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RARE “John Erskine\" Pauline Ives Erskine Hand Written 2 Page Letter:
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Up for sale "John Erskine" Pauline Ives Erskine  (m. 1910–1945) Hand Written 2 Page Letter Dated 1926. There are few documents known to exist from John Erskine's first wife. She was the one who pushed Erskine to attained Post-Graduate degrees and ultimatel become the first President of the Julliard School of Music. This item is authenticated By Todd

Mueller Autographs and comes with their certificate of authenticity.

– June 2, 1951) was an American educator and author, pianist and composer. He

was an English professor at Amherst College from 1903 to 1909, followed by Columbia University from

1909 to 1937. He was the first president of the Juilliard School of Music.

During his tenure at Columbia University he formulated the General Honors

Course—responsible for inspiring the influential Great Books movement. He published over 100 books,

novels, criticism, and essays including his most important essay, The Moral

Obligation to Be Intelligent (1915). Erskine was born

in New York City, New York,

the son of Eliza Jane (née Hollingsworth) and James Morrison Erskine. and

raised in Weehawken, New Jersey. He

graduated from Columbia University, B.A.,

1900, M.A. 1901 and Ph.D., 1903 and D.Litt. 1929, besides D.Litt. degree from

Amherst in 1923. Erskine was English professor at Amherst College from 1903 to 1909, and subsequently

taught at Columbia University from 1909 to 1937. In 1910, he led foundation of

the Boar's Head Society for

literature.  In 1920, he General Honors Course, a two-year undergraduate seminar

that would later help inspire "Masterworks of Western Literature,"

now known commonly as "Literature Humanities," the second component

of Columbia College's Core Curriculum.

This course taught the classics in translation instead of the original Latin or

Greek, a concept he elaborated in his noted essay The Moral Obligation

to Be Intelligent. He found little support for the course from the senior

faculty, and junior faculty members like Mark Van Doren and later after 1923, Mortimer Adler took up sections of the course. This course

would later go on to inspire the Great Books movement, centered on the Great Books of the Western

World. The course was discontinued in 1928, though later

reconstituted. In 1929, Adler left Columbia to join University of Chicago,

where he continued to work on the theme with Robert Hutchins, President

of the university. Together they subsequently went on to found the Great Books of the Western

World program and the Great Books Foundation.Erskine

co-wrote the 1900 Varsity Show at

Columbia, writing the musical score for The Governor's Vrouw (1900),

a two-act comic opera by Henry Sydnor Harrison and

poet Melville Cane, who also

wrote the lyrics. He won the Butler Medal in 1919. During his

career Erskine published over 100 books, though as a writer he first received acclaim

with his novel The Private Life of Helen of Troy (1925). This novel was made into a silent film by the same the name in

1927, directed by Alexander Korda. Other

films based on his works included A Lady Surrenders (1930) by John M. Stahl, Bachelor of Arts (1934)

by Louis King and The President's Mystery (1936)

directed by Phil Rosen. The 1956

biopic of French noblewoman Diane de Poitiers entitled Diane was based on his story with a screenplay

by Christopher Isherwood. He

was also the author of numerous publications, including several humorous novels

retelling myths and legends, besides essays, criticism, and two volumes of

autobiography. These and Eve, Though

He Knew Better.  Erskine was also an

accomplished composer, pianist and musician. He wrote several books

of music and the libretto for George Antheil's opera Helen Retires (1931), which was based on The

Private Life of Helen of Troy. He was the first president of the Juilliard School of Music from

1928 to 1937. He was also director of the Metropolitan Opera

Association, which runs the Metropolitan Opera, a

noted opera company based in New York City.  Erskine is also credited with writing the

subtitles for a number of films, including Sacha Guitry's Le Roman d'un tricheur (The

Story of a Cheat) in 1938  Marcel Pagnol's The Baker's Wife in

1940 and Mario Camerini's The Spirit and the Flesh,

an adaptation of Alessandro Manzoni's classic

novel The Betrothed,

in 1948.  To commemorate the seven

hundredth anniversary of Roger Bacon, Erskine wrote A Pageant of the Thirteenth

Century, a biographical play which was produced at Columbia University

and published as a book by Columbia University Press in

1914. The Archives and Special Collections at Amherst College holds a

collection of his papers. In 1946 he served as the first chairman of the American Writers

Association.

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