Letter to Wolfgang Pauly from Evert Jan van den Berg

Author: Evert Jan van den Berg (1901-1939) signedYear: 1931Publisher: Hand writtenPlace: ApeldoornDescription:1 page letter (9" x 5 3/4") with problem on verso to the Romanian composer Wolfgang Pauly. Written from Apeldoorn, The Netherlands. The letter discusses the solution to a chess problem, which is hand written on verso. Signed by Carel Benjamin van den Berg.Wolfgang Pauly (1876-1934) was the greatest chess problemist of Romania. He was also an amateur astronomer who discovered a comet, now named the Pauly comet. He worked with A C White and assisted in the preparation of several of the Christmas Series problem books presented by White to his friends over the years. M Stere recovered by pure fortune the archives of Wolfgang Pauly from his old house which had to be demolished to make room for the communist mega-building called The House of People, hosting today the Romanian Parliament. He was able to read his original copybooks with correspondence, and letters received by Pauly fro