You are bidding on one handwritten, signed letter of the electrical engineer Leonhard Kneissler (* 1892), who calls himself here with a noble title ("Leonhard v. Kneissler, Prof. to d. Tech. University in Vienna"). He came from the noble family Kneissler from Meixdorf.

Aimed at a countess, di Clara Ledóchowska (* 26. June 1911 in Sarns near Brixen), secretary at the Austrian embassy at the Holy See (Vatican).

DatedRome, Pensione Astrid, the 19th September 1963.

Affects one Request a papal audience for his niece Sitty Bianchi and her friend Monica Verhoeven, who are visiting Rome. -- What is meant is the later artist Monika Verhoeven (* 1941 in Graz)?

Scope:one page (27.8 x 21.8 cm). -- Without envelope.

Condition: Thin paper stained and heavily wrinkled. Please also note the pictures!

Internal note: Clara L. 62 Science Adel

About the author: Leonhard Kneissler, geb. 1892 in Pola (Istria) as Leonhard Kneissler von Maixdorf, high school, qualified engineer, Dr. techn., 1943 lecturer at the Vienna University of Technology, since 1948 associate, since 1951 full professor of theoretical electrical engineering and head of the Institute for the Fundamentals and Theory of Electrical Engineering. (Source: Word and Truth. Monthly Journal for Religion and Culture, Volume 19, 1964, p. 41.) His main work is "Maxwell's Theory in a Changed Formulation", Vienna 1949.