Mary J. Ball; Nola Logan; Adah B. van Noppen; Leonard van Noppen; Marion N.
Taylor; Philip Sumner Spence: osteopath and campaigner for exercise in
children's schools; Max Weber: the German sociologist, philosopher, jurist,
and political economist, quite important theorist on the development of
modern Western society whose ideas greatly influenced social theory and
social research; Eugene Higgens: heir to a carpet business, a bon vivant,
and considered by many to be the most eligible bachelor in New York; Carlo
de Fornaro (who signed the book in the manner he used to sign his
caricatures "C. de Fornaro"): famed Writer and Caricaturist who was one of
the first critics in the American press to differentiate the caricaturist
art form from the cartoon distortions often found on a newspaper's
editorial page; Kathryn White Ryan: Poet [beneath her holographic Poem "The
Tangerine Bowl"]; Mary Cummings Eudy: Poet [below her brief holographic
poem "I Believe"]; Violet Anderson; Edward Christian Anderson: Poet, signed
above a one-verse holographic Poem; Kate Gertrude Hill; Gertrude
Farquharson Boyle Kanno: Sculptor; Francis Oppenheimer; George Barnard;
Bronislawa du Brissrae; Edna Castleware Bailey [below a holographic portion
of her Poem "Swan"]; Ernest Bancroft; Aida Foster Alden, [Joyce Kilmer's
wife's sister]; Constance Murray Greer; George Watson Cole: American
librarian and bibliographer named in 1999 as one of 100 American librarians
who made a lasting impact on library service and the nation; Laura Ward
Cole; Suno Hossain (Indian independence advocate and India's first
Ambassador to Egypt); Bio De Casseres: Author and wife of Benjamin De
Casseres, an American journalist, critic, essayist and poet; Mary
Marguerite de Vyner; Sarojini Naidu: Indian political activist and Poet. A
proponent of civil rights, women's emancipation, and anti-imperialistic
ideas, and an important figure in India's struggle for independence from
colonial rule [below a short newspaper clipping about her daughter Padmaja
Naidu's arrest]; Gladys Edgerton; Emily D. Dury; Frances E. Dury; Nona Sum;
Constant van de Wall: European-Javanese Composer; Maria van de Wall-van
Noppen; Low Olga; Kahlil Gibran [a/k/a Kahlil Gibran] who, above his
signature, has written "And now let us sing altogether" 1929; Kathryn M.
Campbell; Hermine Haedenberg; Arthur Hartmann????; Georges Heupgen: Belgian
Professor, lawyer and politician; Leily G. Kertland; Sosro Kartono (with
Kartono's card laid in); Gertrude Boyle Kanno; Takeshi Kanno: Text in
Japanese then "Takeshi Kanno" then text in Japanese then "I love therefore
I live. 1917"; Edward B. Koster below his holographic poetry titled
Evenwicht; Willem Kloos, noted Poet [whose writings become part of the
canon of Dutch literature, who was nominated for the Nobel Prize in
Literature five (5) times and was a member of "The Tachtigers"
("Eightiers"), otherwise known as the Movement of Eighty (Dutch: Beweging
van Tachtig), were a radical and influential group of Dutch writers who
developed a new approach in 19th-century Dutch literature. They interacted
and worked together in Amsterdam from the 1880s] [Kloos has signed below
his inscription]; Jacqueline Reyenke v Stewe: Dutch Writer and wife of
Willem Kloos [who has signed below her inscription and who has signed a
second time below a separate inscription using her married name "Jenne
Kloos-Reyneke van Stewe" ]; Fiore della Neve: (pseud. van M.G.L. van
Loghem), Author, Translator, Lyricist, Correspondent, Editor; Salvatore
Lascari: American painter, sculptor, and muralist, winner of the Prix de
Rome, a French scholarship for arts students, initially for painters and
sculptors, that was established in 1663 during the reign of Louis XIV of
France. Winners were awarded a bursary that allowed them to stay in Rome
for three to five years at the expense of the state.; Stani Guestafson
Lascari; Bivnty Vishon Mukerji; Paquita Madriguera (Francisca "Paquita"
Madriguera Rodon, a child prodigy on piano who studied with Enrique
Granados as a girl); F. R. Madriguera; E. R. Madriguara; Charles Elkin
Mathews (who signed as "C. Elkin Mathews"): Publisher who was in
partnership with Lane both for selling and publishing books, particularly
belles letters (their reputation reached its height with the publication of
The Yellow Book in 1894). The pair then split (with Lane forming the Bodley
Head and Mathews forming his only publishing company "Elkin Mathews", the
first publisher of such authors as W.B. Yeats, James Joyce, Ezra Pound and
Robert Bridges); Ruby Cross Martin; Howard P. Michener; Ramona Crampton
Michener; Howard P. Michener, Jr.; Tommy B. Morrison; Maude M. Morrison
(who wrote a note about the van Noppen's visit to their Mountain home,
apparently in Sugar Run, Pennsylvania); Anna J. Morrison; Edwin Markham
(again): American Poet who wrote "We sell our eyes for candles!" above his
signature; Hemendra K. Rakshit: Author; Alice E. Rumph: painter of
watercolors and pastels, as well as an etcher, and an art teacher; Richard
S. Reynolds (nephew of R. J. Reynolds of tobacco fame) and wife Louise P.
Reynolds; Dhindera Kumer Sarkar; Eva Sikelianos: Evelina "Eva"
Palmer-Sikelianos was an American woman notable for her study and promotion
of Classical Greek culture, weaving, theater, choral dance and music.; Alma
Reed: Author; Ethel Deodata Earle; Ines Capponi Thomas; Henry Wilton
Thomas: author; Ali Nomad [who also signed as Alexander McIvor-Tyndall --
with "Ali Nomad" being his pseudonym]: author, hypnotist, showman and
speaker who wrote "Cosmic Consciousness: The Man-God Whom We Await" and
other works; Mrs. Alex J. McIv. Tyndall; Hendrikus Van Wesep; William
Wallace Whitelock: Author; (Baroness) Mary von Stackhausen Whitelock, wife
of William Wallace Whitelock, Otto von Stackhausen, her son; Marie
Youshkeyoich; Sosro Kartono below his holographic inscription; and many
others. [Several signatures on one page -- E.B. White, Sherwood Anderson,
James Thurber, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Dorothy Parker, and John O'Hara --
appear on separate pieces of paper that have been pasted in and likely were
added after Van Noppen's possession of the volume ended. Consequently, we
make no representation, warranty, or guarantee whatsoever with respect to
them, but mention them because they are there.] The volume ends with a list
of Bible references followed by various musical references. The volume,
which, of course, has been handled quite a bit, shows general wear and a
number of pages are loose. In short, the volume is a sort of memoir of a
quite active man's life and a Who's Who of prominent persons, male and
female, in the early twenty-first Century, a gathering of a character and
content seldom seen An EXCEPTIONAL RECORD OF A LIFE AND A REMARKABLE
GATHERING OF SIGNATURES. QUITE REMARKABLE AND RARE. About Very Good. Item
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