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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Original TLS signed 'Ihsan Schükrü-Aksel' sent to 'Herrn Prof. Dr. Hecht', Budapest, to Psychiatrische Klinik Budapest VIII, Balassa Utca 6.". 28x21 cm. In German. 1 p. 'Bank Extra Strong' watermarked paper and 'Sinir ve Beyin Hekimi Dr. Ihsan Sükrü Aksel - Bakirköy ve Haydarpasa Nümune Hastaneleri Mütehassisi' letterhead. Text: "Sehr geeheter Herr Kollege! Ich erlaube mir Ihren eine Patientin von mir Frl. Nihat zu empfehlen, die zurzeit in Budapest ist, und möchte ich Sie bitten Ihre gütige Anempfehlungen nicht fehlen zulassen. Für Ihre Bemühungen danke ich Ihnen im voraus und zeichne und sehr ergebener.". Aksel was a Turkish / Ottoman specialist phsycian-psychiatrist. He was born in Istanbul in 1889. He graduated from Istanbul Darülfünun Medical Faculty in 1919 and started working as an assistant at "Emraz-i Akliye and Asabiye Hospital". He went to Germany for education in 1922. In Munich and Hamburg, he worked with Prof. Kraeplin, Prof. Spielmayer, Prof. Weygand and Prof. Jakob. He returned to Turkey in 1925, I was appointed as the chief of Emraz- i Akliye ve Asabiye Hospital [i.e. Mental and Nervous Diseases Hospital] and established the neuropathology laboratory. He became 'ordinarius' in 1951. In 1953, he became the dean of Istanbul University Faculty of Medicine; he prioritized the establishment of a psychiatry clinic in Çapa and established the Institute of Child Psychiatry in 1958. Signed by Author(s).

27pp., 8vo. (The article on 'The Budapest War Cemetery' is 7pp., 8vo, and the accompanying 'Register of the Graves in the Budapest War Cemetery' is 21pp., 8vo. There is also a page of 'Abbreviations to the Register'.) A few manuscript emendations. The covering letter is addressed to 'David', and is effusive in its offer of further assistance, the author urging 'David' to rewrite the piece as he sees fit. It is signed, faintly and undecipherably. The author writes in good, but not entirely idiomatic, English, and has gone to some trouble. The article describes the wartime background to the establishment of 'The English Cemetery at Solymár', from the first man buried there, Flight Sergeant Gordon G. Pemberton, an Australian pilot of a Wellington bomber, shot down on the night of 3 April 1944. The 'Register' lists the 205 graves, each with all the information to be found on the tombstone. Also present are four strips of negatives, with one larger negative of a single image, and a contact sheet strip reproducing the 35 pictures on the negative strips. The last is annotated on the reverse in pencil. Also included are three black and white photographs (described as 'three bad prints' in the letter): one of the cemetery in snow, and the other two of Pemberton's crashed Wellington bomber.

Signed typed letter with "Asbóth Aircraft Factory" letterhead. "With reference to our agreement of March 20, 1924 on the s 1 pcs ambulance body, we agreed as follows: Since we cannot complete the body, you will take it over as it is today and finish it for your own account. [] We declare to each other that we have no claims against each other. [] Should the obligation to pay sales tax arise, it will be borne solely by you. Yours sincerely, Asbóth Aircraft Factory. " Oszkár Asboth (18911960) was a Hungarian aviation engineer often credited with the invention of the helicopter. .