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Autograph letter signed to Gigi Richter, dated October 25th 1945, from Mexico, 4pp. Paalen writes 'Enclosed please find a letter of introduction for Henry Moore..., you are certainly right in our feelings for him, he is a most wonderful person. I would like to give you an introduction for Roland Penrose too.... Somebody you should probably meet is Arthur Koestler..' Paalen goes on to mention Leonora Carrington and to describe the art dealer Nierendorf as 'the only one I ever had to do with who not only cares for it and for whom money is not the end but only a means...'. Together with a single page letter dated Mexico, October 1944, from Sonia Sekula (Swiss 1918-1963) to Gigi.

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