Alain White Letter to Edgar Holliday

Author: White, Alain Campbell (1880-1951) inscribedYear: 1948Publisher: Place: Summerville, SCDescription:2 pages typed letter with a handwritten post script signed "Alain" in ink with the address of Meindert Niemeijer in pencil at the top margin.White discusses the possibility of producing a book in conjunction with Niemeijer of Edgar Holliday's chess problems along with other contemporary problemists. The whole is total focused on other aspects of the possible publication and how each section would be brought into a whole. The referred chess problems by White are not included.Alain Campbell White was a scholar, philanthropist and the foremost American authority on chess problems. He was born in Cannes, France in 1880, a son of John J. White, a lawyer and descendant of seventeenth century colonial settlers. He graduated from Harvard University magna cum laude in 1902 and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. From 1905 to 1936, White published annually a book on chess which he sent to chess