Book Description: Dated "23/4.35." 8vo. 2pp., neatly and closely written. The letter is written by Hamsun for his two daughters, who were both sent abroad at a young age. They lived in both Germany and France, and were often sent money by their parents. The letter is a terrible outrage in which the great author heavily scolds his naughty and ungrateful daughters. Apparently Marie and Knut Hamsun never hear a word of thank no matter how much money they send their ill-behaved daughters. Nine days after having telegraphed money for a trip to Spain, the parents have still not received a word from the daughters, and they do not even know if they have left for Spain. "Nei ikke et Ord./ Dette er saa over alle Grænser stygt gjort av dere to Søstre/ at baade Mama og jeg kommer sent til at glemme det." [= "No not a word./ this is so beyond all limits nasty done by you two sisters/ that it will be very late forgotten by both Mama and I."]. Marie (Knut's wife) has apparently sent the girls 50 kr., -this is mentioned twice in the letter, and was first believed by Knut to have been 10 kr., but later he has discovered that it was fifty, and has changed this both places in the letter by correcting it with a pencil. "Jeg tror det skal letes længe efter værre uopdragne/ Tøsunger end dere to. Jeg tror ikke nogen Familje har Døttre/ som er saa uforskammet ulydige mot sine Foreldre som/ dere to. Nu har jeg ogsaa foresat mig at ved Gud i Himlen,/ dere skal faa seile deres egen Sjø." (= "I think that you will have to search a long time to find worse ill-mannered/ brats than the two of you. I don't think any family has daughters/ that are so rudely disobedient towards their parents than/ the two of you. Now I am also determined that by God in Heaven, you will be left to your own devices."). The letter continues in the same tone, and Hamsun has discovered that the daughters have behaved less than well in Bordeaux, where they are apparently not liked by everyone they meet, and where rumours are drifting around about them. He ends the letter by demanding a response straight away, though he knows that they are too stuck-up (this especially goes for Cecilia) too thank for the money, but he still expects them to send a receipt for the money in the form of some sort of letter. Original letters from the Nobel Prize-winner, the great Norwegian writer, Knut Hamsun (1859-1948), are rarely seen on the market, -especially letters of personal contents are very difficult to come by, and are extremely sought-after.Hamsun is one of the greatest Scandinavian writers of all times. He is accepted as one of, if not the, leading representatives of the new-romantic era. He is the author of one of the most influential novels of the 20th century, Hunger (1890), and numerous other important novels such as Pan (1894) and Growth of the Soil (1917), for which he received the Nobel Prize in literature in 1920. There is no doubt that Knut Hamsunloved his daughters very much, but he was a man of principle, and meant it unnecessary for young girls to be intellectual and well-educated. He thus took both of the girls out of school at the age of 13, just before they finished the last year of middle school, and sent them off to Berlin. The girls were devastated with being sent away from home, and wanted nothing more than to stay at their childhood home, Nørholm. All their troubles began when they left home at this early age, and they both longed for the years that they were robbed of as normal teenagers. Their parents struggled to take care of the girls financially, and they were worried to death when the girls were ill or not doing well, but nonetheless they did not let them return home. Cecilia ended up in Copenhagen, and Ellinor also died in Denmark, after having been married and divorced in Germany, returned to Norway for a short period after the war and given two labotomies. After the first one, which was apparently unsuccessful, she went to Denmark, where she had a second one and finally died at a. Bookseller Inventory # 32261