(Bloomsbury Group, Garsington), Sir Julian Huxley (1887-1975...

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(Bloomsbury Group, Garsington), Sir Julian Huxley (1887-1975), English biologist, philosopher, educator, and author who greatly influenced the modern development of embryology, systematics, and studies of behaviour and evolution, co founder of WWF and first director general of UNESCO. A visitors book/autograph album containing over 250 autographs spanning the period 1938-1975 including many authors, artists, scientists and other prominent intellectual, social and cultural figures of the 20th Century in the circle of Julian Huxley and his wife Juliette Huxley, Lady Huxley (1896–1994), born Marie Juliette Baillot, the Swiss-French sculptor and writer. Juliette Huxley (née Baillot) met Lady Ottoline Morrell at Oxford Railway Station during the First World War to be interviewed for the position of governess to the family. This led to her introduction to the exotic and stimulating world of Garsington Manor, Oxfordshire, where she met all the Bloomsbury characters, including Bertrand Russell, Lytton Strachey, the painter Mark Gertler and, most importantly to her life, the Huxley brothers Aldous, and Julian whom she later married. Signatures include H.G. Wells (1866-1946), prolific writer or Science Fiction and non fiction including works of social commentary, science etc, who co-authored the book 'The Science of Life', 1929-30, with Julian Huxley and G.P. Wells; Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), writer and philosopher, brother of Julian Huxley; Freya Stark (1893-1993), explorer and travel writer known to have corresponded with Juliette Huxley (3 separate signatures on different leaves of album); Henry Moore (1898-1986), artist and sculptor, known to have corresponded with Juliette Huxley and was the recipient of an elephant skull as a gift from her in 1966; Bertrand Russell (1872-1970), mathematician, philosopher and public intellectual, contemporary of Julian Huxley and fellow atheist, known to have corresponded with Juliette Huxley (2 separate signatures on different leaves); May Sarton (1912-1995), poet & novelist, who had affairs with both Julian and Juliette Huxley, with Julian in 1936, of which Juliette was aware of, and with Juliette a romance over time, a relationship Julian was not aware of. Juliette broke this off during a week they spent together in Paris in 1948 because of Sarton's threat to tell Julian. After his death they resumed their correspondence. Sarton's letters to and from Juliette, whom she described as the incomparable one, were published in 1999 (2 separate signatures on different leaves); S.S. Koteliansky (1880-1955), Ukrainian translator of Russian literature into English, great friend of D.H. Lawrence, and Leonard and Virginia Woolf; Stephen Spender (1909-1995), poet & novelist, old friend of Julian Huxley from Oxford University (3 separate signatures on different leaves); Edward McKnight Kauffer (1890-1954), artist, graphic designer, illustrator; Marion Dorn (1896-1964), textile designer, wife of E. McKnight Kauffer; Clare Leighton (15898-1989), artist, writer, illustrator; Yehudi Menuhin (1916-1999), violinist and conductor; Nettie Huxley Roller (singer); Michael Huxley (1899-1979), foreign office; David Huxley; Sthephen L. Courtauld & Virginia Courtauld, philanthropists; Samuel Eliot Morison (American Historian); Hans T. Clarke (biochemist); Rebecca Clarke (composer and violinist); Ruth Pitter (1897-1992), poet, several separate signatures on different leaves, plus 16 line m/s poem by her, entitled "The Bush-Baby. Gallego Moholi", signed at foot and dated 1939; Jules Supervielle (1884-1960), Franco-Uruguayan poet, 6 line m/s poem in French "pour Madame Huxley Un boeuf gris de la Chine..." signed Jules Supervielle and dated Mai 1947; Erika Von Meiss-Tauffen; S. Zuckerman (Zoologist); E.W. Macbride (Zoologist); Hilda Matheson (Radio Producer); William Holford (Architect); Magdalena Gross (Polish Sculptor); Violet Hammersley (Edwardian Socialite); Henry & Irina Moore; Rosalind Huxley (second wife of Leonard Huxley, father of Julian and Aldous Huxley; Charles Galton Darwin (1887-1962); Camille Mayran (French woman of letters); Simon Bussy (French artist); Dorothy Bussy (née Strachey, wife of Simon Bussy); Oliver St. John Gogarty (Irish Poet); David Low (Cartoonist); F.W. Ogilvie (British broadcasting executive); Alexander Carr-Saunders (biologist); Theodora Benson (writer); Jasper Ridley (author); Beryl de Zoete (ballet dancer); J.B.S. Haldane (1892-1964), scientist who worked in physiology, genetics, evolutionary biology, and mathematics, one of the founders of neo-Darwinism, contemporary of Julian Huxley; Jane Drew & Edwin Maxwell Fry (architects); Anne R. Huxley; Alan Best (Canadian sculptor and natural historian, worked for Julian Huxley at London Zoo, and tutored his 2 sons, taught Juliette Huxley to sculpt); Bernard Miles (actor); Otto Lous Mohr (professor of anatomy); C.D. Darlington (biologist); Herman Muller (U.S. geneticist); Tom G. Longstaff (doctor, explorer, mountaineer); Patrick Blackett (physicist); Leonard Elmhurst (philanthropist and Agronomist); Boris Anrep (Russian artist); Mimi de Gielgud (French actress); Anthony Huxley (botanist, son of Julian and Juliette Huxley) and his wife Anne; Julian Trevelyan (artist); Francis Huxley (botanist and anthropologist, son of Julian and Juliette Huxley); Joseph Needham (biochemist); Jonathan Kingdon (zoologist); Murdoch Mitchison (zoologist); Otto Klineberg (Canadian psychologist); J.D. Bernal (Irish scientist); E.W. MacBride (marine biologist); William Holford (architect); Marjorie Holford (mural painter); Lady Goschen; Clarmont Skrine (British civil servant, explorer); Monica & Roy Flaherty; Herbert Whitman; Noel Murphy; Button Walshaw; Cynthia Stephens; Bridget Tallents; Marshall Bartholomew (musica artist); Nathan Leites (sociologist and political scientist); Sarvepalli Rhadakrishnan (1888-1975), Indian philosopher and politician, 2nd president of India 1962-1967; Prem Purachatra (1915-1981), Thai prince who worked as a diplomat, English instructor, publisher, poet, playwright, and author; Gottfried Salomon-Delatour (sociologist); L.P. Hartley (1895-1972), novelist; Paulo Carneiro (1901-1982), Brazilian chemist; Ronald Lockley (1903-2000), Ornithologist & naturalist; Victoria Ocampo (1890-1979), Argentine writer and intellectual, founder of the important literary magazine 'Sur', 2 separate signatures on different leaves; Zhores A. Medvedev (1925-2018), Russian agronomist, biologist, historian and dissident; plus many others signatures. Juliette Huxley accompanied her husband throughout his career and travelled extensively. In 1963 she published Wild Lives of Africa based on these travels. The album appears to reflect the Huxley's travels, with some of the autographs throughout dated and stating places (in many instances presumably the place where signed, in some instances perhaps the home address of the signer). The first entry in the album by Samuel Eliot Morison dated June 23, 1938, a signature by Yvonne Russell dated November 9th 1938 stating "Kampala, Uganda", the Huxley's visited East Africa many times during the 1930's. The section of the album with signatures covering the period 1947/1948 is headed "Paris", includes several French nationals signatures, one page in this section also headed "17 bis Avenue Foch", one of the signatures of May Sarton is also in this section, this all seems to coincide with Julian Huxley's UNESCO years and the Huxley's years in Paris. The album with 30 pages of manuscript signatures (over 250 signatures in total), and largely in chronological order, majority of entries/sigs in the 1930's and 1940's, appears to be no entries in the 1950's, and entries/sigs fewer in the 1960's/70's than earlier in the album, the final signature being Victoria Ocampo, 9.3.75, the only entry after the date Julian Huxley died (14/2/75). Contemporary decorative floral cloth covered boards (approx 29 x 26cm). A unique and fascinating album of autographs of the circle of eminent friends, family and associates of Julian and Juliette Huxley